Todoist vs Any.DO: Comparison & Breakdown

Let's explore Todoist and Any.do.

These are both to-do list applications that have expanded into the team management space. We're going to give you a breakdown of everything from the key differences to whether they're good for you and your team, personal use & pricing.

This feature will be your ultimate guide to choosing between the two.

The Basics

It is important to begin with key backgrounds about both of these applications and why they're in the to-do list space.

• Primarily, Todoist has been in the to-do list space for over 10 years, and much like Any.do, they've been in the space long enough to have evolved into a different application from where they started.

• The aim of Todoist is really to provide an all-around to-do list experience, but with some lightweight team features for smaller teams looking to manage their workload, bolstering the to-do list application with upcoming calendar abilities.

• Any.do started as a very popular mobile application and has evolved into a really well-rounded product. It now presents an interesting lineup of calendar and team functionality, as well as other views that allow teams to manage their workload.

• It has really adapted and evolved in the last few years in particular. At its core, this is a to-do list application with added team functionality.

Key Differences

Let's take a look at how both of these applications differ, just to skip through all of the core features and really focus on the key differentiations between the apps.

Todoist

• Todoist is a really popular all-around to-do list application because it is applicable to a wide variety of people, from those using it to manage their new garden project all the way to small teams trying to coordinate tasks. It has a wide variety of abilities that a lot of people like inside the application and can apply to a lot of real-world situations.

• The ways that Todoist differentiates from Any.do is by presenting more of a traditional to-do list experience. As of the time of doing this feature, Todoist focuses primarily on how to express your tasks; at the moment, that is through lists, sections, boards, and an upcoming calendar view, which will help people to express their tasks associated with a date.

• They also have some advanced filters, labels, and abilities like reminders to keep you updated with what your tasks needing to be done, but it's a very general to-do list experience that Todoist offers.

Any DO

• Any.do is on a similar mission by presenting a way to capture your tasks and assign them to a day, but also to bring together lists for important projects you're working on. It also allows you to do all of the regular stuff, like attachments, subtasks, and much more detail, but lacks abilities like prioritization, which is available in Todoist.

• Any.do focuses more on bringing the team experience a lot closer together by allowing for a better way to collaborate with team members inside of team workspaces, which can be available through a premium upgrade.

• However, the core focus that it has many years of experience in is the daily planner capabilities, allowing you to import your items and have that ability to see what events are coming up alongside the tasks that you need to do for the day. This is something that Todoist is only getting availability for more recently and is still not fully shipped.

For Personal Use

Here's how both of these stack up with personal task management.

Todoist

• When it comes to personal use, Todoist is a really nice all-around experience and presents a good way to start adding tasks, assigning them to a day using natural language input, and organizing them into a project. Inside of that project, you can organize those tasks into a board view or, more recently, a calendar view to express what's coming up.

• Now, Todoist has a wide range of custom view abilities, which are a real help in fine-tuning how you want each of your different areas to look. For example, inside of Todoist, if you're looking to plan your time ahead for the week, including all of the tasks that you do for work and life, then it is a great option to go to "Upcoming," which will allow you to see that in a board or a list view for all of the tasks that are coming up in your work list. This is perfect for looking ahead and managing what you want to do.

• Now, Todoist also has lists where you can organize your tasks into them. Both of these applications have fantastic mobile applications, which allow you to capture tasks really quickly for day-to-day management. Todoist also has an inbox area, which will allow you to see your captured items and organize them into the correct areas.

Any DO

• Any.DO is really popular for personal use because it organizes your list as a very visual canvas and has a clean user interface, allowing you to add items, including tasks, which make it perfect for not just your work but also grocery lists, movies you want to watch, and a wide variety. This is why 40 million people are using it, and it's becoming very popular among families for organizing ahead. One of the standout features for personal use is the calendar abilities.

• This has long been available in Any.do and has had this feature for a very long time, allowing you to see all of your events that are potentially in Apple Calendar or on Google Calendar, and be able to see them alongside your tasks. For a lot of people, this is probably the original daily planner application that allows you to see what's ahead and start working on tasks.

• It also has a killer mobile application, which a lot of people like for iOS and Android, with great widgets to see what your events and tasks, as well as conference calls, are coming up, and reminders for time-based locations and recurring reminders as well. It also has good sync, which means you can get it not just on all of the mobile devices, but also on your Apple Watch and Google Wear devices.

• Todoist also has a great personal feature, which is WhatsApp integration with Any.do, locked under the premium. This will allow you to communicate with Any.do and manage tasks and reminders just from using their WhatsApp chat function, which is much more of a time-saver when going about your workday.

Verdict

Let's help you pick the best to-do app:

• He's undecided when it comes to Todoist versus Any.DO for managing his laundry tasks. Both of these applications target similar markets. If you want to use this for personal use, both have great mobile apps and are reliable resources, with Any.DO currently edging out Todoist with a focus on managing your tasks and calendars alongside each other. However, Todoist has a really nice user interface. It really depends on your preferences for design when choosing between them.

• My experience is that Todoist is a bit more robust in terms of its stability than Any.DO, from our experience testing, and the applications look more consistent across devices than Any.DO does.

• When it comes to using these two applications for work, Any.DO packs more into their package than Todoist, offering a table view and better commenting abilities, with more doses of artificial intelligence within the application than Todoist is currently offering. The calendar views are also more robust in terms of their offering for teams. So, largely as a whole, although it's early days, Any.DO does present better team management abilities for groups.

• Todoist has a strong record of producing a fantastic experience once it gets started with them, more recently released teamwork spaces.