Is Todoist better than Any.do?

For a long list you sort by label and priority, yes. Todoist reads repeats like "every other Friday" as you type, free, and shares a project with 5 people. For planning one day at a time with your calendar beside you, Any.do's My Day and Moment are the better fit.

Yes. The free Personal plan covers unlimited tasks, subtasks and grocery lists, reminders, the calendar view, My Day and sync across devices. Moment is capped at 5 times a month, and interval repeats, location reminders and the WhatsApp bot need the paid plan.

How much does Any.do cost?

Nothing, on the free Personal plan. For interval repeats and WhatsApp reminders you pay US$4.99 a month billed yearly or US$7.99 month to month, as of October 2026, or US$59.99 for 12 months through the iPhone app. Family is US$8.33 a month billed yearly, for up to 4 people.

Does Any.do have recurring tasks on the free plan?

Yes, the plain ones. Any.do's help centre gives Free daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repeats. Intervals such as every 2 weeks, day sets such as Monday to Friday and dates such as the 1st Monday of the month need a paid plan.

Can I move my tasks from Any.do to Todoist?

Yes, by hand. Copy each list's open tasks into a note, one per line, and paste them into Todoist, which offers to add each item as its own task. Then type every repeat again in words, since the move is a one-time copy.

Which app is better for planning my day?

Any.do. My Day holds only the tasks you chose for today, Moment walks you through them one at a time on your phone, and the calendar view comes free. Todoist's Today and Upcoming views plan well too, but its calendar layout is a Pro feature.

Todoist vs Any.do (2026): free plans, prices and the pick

The short answer

Todoist vs Any.do comes down to how you plan. If you sit down and choose what today holds, take Any.do. Its free plan gives you My Day, a calendar view beside your tasks and a reminder at the time you set. If your list is long and you sort it by project and urgency, take Todoist. You type the date and the repeat in plain words, and labels and four priority levels slice the list for you.

The free plans pull in opposite directions. Any.do Free repeats a task every day, week, month or year, but "every 2 weeks" or "the last Friday" needs its paid plan. Todoist reads all of those on its free plan. Its limit is 5 projects.

Find your row:

If you	Pick	Why
Plan the day each morning	Any.do	My Day and Moment
Want reminders in WhatsApp	Any.do	A bot on the paid plan
Type repeats like "every other Fri"	Todoist	Free on Beginner
Sort by label and urgency	Todoist	Labels, filters, P1 to P4
Share a list with your household	Todoist	5 people per project, free
Use a Linux computer	Todoist	It has a Linux app

How we compared them

We read Todoist's and Any.do's own pricing pages, help centres and App Store listings on 30 October 2026, and every fact here comes from them. It's built from that documentation, not from weeks of hands-on testing, so you won't find star ratings or speed tests here. Prices are US list prices before tax, as of October 2026.

We put the same six questions to both apps:

What's the bill for one person over a year, and what's missing on free?
How fast does a task go in with its date attached?
Which repeats and reminders come without paying?
What does it do to help you plan today?
Can someone you live with share a list?
If you leave, do your tasks come with you?

Any.do: best for planning one day at a time

Any.do puts your tasks, a calendar and a daily planner side by side. You type into the Quick Add bar and Smart Type spots phrases like "tomorrow" or "in 2 hours" and sets the date. On a phone you can tap a preset instead, Later Today, Tomorrow, Next Week or Someday, or say the task out loud.

The daily tools are why people pick it. My Day holds only the tasks you chose for today, added by hand or from its suggestions, and taking one off My Day leaves it safe in its list. Moment runs on your phone and shows your tasks one at a time, each with four buttons: Today, Later, Done or Delete. Set a daily push, and a notification at the hour you pick opens Moment with one tap.

The free Personal plan covers unlimited tasks, subtasks and grocery lists, plus reminders, the calendar, My Day and sync across your devices. Free users get Moment 5 times a month. Any.do's pricing page puts its paid personal plan at US$4.99 a month billed yearly, or US$7.99 month to month. That plan lifts the Moment cap and adds interval repeats, location reminders, color tags, AI features, Zapier and WhatsApp reminders. Focus Mode comes with it too.

You'll find it on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows and the web, with browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Its pricing page also lists Apple Watch and Wear OS.

Pick it if you want to wake up, see today's short list next to your appointments and clear it. Skip it if you want "every 2 weeks" or more than one color tag without paying, or if you share chores with someone, because sharing starts on the Family plan.

Todoist: best for a long list sorted by label and urgency

Todoist turns a typed line into a dated task. Write "Dentist Friday at 7pm" and Smart Quick Add highlights the date and saves it with the task. Repeats go in the same way. "Every weekday", "every other Friday" and "every 2 weeks starting 3 January" are all words it understands, on the free plan.

Tasks sit in projects, and labels reach across them, so one "errands" label pulls jobs out of Home and Work at once. Every task carries one of four priorities, from a red P1 for the urgent to P4 for anytime, and the highest float to the top of Today and Upcoming. A filter saves one slice of the list, such as every P1 task due this week.

The free Beginner plan gives you 5 personal projects and 3 filter views, with labels, priorities, recurring dates, reminders, comments, list and board layouts and the calendar connection. Pro costs US$5 a month billed yearly, which is US$60, or US$7 month to month. It raises the caps to 300 projects and 150 filters and adds the calendar layout, task durations, deadlines and custom reminders.

Todoist runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, on iPhone, iPad and Android, and on wearables, with browser extensions and email add-ons as well. Ramble turns a spoken ramble into separate tasks. Beginner gets 10 sessions a month, and a session counts only when it finds at least one task.

Pick it if your list runs past 40 things across home and work and you'd rather type one line than tap through menus. Skip it if your list is short and what you want is a calm morning planner, or if five projects already feels cramped and you won't pay.

Side by side

	Any.do	Todoist
Free plan	Unlimited tasks	5 projects, 3 filters
Paid, billed yearly	US$4.99 a month	US$5 a month
Paid, month to month	US$7.99	US$7
Typed dates	Smart Type	Smart Quick Add
Free repeats	Day, week, month, year	Intervals and weekdays too
Plan today	My Day, Moment	Today and Upcoming views
Sorting	Lists, one free tag	Projects, labels, P1 to P4
Sharing	Family plan, 4 people	5 per project, free
Computer	Mac, Windows, web	Mac, Windows, Linux, web

Any.do wins the morning: a short plan, your calendar beside it, and reminders that can reach you in WhatsApp. Todoist wins once the list gets long, and on repeats and sharing without a subscription.

Weighing more than these two? TickTick, with five free habits beside its tasks, tops our best digital planner app picks.

What a year costs

Both apps are free to start, and billed yearly the paid plans land 12 cents apart:

Plan	A year	What it adds
Any.do Personal	US$0	Tasks, reminders, My Day
Any.do paid, yearly	US$59.88	Interval repeats, WhatsApp
Any.do paid, monthly	US$95.88	The same, at US$7.99
Any.do Family, yearly	US$99.96	4 people, shared boards
Todoist Beginner	US$0	5 projects, 3 filters
Todoist Pro, yearly	US$60	300 projects, deadlines
Todoist Pro, monthly	US$84	The same, at US$7

Month to month, Any.do costs US$11.88 more over twelve months.

Where you pay changes Any.do's price. Inside the iPhone app, Apple's listing for Any.do names US$59.99 for 12 months with a 7-day trial, US$26.99 for six months and US$9.99 a month. One catch for households: the same listing says Apple's Family Sharing doesn't cover it, so a family pays through Any.do's own Family plan. Apple's listing for Todoist shows Pro at US$6.99 a month or US$59.99 a year. Read the checkout screen, then check the web price before you tap buy.

Repeats and reminders

The free plans split hardest here. Take three chores: bins out every Tuesday, a water filter every three months, and a fern that wants water every other week.

In Any.do you set a repeat from inside the task, not from Quick Add: open it, tap Remind me, choose Recurring, then daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. That handles the bins on the free plan. The filter and the fern won't repeat until you pay, because intervals are a paid feature. So are day sets like Monday to Friday and dates like the 1st Monday. The pricing page lists recurring tasks as a paid extra, yet Free keeps the plain ones: daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.

One Any.do rule catches people out. The next repeat appears only after you tick off the current one, so a bins task you leave undone never makes next week's.

In Todoist you write "Bins out every tue", "Change the filter every 3 months" and "Water the fern every other week", and all three repeat on the free plan. Changed the filter late? Write "every! 3 months" with the exclamation mark, and Todoist's recurring dates help says the next date counts from the day you tick it off, not the day it was due.

Reminders run on time in both. Any.do sends one at the hour you pick on every plan, and the paid plan adds location reminders on Android and iPhone that fire when you arrive at a place or leave it. Todoist adds an automatic reminder to any task with a date and a time, as a mobile or desktop push or an email. On Pro you stack custom ones too, say the evening before and again at the hour.

Any.do also reaches into WhatsApp. On the paid plan, its WhatsApp bot takes "Remind me to buy milk at 5pm" as a chat message, turns a forwarded message into a task and accepts voice notes. Repeats still have to be made in the app, and ticked off in the app to keep coming.

Only need the nudge? Apple Reminders on iPhone and Google Tasks on Android do that for free, and our best reminder app picks put them first.

Want the date, the time and the repeat in one typed line? In ActivityTracker you write "call the plumber tomorrow 3pm" or "every 2 weeks" and the task picks them up, and a task with a time reminds you at that time unless you change it.

See how tasks work

Planning your day

Any.do's calendar view sits next to your tasks on every plan, the free one included. On a phone it mirrors the calendars already on your device. On the web and desktop you connect one Google, Outlook or iCloud account, and you repeat the setup on each device you use. The paid plan adds Focus Mode on Android and iPhone: set a timer, and a tree grows as long as you stay in the app. Leave it and the session dies.

Todoist plans from two views. Today shows only what's due today, and Upcoming lets you drag tasks across the coming week or month. Its calendar integration works on every plan:

Your Google or Outlook events appear in Today and Upcoming, read only.
Sync tasks to calendar puts each task with a time into a new calendar called Todoist.
You connect one Google or Outlook account at a time, and subscribe to the others.
The calendar layout inside Todoist itself is a Pro feature.

The habit matters more than the app here. If your day has fixed blocks, such as a school run or a gym slot, plan the day around them first and let the list fill the gaps.

Todoist shares on the free plan. Every plan allows 5 people per personal project, with comments and assigned tasks, and a comment can hold a file or a voice note. A shared shopping list for a couple costs nothing.

To share in Any.do you need the Family plan: US$8.33 a month billed yearly or US$9.99 month to month, for up to 4 members, on its pricing page. That buys a shared family space, a shared grocery list and up to 4 shared projects, and every member gets the paid features too. Each person keeps a private personal space beside the shared one. Teams, the work plan, costs US$4.99 per member a month billed yearly.

So for two people splitting chores, Todoist costs US$0 and Any.do costs US$99.96 a year. For four people who'd each pay for Any.do anyway, Any.do's Family plan is the better deal.

Moving from one to the other

Any.do's own import from Todoist is a one-time copy that never syncs back, so pick one home and move once.

Going from Any.do to Todoist:

Tick off or delete anything you won't do. A short list moves faster.
Keep a copy. On the web, open a list's three-dot menu, choose Print and save it as a PDF. Archived tasks arrive by email as CSV files from Settings, Archived Tasks.
Copy each list's open tasks into a plain note, one per line.
Paste the lot into Todoist's task name field. Todoist's help shows an "Add X tasks?" prompt, and one tap turns each item into its own task.
Type every repeat again in words and check the next date it shows.

Going from Todoist to Any.do, export the project as a CSV from the web, Mac or Windows app, open it in a spreadsheet and copy the task names. Any.do's copy-paste import drops them into a personal list on every plan. Its one-step import from Todoist builds boards instead, and needs Family or Workspace.

Before you decide, run both on the same 15 tasks for a week, two real repeats included. On Sunday, jot down in a weekly reflection which list you opened without a nudge.

Made-up example: Sofia studies part time for an accounting exam and works four days a week at a bakery. She starts on Any.do Free because Moment each morning feels calm, and her shifts sit right beside her tasks.

Week two is where it grates. Study sessions fall on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a day set the free plan won't repeat, so she keeps two weekly tasks. Practice papers come every 2 weeks. Free won't repeat those at all, and by the 6th of the month her 5 Moments are gone.

So she tries Todoist's free plan. She types "Revise chapter every tues, thurs", then "Practice paper every 2 weeks starting Monday", and splits her list into Study, Bakery and Home. One filter shows every P1 task this week. Timed tasks sync to her calendar, which keeps revision next to her shifts.

She keeps Todoist and pays US$0. If she starts missing Moment, she'll go back to Any.do and pay the US$59.88 a year.