--- title: "TaskPocket — Calm task manager for browser and iPhone" description: "A start date and a deadline are different questions. TaskPocket keeps them apart, repeats that survive real life, and works offline on your phone." canonical: https://taskpocket.io/ lastUpdated: 2026-08-26 --- # 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. Free plan · No credit card · Ready in 30 seconds Type a date or a repeat — it gets lifted out of the sentence. 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. ## 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](#basics) — reuse the layout, don't rebuild it. - Thirty minutes, twelve slides at most - Maya has the support figures ## 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 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 web Press N from anywhere in the app. - On your phone The share sheet, from any app. - In your browser The extension, to keep a page you're reading. No model, no round trip. It works with the wifi off. - 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. Inbox 3 Today 7 Upcoming Deadlines Someday Completed Work Launch v2 API docs Home Move flat Today Buy groceries Send invoice to Acme Today Launch v2 Review pull request #142 Apr 17 Write the release notes Move flat Call the contractor Fri Book the van Apr 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 Sep Monthly - Keyboard shortcuts Capture, search and complete without reaching for the mouse. N New task / Search ⌘ K Jump to E Complete - 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 return 2 days ago This week Renew the passport Fri 3 Oct Submit the grant form Sun 5 Oct Later Renew the domain 12 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. - 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, free on every plan) ### Premium $3.99 /month Billed monthly. 7-day free trial, then cancel anytime. $34.99 /year That's $2.92 a month — you keep $12.89 a year versus paying monthly. 7-day free trial. $59.99 once Pay once, keep Premium forever. No subscription, no renewal. 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 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 ### Is there an Android app? 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. ### Does it remind me? 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. ### Can I use AI with it? No — not ours, and there is nothing to connect your own to either. TaskPocket has no assistant, no summariser and no model reading your list, and there is no public API or MCP server today. The date parser is a deterministic grammar, not a language model: same input, same result, no round-trip. 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. ### How is this different from Todoist or TickTick? 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. ### Does it work offline? 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. ### What if I stop paying? 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. ### What are you working on next? 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. ### Is my data actually mine? 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. ## Do the work. Not the list. Free plan, no card, about thirty seconds to your first task. Free plan · No credit card · Ready in 30 seconds