Why People Buy · Review intelligence report

Todoist

570 relevant reviews and Reddit posts, 2025-10-16 → 2026-10-10
570analysed mentions (of 676)
+0.30avg sentiment (−1…+1)
53% / 32%praise / complaints
41switching stories

Top opportunities

Topics ranked by complaints + feature requests + negativity, with switching stories weighted ×2. Where a competitor (or a new product) could win.

TopicComplaints & requestsFeature requestsSwitching
Sync, bugs & reliability5702
Core features532114
Design & ease of use3885
Pricing & value2716
Mobile, widgets & reminders2952

Competitors named in switching stories

ProductMentions
Things2
Sunsama2
TickTick2
Notion2
Apple Notes1
Microsoft To Do1
Obsidian1
Apple Reminders1

Reasons to buy 304 mentions · 53%

Core features191
sentiment +0.95
“Type B and undiagnosed ADHD here and this really helps!!! I jot everything that pops in my head here during the day or brain dump at night before bed and it’s really been keeping me organized! I’m not forgetting everything anymore!”App Store · ★★★★★ · 2026-10-08 · conf 100%
“This is the to-do list app that I’ve been looking for. It not only allows me to move tasks around, but I can repeat tasks every day if necessary! God bless Todoist!”App Store · ★★★★★ · 2026-09-29 · conf 100%
Design & ease of use39
sentiment +0.92
“If I could only have one non default app on my phone this would be it. Soooo easy to use and intuitive, can’t recommend it enough”App Store · ★★★★★ · 2025-11-19 · conf 100%
“The updated design with clearer separation of menu items facilitates navigation”Google Play · ★★★★★ · 2026-06-20 · conf 100%
Integrations25
sentiment +0.77
“This is avery good app I m currently using it as a 10th grader and i mloving it moreover the feature to sync with the calander is amazing!!”Google Play · ★★★★★ · 2026-08-27 · conf 100%
“helped me tremendously from day to day. the calender sync is so handy!”Google Play · ★★★★★ · 2026-08-29 · conf 100%
Mobile, widgets & reminders14
sentiment +0.74
“works well I like the fact it's not just one reminder it will remind you throughout the day and very simple use”Google Play · ★★★★★ · 2026-06-23 · conf 100%
“the first monthly reminder arrived on my pixel 7 running android 14, and tapping paid moved it to next month correctly. i run a small business, and chatgpt comparisons put remoe, todoist, and ticktick alongside this app for everyday reminders.”Reddit · r/TestersCommunity · 2026-10-03 · conf 91%
Sync, bugs & reliability9
sentiment +0.99
“This is a great upgrade over apples default reminders and notes. I’ve never had an issue with lag on large lists, and syncing with my wife always worked perfect”App Store · ★★★★★ · 2026-04-03 · conf 99%
“Awesome. This app can transfer in real time between iPhone, computer, and android for completely free and this helped me manage all of my to do list for my girlfriend and I”App Store · ★★★★★ · 2025-11-17 · conf 100%

Complaints 181 mentions · 32%

Sync, bugs & reliability55
sentiment -0.80
“I love the app typically… but the most recent update created a bug that makes the app unusable. The app fully crashes when you attempt to launch.”App Store · ★★★ · 2026-10-01 · conf 100%
“Just downloaded it on my iPhone and it immediately crashed. Deleted it and redownloaded it same problem.”App Store · ★ · 2026-09-30 · conf 100%
Design & ease of use25
sentiment -0.31
“Todoist user for 8 years and the new version just “feels” bad. Theres no feedback when you scroll down to refresh. You have to swipe further than necessary to do a quick action. The interface organization is a mess and isn’t remotely similar to desktop. Very, very bad. Please work on this”App Store · ★★ · 2026-04-07 · conf 100%
“The new dark theme looks absolutely horrible, and hiding the task description box when adding a new task is a stupid idea. Why is this app getting worse?”Google Play · ★★ · 2026-08-09 · conf 100%
Mobile, widgets & reminders22
sentiment -0.39
“I was trying to create a medium sized widget to have a simple task list and I can check them off once complete. The app didn’t let me do that. The app made me move all the tasks to the inbox, but for some reason I can’t see the inbox on the widget. Defeats the whole purpose for me.”App Store · ★★ · 2026-09-30 · conf 100%
“I’m disappointed with Todoist’s notifications. Even for urgent tasks and reminders, the notification appears briefly and disappears like a regular notification, making it very easy to miss. I expected stronger, more persistent alerts—especially for important tasks. For a paid productivity app, the reminder system should be much more noticeable and reliable.”App Store · ★ · 2026-09-22 · conf 100%
Pricing & value20
sentiment -0.68
“$60/year for a todo list? Are you guys out of your minds? This app should be $5-$10 one time. A subscription at all is insane. Greed at its finest.”App Store · ★ · 2026-07-17 · conf 100%
“You either have to pay more to subscribe to the new Pro plan or you still have to pay the subscription without any new features added, just to use the app”App Store · ★ · 2025-12-23 · conf 100%
Core features18
sentiment -0.40
“I really wanted to like Todoist, but it’s terrible at handling recurring activities, which is my main use case for it.”App Store · ★ · 2026-09-01 · conf 100%
“A simple function of showing all future occurrences of a repeating task is impossible, and the help section directions do not match to what the app actually shows. Fundamentally flawed app.”App Store · ★ · 2025-12-26 · conf 100%

Feature requests 44 mentions · 8%

Core features21
sentiment +0.45
“I have an suggestion which I strongly recommend you should add PROBLEM : some people incl me too add daily tasks each day and be able to complete a portion of it SOLUTION: incl an option which lets you select how much portion you completed so that we can see what we set the goal too and what we have achieved (make sure it will work in the calendar too) kindly sorry for bad e…”Google Play · ★★★★★ · 2026-06-26 · conf 100%
“this app would have been greater if it supported a start time option for tasks to prevent tasks from showing up untill a certain time.”Google Play · ★★★★ · 2026-09-29 · conf 99%
Design & ease of use8
sentiment +0.35
“it's great but it's not too fun so I feel like they should like maybe make it a little bit more fun for when you finish the job or something like that.”Google Play · ★★★★ · 2026-08-14 · conf 94%
“There a snackbar whenever I reorder my task list. I find that a bit distracting can you please add an option to turn that off. The snackbar when task is completed is very useful because I sometimes accidentally click complete. I want to keep that and turn off the reorder snackbar.”Google Play · ★★★★ · 2026-07-19 · conf 92%
Integrations7
sentiment +0.12
“I love this app and have used it for years. There are a couple things that I wish you would add. CarPlay integration would be great. I regularly think of things I need to do while driving. The ability to add more than one calendar would be really helpful too. I have a work calendar and family calendar, but can only have one on my list. Those two items would be excellent and …”App Store · ★★★★ · 2026-03-11 · conf 100%
“I really like this app but have one bit of feedback and that’s to let me view reoccurring tasks on my calendar in the iPhone app so I can see where my calendar is completely blocked off. You can do it on the desktop but not the phone which makes it way less useful when scheduling because I can’t see when my tasks end.”App Store · ★★★★ · 2026-02-24 · conf 96%
Mobile, widgets & reminders5
sentiment +0.18
“Please add a floating (+) add button for easy thumb access at the bottom right of the widget 🙏 currently requires 2 hand use to add a task. Edit: Thanks, but that is for the app, I'm talking about the WIDGET”Google Play · ★★★★ · 2026-09-29 · conf 99%
“more tiles showing the actual tasks would be nice. the app is good otherwise”Google Play · ★★★★★ · 2026-10-04 · conf 97%
AI features1
sentiment +0.50
“easy to use, not as pushy and annoying about ai like other to-do apps. idea: a pro option without ai features (since some people don't want to pay for expensive features they won't use)”Google Play · ★★★★ · 2026-08-29 · conf 40%

Switching triggers 41 mentions · 7%

Core features14
sentiment +0.09
“In 2019 we tried them all: todoist, evernote, due etc. Either too outdated, not powerful or messy. We were not happy and started to build nag - with a lot of passion, countless weekends and evenings and ended with a product people are raving about :)).”Reddit · r/u_947116 · 2026-09-30 · conf 96%
“In 2019 we tried them all: todoist, evernote, due etc. Either too outdated, not powerful or messy. We were not happy and started to build nag - with a lot of passion, countless weekends and evenings and ended with a product people are raving about :))!.”Reddit · r/u_947116 · 2026-09-17 · conf 95%
Pricing & value6
sentiment -0.48
“EDIT: I reached out to support as advised in the response but they were not willing to do anything. I have used Todoist since 2010 but will have to look for another app. I paid for pro for many of those years but $60/year has become way too much. Some of us do not use the AI features, and just need reminders and more than 5 projects. For those basic needs, the new pricing ma…”Google Play · ★★ · 2026-06-16 · conf 94%
“How do I unsubscribe from this mess? there is no clear, cut way to unsubscribe. They make it difficult so you’ll give up trying. I’ve been trying for 45 minutes and still don’t know if I have unsubscribed or not. I don’t use this application enough a warrant paying for it any longer. Buy everywhere.”App Store · ★★ · 2026-02-19 · conf 76%
Design & ease of use5
sentiment -0.32
“Displays a banner on top advertising premium account that is always present on the display. Quite annoying. Will be migrating to another app.”Google Play · ★ · 2026-07-16 · conf 71%
“One of the worst application experiences I've had in my long life of using apps. The entire concept of tasking is simple, but this app is determined to force you to click through and chat with a bot through pages of garbage to do something that should be quick and easy but no, you have to learn this stupid contrived garbage system. Honestly I've happily gone back to Android …”Google Play · ★★ · 2026-07-13 · conf 68%
Learning curve5
sentiment -0.70
“Wow, I must be a complete Moron, because I find this app to be very confusing! Deep Work? Weekly Reviews? 81 items to read in Deep Work alone! What’s up with all that? I just want a nice easy, clean “To do list” lol…..this app is WAY to complicated for imbeciles like me I guess.lol I’m sticking with Apple Notes & Reminders.”App Store · ★★ · 2026-05-12 · conf 66%
“need suggestion on task manager. I’ve spent too much time trying to find a task manager that actually works the way I work.I gave Todoist a shot for a while. I kept feeling like I was spending more time setting things up and organizing tasks than actually doing them. It felt like I was managing the tool of the work.Then I tried Todoal. That one felt better—its simpler workfl…”Reddit · r/ADHD · 2026-09-17 · conf 89%
AI features4
sentiment -0.34
“Was a great app, but now they've shoved ChatGPT in it for no reason so immediately uninstalled.”Google Play · ★ · 2026-07-18 · conf 82%
“Are task manager UIs dead?. Todoist user since 2014. My whole life and my job live there. But I haven't opened the app in a month: Claude reads, triages and reschedules my tasks over MCP, using rules I wrote down. If this becomes normal, what is the UI for? Curious how you guys think about it.”Reddit · r/todoist · 2026-10-03 · conf 85%
Method. Sources: App Store 290, Google Play 211, Reddit 175. Newest public App Store (US) and Google Play (US, English) reviews; Reddit posts and comments via the PullPush public archive. Each item was classified by the Jev decision model (category, topic, sentiment, relevance) with calibrated confidence; items judged off-topic (relevance < 0.5) are excluded. 79 items (12%) had category confidence below 60%. Quotes are verbatim and unedited. Counts are a sample, not a census. Generated 2026-10-12.