--- title: "TickTick vs TaskPocket (2026) — an honest comparison" description: "TickTick does more than TaskPocket and has the better repeat engine. TaskPocket has two dates and no counting limits. Where each one wins, with sources." canonical: https://taskpocket.io/compare/taskpocket-vs-ticktick/ lastUpdated: 2026-09-01 --- 1. [Home](https://taskpocket.io/) 2. [Compare](https://taskpocket.io/compare/) 3. TickTick vs TaskPocket # TickTick vs TaskPocket TickTick is the bigger product and, on repeating tasks specifically, the better one — it does completion-anchored repeats, end conditions and skipping. TaskPocket has a start date and a deadline as two separate fields, which TickTick does not, and no caps on lists or tasks. TickTick is the safer default for most people. By [Bohdan Stefaniuk](https://taskpocket.io/about/) Last updated 2026-09-01 ## Feature by feature *TickTick compared with TaskPocket, feature by feature, with the plan each feature requires* | Feature | TickTick | TaskPocket | | --- | --- | --- | | Web app | Yes | Yes | | Windows, macOS and Linux apps | Yes | No 1 | | iPhone and Android apps | Yes | Partial 2 | | Apple Watch app | Yes | No | | Reminders and notifications | Yes 3 | No 4 | | Calendar view | Yes 5 | No 6 | | Habit tracking | Yes 7 | No | | Pomodoro timer | Yes | No | | Sharing and collaboration | Yes 8 | No 9 | | Public API | Yes 10 | No | | MCP server | Yes 11 | No | | Import from other apps | Yes 12 | No 13 | | AI features in the product | Yes 14 | No | | A scheduling date and a deadline as two fields | No 15 | Partial 16 | | A start date that defers the task out of sight | Unknown 17 | Yes | | Repeat anchored to completion | Yes 18 | Yes | | Stop a repeat on a date | Yes 19 | Yes | | Stop a repeat after N times | Yes 20 | Yes | | Skip one occurrence | Yes 21 | Yes | | Nth-weekday repeats | Unknown 22 | Yes | | A deadline on a repeating task | No 23 | Yes | | Edit a future occurrence before finishing the current one | No 24 | Yes | | Unlimited tasks and lists on the free plan | No 25 | Yes 26 | | Custom filters on the free plan | No 27 | No 28 | | One-time purchase available | No 29 | Yes | | Free data export | Yes | Yes | 1. The web app runs in any browser. 2. iPhone app; Android is in development, not shipped. 3. 2 per task on free, 5 on Premium. 4. None at all, on any platform. 5. Basic on free, unlimited on Premium. 6. TaskPocket stays out of your calendar. 7. 5 habits free, 299 on Premium. 8. 2 members per list free, 29 on Premium. 9. Deliberately single-user. 10. REST API with an OAuth developer portal. 11. First-party, at mcp.ticktick.com. 12. Todoist, Microsoft To Do, Wunderlist, OmniFocus, Toodledo, iCal. 13. No importer of any kind yet. 14. Premium-only, on their own plan comparison. 15. A due date, or a Premium-only Duration range in its place. No deadline field distinct from the due date. 16. Two fields. The deadline field and the Deadlines view are Premium. 17. No deferring behaviour is documented. 18. A labelled Custom Repeat type: "By Completion Date". 19. "Repeat Ends On". 20. "Repeat Ends After xx times". 21. "Skip the recurrence", by swipe or right-click. 22. Not documented either way. 23. There is no deadline field to put on one. 24. TickTick: "you cannot modify future recurring tasks until the current recurrence is completed." 25. 9 lists, 99 tasks per list. 26. Unlimited tasks; 5 projects and 2 areas. 27. Filter is Premium-only. Free gets the built-in smart lists. 28. TaskPocket has no custom filters at all. 29. Subscription only. Gift cards are annual. TickTick wins most of that table, and it is not a close-run thing. It is a mature product with a calendar, habits, a Pomodoro timer, an API and apps on every platform. TaskPocket is a smaller tool that does a narrower job. ## They have the better repeat engine, and that is worth saying plainly Recurrence is the feature this site writes about most, so it would be convenient to claim it here. It would also be false. TickTick’s repeat engine is the strongest of any competitor covered on this site. It has completion-anchored repeats as a labelled option — “By Completion Date”, which it defines as calculating the next date from when the previous one was finished. It has both end conditions, “Repeat Ends On” and “Repeat Ends After xx times”. And it has an explicit “Skip the recurrence”. Those last two were, until we checked, listed on [our own recurring-tasks page](https://taskpocket.io/features/recurring-tasks/) as things nobody else documented. They were corrected the day this page was written. One row survives, and it is a consequence of the date model rather than the repeat engine: a repeating task cannot carry a separate deadline in TickTick, because there is no deadline field to put on it. There is also a documented limitation worth knowing if you plan ahead — “you cannot modify future recurring tasks until the current recurrence is completed.” ## Where the two genuinely differ: one date, or two This is the actual difference between the products, and it is structural rather than a matter of feature count. TickTick has a due date, and optionally a Duration — a start and end time that takes the due date’s place. That is a calendar-event shape, and it fits a product with a calendar view at its centre. What it is not is a scheduling date plus a separate cutoff: there is no deadline field distinct from the due date, and nothing documented that hides a task until its start date arrives. TaskPocket splits them. The start date decides which day the task appears; the deadline is a fact about the world that schedules nothing and has its own view. The tax return is the worked example — start on the 12th, due on the 30th, and moving the first does not move the second. See [start dates and deadlines](https://taskpocket.io/features/start-dates-and-deadlines/). Note that Duration is Premium on their side and the deadline field is Premium on ours, so both products charge for the second date. ## The free tiers, and the counting TickTick publishes its limits, which is more than most of this category does, and they are worth reading before you commit a system to it. - TickTick free: 9 lists, 99 tasks per list, 19 checklist items per task, 2 reminders per task, 1 attachment a day, 5 habits, 5 countdowns, 2 members per shared list. Recurrence, tags, subtasks and priority are all included. Custom filters, task duration, activity history, AI features, timeline view and integrations are Premium-only. - TaskPocket free: unlimited tasks, 5 projects, 2 areas, the whole repeat engine, checklists, search, natural-language capture, a JSON export, and the last 14 days of completed history. The shape of the trade: TickTick gives you far more kinds of thing for free — reminders, a calendar, habits, sharing — and counts them. TaskPocket gives you fewer kinds and does not count tasks. Which is better depends entirely on whether nine lists is a ceiling you will ever touch. ## Breadth against restraint The honest framing of this comparison is not feature-by-feature at all. TickTick is a calendar, a habit tracker, a Pomodoro timer and a task manager in one application, on every platform there is. TaskPocket deliberately has none of the first three and is not building them. If you want one app for everything, TickTick is a genuinely good answer and this page is not going to talk you out of it. If you have tried that and found the app became a second job to maintain, the smaller tool is the argument. ## What each one costs ### TickTick - **Free:** Free, with published caps - **Premium:** $4.99/month or $49.99/year - **Students, faculty and staff:** 25% off — $37.99 for a year - **One-time purchase:** Not offered. Gift cards are annual. [TickTick’s own upgrade page](https://ticktick.com/upgrade), checked 2026-09-01 ### TaskPocket - **Free:** $0 — forever, no card - **Premium, monthly:** $3.99/month - **Premium, yearly:** $34.99/year - **Premium, lifetime:** $59.99 once One price covers the web app and the iPhone app — there is no per-platform purchase — though there is no Android, Mac or Watch app to cover. Nothing is deleted on downgrade: projects and areas over the free limit become read-only, and export stays free. A warning about anything else you read on this: almost every comparison article online still quotes $35.99 a year and $3.99 a month. Those figures are out of date. The current ones above come from TickTick’s own upgrade page and the App Store listing, checked on 1 September 2026. The monthly price is genuinely awkward to find — the upgrade page advertises only the annual plan — which is probably why the stale numbers have survived so long. Against that, TaskPocket is $3.99 a month, $34.99 a year, or $59.99 once. The lifetime option is the real difference in shape: TickTick is subscription-only, so the comparison over five years is not close. What the subscription buys is a much larger product that is actively developed by a real company, which is worth something a lifetime licence is not. ## Where TickTick is the better choice - Breadth. A calendar, habit tracking, a Pomodoro timer and a task manager in one app, on every platform there is — TaskPocket deliberately has none of the first three. - Reminders and notifications, including multiple per task. TaskPocket has none at all. - A genuinely capable free tier for a single person who stays inside the limits, and a paid tier that is cheap for what it covers. - Collaboration and shared lists, which TaskPocket does not do and will not. ## Stay with TickTick if… - You use the habit tracker or the Pomodoro timer — there is no equivalent here and there is not going to be. - You need reminders, or you share lists with anyone. - You want one app for calendar and tasks rather than a task manager that stays out of your calendar. ## Questions people ask ### Which has better recurring tasks, TickTick or TaskPocket? TickTick, on most measures. It documents completion-anchored repeats, ending a repeat on a date or after a set number of times, and skipping a single occurrence. TaskPocket does all of those too, and adds one thing TickTick cannot do: put a separate deadline on a repeating task, because TickTick has no deadline field distinct from the due date. ### Does TickTick have a start date and a deadline? No. It has a due date, and optionally a Duration — a start and end time that replaces the due date, which is Premium-only. There is no deadline field separate from the due date, and nothing documented that keeps a task hidden until its start date arrives. ### How much does TickTick cost in 2026? Premium is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year, with 25% off for students, faculty and staff. Most comparison articles still quote $35.99 a year — that is out of date. There is no lifetime option and no free trial is advertised. ### What does the TickTick free plan limit? It counts most things: 9 lists, 99 tasks per list, 19 checklist items, 2 reminders per task, 1 attachment a day, 5 habits and 2 members per shared list. Custom filters, task duration, activity history, AI features, timeline view and integrations are Premium-only. Recurring tasks, tags and subtasks are free. ### Should I switch from TickTick to TaskPocket? Probably not, unless the two-date model is specifically what you are missing. TickTick has reminders, a calendar, habits, sharing, an API and native apps everywhere, and TaskPocket has none of those. The case for switching is narrow: you want a start date separate from a deadline, you do not want a calendar in your task app, and you would rather pay once. ## Sources 1. [TickTick — Upgrade (plan comparison, published free-tier caps, annual price)](https://ticktick.com/upgrade) checked 2026-09-01 2. [App Store — TickTick (the monthly price, in the in-app purchase list)](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ticktick-to-do-list-calendar/id626144601) checked 2026-09-01 3. [TickTick — Set Up Recurring Tasks (By Completion Date, and both end conditions)](https://help.ticktick.com/articles/7055782206349770752) checked 2026-09-01 4. [TickTick — Recurring task FAQ (skipping, and the future-occurrence limitation)](https://help.ticktick.com/articles/7055792921664028672) checked 2026-09-01 5. [TickTick — Task Details and Editing (Due Date and Duration)](https://help.ticktick.com/articles/7055782408586526720) checked 2026-09-01 6. [TickTick — Education discount](https://www.ticktick.com/education) checked 2026-09-01 The free plan has unlimited tasks. No card, no trial clock. ## Related reading - [Recurring tasks that survive real life](https://taskpocket.io/features/recurring-tasks/) — Nth weekday, the last business day, stop after ten, skip one, and repeats counted from the day you finish. What each app can express, with sources. - [Start dates and deadlines — two dates, two questions](https://taskpocket.io/features/start-dates-and-deadlines/) — When you plan to start and when it is actually due are different questions. Here is how the two dates work in TaskPocket, and which apps have both. - [Todoist vs TaskPocket (2026) — an honest comparison](https://taskpocket.io/compare/taskpocket-vs-todoist/) — Todoist is bigger, has reminders and runs everywhere. TaskPocket is smaller, has no AI and no subscription. Where each one actually wins, with sources. - [No AI in TaskPocket — and why that is deliberate](https://taskpocket.io/no-ai/) — No assistant, no summariser, no model reading your list. The date parser is a grammar, not an LLM. What that buys you, and what it costs you.