Do the work. Not the list.

Most task apps quietly become a project of their own — tags to maintain, filters to tune, a system to keep tidy. This one has seven words in it and no method to learn.

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Type a date or a repeat — it gets lifted out of the sentence.

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TaskPocket — the Today view

Due today or earlier. Loose tasks first, then grouped by project.

Stay on top of work

Track projects, deadlines and meeting prep without getting overwhelmed.

Your tasks are yours.

TaskPocket makes money one way: people paying for it. Nothing is sold, nothing is scanned to sell you something. Export the lot as JSON whenever you like — and if you want an assistant reading your list, you connect your own.

Stay organised and focused.

Everything sorts itself into Today, Upcoming, Deadlines and Someday, so you see only what you need, when you need it. The rest waits where you left it.

TaskPocket on iPhone, showing the Today view

Seven words, and you know the whole app

There's no method to learn here. Seven nouns, and that's the system.

The two nouns everything is made of

Task

The atom. Title, notes, a checklist, dates, a repeat rule.

Area

Something without an ending. Work. Home. Projects live inside areas so the sidebar stays short.

Every task lives in exactly one of three places

Inbox

Where things land when you haven't decided yet. Empty it when you feel like it.

Project

Something with an ending. “Launch v2”, “Move flat”. It has a progress ring, and you can finish it — archived with its history rather than deleted.

Someday

Things you might do, with no plan to do them now. It's a place, not a label: moving a task to Someday takes it out of its project, and moving it back is one drag.

And two dates, which decide where it shows up

Start date

The day you plan to pick it up. This is what Today shows you.

Deadline

The day it's actually due. Different question, different field.

Most apps let you build any system you like, which is how building the system becomes the work. This one already made those choices.

A task can hold the whole job

Notes with the formatting you'd expect — bold, italic, and links that stay clickable. Paste a URL and it becomes a link; paste from a doc and the markup survives.

Then a checklist underneath, for the steps that don't deserve tasks of their own. Enter splits an item in two, Backspace merges it back, and you can drag any of them into a different order.

Prep the Q3 review

Board wants the headline numbers plus one slide on what changed. Last quarter's deck is in the shared drive — reuse the layout, don't rebuild it.

  • Thirty minutes, twelve slides at most
  • Maya has the support figures
Pull last quarter's numbers
Draft the summary slide
Ask Maya for the support figures
Rehearse the walkthrough
Send the deck round the day before
Book the room
Mon 8 SepRepeatLaunch v2

Repeats that survive real life

Every third Thursday. The last business day of the month. The 15th.

Four weeks after you actually finish it — not four weeks after it was due. That's the difference between “water the plants every 2 weeks” and “water the plants 2 weeks after I last watered them”, and almost nothing gets it right.

Stop after twelve times, or on a date you pick. Skip a week without breaking anything. And unchecking it genuinely undoes it: the dates roll back, the count goes back up, the checklist comes back.

Repeat

Repeat every

On

Repeats

Ends

times
Monthly on the third Thursday

This is the real editor. Change anything — the line at the bottom is the app's own summary of the rule you just built.

Three seconds, then it's not your problem

Write a task the way you normally would. If it contains a date or a repeat, TaskPocket sets it for you and lifts the phrase out of the title. You can always change it afterwards.

  • On the webPress N from anywhere in the app.
  • On your phoneThe share sheet, from any app.
  • In your browserThe extension, to keep a page you're reading.

No model, no round trip. It works with the wifi off.

DateTimeRepeat

  • Submit the report tomorrow

    Due tomorrow

  • Call the dentist next monday

    Due next Monday

  • Team standup every weekday at 9am

    Repeats every weekday

  • Pay rent every month on the 1st

    Repeats monthly on the 1st

  • Water the plants every 2 weeks

    Repeats every 2 weeks

  • Renew the passport Jun 30

    Due 30 June

And the rest of it, in one place.

The whole surface area of the app, so you know exactly what you're signing up for.

  • Every view you need, and no more

    Today is due today or earlier — loose tasks first, then grouped by project. Upcoming, Deadlines, Someday and Completed sit beside it, and that is the entire set.

    Today
    Buy groceries
    Send invoice to AcmeToday

    Launch v2

    Review pull request #142Apr 17
    Write the release notes

    Move flat

    Call the contractorFri
    Book the vanApr 21

  • Writes like a sentence

    Type the date and the repeat into the title. The parser lifts them out.

    Pay rent on the 1st, every month

    Tue, 1 SepMonthly

  • Keyboard shortcuts

    Capture, search and complete without reaching for the mouse.

    NNew task
    /Search
    ⌘KJump to
    EComplete

  • Deadlines, on their own

    The day something is actually due is a different question from the day you plan to start it. This view answers only the first one.

    Deadlines

    Overdue

    Send the tax return2 days ago

    This week

    Renew the passportFri 3 Oct
    Submit the grant formSun 5 Oct

    Later

    Renew the domain12 Nov

  • Repeats that hold up

    Third Thursday, last business day, every 2 weeks after completion.

    Monthly on the third Thursday
    Monthly on the last weekday
    Every 2 weeks on Thu, from the day you complete it
    Every 3 months on day 15
    Mon, Wed, Fri for 12 more times
    Yearly until Sep 30, 2028

  • Offline on your phone

    The whole app, on a plane, no signal. It syncs when you're back.

    Airplane mode · saved locally

  • Areas and projects

    A sidebar that stays short because projects finish.

    Areas and projects in the TaskPocket sidebar

  • Browser extension

    Keep the page you're reading, with the selected text as the note.

    The TaskPocket browser extension saving a page

  • Export

    Every task, project and checklist in one JSON file, on every plan.

    taskpocket-export.json
    {
  "areas": [ … ],
  "projects": [ … ],
  "tasks": [
    { "title": "Pay rent",
      "dueDate": "2026-09-01",
      "repeat": "monthly" }
  ]
}
Bohdan Stefaniuk, who builds TaskPocket

Built by one person, in the open

I built this because every task app I liked was locked to one operating system, and every one that wasn't had grown into something I needed a weekend to set up.

There's no team and no investors, which means nobody here needs this to become an enterprise product. Every task on the roadmap lives in TaskPocket — I use it to build it.

The changelog is public and dated. If something's missing, it's on the roadmap or it's a no, and I'll tell you which.

Free is a real plan, not a trial

Start for free, upgrade when you need more. No credit card required to sign up.

Free

$0/forever

No card, no trial clock, no expiry.

For anyone who wants a calm place to manage tasks.

  • Unlimited tasks
  • 5 projects, 2 areas
  • Due dates and recurring tasks
  • Checklists with drag-and-drop
  • Global search
  • Natural-language capture
  • Completed history (last 14 days — nothing is ever deleted)
  • Data export (JSON, free on every plan)
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Premium

$34.99/year

That's $2.92 a month — you keep $12.89 a year versus paying monthly. 7-day free trial.

For anyone who has outgrown five projects.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited projects and areas
  • Deadline dates on tasks
  • Dedicated Deadlines view
  • Full Completed history
  • Early access to new features
Start my list — free

Prices show in your local currency at checkout. Nothing you've already made stops working if you go back to Free. Everyone who signed up while TaskPocket was free for everyone keeps Premium at no cost — that promise stands.

The awkward questions

Not yet. It's in development. The web app works in any mobile browser in the meantime, and you can add it to your home screen. It's not as good as a real app, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

Yes. Put a time on a task and you get a notification at it — in your browser with the tab closed, and on your iPhone. Free on every plan, one reminder per task, and it's the only thing TaskPocket will ever send you: no digests, no streaks, no nagging. Location reminders are the one kind it doesn't do; that's Apple's territory and they're better at it.

Not ours, but you can connect your own. TaskPocket has no assistant, no summariser and no model reading your list; the date parser is a deterministic grammar, not a language model. What it does have is an MCP server: add one URL in Claude or ChatGPT, approve access on a consent screen, and your assistant can read and change your tasks. Disconnect it in Settings at any time. Your list isn't sold and isn't training data for anyone's model — that's a promise about the business, not about which features exist.

They're both good, and both bigger than this. The honest answer is that TaskPocket does less on purpose: no assignments, no comments, no shared workspaces, no AI assistant, no habit tracker, no Pomodoro timer. Seven words make up the whole app, and it's built by one person who uses it every day. If you want a tool your team lives in, use theirs.

On the iPhone, yes — your tasks live in a real database on the device, so you can add, reorder and complete things with no signal, and it syncs when you're back. The web app needs a connection. That's a real difference between the two, and worth knowing if you spend time on planes or trains.

Nothing is deleted. Projects and areas over the free limit become read-only. You can still open, edit and finish them, you just can't add more until you're back under. Export stays free on every plan.

Android, importing from other apps, and attachments. None of them are in TaskPocket today — I'd rather tell you that than list them on the pricing page as if they were.

Yes, and here's what that means concretely. One click exports every task, project and checklist as JSON. Deleting your account removes everything immediately. Your tasks are never sold, never used as training data, and never read by an AI unless you connect one yourself.

What’s next

Roughly in this order, and without dates on purpose — a date on a roadmap is a promise, and I would rather ship these than defend a calendar. Nothing here exists yet.

  1. Attachments and files

    Attach files to a task, and read the common ones — an image, a PDF — without downloading them first.

  2. Tags, and projects that are really filters

    Tag a task, then make a project that collects tasks by tag and by other conditions rather than by where you filed them.

  3. Priority

    A way to say this one matters more, without inventing a date to fake it.

  4. An Android app

    A native app rather than the web app on a phone screen. The web app works on Android today; this is not that.

  5. A desktop app

    After Android. Same list, in a window, without a browser tab.

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