Yes. TickTick is free, US$0, and the free tier is not a trial that expires on day 15. You can use it forever without giving anyone a card.
The interesting part is not whether it is free. It is where free stops, and TickTick is unusually honest about that: instead of vague tier language, their upgrade page publishes hard integers. You can check every one of them against your own account tonight.
| Limit | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Lists | 9 | 299 |
| Tasks or notes per list | 99 | 999 |
| Attachments | 1 per day | 199 per day |
| Checklist items per task | 19 | 199 |
| Reminders per task | 2 | 5 |
| Members you can share with | 2 | 29 |
| Habits | 5 | 299 |
| Countdowns | 5 | 299 |
Eight numbers. Four of them are what actually end free accounts, and they are the four sections below.
Nine lists arrives sooner than nine sounds
In TickTick, a list is how you separate anything at all. There is no other primary container. So the count goes: Work. Personal. Groceries. House stuff. Reading. The trip in November. One per active client, or one per project, depending on how you work. That is already seven or eight before you have had a single idea you did not plan for.
Nine is the ceiling most people hit first, and they hit it in week three, not year two.
The honest workaround: you are not actually stuck at nine buckets. Folders group lists, and tags cut across them, so a lot of what you would have made a tenth list for can be a tag instead. "Errands" works fine as a tag on tasks living in three different lists. What you lose is the thing lists give you that tags do not: a list is a place you can open and see only that. A tag is a filter you have to remember to apply.
If you think in boards you will feel the nine. If you live in one big Today view and slice it with tags, nine is plenty.
One attachment. Per day.
This is the limit that catches people, so read it twice: free TickTick allows 1 attachment per day. Not one per task. Not one per list. One a day, and then you wait for tomorrow.
If you are the kind of person who photographs a receipt into an expense task, or snaps the whiteboard after a meeting and drops it on the follow-up, the first photo spends the day's allowance. The second one has nowhere to go. You will find this out at the exact moment you are standing in front of the whiteboard, which is the worst possible moment to find it out.
Premium moves this to 199 per day, which is functionally unlimited for a human being. But the free number is 1, and it is the single strongest argument for upgrading if attachments are part of how you capture things at all.
Two reminders per task, and five habits
Free TickTick can remind you about a task twice. Premium allows five.
For most tasks, two is fine. Where two stops being fine is when you are using a to-do app as an actual alarm system — medication at 8am and 8pm with a nudge if you miss it, a passport renewal you want to be shouted at about three separate times, an appointment where forgetting costs you a fee. If a missed reminder has a real consequence, count how many you need before you commit to free. Two is a small number to discover after the fact.
Then habits: free gives you 5. That is the cap on the feature TickTick is most famous for. The habit tracker is a genuine reason people pick TickTick in the first place, and on free it holds water, exercise, reading, meditation, and one more. Anyone seriously building habits blows past five inside a month. Premium takes it to 299.
Countdowns follow the same shape: 5 free, 299 on Premium.
Sharing stops at two people
Single-player plus one. That is the honest reading of a 2-member cap: it works for a grocery list you share with a partner, and it does not work for a team of four. There is no "just add one more" either — the cap does not stretch.
Premium goes to 29 members, which covers a small team but is not an enterprise seat model.
The features that are there, but "Basic"
Worth being precise here, because comparison posts get this wrong in both directions. Calendar view, the Eisenhower matrix, widgets, themes and statistics all exist on the free plan. They are not locked. They are labeled Basic on free and Unlimited on Premium.
So the answer to "does free TickTick have a calendar view" is yes, in a limited form. Not "no." If one of those five is why you are considering TickTick, look at the free version first. It may already be the version you wanted.
What free genuinely gives you
Credit where it is due. The free plan includes List and Kanban views, natural-language parsing (typing "call mom tomorrow 6pm" and having it land correctly), task reminders, and cross-platform sync.
That last one matters more than the rest combined. Sync across every platform on a free tier is not standard. Plenty of apps make you pay to see the same tasks on your phone and your laptop. TickTick does not, and that is the main reason people stay on free for years rather than churning to something else.
Premium: US$49.99 a year, annual or nothing
Premium is US$49.99 per year. TickTick's own page frames that as less than US$4.17 a month, which is fair arithmetic.
The detail worth knowing before you decide: there is no monthly plan. You cannot pay US$4.17 in month one to try it and stop in month two. It is a year, up front. That changes the decision from "cheap enough to shrug at" into a real, if small, annual commitment.
Two things soften it. Refunds run 14 days if you bought through Google Play, PayPal or Stripe; App Store purchases go through Apple on Apple's terms. And if Premium lapses, your data is retained. You do not lose the lists you built past the free ceiling — you drop back to free-tier limits and everything is still there waiting if you renew. That is more decent than a lot of apps manage, and it means letting a year expire is not a destructive act.
If you are weighing TickTick against the field rather than against its own free tier, we wrote that up separately in TickTick alternatives.
We have no list ceiling. We have a file one.
We build Vyneron, so treat this as the interested party talking. The head-to-head is in TickTick vs Vyneron; this is just the free-tier shape.
Our Free plan is $0 forever too, and the walls sit somewhere else entirely. Tasks, notes and routines are unlimited, and there is no list ceiling, so neither the nine-list wall nor the 99-tasks-per-list wall exists on our side. Files are what we cap instead: 10 files, 50 MB. That is a real limit and we would rather name it here than let you find it in front of a whiteboard.
Free also includes Telegram and Slack capture through @VyneronAIBot, and a calendar that knows public holidays worldwide, so a weekday-recurring task does not fire on a national holiday. New accounts get seven days of Solo AI at 50 messages a day. After that you bring your own provider key, we add no markup, and a Gemini or Groq free tier keeps the bill at $0.
Paid is Solo at $6/mo or $59/yr. Multi Workspace is priced per bracket for the whole workspace rather than per seat — 2–3 users is $12/mo, and it scales up from there. Enterprise is custom above 26 users.
Underneath sit the things a task app is judged on rather than counted by: projects, labels, sub-tasks, blockers, assignees, and owner, admin, member and viewer roles, with AI chat and voice on top.
If TickTick's nine lists and one daily attachment are not in your way, stay on TickTick. It is a good free plan. If they are, our free plan does not ask for a card either, so you can put the two ceilings side by side.