Is TickTick better than Google Tasks?

For reminders and repeats, yes. TickTick lets you snooze a reminder, put more than one on a task, repeat a chore from the day you finish it and track habits. Google Tasks is the better fit for a free, plain list inside Gmail and Google Calendar.

Is Google Tasks free?

Yes, entirely. There's no paid plan, Apple's App Store lists it with no in-app purchases, and it holds up to 100,000 tasks across your lists.

Does TickTick sync with Google Tasks?

Not directly. TickTick's import page doesn't list Google Tasks, so the link runs through Zapier, which checks for new tasks every 15 minutes on its free plan. TickTick does connect to Google Calendar in both directions.

How much does TickTick cost?

Nothing on the free plan, which covers 9 lists of 99 tasks and 5 habits. The paid plan is US$49.99 a year, or US$4.99 a month through the App Store, as of October 2026.

Can Google Tasks repeat a task from when I complete it?

No. Google's pages list daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repeats and nothing that follows the day you finish. TickTick's By Completion Date repeat does that: the next date moves with the day you actually tick it.

Does TickTick work with Google Calendar?

Yes, both ways. You can pull Google Calendar events into TickTick and edit them there, or pair TickTick lists with Google calendars so timed tasks show up as events. Apple's listing puts calendar subscriptions on the paid plan.

TickTick vs Google Tasks (2026): price, reminders, the pick

Which one to pick

TickTick vs Google Tasks is a choice between a free list that lives inside Google's apps and a to-do app built to keep after you. Pick Google Tasks if you plan your day in Gmail and Google Calendar and your tasks are simple: a title, a date, maybe two subtasks. Pick TickTick if you've ever swiped a reminder away and forgotten the thing it was for, or if your chores come round on their own rhythm.

Google Tasks costs nothing and asks nothing of you. There's no habit tracker in it, no timer and no paid tier to grow into. TickTick's free plan already does more than that, and its paid plan, US$49.99 a year, mostly buys room.

Find the line that sounds like you:

If you	Pick	Why
Live in Gmail and Google Calendar	Google Tasks	It sits in the side panel
Never want to pay for a to-do app	Google Tasks	There's no paid plan
Dismiss reminders, then forget	TickTick	Snooze from the pop-up
Do chores late, then reset	TickTick	Repeats from the finish day
Want habits and a focus timer	TickTick	Both are built in
Work on a Mac, PC or Linux	TickTick	Desktop apps for all three

How we compared them

We read every price, limit and feature below on Google's and TickTick's own pricing pages, help articles and app store listings on 31 October 2026. The comparison is built from that documentation, not from months of hands-on use, so you won't find star ratings or test scores in it. TickTick's prices are US list prices before tax, as of October 2026.

We put six questions to each app:

What does a year cost one person, and where does the free plan run out?
How fast does a task go in with its date attached?
What happens when a reminder fires at a bad moment?
Can a repeat follow the day you actually did the job?
Does it sit inside the calendar you already open every morning?
Which devices run it, and can you leave with your tasks?

Google Tasks: best for a free list inside Gmail and Calendar

Google Tasks keeps one simple to-do list in sync across your Google account. A task takes a title, details, a date and time, a deadline, a repeat and subtasks, and you group tasks into lists such as Home and Study. Google's product page has you star the important ones and drag the rest into order.

Where it lives matters more than what it does. Google's overview puts Tasks in the side panel of Gmail, Calendar, Chat and Drive, and of any file in Docs, Sheets or Slides. Phones get an app for Android and one for iPhone and iPad. On a computer, Google's help sends you to Tasks inside Google Calendar in a browser. In Gmail, Add to Tasks turns the email you're reading into a task with a link back to it.

There's nothing to buy. Apple's App Store shows Google Tasks as free with no in-app purchases, and Google's limits are hard to reach: 100,000 tasks across all your lists, and 20,000 unfinished ones in any single list.

Pick it if most of your to-dos carry a date and Google Calendar is the first thing you open: a car service, a library return, a birthday card to post. Skip it if a reminder you swipe away tends to leave your head too, or if you want habits, more ranking than a star, or a proper app on your laptop.

TickTick: best for reminders that keep after you

TickTick is a to-do app with a calendar, a habit tracker and a Pomodoro timer in the same window. Its features page adds an Eisenhower matrix that sorts tasks by urgency and importance, countdowns to dates you care about, and list, kanban and timeline views. You type a task the way you'd say it out loud and it picks out the date.

TickTick's free plan holds 9 lists with 99 tasks each, 2 reminders on a task, 5 habits and the basic calendar view, and a shared list takes 2 members. The paid plan costs US$49.99 a year. That gets you 299 lists of 999 tasks, 5 reminders a task, 299 habits and 29 members on a list, plus every calendar view, task durations, email reminders and themes. Let the plan lapse and nothing is deleted. The extras switch off and the rest keeps working.

Pick it if things have slipped because a notification landed while your hands were full, or your chores run on "a week after I last did it" time. Skip it if a plain list is all you'll ever use, or if your biggest list is close to 99 tasks and you won't pay.

Side by side

	Google Tasks	TickTick
Price	Free, nothing to upgrade	Free, or US$49.99 a year
Free limits	100,000 tasks	9 lists of 99 tasks
Dates	Set by hand	Read from what you type
Repeats	Daily to yearly	Also by finish date
Reminders	At the time, or 9 AM	2 free, 5 paid, snooze
Ranking	Lists, a star, drag	4 priorities and tags
Habits, timer	Neither	Both
Calendar	Inside Google Calendar	Its own, linked to Google
Computer	In a browser	Mac, Windows, Linux
Watch	None listed	Apple Watch, Wear OS

Google Tasks wins on price and on sitting where your email already is. TickTick wins on almost everything that happens after a task goes in.

What a year costs

Google Tasks never costs anything. For TickTick, here's a year on each plan:

Plan	A year	You get
Google Tasks	US$0	All of it
TickTick free	US$0	9 lists, 5 habits
TickTick paid, yearly	US$49.99	299 lists, email reminders
TickTick paid, monthly	US$59.88	Same, US$4.99 a month

TickTick's site sells the paid plan by the year, at under US$4.17 a month. Its App Store listing adds the monthly option at US$4.99. Students and teachers who sign up with a school email get 25% off the paid plan. Bought through Google Play, PayPal or Stripe, you can ask for a refund within 14 days.

The free plan pinches in three places: one attachment a day, 2 reminders on each task, and the calendar views beyond the basic one.

Adding a task

Say you need to ring the vet tomorrow at 10.

In TickTick you type "Call the vet tomorrow at 10". Smart recognition spots the day and the time and sets the reminder before you save. Long-press the plus button to say it instead. If it reads a time you didn't mean, tap the highlighted words and it lets go.

In Google Tasks you type the title, then pick the date and time yourself. Its fast routes start elsewhere. Gmail's Add to Tasks button turns an open email into a task, or you drag the email into the side panel. In Google Calendar you click an empty slot, choose Task, and it lands on the grid at that hour.

Reminders: where they differ most

Both apps remind you. The difference shows when a reminder fires while you're driving or mid-conversation.

In Google Tasks, a task with a date and a time notifies you at that time. A task with a date and no time notifies you at 9 AM, and a deadline gets a 9 AM notification on its day. Google's product page adds that nudges keep prompting you until the task is done.

TickTick hands you more controls. From its reminder help and FAQ:

One task carries several reminders: 2 on the free plan, 5 on the paid one.
The pop-up offers Snooze, Done, Start Focus or Dismiss, on a locked screen as well.
Constant Reminder, in the phone app, keeps ringing until you act on the task.
A location reminder, on the iPhone and Android apps, rings when you reach a place such as the pharmacy.
On the paid plan, reminders can come by email too.

If you've ever dismissed a reminder in a queue and remembered the task at midnight, the Snooze button is the reason to switch. Want a reminder that won't quit and nothing else? Pick one of these reminder apps instead.

Repeats

Take two chores: bins out every Tuesday night, and a water filter you change 30 days after the last change.

Both apps handle the bins. Google's product page lists daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repeats. The help adds one catch: a task with subtasks can't repeat, so "Bins" can't carry "recycling" and "garden waste" underneath it.

The filter is where they part ways. TickTick's repeat help splits custom repeats into three kinds: by due date, by completion date, and on dates you pick. Set the filter to repeat by completion date, change it four days late, and the next change moves four days later with it. A repeat can also stop on a set date or after a set number of rounds, which suits a 12-week training plan.

Google's help and product page list no repeat that counts from when you finish.

Want snooze and finish-day repeats in one list? In ActivityTracker you type "oil the bike every 10 days after done" and the next date counts from the day you tick it, and a reminder snoozes for 15 min, 1 hour or until tomorrow at 9 am.

See the to-do list

Calendar

Google Tasks is part of Google Calendar, where a task can carry a start time, how long it takes and a deadline. In Google's help, the deadline sits in the All day row, and you can set the task to show you as busy, so a Saturday morning blocked for clearing the garage looks taken to anyone checking your calendar. Any task with a date turns up on the grid with no setup.

TickTick brings its own calendar, with yearly, monthly, weekly, agenda, multi-day and multi-week views, and the free plan gets the basic one. Its Google Calendar help describes two links:

Subscribe from Google Calendar pulls your events into TickTick. You can add, change or delete them there and Google gets the change, and they appear in the Today and Next 7 Days lists.
Integration with Google Calendar runs the other way. Pick which TickTick lists and which Google calendars to pair, and every task with a time becomes an event on Google's grid, while new events there come back as tasks.

Apple's listing puts calendar subscriptions on the paid plan, and TickTick's help page names no plan for the integration. If work and home sit on two Google accounts, get both calendars onto one screen before you connect either app.

Habits, focus and the extras

Google Tasks has nothing to put up here. It's a list, and that's the point of it.

TickTick's habit tracker takes check-ins and keeps your record, with 5 habits free and 299 on the paid plan. Its own advice is to start a habit so small there's no excuse to skip it, like reading 2 pages a day. The Pomodoro timer runs beside your tasks, and Start Focus on a reminder opens a session on that task.

Picking the habit is still your job: tie it to something you already do.

TickTick shares whole lists. Its features page lets you share a list and assign tasks on it, and the pricing page allows 2 members on a free list and 29 on a paid one. A shopping list with your partner needs no subscription.

Google Tasks shares one task at a time. In a Google Chat space you add a space task and assign it to a member, who gets an email and sees it in their own list. In Docs, typing @task assigns one, but only on an eligible Google Workspace plan. Google's help describes no way to share a whole personal list.

Phones, computers and watches

TickTick runs on nearly everything. Its download page lists iPhone and iPad, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, a browser extension and the web app. The App Store listing adds Apple Watch on watchOS 9 or later, and TickTick's FAQ supports Wear OS from version 2.5.

Google Tasks has phone apps for Android and for iPhone and iPad. On a work or school account, your administrator decides whether you see it at all.

Using both, or moving across

The two don't connect directly. TickTick's import page takes backup files from apps such as Todoist, Microsoft To Do, OmniFocus and Toodledo, and Google Tasks isn't on the list.

Zapier can bridge them. Its triggers include a new or completed task on either side, with actions that add, update or complete a task in the other app. On Zapier's free plan it checks for new data every 15 minutes. Run the copy one way only, or the same chore shows up in both apps and you end up ticking it twice.

To move from Google Tasks to TickTick for good:

Back up first with Google's export. It carries titles, descriptions, due dates, list titles and repeat schedules, but not deleted tasks.
Finish or delete what you'll never do, so you're moving a short list.
Make each Google list again in TickTick. Nine fit on the free plan.
Type the open tasks in with their dates in words, like "Return library books tomorrow at 5pm".
Set each repeat again, and switch the chores that follow your last finish to By Completion Date.
Turn on Integration with Google Calendar if you want timed tasks on Google's grid, then test it with a task due in five minutes.

Heading back to Google means retyping your open tasks one by one.

Give both a week

Then test both on your own list:

Monday: copy ten real tasks into both apps, including a bill, a weekly chore and something from your inbox.
Tuesday: let one reminder in each app go off while you're busy, and note which task you still remember at bedtime.
Wednesday: add three tasks on your phone while you're out. Type the time in words in TickTick and pick it by hand in Google Tasks.
Friday: finish a repeating chore a day late and look at where each app puts the next one.
Sunday: count which app you opened without a prompt, and delete the other.

Then spend five minutes with a weekly reflection template: which tasks slipped this week, and in which app?

Made-up example: Marta checks guests in at a hotel three long days a week and spends the other two on a bookkeeping course. Her to-dos live in Google Tasks, because her rota is in Google Calendar and her course emails turn into tasks with Add to Tasks.

Two things keep slipping. The reminder to book her car's service goes off while she's checking in a coach party, she swipes it away, and the car is three weeks overdue before she notices. Her bike chain wants oil every 10 days after the last time, and a weekly repeat keeps landing on the wrong day.

She moves her home tasks to TickTick's free plan. The car service gets two reminders, and when the first one fires at the desk she taps Snooze. The bike chain repeats by completion date, so oiling it late on a Sunday pushes the next one to the Wednesday after next.

Her course tasks stay in Google Tasks beside her rota, and she pays US$0 for both. If she wants her shifts to show inside TickTick as well, that's the paid plan at US$49.99 a year.