--- title: "Todoist vs TaskPocket (2026) — an honest comparison" description: "Todoist is bigger, has reminders and runs everywhere. TaskPocket is smaller, has no AI and no subscription. Where each one actually wins, with sources." canonical: https://taskpocket.io/compare/taskpocket-vs-todoist/ lastUpdated: 2026-08-26 --- 1. [Home](https://taskpocket.io/) 2. [Compare](https://taskpocket.io/compare/) 3. Todoist vs TaskPocket # Todoist vs TaskPocket Todoist is the larger, more capable product: reminders, native apps everywhere, sharing, an established API. TaskPocket is smaller on purpose — no AI, no collaboration, no subscription required, unlimited tasks on the free plan, and a deeper repeat engine. If you need a nudge or a shared list, use Todoist. This page explains the rest. By [Bohdan Stefaniuk](https://taskpocket.io/about/) Last updated 2026-08-26 ## Feature by feature *Todoist compared with TaskPocket, feature by feature, with the plan each feature requires* | Feature | Todoist | TaskPocket | | --- | --- | --- | | Web app | Yes | Yes | | Windows, macOS, Linux apps | Yes | No 1 | | iPhone app | Yes | Yes | | Android app | Yes | No 2 | | Works offline on mobile | Yes | Yes | | Reminders and notifications | Yes | No 3 | | Home-screen widgets | Yes | No | | Sharing and assigning tasks | Yes | No 4 | | Public API | Yes | No 5 | | Integrations with other tools | Yes | No | | A separate scheduling date | Yes | Yes | | A separate deadline field | Partial 6 | Partial 7 | | A start date that defers the task | No 8 | Yes | | Repeat anchored to completion | Yes 9 | Yes 10 | | A deadline on a repeating task | No 11 | Yes | | Nth-weekday and last-day-of-month repeats | Yes | Yes | | Stop a repeat after N times | Yes | Yes | | Unticking a repeat genuinely undoes it | Unknown | Yes 12 | | Natural-language capture | Yes | Yes 13 | | AI features in the product | Yes 14 | No | | Tasks on the free plan | Yes 15 | Yes 16 | | One-time purchase available | No | Yes | | Complete data export, free | Yes | Yes | 1. The web app runs in any browser. A desktop app is planned, after Android. 2. In development, not shipped. 3. None, on any platform. On the roadmap, not shipped. 4. Deliberately single-user. This will not change. 5. In development, targeted for September 2026. Not shipped. 6. Pro and Business only. 7. Premium only. 8. Todoist states it does not support start dates that hide tasks until the start date is due. 9. Through an "every!" prefix inside the typed date string. 10. A labelled option in the repeat editor, with the rule shown back as a sentence. 11. Todoist directs you to a recurring date instead of a deadline for anything that repeats. 12. Dates roll back, the count goes back up, the checklist returns. 13. A deterministic grammar, not a language model. 14. Four: Filter Assist, Task Assist, Email Assist and Ramble. 15. Beginner caps personal projects at 5. 16. Unlimited tasks; 5 projects and 2 areas. Todoist wins nine of those rows outright and ties most of the rest. That is the honest shape of this comparison: it is a fifteen-year-old product from a company of around ninety people, and TaskPocket is one developer choosing a smaller scope. ## Where the two products genuinely differ Recurrence. Both do after-completion repeats. The difference is how. Todoist expresses it as punctuation inside a typed string — every! 3 months counts from completion, every 3 months from the original date. It works, and it is powerful once learned, but it is a parsed string rather than a structured rule: what you get is not always what you meant, and editing it later means editing the string. TaskPocket makes it a labelled option and shows the rule back as a sentence before saving. See [recurrence anchor](https://taskpocket.io/glossary/recurrence-anchor/). The start date. Todoist says outright that it does not support start dates that defer a task, and its help centre lists five workarounds instead — a separate “start” task, a recurring date, a filter, a calendar sync, a reminder. TaskPocket has the field. This matters less than it used to, because Todoist has Deadlines, so it is a difference in which of the two dates you get rather than in how many. See [start dates and deadlines](https://taskpocket.io/features/start-dates-and-deadlines/). AI. Todoist ships four AI features and one of them, Ramble, is on the free tier. TaskPocket has none, and the natural-language date parser is a deterministic grammar rather than a model — no round-trip, no quota, no guessing. This is a positioning choice for a segment, not a claim that AI is useless. Scope. Todoist has sharing, assigning, comments, integrations and an API. TaskPocket has none of those and is not building them. Whether that reads as restraint or as a missing product is genuinely a matter of what you need. ## The free plans, in numbers This is the clearest difference and the one worth being concrete about. - Todoist Beginner: 5 personal projects, Smart Quick Add, task reminders, list and board layouts, 3 filter views, one week of activity history, integrations, and Ramble with limited sessions. - TaskPocket Free: unlimited tasks, 5 projects, 2 areas, the full repeat engine, checklists, search, natural-language capture, sync across every device, complete JSON export, and the last 14 days of completed history. The trade is legible: Todoist's free tier gives you reminders and integrations that TaskPocket does not have at any price; TaskPocket's gives you the whole repeat engine and unlimited tasks. Nothing is deleted on downgrade in either direction — TaskPocket makes projects over the limit read-only rather than removing them. ## What each one costs ### Todoist - **Beginner:** Free - **Pro:** $7/month or $60/year - **Business:** $10/user/month, $96/user/year - **One-time purchase:** Not offered [Todoist's own pricing page](https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/todoist-plans-pricing-and-billing-faq-Vq2z0HWL6), checked 2026-08-26 ### TaskPocket - **Free:** $0 — forever, no card - **Premium, monthly:** $3.99/month - **Premium, yearly:** $34.99/year - **Premium, lifetime:** $59.99 once Every plan covers every platform, browser included. Nothing is deleted on downgrade — projects and areas over the free limit become read-only, and export stays free and complete. The comparison people usually want: the second date field costs money in both products. Todoist gates Deadlines behind Pro; TaskPocket gates the deadline field and the Deadlines view behind Premium. Neither gives it away, and any article claiming Todoist does is out of date. Where they diverge is the shape of the payment. Todoist is a subscription only. TaskPocket's lifetime option is a single payment that covers every platform, which is worth more to some people than the monthly difference and nothing at all to others. ## Where Todoist is the better choice - Reminders and notifications, on every platform. TaskPocket has none at all, and if a nudge is essential to how you work that is worth knowing before you sign up. - A native app on every platform that exists, plus widgets, plus an established API and hundreds of integrations. - Sharing and assigning. Todoist works for a household or a small team; TaskPocket is deliberately single-user and always will be. - Fifteen years of shipping from a profitable, bootstrapped company of around ninety people. It is not going anywhere, and a to-do list is a thing you want to still exist in five years. ## Stay with Todoist if… - You need reminders today — this is the single biggest gap and it has no workaround in TaskPocket. - You share any part of your list with anyone else. - You depend on an integration or an automation that already runs against Todoist's API. ## Questions people ask ### Is TaskPocket a Todoist replacement? For a single person who does not need reminders or sharing, yes. For anyone who does, no — and those two gaps have no workaround. Todoist is the more capable product by a wide margin; TaskPocket is a smaller one that does a narrower job. ### Does Todoist have start dates? No. Todoist states directly that it does not support start dates that hide tasks until the start date arrives, and offers workarounds — a separate "start" task, a recurring date, a filter — rather than a field. ### Can Todoist repeat a task after I complete it? Yes. Typing "every!" instead of "every" anchors the repeat to the completion date — "every! 3 months" schedules the next one three months after the day you ticked it off. It is a real capability that many Todoist users never discover, because it is punctuation rather than a setting. ### Is Todoist’s deadline feature free? No. Deadlines are available on the Pro and Business plans. TaskPocket also charges for its deadline field, so the honest comparison is on price rather than on availability. ### Which one has more AI? Todoist, by definition — it ships Filter Assist, Task Assist, Email Assist and Ramble, with Ramble available on the free tier. TaskPocket has no AI features at all, and its date parser is a deterministic grammar rather than a model. ### Can I try TaskPocket without paying? Yes. The free plan needs no card and does not expire: unlimited tasks, five projects, two areas, and the complete repeat engine. Premium adds a seven-day trial on the monthly and yearly plans. ## Sources 1. [Todoist — Plans, pricing and billing FAQ](https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/todoist-plans-pricing-and-billing-faq-Vq2z0HWL6) checked 2026-08-26 2. [Todoist — Does Todoist support start dates?](https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/does-todoist-support-start-dates-qhqlgZhk) checked 2026-08-26 3. [Todoist — Introduction to deadlines (plan availability, and recurring tasks)](https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/introduction-to-deadlines-uMqbSLM6U) checked 2026-08-26 4. [Todoist — Introduction to recurring dates (the "every!" prefix)](https://www.todoist.com/help/articles/introduction-to-recurring-dates-YUYVJJAV) checked 2026-08-26 5. [Todoist — Pricing (plan contents and the 30 million+ figure)](https://www.todoist.com/pricing) checked 2026-08-23 The free plan has unlimited tasks. No card, no trial clock. ## Related reading - [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. - [Recurrence anchor — what a repeat counts from](https://taskpocket.io/glossary/recurrence-anchor/) — A recurrence anchor is the date a repeating task counts from: either the scheduled date, or the day you actually finished it. The difference matters. - [Apple Reminders alternative for Windows and the web](https://taskpocket.io/alternatives/apple-reminders/) — Reminders is great at capture and weak at structure. An honest comparison, including the several places where Reminders is still the better choice. - [Is there an Apple Reminders app for Windows?](https://taskpocket.io/answers/is-there-an-apple-reminders-app-for-windows/) — No — Apple has never shipped Reminders for Windows, and iCloud for Windows doesn't include it. Here's what actually works, and what to use instead.