Is TickTick better than Notion?

For a to-do list, yes. TickTick reads the date as you type, repeats a task from its due date or from when you finish it, and has habits and a focus timer built in. Notion suits notes and plans that hold tasks.

Can TickTick sync with Notion?

Yes, both ways. TickTick's Notion integration links a list to a Notion database, and new tasks, name changes and deletions sync in both directions. TickTick's plan table puts integrations on the paid plan.

Yes. The free plan gives you 9 lists of up to 99 tasks, 2 reminders per task and 5 habits. The paid plan costs US$49.99 a year.

Can Notion replace TickTick?

Only partly. You'd build the task database yourself, and its repeating templates make new copies on a calendar schedule. Notion's reminders still fire only once, and a habit tracker is a table you make.

Which is cheaper, TickTick or Notion?

TickTick. Its paid plan costs US$49.99 a year, while Notion Plus is US$120 on yearly billing. Both have a free plan, and Notion's puts no page cap on one person.

Does TickTick have notes?

Yes, in note lists that sit beside your task lists, where a note has no tick box but can still carry a date and a reminder. For long pages with tables and pages inside pages, Notion holds more.

TickTick vs Notion in 2026: to-do app or workspace?

Which one to pick

TickTick vs Notion is a choice between an app that's ready and one you build. For a to-do list with reminders, pick TickTick: type "dentist Friday 3pm" and the day and time are set for you. Pick Notion if your tasks belong inside notes and plans you design, like a trip or a course.

TickTick also puts a habit tracker and a focus timer in the same app, so it covers most of a personal day the first time you open it, where Notion hands you an empty page and an evening of setup: a table, a date column, a view that shows today. Once that's built it holds far more than tasks.

Start from the line that sounds like you:

You	Choose	Because
Forget appointments and bills	TickTick	Dates read from what you type
Want a reminder every week	TickTick	Notion's reminders fire once
Track habits like a daily walk	TickTick	5 habits on the free plan
Plan a trip, a course or a move	Notion	Every task opens into a page
Use Linux or a smartwatch	TickTick	Apps for both

How we chose

Every price and limit below is from TickTick's and Notion's own pages and App Store listings, read on 30 October 2026. We didn't test them hands-on for months, so there are no star ratings. Prices are in US dollars before tax, as listed in October 2026.

Five things decided each verdict:

The price for one person, and the point where the free plan stops.
Speed for a dated task.
Repeats, and whether the reminder repeats with them.
Room for longer notes, such as a recipe or a packing list.
Which devices it runs on, whether the two apps can sync with each other, and how you get your tasks out if you leave.

TickTick: best for a ready-made to-do list with habits and a timer

TickTick is a to-do list with extras. It comes with a calendar and a habit tracker built in, plus a Pomodoro-style focus timer. Its features page also lists a kanban board, a timeline and an Eisenhower matrix that sorts tasks by how urgent they are, plus countdowns to dates like birthdays. One typed line carries the task and its date. A separate note list holds writing that isn't a task.

The free plan gives you 9 lists of up to 99 tasks each, with 2 reminders per task and 5 habits. Tasks repeat on the free plan too, and you get a basic calendar view. The paid plan costs US$49.99 a year. It lifts you to 299 lists of 999 tasks and 5 reminders a task, and it adds filters, email reminders and the timeline view. Stop paying and TickTick's page says your data stays, and you carry on as a free user.

Pick it if the things you forget come with a time, like the gym at 7 or a bill on the 20th. Skip it if you want long documents with tables and linked pages, or if one list will pass 99 tasks and you won't pay.

Notion: best for plans you design yourself

Notion is built from pages and databases. A page holds writing and checklists, with images and tables dropped in where you want them. In a Notion database each item is a page of its own, so a task can carry a full page of notes under it. Give the items a due date or a status, and you can switch the view from a grid to a calendar without moving anything.

Notion's Free plan puts no block limit on a person working alone; the cap starts once a workspace has two or more members. Plus is US$10 per seat each month on a yearly bill, or US$12 if you pay monthly. Business is US$20 a seat yearly, US$24 monthly. A school email gets students and teachers Plus at no cost, limited to one member.

Pick it if your tasks are part of something bigger, like a kitchen repaint where the paint codes and the quotes sit above the checklist. Skip it if you'd rather jot a task down and close the app, or if you want a ping every Monday.

Side by side

	TickTick	Notion
Built for	Tasks, habits, focus	Pages and databases
Free plan	9 lists of 99 tasks	No page cap alone
Paid, a year	US$49.99	US$120 for Plus
Dates	Picked out of your words	Date property or @remind
Repeats	From the due date or when done	A template on a schedule
Reminders	2 a task, 5 paid	One-off only
Habits	5 free, 299 paid	A table you build
Biggest file	10 MB, 20 MB paid	5 MB, 5 GB paid
Linux or watch	Both	Neither listed

TickTick takes anything with a time on it, and Notion takes anything you'd write more than a paragraph about.

What each costs in a year

Stay on the free plans and you pay nothing. Outgrow them and a year costs this:

Plan	A year	What it adds
TickTick, free	US$0	9 lists, 5 habits
TickTick, paid	US$49.99	299 lists, 5 reminders a task
TickTick, monthly on iPhone	US$59.88	US$4.99 a month
Notion, free	US$0	Pages without a cap
Notion Plus, billed yearly	US$120	5 GB files, 30-day history
Notion Plus, billed monthly	US$144	US$12 a month

TickTick's website sells its paid plan by the year, and its App Store listing adds a monthly one at US$4.99. On Notion's listing, Plus is US$11.99 a month or US$119.99 a year. Students and teachers with a school email pay 25% less for TickTick's paid plan.

The two free plans run out in different places. TickTick stops you at a tenth list or a sixth habit, and at the hundredth task in any one list. Notion never caps one person's pages. You pay there for files over 5 MB and for page history past 7 days, and to bring other people in.

Adding tasks, repeats and reminders

Take three jobs: a dentist appointment on Friday at 3pm, bins out every Tuesday, and plants that want water four days after you last gave them some.

In TickTick you type "Dentist Friday 3pm". Its smart recognition picks the day and time out of your words and sets the reminder, the way "Meeting at 9 tomorrow" becomes a task with a time. You can also hold the plus button and say it.

TickTick's repeat help offers daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and custom repeats. The custom ones split three ways: by due date, by completion date, or on dates you pick. The bins are the first kind. They come back every Tuesday whether or not you ticked last week's. The plants need the completion kind, so when you water them a day late on Saturday, the next turn moves to Wednesday.

When a TickTick reminder goes off, even on a locked screen, its pop-up lets you snooze the task, tick it off or start a focus session on it. On the paid plan the reminder can also come by email, which you switch on in the web app's settings.

Notion has no task box of its own. Each task is a row in a database you set up, and its due day lives in a Date property. The bins need a repeating database template, which drops in a fresh copy on a schedule from daily to yearly. You set the first date and the time it runs. That covers the bins. The plants are stuck, because every repeat in Notion's help runs on the calendar, never from the day you finished.

Reminders in Notion start with a word. Type "@remind Friday 3pm" on a page, or set a reminder on a database item's date. According to Notion's reminder help, the phone notification lands within five minutes of the set time, and with Notion closed, an email goes out alongside the push. Notion can't ping you every Monday yet. Asked "Does Notion have recurring reminders?", its help page says "Not at the moment".

If the thing that repeats is a habit you're trying to build, the reminder matters less than the trigger. Pin it to something you already do every day, like putting the kettle on, and keep the first version tiny.

Notes, lists and plans

Notion wins this one clearly. Say you're planning a week in Lisbon. One Notion page holds the flight times and the hotel's address, with a map and a packing checklist below them. Each booking sits in a database with a date, and opening it gives you a page for the confirmation number.

TickTick has notes as well, in a lighter form. You keep them in a note list, next to your task lists. A note has no tick box, but it can carry a date and a reminder, and a kanban view sorts notes into groups. Task details take Markdown and attachments, and TickTick's FAQ caps each file at 10 MB on the free plan and 20 MB on the paid one.

The dividing line is length. A note of a few paragraphs sits fine in TickTick. Once a plan needs tables or pages inside pages, it's a Notion job. When the notes outweigh the tasks, compare Notion with a notes app such as Obsidian.

Habits and focus

Here TickTick has the edge for a personal day. Its habit tracker handles check-ins and shows your record, with 5 habits on the free plan and 299 on the paid one. TickTick's own advice is to make a new habit so small you can't refuse it, such as reading 2 pages a day. The focus timer runs Pomodoro sessions beside your list, and the Start Focus button on a reminder starts one from the task itself.

In Notion, a habit tracker is a database you build: a row for each day and a checkbox property for each habit, or a template someone else made. Timing a session means a second app, because Notion's pricing and help pages list no timer.

Either way, choose the one task you're timing before you press start. Then use the tactics in how to stay focused for the moment your phone lights up.

Like the idea of a timer beside your tasks? ActivityTracker's Focus timer runs 15, 25 or 50 minutes, or a length you set up to two hours, with a 5 or 10 minute break between rounds. When you finish, it can mark the linked task done.

See how Focus works

Phones, computers and watches

TickTick runs on more of them. Its download page has apps for phones, tablets and every major computer system, Linux included, as well as a browser extension and the web app. Its App Store listing covers Apple Watch, and TickTick's FAQ says the Wear OS app needs Wear OS 2.5 or later.

Notion's download page offers desktop apps for Windows and Mac, alongside phone apps for iPhone and Android and the browser version. A Linux app or a watch app appears on neither the download page nor the App Store listing.

Notion's offline help says offline needs the desktop or phone app, since a browser tab won't do, and you switch on Available offline one page at a time. Paid plans also download your recent and favourite pages. A database comes along with only 50 rows, taken from whichever view sits first, and blocks such as buttons and forms wait for a connection. TickTick's help doesn't say how it behaves offline. Before a long flight, switch on airplane mode and tick something off in each app.

For calendars, TickTick links to Google Calendar. Its FAQ adds subscriptions to Outlook and iCloud calendars, which Apple's listing marks as paid. Notion's calendar is a separate free app, Notion Calendar, that puts your database items on the same grid as your Google, Outlook or iCloud events.

Using TickTick and Notion together

You don't have to choose. TickTick links to Notion itself. The sync pairs one TickTick list with one Notion database and runs both ways. Setting it up takes four steps:

In TickTick, open Settings, then Integrations & Import (Import & Integration on a phone), then Notion, and choose Add Integration.
Log in to Notion and give TickTick access.
Take the template TickTick sets up for you, or pick your own database from the pages you share with it, then choose which TickTick list it pairs with.
With your own database, map the fields if you want more than names to sync: a Date property becomes the task date, and a checkbox or status property marks it done. The template does this mapping for you.

The first sync brings in the 200 most recently edited database items as unfinished tasks, and sends up to 200 unfinished TickTick tasks the other way. After that, new tasks and deletions sync both ways, and so do name changes. Notion properties you didn't map show on the task card, read-only, four at most. You can link up to 3 workspaces and 9 databases, and only lists you own can be linked. TickTick's plan table ticks integrations for the paid plan only.

On the free plans, split by job instead. Dated tasks and habits go in TickTick, reference pages in Notion, and a task that needs its notes carries the Notion page's link in its description.

Moving from one to the other

The integration is also the easiest way to move. Link your Notion task database and its 200 most recently edited items arrive in TickTick as tasks. Unlink the database when you're done, and the tasks that came across stay where they are. Up to 200 unfinished TickTick tasks travel to Notion the same way.

By hand, it's slower. Notion's export help turns a full-page database into a CSV file, but TickTick's import page takes backups from apps such as Todoist and OmniFocus, not Notion, so you copy the names across and retype the dates. Going the other way, put your TickTick tasks in a spreadsheet saved as CSV, and Notion's import help turns each row into a page and each column into a property. Either way, every repeat gets set up again.

Run a seven-day trial

Then give both a week with your real list:

Monday: enter the same ten tasks in each app. Give four a date and make two repeat.
Wednesday: start one habit, a ten-minute walk say, and log it in both every evening.
Friday: tick off one repeating task a day late and compare where each app puts the next one.
Sunday: spend five minutes on a weekly reflection template, then keep the app you reached for without thinking.

Made-up example: Lena runs three mornings a week before her shifts at a garden centre, and in June she's taking her family to Portugal.

She starts in Notion with her sister's trip planner, and by week two the bookings sit in it, each with a date.

The mornings go less well, because the runs and the seedlings, watered four days after the last time, need reminders that come back, and Notion's don't repeat. She misses two runs in one week.

She moves those to TickTick's free plan. The runs take one of its five habits and the seedlings get a repeat by completion date. The trip stays in Notion, and she pastes the planner's link into a TickTick task called "Book the Lisbon hotel".

She pays US$0 for both. If she wants the bookings to sync into TickTick on their own, the integration sits on the paid plan at US$49.99 a year.