Any.do vs Todoist A list with a calendar built in, or a list you type into.

Any.do puts tasks, a calendar and a daily planner in one app. Todoist is built around typing a task and sorting it into projects. The choice follows from which of those you do all day.

Jacky Fakkeldij Building Driftto, on his own · Updated 23 October 2026

I build Driftto, an iPhone app for getting a thought into the right place without first finding the app, waiting for it to open and picking a project. Todoist is one of the apps it writes to. Any.do is not. I looked at both because they are two of the lists people most often weigh against each other, and I wanted the comparison to be fair to the one I don't write to.

In October 2026 I went through Any.do's help center, pricing page and US App Store listing, Todoist's help center and pricing page, and its US App Store listing. Where a help page says nothing about a feature, or contradicts another page, I say so instead of guessing.

The short answer

Pick Any.do if you want tasks, a calendar and a daily planner in one app, with a Family plan for shared grocery lists. Pick Todoist if you want to type a whole task in one line, sort work into projects and filters, and share a project for free. Its free plan stops at five projects.

Typing a task with its date

Both read dates out of what you type. Any.do calls it Smart Type. Its help center gives examples like "Call Rene tomorrow", "Submit report Friday at 9am", "Dentist in 2 hours" and "Meeting with shareholders on January 12". You can type # to add a tag, or use the list icon to pick a list. Time detection covers about ten languages, and you can switch it off. The help page doesn't say whether Smart Type reads repeats. Any.do's reminder page says recurring schedules are set from the task view, not from quick add.

Todoist goes further in one line. Its Quick Add takes "next Friday 9am" for the date, "every Monday" for the repeat, #Home for the project, /Chores for a section, %errands for a label, p1 for priority, a date in braces for a deadline and ! plus a time for a reminder. The older @ for labels still works, but Todoist plans to retire it by the end of 2026. Deadlines sit on the Pro plan.

Voice is on both. In Any.do you tap the Quick Add bar, tap the mic, speak and tap Save, on the iPhone and Android apps. Any.do says Smart Type may pick up spoken times, depending on your device language. Todoist's listing says voice input turns a spoken description into a structured task.

Calendar and daily planner

This is where Any.do wins. Its calendar integration is, in its own words, free and available on all plans, and the Calendar View shows your tasks and calendar events together. On the web and desktop it connects to one Google, Outlook or iCloud account. On the iPhone it shows events from the calendar apps on the device. Any.do's help doesn't say whether an edit flows back to the source calendar. A daily planner, My Day, sits in the free core tools too.

Todoist connects to Google Calendar or Outlook, one at a time. Your events show in Today and Upcoming, and tasks with a date and a time can sync to a calendar called Todoist. That works on every plan. Only the calendar layout, which shows a project as a calendar, needs Pro.

Reminders and repeats

Any.do's free plan has one-time reminders and basic repeats: daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. Advanced repeats need Premium: every 2 weeks, particular weekdays, "last Friday" of the month, or an end after a set number of times. So do location reminders, which fire when you arrive at or leave a place and work on mobile only. A personal task gets one reminder, either by time or by place. Several reminders on one task are only for board tasks in a Family or Workspace plan.

Any.do repeats work one occurrence at a time. Only the next one appears, and it is created when you mark the current one done. Also on Premium is a WhatsApp bot: you message it to add tasks and get reminders there. It can't create recurring reminders, you can link one number per account, and it is not offered in 11 countries.

Todoist repeats through the typed phrase, and sub-tasks of a repeating task reset when you complete the parent. Its reminders come in more kinds: automatic ones at the task's time, custom ones, recurring ones and location ones. More than one custom reminder per task needs Pro, and so do deadlines and location reminders.

Projects, lists and notes

Any.do has lists, tasks and subtasks, color tags and # tags. Its help center also has pages on the All Tasks and 7 Days views. Premium adds unlimited color tags, AI-made lists and subtasks and a Focus Mode. Notes and files on a task are a mixed picture: the plans page marks them Premium, while the page about them says Free can add notes and files up to 1.5 MB each. A note holds up to 60,000 characters.

Todoist has more layers. Projects hold tasks, sections split a project, with up to 20 per project, and labels cut across projects. Sub-tasks go four levels deep. Filters build views across everything: 3 on Beginner, 150 on Pro. A project can show as a list, a board or, on Pro, a calendar.

Sharing

Todoist shares whole projects, and it does so on the free plan. A personal project takes up to five people, and everyone sees every task, comment and attachment. Each task has one assignee.

Any.do keeps sharing off the free and Premium plans. Premium is, in its words, for individual use. Family adds a shared Family Space with up to 4 members and up to 4 shared boards, plus a shared grocery list that updates in real time. Workspace has unlimited boards and members and is billed per member. For a household that mostly shares a shopping list, Family fits well. For a small team that wants to pass one project around for nothing, Todoist does.

Price and where each one runs

Any.do's Personal plan is free. On its pricing page Premium is $7.99 a month, or $4.99 a month billed annually. Family is $9.99 a month for four members, or $8.33 a month billed annually. The US App Store listing shows Premium at $9.99 a month and $59.99 for 12 months, along with several discounted offers, so the price you pay on the iPhone can differ from the web. Any.do says its paid plans are subscriptions only, with no lifetime option.

Todoist's Beginner plan is free, with 5 personal projects, 3 filters and a week of activity history. In the US App Store, Pro is $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year, and the listing mentions a 7-day Pro trial. Todoist's own pricing page didn't show a dollar figure when I checked. Over a year the two cost about the same.

Any.do runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android, Wear OS, Mac, Windows and the web, with extensions for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. It has no Linux app. Its listing asks for iOS 15 or later. Todoist adds Linux and Apple Vision, but its listing asks for iOS 17 or later, so an older iPhone is another point for Any.do.

Everything else, side by side

The rest, checked against both help centers, pricing pages and App Store listings in October 2026.

Which one I'd pick

If your day is a mix of calendar events and tasks, and you want both on one screen without paying, use Any.do. The same goes for a household that shares groceries, or an iPhone that can't run iOS 17. Plan around two limits: one reminder per personal task, and the Premium wall in front of location reminders, advanced repeats and WhatsApp.

If you think in projects, type fast, or share a project with a partner or a small team, use Todoist. A task like "call the dentist every 6 months #Health p2" is one line. Start on Beginner and see whether you hit the five-project limit or miss deadlines before you pay for Pro.

If Apple's own app is also in the running, I compared it with Todoist in Todoist vs Apple Reminders, and the wider field is in the best to-do list apps for iPhone.

Capture into the one you picked, in one step

Into Any.do: tap the Quick Add bar and type, or tap the mic and speak. Any.do's help lists Siri and Apple Reminders as an integration, and the App Store listing says you can email do@any.do to add a task. On Premium you can also message its WhatsApp bot. Its help doesn't describe a Control Center button or a Lock Screen control.

Into Todoist: on iOS 18 and later, add Todoist's Add task control to Control Center or the Lock Screen, or put it on the Action button. Or say "Add [task name] in Todoist" to Siri. In Quick Add, type the date and project in the same line.

Driftto does not write to Any.do. It does write to Todoist. You open Driftto to a capture field with the keyboard already up, type or speak the thought, and tap Todoist. It lands in the project you set up once. The whole note becomes the task's name, with an optional due date, and nothing goes into the description. You can also say "Hey Siri, new capture in Driftto" and it goes to the destination you picked for Siri. If you use Todoist, the best Todoist integrations are worth a look.

Questions

Driftto is in the App Store now.