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.

Start my list — free

Free plan · No credit card · Ready in 30 seconds

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

WhenRepeatInbox

Create

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. Or cancel it, which is not the same as deleting it.

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

Repeats

On a scheduleNext date is set from the due date — keeps a fixed rhythm.After completionNext date is set from the day you check it off.

Ends

Never

Aftertimes

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.
Inbox3
Today7
Upcoming
Deadlines
Someday
Completed
Work
Launch v2
API docs
Home
Move flat
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
Your own AI, over MCP
Soon · September
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or a model on your own machine, and approve exactly what it can see.
A real public API
Soon · September
REST at /api/public/v1 with a token you generate yourself, and scopes that separate read from write.
```
GET /api/public/v1/tasks
Authorization: Bearer tp_live_…

{ "items": [ { "title": "Pay rent",
    "dueDate": "2026-09-01" } ] }
```
Areas and projects
A sidebar that stays short because projects finish.
Browser extension
Keep the page you're reading, with the selected text as the note.

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" }
  ]
}

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, always complete)

Start my list — free

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.

Not today. Reminders and notifications are on the roadmap and they'll be built properly when they land, rather than bolted on. Right now TaskPocket is a place to decide and review, not something that buzzes at you. If a nudge is essential to how you work, that's worth knowing before you sign up.

Your AI, yes. Not ours. A public API and an MCP server are in development, so you'll be able to connect Claude, ChatGPT, or a model running on your own machine, and approve exactly what it can see. Until they ship, the honest answer is: no AI, yours or ours. What there won't be is an assistant of ours reading your tasks in the background. 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 and complete on every plan.

Reminders, Android, and importing from other apps. 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.