Is Todoist better than Google Tasks?

For a long list you want to sort, yes. Todoist reads dates as you type and adds labels, four priority levels and filters. For a short, free list that lives in Gmail and Google Calendar, Google Tasks is the better fit.

Is Google Tasks free?

Yes. Google Tasks costs nothing, and Apple's App Store lists it with no in-app purchases. It holds 100,000 tasks across your lists and 20,000 unfinished ones in a single list.

Can I sync Todoist with Google Tasks?

Not directly. Todoist's calendar integration syncs Google Calendar events but not Google Tasks. Zapier can connect the two, and on its free plan it checks for new data every 15 minutes.

Does Todoist work with Google Calendar?

Yes, on every plan, the free one included. Your events show in Todoist's Today and Upcoming views, and with Sync tasks to calendar on, tasks with a date, time and duration appear in a calendar named Todoist.

How much is Todoist Pro?

US$5 a month billed yearly, which is US$60 a year, or US$7 paid month to month, as of October 2026. Pro raises the limits to 300 projects and 150 filters and adds custom reminders and deadlines.

Is Todoist's free plan enough?

Yes, until you need a sixth project. Beginner gives you 5 personal projects and 3 filters, and labels, priorities and repeats all work on it. Deadlines, custom reminders and 300 projects come with Pro.

Todoist vs Google Tasks (2026): prices, limits and the pick

The short answer

Todoist vs Google Tasks comes down to where your day already happens. If you live in Gmail and Google Calendar and your list is short, pick Google Tasks: it's free, it's already in the side panel, and every task with a date shows on your calendar. If your list runs to dozens of things across home, work and errands, pick Todoist, because you type dates in plain words and sort the lot by label, priority and filter.

Google Tasks stays out of your way. A task gets a title and a date, maybe a star or a couple of subtasks, and you move on. Todoist wants ten minutes of setup on day one. It pays that back the week your list passes 40 items.

Find your row:

If you	Pick	Why
Plan your day in Google Calendar	Google Tasks	Tasks sit on the calendar grid
Never want to pay	Google Tasks	No in-app purchases at all
Type "every other Friday"	Todoist	It reads dates as you type
Sort by label or priority	Todoist	Labels, 4 priorities, filters
Share a list at home	Todoist	5 people per project, free
Want a Mac or Windows app	Todoist	Desktop apps, Linux too

How we compared them

We took every fact here from Google's and Todoist's own pricing pages, help articles and App Store listings, all read on 30 October 2026. This comparison rests on that documentation, not on months of hands-on testing, and you won't find star ratings in it. Todoist's prices are US list prices before tax, as of October 2026.

Each app answered the same six questions:

What does one person pay, and where does the free plan stop?
How quickly does a task go in, date and all?
Will it remind you, and can it repeat?
How do you sort a list of 60 things?
Does it work with your calendar and your email?
Can someone else use the list with you, and can you leave with your tasks?

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

Google Tasks is the to-do list built into Google's own apps. A task can carry details, a date and time, a deadline, a repeat and subtasks, and you split tasks into lists such as Home and Work. You rank them with separate lists and a star on the ones that matter most, and drag the rest into order by hand.

Its strength is where it lives. Tasks sits in the side panel of Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides, and there are apps for Android and iPhone. On a computer you open it in a browser, either at tasks.google.com or inside Google Calendar, and in Gmail the Add to Tasks button turns an email into a task that links back to the message. Keep reminders land here too. Since the second half of 2025, reminders you set in Google Keep are saved as tasks.

You won't hit a limit. Google's task help allows 100,000 tasks across all your lists, and any single list holds 20,000 unfinished ones before it stops taking more.

Pick it if most of what you forget has a date and you open Google Calendar every morning anyway: a bill, a school form, bins every Tuesday. Skip it if you want to cut a long list more ways than list and star, or keep one shopping list with the people you live with.

Todoist: best for a long list you sort your own way

Todoist reads what you type. Write "Call the dentist tomorrow at 4 pm" and the task gets its date and time. Write "Water the plants every other week" and it repeats. The same quick add box works on the web, on a computer and on your phone, and it understands phrases like "next weekday" too.

Tasks live in projects. Labels group them across projects, so "errands" can pull together jobs from Home and Work. Four priority levels run from P1, red and urgent, down to P4, the default. A filter is a saved view of one slice, such as every P1 task due today.

The free Beginner plan gives you 5 personal projects and 3 filter views, with labels, priorities, subtasks, reminders, list and board layouts and 5 MB file uploads. Pro costs US$5 a month billed yearly, or US$7 month to month, and raises the limits to 300 projects and 150 filters.

You can run Todoist on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer, an iPhone, iPad or Android phone, and an Apple Watch or Wear OS watch, with a download for each, plus browser extensions and email add-ons. There's a voice option as well. Ramble lets you talk through a list and turns it into tasks. Beginner gets 10 sessions a month, and a session only counts when it finds a task.

Pick it if your list is long, mixed and changing, and you'd rather type one line than tap through menus. Skip it if five projects feels tight and you won't pay, or if a plain list beside your inbox already does the job.

Side by side

	Google Tasks	Todoist
Price	Free	Free, Pro US$60 a year
Free limit	100,000 tasks	5 projects, 3 filters
Typed dates	Set in the task	Read from the words
Repeats	Day, week, month, year	"every other week" and more
Reminders	At the time, or 9 AM	Automatic, custom on Pro
Sorting	Lists and a star	Projects, labels, priorities
Calendar	Built into Google Calendar	Syncs to a Todoist calendar
Gmail	Add to Tasks	Add-on or Chrome extension
Sharing	Chat spaces, Docs at work	5 people per project
Computer	In a browser	Mac, Windows, Linux apps

Google Tasks wins on cost and on where it lives. Todoist wins on almost everything you do with a task once it's in.

Want a third option? TickTick, Microsoft To Do and five more are priced in our best task management app guide.

What a year costs

Google Tasks costs nothing. Apple's App Store lists Google Tasks as free with no in-app purchases, and it needs only a Google account. Here's a year of each plan:

Plan	A year	What you get
Google Tasks	US$0	Everything it has
Todoist Beginner	US$0	5 projects, 3 filters
Todoist Pro, yearly	US$60	300 projects, 150 filters
Todoist Pro, monthly	US$84	The same, at US$7 a month
Todoist Business	US$96 a person	A shared team workspace

Paying yearly for Pro saves US$24, and if you subscribe inside the iPhone app instead, Apple's listing for Todoist shows in-app purchases at US$6.99 and US$59.99.

Pro adds more than room. You also get the calendar layout, custom reminders, deadlines, task durations, automatic backups, full reporting history and unlimited Ramble. On Beginner you still get labels, priorities, recurring dates, comments, assigned tasks and the calendar connection. Five projects is the wall you'll hit first.

Dates, repeats and reminders

Take bin night on a Tuesday and a water filter that wants changing every three months.

In Todoist you type "Put the bins out every Tuesday at 7pm" and the quick add box picks out the repeat as you write. The water filter is the tricky one. Todoist's recurring dates help explains two forms. "every 3 months" counts from the date on the task, so a filter due on 10 January comes back on 10 April even if you change it late. "every! 3 months" counts from the day you tick it off, so a filter changed on 20 January comes back on 20 April.

Give a Todoist task a date and a time and it gets an automatic reminder on your phone, on your computer or by email. On Pro and Business you add custom reminders as well, such as one an hour early and a second at the time.

In Google Tasks you set a date and time on the task, then choose Repeat. Google's product page lists daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repeats, and the help adds one limit: a task with subtasks can't repeat. Notifications arrive at the time you set. A task with a date but no time pings at 9 AM, and so does a deadline, on its day. Google's product page says nudges keep prompting you until the task is done.

Both apps take a deadline. In Google Tasks it shows in the All day row of your calendar. Todoist saves deadlines for Pro. Put one on a repeating task and the hard stop stays in view while the working date moves.

If reminders are the whole point, our best reminder app guide covers apps built only for that.

Like typing a task the way you'd say it? In ActivityTracker you write "call the dentist tomorrow 3pm" or "every 2 weeks" and it reads the day, the time and the repeat, and a task with a time rings at that time by default.

See how tasks work

Calendar and Gmail

Google Tasks is part of Google Calendar. Click an empty slot, choose Task, and it sits on the grid. A task can take a duration and mark you busy, so a two-hour block for the tax return shows as busy to anyone who checks your calendar.

Todoist connects to Google Calendar on every plan, the free one included:

Your Google or Outlook events show in Todoist's Today and Upcoming views, read only.
Turn on Sync tasks to calendar and tasks with a date, time and duration appear in a new calendar named Todoist. Sync all-day tasks adds the ones with only a date.
Rename or move the event in Google Calendar and the task follows.
Move one occurrence of a repeating task and the calendar's repeating event stays put.
Switch Sync tasks to calendar off and Todoist deletes every event in its calendar. Events you added there by hand go too.

If your work and home calendars are split across two accounts, get them onto one screen first, because Todoist connects to one Google account at a time.

For email, Google Tasks puts Add to Tasks at the top of an open message, and you can drag an email into the side panel. Todoist's Gmail help offers a Chrome extension for any Chromium browser or a Google Workspace add-on for Gmail on the web, iPhone and Android. Its email links open only in Gmail in a browser, not in the Gmail phone apps.

Todoist shares on the free plan. The pricing page allows 5 people per personal project on every plan, with comments and assigned tasks. Comments take a file or a voice note, so a photo of the leaking tap goes straight on the task. Nobody pays for a shared shopping list.

Google Tasks shares one task at a time instead. In a Google Chat space you create a group task and assign it to a member, who gets an email and sees it in their own list. In Google Docs, typing @task assigns a task to someone, but only on a work or school account, on some Business and Enterprise plans. Neither route gives you one personal list that two people both edit.

Moving from Google Tasks to Todoist

There's no direct bridge. Todoist's calendar sync skips Google Tasks entirely. Zapier can connect the two with triggers such as a newly completed task in a Google Tasks list, and on its free plan it checks for new data every 15 minutes. Run both and the same chore turns up twice, ticked in one app and still open in the other. Pick one home and move:

Back up first. Google Takeout exports your Tasks with titles, descriptions, due dates, list titles and repeat schedules. Deleted tasks don't come with it.
Tick off or delete anything you won't do, so you move a short list.
Put each list's open tasks in a plain text note, one per line.
Paste the lines into Todoist's task name field. Todoist's help says it turns each line into its own task.
For a long list, build a CSV file in Todoist's template and import it into a project from the web, Mac or Windows app.
Type each repeat again, such as "every Tuesday at 7pm", and check the next date.
Turn on Sync tasks to calendar, set one test task for five minutes from now and wait for the reminder.

Going back is rougher. Todoist exports each project as a CSV file, but Google's Tasks help covers exporting your data, not importing it, so the return trip means retyping your open tasks.

Try both for one week

Your own week settles this faster than a feature table:

Day one: put the same ten tasks in both apps. Make three of them dated, two repeating and one from an email.
Day two: add three tasks on your phone while you're out. Type the date in words in Todoist and set it in Google Tasks.
Day three: open Google Calendar and look for both apps' tasks on the grid.
Day four: sort both lists. Give Todoist a label and a priority, and star and drag in Google Tasks.
Day five: tick off a repeating task a day late and see where its next date lands.
Day seven: count which app you opened without thinking, and keep that one.

On Sunday, a weekly reflection template helps you see which list you trusted.

Made-up example: Priya teaches year four and runs a house with two children. She keeps her to-dos in Google Tasks, because they land on her Google Calendar beside parents' evenings.

By October she has four lists, Home, Kids, School and Errands, with 70 open tasks. Bin night repeats every Tuesday, and the school's emails become tasks through Add to Tasks.

Errands are the problem. They're spread across three lists, and on the drive home she can't see everything to pick up at the shops in one place.

She tries Todoist Beginner for a week. She makes two projects, Home and School, and puts an errands label on anything she can do while out. One of her three filters shows every errand due this week.

She keeps Todoist and turns on Sync tasks to calendar, so timed tasks still sit beside her lessons. She pays US$0. The day she wants a reminder an hour before pickup as well as the one at the time, she'll look at Pro at US$60 a year.