Sync Google Tasks with Apple Reminders in 2026 Three bridges, and what each one drops.

Google and Apple don't sync these two lists for you. A few small tools do, and each one gives something up. Here is what they are, what they cost, and what they leave behind.

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

I build Driftto, an iPhone app that writes new items into Apple Reminders and Google Tasks. People search for a way to keep the two in step every day, so I went looking for every route. I compared the lists themselves in Google Tasks vs Apple Reminders; this page is only about keeping them in sync.

In October 2026 I went through the App Store listings and the makers' own pages for each route. What a tool does or skips comes from those pages. Where a page doesn't say, I say so.

The short answer

There is no official sync between Google Tasks and Apple Reminders. Three bridges do it: gtsync on an iPhone for $4.99 once, ReminderBridge on a Mac for $7.99 once, and IFTTT, which is free for two applets and copies one way per applet. Each skips something: alarms, repeats or due times.

Why there is no official sync

Google Tasks has a web service that other apps can read and write. Apple Reminders has none outside your own devices. An app can only reach your reminders while it runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, with your permission.

So every bridge has to live on one of your Apple devices, or lean on an app that does. That is the reason each route below runs on an iPhone or a Mac, and why none of them is as quick as two Google apps talking to each other.

Google Tasks on an iPhone without a bridge

If what you want is your Google tasks on your iPhone, you don't need a bridge. Google Tasks has an iPhone app, free with no in-app purchases, and it syncs through your Google Account. The same tasks show in the side panel of Gmail and Calendar on a computer, and tasks with a date show in Google Calendar. In Gmail on your iPhone you can turn an email into a task with Add to Tasks, and there is a Home Screen widget.

A bridge is only worth it when the same items have to live in Reminders too: for Siri, for a list shared with someone on an iPhone, or for alerts by place, which Google's Tasks help doesn't mention.

Route 1: gtsync on your iPhone

gtsync syncs Google Tasks and Apple Reminders both ways, on the iPhone itself. It costs $4.99 once, with no in-app purchases, and it needs iOS 26.2 or later. You pick which lists take part. It can sync in the background, and there is a Shortcuts action to sync on demand. Pending changes can be reviewed before they go through, and a safety limit pauses a large automatic batch. The listing says the syncing happens on the device.

What it leaves out, by its own listing: attachments, alerts, priority and repeats. A due date with a time arrives as a date only. The listing doesn't say how often a background sync runs. It is a young app, with six ratings in the US App Store when I looked.

Route 2: ReminderBridge on a Mac

ReminderBridge syncs chosen Google Tasks lists with chosen Reminders lists, both ways, from your Mac. It costs $7.99 once in the US Mac App Store and needs macOS 13.5 or later. It syncs every 15 to 60 minutes, in steps of five, or when you press Sync Now. Its site says your sign-in and sync history stay on the Mac, with no server of its own.

The catch is the Mac. It has to be on for a sync to run, so a change on your iPhone at night waits for the morning. By its own site it doesn't carry due times, alarms, subtasks or repeat rules. A Reminders priority shows up as an asterisk in the Google title. When both sides changed the same task, the latest change to the whole task wins.

Route 3: IFTTT, one applet per direction

IFTTT has a ready applet for each direction: one adds new Reminders items to Google Tasks, the other adds new Google tasks to Reminders. It needs the IFTTT app on your iPhone, because that is the only way IFTTT can reach Reminders.

It copies, it doesn't sync. The actions add a task or a reminder to a list, and none of them completes or edits one, so a check-off on one side stays on that side. On the free plan you get two applets, checked about once an hour. Pro costs $2.99 a month and checks every five minutes. If you turn on both directions, try a few items first: a new item can bounce back and land twice.

The three bridges, side by side

Seeing both lists is not the same as syncing

Two calendar apps turn up when you search for this, and neither syncs the lists. Calendars by Readdle shows tasks next to your events, but its help says you enable either iOS Reminders or Google Tasks, not both, and tasks are part of its paid PRO plan.

Morgen shows Google Tasks and Apple Reminders next to your calendar so you can block time for them. Its Reminders link is local and only on macOS, and it has no free plan: $15 a month billed yearly, or $30 monthly, after a 14-day trial. Both are fine if you want to look at your tasks in one place. Neither keeps the two lists the same.

If you only want to move once

If you are switching from one list to the other for good, a bridge is more than you need. Google lets you download your Tasks data. Apple's guide offers printing a list, not an export. For most people the honest route is to move the open items by hand, which is a short job once the finished ones are out of the way.

Putting a new thought in both lists at once

Driftto doesn't sync either, and I'd rather say that plainly. It never reads, edits or completes what is already in your lists. What it does is smaller: one new thought, typed or spoken, can land in both lists at the same time.

With Send to several at once, you pick a Reminders list and a Google Tasks list as destinations and send once. In Reminders the whole note becomes the reminder's title, with the due date and time you set for that list. In Google Tasks a one-line note becomes the task, and a longer note keeps its first line as the title and lands whole in the details, with a date but no time. Each list gets its own arrival status. A check-off later stays in the list where you make it.

That fits people who keep personal things in Reminders and work in Google Tasks, and who mostly need the new item in the right place. If you need yesterday's edits in both lists, you need one of the bridges above.

Which route I'd pick

With only an iPhone and iOS 26.2, try gtsync first: it costs least and runs where your reminders already are. With a Mac that is always on, ReminderBridge has the clearest rules about what it carries and what wins a conflict. If you won't install anything and can wait an hour, IFTTT copies new items for free, one way at a time.

And if the real problem is that new things land in the wrong list, or nowhere, a sync won't fix that. Pick one list as home, and make getting things into it as short as you can.

Questions

Driftto is in the App Store now. The yearly plan starts with a free week.