Todoist vs TickTick (Full Comparison Review)

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0:00 Intro
1:10 Capturing
4:43 Clarifying
8:03 Organizing
11:51 Reviewing
13:33 Engaging
15:46 Reliability
17:51 Final Score
18:32 Conclusion

[@LucasPrigge]

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[@darius-b]

Wow. Probably one of the best productivity app review and comparison videos I've ever seen. Well done Lucas. I can see how much time, thought and effort has gone into this.

[@LucasPrigge]

Thanks Darius! Appreciate the kind words.

[@gugle22]

Darius, I agree with you 100%, best productivity app review ever

[@ritchiewlc]

the best comparison video between todoist and tick tick (indeed, among all ticktick review videos) on youtube - love your approach to analyse side by side with GTD system. keep up your great work!

[@DH-sj6kg]

Hello, fellow geek nerd. I stumbled onto your video tonight. I've been watching these kinds of videos for years. This video is by far the best, most detailed, and informative, side-by-side comparison video I've seen. I subscribed. Keep up the good work.

[@flyheli]

reall well done! looking foward to more content 💥

[@georgecompitello2884]

Amazing review! Well organized and thorough. I especially like that you took the time to ask about the company behind the app. Thanks!

[@rons2293]

Just superb. Thanks you so much Lucas!

[@JoelSchmaling]

Nice job Lucas, keep up the good work!

[@paulojosue7401]

Descobri seu canal ao escolher vídeos para aprender inglês, pois me interesso muito pelos temas de produtividade tratados por você. Seu canal é ouro, nenhum aqui no Brasil aborda com tanta riqueza de detalhes tantas ferramentas e sistemas de produtividade que nem o seu, merece crescer e muito. Abraços do Brasil!!

[@Alecssandro27]

Que delícia encontrar um conterrâneo aqui no canal do Lucas!

[@v1rus_one]

Good review! Looking forward to more videos!

[@JulianTrebes]

extremly good comperison, thanks a lot for that! I also really appreciate it that you looked at the reliability of both!

[@wiliextreme]

Great comparison, exactly what I was looking for.

[@EmilianPOP]

Tobie się przyda w szczególności, żebyś miał motywację, do wrzucania filmów na yt xD

[@erickillian313]

Best comparison I've found yet as I try to make sense of all these app, you're doing the lord's work and I hope you get more views and subs.

[@apostolis_23]

Amazing review down to the last details. Well done Lucas! 👏

[@gugle22]

OhMyGod, what a fantastic review, step by step - all the important factors! Thank You!

[@eugeniogonzato]

I think this is one of the best review comparison I never see before !! thanks

[@KubaSobecki]

Great review. Thank you!

[@Metruzanca]

This is an excellent breakdown! 2 Points! I've used ticktick in the past and dropped it because I found myself not using it as much at the time. Now I'm feeling the itch of a task manager and ticktick seems to be the best for me, though I do like the more transparancy that todoist has but I like ticktick's feature set. Specifically curious to see if ticktick can also replace habitory.

[@leeles]

Vielen Dank, Lucas, das ist ein sehr hilfreicher Vergleich. Eine gute Orientierung, um eines der Tools auszuwählen, und beide besser zu verstehen. Danke Dir dafür!

[@mgb5170]

great review - so thorough

[@LucasPrigge]

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[@AvinashDharan]

By far this is the best productivity software review ever. Thank you Lucas for it.

[@spookytk]

Wow man. This is great. Thank you.

[@pamelashoberg7982]

This is by far, one of the best software reviews I have seen. Thank you.

[@tinininho]

Great content Lucas. Check how is in charge of those apps is a excellent item to check.

[@mohammadmirsha7049]

Best app comparison review I've ever seen! Perfect 👌

[@itsalgud1459]

Having done a great deal of computer based training on all kinds of different software and a long time user, since the days of DOS, of productivity software I can say that this is a very well done review. I’m currently using TickTick and mostly happy with it but I agree with your comments about the support. it’s nearly not there. Thanks a lot for a great job!

[@brijeshss]

Superb comparison and the right result. I am a paid user of both apps for more than 4 years and keep switching back and forth when I get bored. Tick tick had responded to all my queries till date though a few replies were delayed. I prefer tick tick due to their pomodoro functionality, both start and end date availability, time estimation, check lists and better outlook integration which captures details under description. Even the sorting in tick tick as groups gives a better interface. Tick tick also has a plan your day feature which can be run multiple times a day. But if you are using a free version of the apps, todoist gives you more options now than tick tick which was not the case earlier. I also like the Karma feature in todoist compared to tick tick statistics. Language processing is also better in todoist and the interface and ease of use for todoist mobile apps are better whereas I like the desktop interface of tick tick. If you have similar subtasks under different tasks, which is very common, in todoist, you would go nuts in the Day views. Todoist have addins even for the mobile outlook app.

[@Taskade]

Beautiful review, hope you will do one for Notion vs Taskade in the future :)

[@LucasPrigge]

Noted!

[@dads4monkeys]

This is the best side-by-side app review I've ever watched, now an eager subscriber. I was able to make a clear decision on which one to go with. I'm back and forth between iPhone/Windows so the widgets and note taking were Ws for TT, and was going to look for a separate Pomodoro which I really need w/ A.D.D., another W for TT, I used nested so W for TD, but also have massive amounts of subtasks w varying available time and urgencies which was probably the knockout blow to go with TickTick.

[@rupenjshah]

Great compare. One thing I found with my limited use of tick tick was that it had lots of bells and whistles but the usage was very inconsistent and it wasn't as polished as todoist.

[@_carlos8763]

Outstanding review!

[@kvrovinson]

Thanks. I wanted to support your efforts and motivate you to continue your KZbin journey. Fantastic Video. Keep it up

[@LucasPrigge]

Thanks so much!

[@innovationwebdesign6631]

Great job, Lucas! I also compared the two apps, though not as in-depth as you did. What sealed the deal for me was TickTick's impressive calendar interface. I'm baffled as to why Todoist hasn't incorporated a comprehensive calendar, given that's how many of us plan and organize daily tasks. You made a valid point about TickTick's privacy concerns and its origins in China. If it's not transparent, it likely stems from China. If Todoist introduces a good calendar feature, I'll immediately make the switch.

[@Jon-hb6gx]

I was on the fence but your reliability section tipped me towards Todoist. Thanks!

[@AdamSkjervold]

Jesus man, I related too much to your hook about having fun geeking out over a productivity app!

[@kevinjames6231]

One of things I prefer about Todoist's Quick Add feature is that regardless of what context you're in when you hit 'Q' to add something, it always starts with just putting it in the Inbox UNLESS you provide additional attributes like a list, tag or date. TickTick will look at the list or filter you're currently in and add certain attributes based on your current context when you hit Tab+N. Sometimes I'll be in a particular list or filter and think of some task to add that is completely unrelated to the context I'm in, so I'll have to remove the tag or change the list or remove the day. Or I have to do "GI" to switch me to Inbox and then Tab+N. So I prefer Todoist's approach there!

[@taxidriver6138]

This video is very rare kind of intellectual work on youtube. Narration, criteria, structure, even picture making impression of a well-organized academic mind trained on many researches. You should teach other people to make videos.

[@neekubee]

Thank you!

[@mreclecticguy]

First time I've see a reviewer looking at the company that is offering the app. That can be a very important issue for some people - it surprises me at times how some people will jump on the newest app (especial those dealing with financial and other sensitive information) without considering the company values. Thanks for including that in this excellent comparison.

[@DanMills7]

outstanding review!

[@bodkedd]

Amazing efforts

[@edsonrocks]

This is definitely the best comparison video out there. I'm giving both apps a week to try to make my decision. Thank you 🙏

[@MynorRodrigo]

The Ctrl+alt+a for a new task is a great shortcut, amazing video! I'm going to pay for tick tick premium

[@J_heterodox]

Man what a good video. Been on the trial with Tick Tick. And something about Tick Tick just keeps me on it.

[@danielhaven]

I didn't know about the asterisk thing. With this, I can handle descriptions for projects in a way that's cleaner than adding comments.

[@kevinjames6231]

Great review! Learned a few things. I do disagree on the filtering part of the review. Although, TickTick does have a very helpful UI around creating the desired filters, the filters that can be constructed are limited in some significant ways compared to Todoist. For example, Todoist allows me to create a filter that includes dated tasks for the week for a given list (Project), but that same filter can also show me tasks with priority 1 or 2 AND no date. It seems in TickTick once you've used a particular type of attribute in the filter you cannot use it in another part of the filter. In the above example, I'm using date in the first section of the filter to say give me this weeks tasks and then in a separate section of the same filter I'm saying priority 1 and 2 AND no date. This is extremely useful in a variety of cases. Also, I love the fact that you can build up filters in Todoist with separate sections just by separating the search terms by commas. This is something you cannot do TickTick.

[@genefreak]

Now that is what I call a proper review.

[@user-mq1dt7yi3y]

Great video

[@shaxter]

amazing vid

[@maikaimakena9424]

I like this dudes style. ⚡️❤️🤙

[@rayancrasta8912]

I was sold for Ticktick when u said about the desktop widget

[@DiegoRevilla1605]

i like that you focus on GTD method

[@agoogleuser6937]

TickTick 👎🏼 apple watch complication offers no info, while todoist 3:13 ✅ informs about the next task title

[@johnmorris4531]

Longtime Todoist user here. But I just subbed to TickTick. Just seemed like I was bumping up against limits in Todoist. Good review!

[@xmarkclx]

Yeah, same thing happened to me. The limits are just stupid and lame. I have an 8GB RAM phone, why would you limit me to 300 tasks for my Someday/Maybe List. The task is not even 100 characters.

[@johnmorris4531]

@@xmarkclx Agree on 300 task limit!!

[@maxweberps]

Hiiiii Lucas!!!!!!

[@LucasPrigge]

👋

[@stephaniesoltau2485]

Thanks for the great review, Lucas! Which app do you use? I'm still trying to decide on which app to try. They both sound great!

[@LucasPrigge]

Hey Stephanie! I'm using Todoist. Feel free to give it a try as well: lucas.reviews/todoist

[@berndintemann9631]

An excellent compare and a great presentation. But I will continue to use google keep

[@mruziicak]

Templates in tick tick are handled differently because you can add subtasks. Checklist and subtasks are different things.

[@BartvanderHorst]

Very very good. I sense no ego, just honest useful info. Very nice!

[@bartvrenegoor]

Nice video. Thanks! And clearly Dutch! ;-)

[@LucasPrigge]

Dankjewel Bart! 😅

[@PauloParreira]

I'm always divided between those two and also Sorted3.

[@melquib2]

Sobre a captura. O Tick Tick ainda possui um botão flutuante pra capturar no smartphone. É muito útil. Sempre uso.

[@LucasPrigge]

Verdadeiro! Esqueci de mencionar isso!

[@m2m1992]

Calendar on Ticktick is the best thing ever

[@LucasPrigge]

🗓️💯💪

[@astra1360]

Great Video! I really like TickTick‘s features, but the fact that they are from China, paired with their sketchy background is an absolute dealbreaker for me in terms of data security sadly. I‘ll have to stick to Things 3 for now I guess

[@critical-chris]

What makes you think TickTick is from China?

[@teainastorm4357]

Great video - and finally: open team > secretive team. Also, Tikitik seems to have blatantly copied the entire app layout and flow

[@ImBiiTzOG]

Incredible such an in depth comparison, thanks a lot! Have been using both for about a year each, but I will go back to TickTick. The task description of Todoist just plain sucks. If I want a picture added I have to make a comment which just doesn't make sense to me. I do have to disagree with you about the theming. Todoist for me has one of the most boring themes. There is just 1 dark mode and it looks very gray and sad. On the other hand TickTick has some colorfull themes which looks way more attractive to me.

[@LucasPrigge]

Thank you for sharing! Happy to hear you found what works for you after trying out both. To your point on the themes, of course this is a matter of personal preference. Todoist does have different colors as well though, see here: get.todoist.help/hc/article_attachments/360019988119/Web___Themes.png

[@redshirtspeaker]

TT's 'next week' seems to be 7 days while TD hits the next Monday.

[@JivanNavij]

You didn't mentioned Todoist Integrations... unless that wasn't available back in 2022?

[@chillwavemusic5024]

Thank you for the professional analysis. For me, TickTick has a couple of powerful features which beats Todoist: habits tracker, Asenhouer Matricks, notes, etc. But, as you reasonably mentioned, Todoist has a rich history. And most importantly - values and culture. For me is highly risky to trust all my personal and professional project management systems to guys who may suddenly disappear from the radars. But with your video, everyone has an excellent opportunity to choose ) Upd After some surveys, I found that Tick Tick is a USA company launched in 2013. Annually their development staff released major updates. Now it's a 6th version of the App. TickTick actively publishing news in Twitter. Upd.2 After another testing and exploring, I chose TickTick for my main to-do system. They definitely have a lot of useful features and functions compared to other apps. And they are constantly improving their product. Special Thanks to the Author for the whole library of tutorials about TickTick and productivity systems

[@000Gua000]

The fact that todoist ads tasks at the bottom of the list is show stopper for me. Same happens when you drag task to different list . TickTick let's you configure this and by default it creates tasks at the top of the list.

[@soyarturoayala]

Excellent comparison Lucas. TickTick hands down a few points better than Todoist and I've been using it for it. I love Ticktick's integrated calendar feature, "popup" reminders on mobile and the option to create extensive notes, but it is very true that the support service is very poor and slow. Just yesterday I had a problem and I will wait for them to answer during the week. In addition to the above, the issue of "who is behind" is very important and even more so in these times of invasion of privacy, so this aspect is another vital aspect to take into account. So based on what you've shared, I would "sacrifice" my TickTick preference and continue with Todoist. Thank you very much for the information and the work you did. A hug.

[@LucasPrigge]

Thanks Arturo! I'm sure Todoist will serve you well but if you were to go back to TickTick you can use their easy Import from Todoist functionality to save you time ⌚

[@nathonpete2795]

Todoist ftw no contest!

[@arahadiy]

Another thing to add is seems like the natural language processing of Todoist a way better than TickTick. For example you can easily just type out "tom" and it will become tomorrow, type out "fri" and it will become Friday. Type out any time format (12h or 24h format) and will add timed deadline. For TickTick I remember correctly you need to type out "today", "tomorrow" in complete format for it to be able to recognize what you mean. And if I'm not mistaken, sometimes TickTick also can't recognize when I type out these words. This means Todoist will be faster if you need to capture tasks ASAP especially on mobile app.

[@user-gp7zt8sm4w]

It recognizes tmr as well

[@DavidCDrake]

Why is your audio so low? Please don't force people to turn their volume way up. Other than that, nice review video. 🙂

[@21upbowls]

Todoist for me

[@AllwinJeba]

Like for the thumbnail

[@91f]

Thanks! has much changed in a year since this video?

[@brunomello7499]

was wondering the same thing

[@LucasPrigge]

Not much! Todoist has improved its project view and added a nice quick access menu. TickTick has continued to make small tweaks but overall my opinion hasn't changed when comparing these 2.

[@brunomello7499]

Leaving here my two cents: after commenting this I decided to go with tick tick because it's cheaper, but I miss a few things from todoist: - It's natural language processing is snappier. When I type something like "tomorrow" on a task on ticktick it feels like it takes a while to process it, while todoist feels like it goes instantly - It works with multiple languages (in ticktick I need to type stuff like "tomorrow" or "in three days" in English even if I'm typing my tasks in portuguese)

[@king0vdarkness]

How about sharing tasks with others, do either support this? Like microsoft tasks?

[@LucasPrigge]

Both apps support list sharing 👍

[@king0vdarkness]

@@LucasPrigge thank you

[@user-vy5ze7wi5g]

for ticktick, if I am using PC on other apps, let's say discord, can I add a task with ctrl+alt+a? I tried it on linux and it does not seem to work

[@LucasPrigge]

Yes, TickTick has a quick capture shortcut that should overlay on top of anything on Windows.

[@user-jt9fi2kl6n]

What music in the background are you using?

[@LucasPrigge]

Sarah, The Instrumentalist - Building Character

[@althepal6989]

Sound very low?

[@KevinMirsky]

This was very helpful for someone who was wondering if the grass was greener on the other side! This saved me from spending time unnecessarily testing out Todoist just to see if there was something that worked better :)

[@rsissh]

Even I'm ticktick user but todoist have Better UI and more integration and API and faster features update...last couple months we didn't see anything from ticktick they are sleeping

[@LucasPrigge]

Interesting, I wasn't aware that TickTick was slow in that regard but I did also notice Todoist is consistent with updates

[@v1rus_one]

That’s depend on which platform. I run both Premium in iOS (Todoist - Experimental Features (aka beta) / TickTick - Beta Releases via TestFlight) and they are consistent in updating regularly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@zhuraitsuki]

The two things I like most for ticktick for my routine/setup, that made me swap over to using ticktick only (and I've tried todoist and bounced around multiple times) are: - Timezones - Pinned Tasks most notably, Todoist is very weak at timezones (since pinned tasks was something more recently implemented, though needs some improvement but "works") ticktick letting every task have it's own timezone and also converting it into yours (and knowing when that timezone has DST or not) is actually quite strong (this goes for both timezones, since the US does DST timeshift at one time, whereas other countries do their DST timeshift at another time) and in a global world where someone may be associating with someone remotely in another timezone on a repeat basis (or if you're using part of your todo list for game tracking that may be based in another timezone, if you for example wanted to track events in something) ... Then in that context, todoist's timezone function is actually very lacking since you can only pin it to a current local time, not to mention that I can write into ticktick a specific time in that timezone and not have to manually do the timezone conversions, and ticktick would do that for me. ---- re: support, I have gotten responses actually quite quickly but I'm on premium (e.g. today I sent in a feedback and got a response in less than an hour, and earlier than that I had 2 day response), that said they haven't really implemented the stuff I recommended except for some simple stuff (I honestly don't really ask for technical help right now) premium support in the past for todoist: they didn't respond for a very long time and more recently, honestly they seems dismissive of the things I was asking about, or didn't even read my whole message entirely and assumed I was saying I liked what they did, when it was the utter opposite. Also their integration with google calendar can be weird.... gcal -> todoist integration has a weird quirk where todoist doesn't actually follow whatever you showed in gcal (e.g. daily until 8/19), which can be okay if you use one or the other, but is very weird if you were to use both (gcal and todoist handle "daily until 3/30" end date a bit differently) - I asked them in support, but ended up not changing it because they thought their implementation of the logic made more sense, but then that's not exactly an integration is it...?) but whatever... the entire reason I was using the google calendar integration in the first place was because google calendar handles timezones and todoist did not

[@LucasPrigge]

Great additions, thanks for sharing!

[@rajgangadharan]

My biggest concern is the transparency these companies have, Neither of them supports client side encryption, which makes the user data visible to the product vendor. In this aspect as you mentioned ToDoist seems better than TickTick, which I also felt in my little research. I liked TickTick, but recently switched due to the privacy concerns. We are sharing a fair part of our life with sensitive information, and the value of this information is much higher than what you post on social media.

[@thefrog2009]

I used Ticktick for a long time but moved to Todoist after getting fed up with Ticktick’s very slow updating of my Google Calendar entries. I’m very happy I moved to Todoist, even more so since I worked out how to import my calendar entries into it.

[@thomashacker3178]

You should check out amazing marvin

[@LucasPrigge]

Hey Thomas, you're in luck as that one is coming up next! I am currently still recovering from covid so unsure when it will be uploaded exactly, but stay tuned :)

[@thomashacker3178]

@@LucasPrigge that's wonderful! I'm using a mix of carl puleins system and mark forsters do it tomorrow - absolutely love marvin, but they lack on mobil app development. Get well soon, looking forward to your video.

[@king0vdarkness]

you covered all functionality but what about the free vs paid functionality?

[@LucasPrigge]

Correct, this video includes paid functionality. You can find a detailed outline of each tool's feature set on their websites linked in the description. I may do a video on this in the future

[@king0vdarkness]

@@LucasPrigge thank you :)

[@duhneez2068]

For me, Todoist Free doesn’t allow you to add reminders to tasks, and that alone is enough for me. TickTick lets you have 2 reminders per task

[@DaleKingProfile]

Neither app supports start dates which renders them both useless

[@LucasPrigge]

TickTick supports start dates through its "Duration" feature. Todoist does not support start dates natively but there is a workaround explained here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHzYdI2ia86frac

[@ChristineOlson569]

At 17:34, did you mean to say, "from," instead of "to?" You say, "skeptical about making the move TO Todoist despite the superior feature set." I think you meant to say, "skeptical about making the move FROM Todoist...."

[@LucasPrigge]

Yeah I meant to say FROM Todoist 😅

[@cook5436]

This guy's voice does not correlate with his face, don't you think?

[@evyayad_]

Apesar de muitos preferir o Todoist o tick tick se bem usado tem muitos mais recursos. Eu tenho vários blocos de notas separados por categorias. Também uso para suporte da minha empresa já que consigo ter templetes prontos e linkar facilmente e-mail e contato de whatsapp, sem falar no calendário que é incrível. Enfim, é uma ferramenta completa, uso até para diario.

[@shivani_]

Great comparison! I was trying to decide between these two and this video was extremely helpful. One thing that the video didn't touch on is that Tick Tick offers reminder notifications for free users, while Todoist only offers them for premium users. Just wanted to note that in case it helps anyone out. However, after testing both apps for a day I found Todoist more user-friendly and I trust the company behind it more. I'm going to go with Todoist for now!

[@angelo89]

Great video. I’m using Tick Tick for more than a year now. Also, you’re my crush. Haha

[@philrossberg]

For me Tick Tick was the obvious choice because it's cheaper and has a student discount which Todoist does not have anymore.

[@samueltremblay275]

It's funny because I experienced a very fast support from tick tick and and very slow one from todoist. And every time I report a bug to todoist, they told me it's a feature. But I agree that it is much reassuring to trust a company like todoist. However, I never store information that can compromise my life in these applications. Same thing for Evernote. I would save sensitive information in my google drive and add a link from tick tick or Todoist or Evernote to this link.

[@LucasPrigge]

Fair points, Samuel!

[@Melpomenex]

Amazing review, thanks!