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Comparison · Support
DoneDone vs Plain
A side-by-side editorial comparison of DoneDone and Plain — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
DoneDone vs Plain: at a glance
What is DoneDone?
DoneDone smooths daily work: paste-in checklists and replies that keep their formatting.
DoneDone's latest release is two quality-of-life changes. New checklists open a popup where items can be typed or pasted in bulk, and replies now keep bold, italics and lists. They follow a busy late summer: workflow automations, custom fields, email-to-task, allow/block filters, and one email connection feeding several Mailboxes.
What is Plain?
Plain built an autonomous support agent, and has now built the controls to trust it.
Plain's changelog is dated entries with no titles, and nearly all of it concerns two AI surfaces: Ari, the customer-facing responder, and Sidekick, the internal agent. Sidekick spent July gaining reach — its own full-page home, reusable workspace skills, and connection to arbitrary MCP servers. The newest release turns to Ari and adds what was missing around it: a way to test it before customers see it, provenance behind each answer, configurable tone, and explicit escalation rules.
DoneDone vs Plain: editorial side-by-side
DoneDone
5.0SUPPORT
DoneDone smooths daily work: paste-in checklists and replies that keep their formatting.
◆ Current state
DoneDone's latest release is two quality-of-life changes. New checklists open a popup where items can be typed or pasted in bulk, and replies now keep bold, italics and lists. They follow a busy late summer: workflow automations, custom fields, email-to-task, allow/block filters, and one email connection feeding several Mailboxes.
◆ Where it's heading
After two substantive launches (automations and custom fields), DoneDone has shifted to tightening the email-driven support workflow and cutting friction in everyday task handling. The cadence is roughly one or two updates a month, each narrow in scope.
◆ Prediction
Expect more email-pipeline and checklist refinements; automations may gain new triggers, given checklist templates already hook into status changes.
Plain
8.8SUPPORT
Plain built an autonomous support agent, and has now built the controls to trust it.
◆ Current state
Plain's changelog is dated entries with no titles, and nearly all of it concerns two AI surfaces: Ari, the customer-facing responder, and Sidekick, the internal agent. Sidekick spent July gaining reach — its own full-page home, reusable workspace skills, and connection to arbitrary MCP servers. The newest release turns to Ari and adds what was missing around it: a way to test it before customers see it, provenance behind each answer, configurable tone, and explicit escalation rules.
◆ Where it's heading
The sequence reads as capability first, then governance. Plain rebuilt Ari into an agentic first responder, opened Sidekick to any MCP server, and let teams write skills the whole workspace shares — all of which widen what the agents can do and reach. The current release closes the loop the other way, making that autonomy inspectable and bounded before it is switched on. That is the order support-AI vendors have to complete in: teams will not put an agent in front of customers on capability claims alone.
◆ Prediction
With testing and provenance in place, the next step is likely measurement — resolution and escalation rates per skill, or per-answer quality review feeding back into the skills teams write. The entries are short summaries linking off-site, so per-release depth is limited.
Alternatives to DoneDone and Plain
Other Support products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either DoneDone or Plain.
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Libredesk
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Twilio
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Recent activity from DoneDone and Plain
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 5d agoDoneDoneSmall Improvements to Checklists and Replies
- 16d agoDoneDoneNew: Use One Email Connection Across Multiple Mailboxes
- 1mo agoDoneDoneUpdated Email Filters!
- 1mo agoDoneDoneCustom Fields are live! 🎉 ⚡
- 2mo agoDoneDoneCreate Project Tasks from Email!
- 2mo agoPlainTest Ari before customers see it, with per-answer proof ⚡
- 2mo agoDoneDoneNew: Workflow Automations! ⚡
- 2mo agoPlainImport past conversations from any tool, no built-in importer
- 3mo agoPlainSidekick connects to any MCP server ⚡
- 3mo agoPlainSidekick gains reusable, workspace-shared skills ⚡
- 3mo agoPlainShare published workflows by link
- 3mo agoPlainSidekick gets its own full-page home and tool controls
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between DoneDone and Plain?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Plain is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 8.8 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is DoneDone better than Plain?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Plain is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 8.8 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Support products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to DoneDone?
Top DoneDone alternatives in Support are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "DoneDone alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/donedone for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Plain?
Top Plain alternatives in Support are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Plain alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/plain for the full list with editorial commentary on each.