Todoist: To-Do List & Tasks App Reviews

I have been using this program virtually since its inception. I have purchased and used a variety of these types of applications over the years, seeking the “perfect” one. For me this has been the best product. It is simple to use. It allows me to group and filter my projects based on my own design. It updates both my applications and my web product essentially immediately so regardless of where I am, the device I am using, they are all synchronized and it does this very well, unlike other programs I have or have used. The simplicity does not work for everyone and in some cases I have utilized other programs. I use Todo List for my tasks and I group them by a functional area. For large scale projects I have used Wrike and found that another good tool, but more complex and requires more ongoing maintenance to leverage it effectively. Todo list is a great product for me and I will continue to use it for the foreseeable future.

To summarize my disappointment, there’s not much what you can do for free. There are other apps that offer better features at no cost.

There are eight things that I miss in this app: In the iPhone version: The ability of click on a project with subprojects and initially see the bigger picture of all the tasks on all projects and subprojects if I just tap once and see only the tasks on the project that I select if I double tap (just like it is on the OS X version). When I select multiple items I’d like to see the option “Copy/Paste” and “select all tasks in this project”. Personal shortcuts for Labels and priorities just like it is on the Things app (for example: h key = Home label, 1 = priority 1 etc… The option of changing the shortcuts, because I love to use the shortcut "command + arrow” to jump to the beginning or the end of a line when I am adding details like ‘1., ‘a., etc.. to the beginning of a task, every time that I do it the task is attached or detached to the other above, it should be easily solved giving the option of changing this shortcut to “control + arrow” for example. More colors options to projects! I have a lot of projects and the option of adding colors to projects is just AMAZING because I finally am not getting lost on my projects and subprojects!!! but even though I miss more color options (like 30 or 40 options) to categorize all my bigger projects without repeating the other used colors. The ability of seeing the “master task” of a subtask on the today or week view, I aways get lost when I see a task like “read the first chapter” without knowing to what book it belongs, some people read a lot of books at the same time and don’t want create new projects to dozens of books and pollute all the projects interface, see the “master task” next to the project of a sub task should be perfect in this situation The ability of set what make my karma points grow or fall, because somethings didn’t follow my “mind set up” of what is or isn’t productive, for example: tasks 1 or 2 days overdid in my case isn’t good and my points should decrease for it (and not just for 4 days+ overdid), and it don’t stop there, please add more options of define PRECISELY every aspect that makes my points grow or fall, I’m sure that people will love it. HABITS SECTION: todoledo and other apps have a section just for habits, and it implemented on todoist should be amazing! a weekly tracking system like on the “way of life” app with a daily journal marking X or V (tick) on daily goals should be perfect if integrated on a section in this app and associated with karma points But, even though, this app is amazing, for the first time I can really feel my brain REALLY downloading everything that need be done on a system that truly understand how the brain works allowing subtasks, subprojects, colors, labels, color coded priorities, filters, weekly view and a beautiful interface that makes me for the first time know exactly what and why I am doing it. Thank you for reading my suggestions and make me more productive! I really hope to see my suggestions n the next version :) I am sure that people will love it!

I needed a cross-platform task management and I found it with ToDoist. I really like the integration in Outlook in Windows, because it provides no separate program to launch. As far as I understood is provides in all platforms some sort of website instead of an own program, but it works well. Especially the collaboration works well. Some great functions like notes and uploading files are just available in the paid version. The app works perfectly on iPhone and has a sleek and iOS-like design. I am happy so far.

They provide the current version of their Mac client on their website only. This renders the idea of the App Store meaningless, because I don’t want to have programs that do update checking and background fetching of updates on their own. Updates are supposed to be provided via the App Store only in order to save resources. Please, Todoist team, reconsider your deployment and update policy!

It is a good and very flexible platform. I was thinking to upgrade to Premium, but I did not need the additional features they are offering. In the last update they started pushing for the Premium membership. If you click anywhere, it is asking if you want to upgrade to Premium. That is annoying.

I have tested many different To Do Apps but this one is certainly my favorite. Simply and clean design, easy to use, works very well - bascially no bugs. I am totally fine to pay for this great app the price they currently ask for.

I tried to make Todoist part of my routine. I tried the subscription trial to see if the extra features would be what made it work. It didn’t. The same day I went to cancel the free trial, I was charged for a full year subscription. I understand missing the date was my fault, but it did seem sleazy that they didn’t just send a reminder, like “hey, your paid subscription is about to start”. If it was for one month, no big deal, but one year is not cheap. Worse, when i contacted customer support, they could actually not tell me if the subscription was auto-renewing or not and referred me to check my PayPal account. The Todoist app itself is nothing special. It’s just like any other to-do app. Entering tasks takes too many steps. The Todoist interface is typical, like most other to-do apps. This app seems to lack focus on what exactly it’s trying to be very good at.

automatic recognition of due dates, labels and projects still not working in quick add! :(

Clean presentation-easy to use- works properly-keeps you on track with your todo’s list. I luv it and recommend :-))

It is a easy to use to-do list. It allows repeating dates and looks nice!

This is hands down the best to do list app out there. I’ve pretty much tried them all and this one really works for me. One thing to fix however… Icons on the Mac version need to be updated for Retina screen. It’s quite an eye sore. Either than that, amazing application!!

Requires registering with the company to even look through it. For a to-do system described as absolute simplicity there’s a lot of social related features to digest before getting started.

This is an awesome app in general - but there are still some fixes I feel are necessary. One in paricular is when I go into full-screen mode in Todoist, and then try to swipe into lets say Google Chrome’s full-screen mode, there is a problem: the screen glitches and doensn’t work smoothly.

App stopped working after last update, endlessly trying to connect. Web and Chrome extension work flawlessly on the same computer, so not an issue there.

It’s a nasty web wrapper. Super clunky and gross.

The App Store lists this as a free app which technically it is free to download but that’s about it. Most of the basic functions to do list apps have (Wunderlist) are free but Todoist wants $30 a year to be able to make notes or print. Disappointed, removed app from my iMac.

I don’t know about all the dislikes in the comments below. I use this app for free. It allows me to keep on track with my all my tasks. It gives a great 7 day view which is really helpful. And it allows me to categorize tasks according to importance. It also syncs across all my devices instantly. And the google sign in is a big plus. It means I have one less password to worry about. If you are really worried about big brother, work to stop the NSA or CSEC (Canadian version of NSA). Stop worrying about a Todo list app, it’s the least of your worries.

Just downloaded this app on my Mac and when I open it, all I see is an empty box with a question mark inside. Thats a major bug. I find it very hard to find a decent to-dos manager for the Mac. Todoist is definitely not one of those.

The free version has fewer features than the premium model but it would be nice if reminders (at time) was made available for free users since this is one of the key featurese of a Tasks app (and is pretty much offered by every other service for free).