TickTick Pricing in 2026: Every Number on the Page

TickTick has one of the simplest pricing pages in the productivity category: two columns, one price. That simplicity hides a genuinely interesting decision, though — TickTick's free plan is unusually complete, so the question isn't "can I afford Premium," it's "will I ever hit a limit that matters."

This post walks the numbers as they appear on TickTick's official pricing page, then answers the part the page doesn't: where the free tier actually stops being enough.

TL;DR: TickTick Premium is US$49.99 per year — TickTick's own page frames that as "less than US$4.17/month." The free plan is real and permanent: 9 lists, 99 tasks per list, Kanban, natural-language input, and cross-platform sync. Premium is mostly about capacity and calendar depth, not about unlocking basic task management.

The two tiers, side by side

(Figures read from TickTick's pricing page in September 2026. Prices move — check the source before you buy.)

What the free plan actually gives you

This is the part people underestimate. TickTick's free tier is not a demo. It includes:

• 9 lists with 99 tasks each — 891 live tasks before you hit a wall.
• List and Kanban views. The board view is not paywalled, which is unusual.
• Natural-language input. Typing "call the dentist tomorrow at 3" parses correctly on the free plan.
• Task reminders (two per task) and cross-platform sync across web, desktop, iOS, and Android.
• Recurring tasks, priorities, tags, and subtasks — the core task-management vocabulary is not held back.
• Basic versions of the calendar view, Eisenhower Matrix, widgets, themes, and statistics.

If your use is "a personal to-do list with reminders that syncs to my phone," free TickTick covers it indefinitely. There's no trial clock and no feature that quietly expires.

Where the free plan stops

Four limits do the actual work of pushing people to Premium, and they're worth naming in order of how often they bite:

1. One attachment per day. This is the sharpest edge. If you use tasks as a container for screenshots, PDFs, or photos, you'll hit this on day one. Premium raises it to 199/day.

2. Nine lists. Sounds like plenty until you organise by project. Anyone running more than a handful of parallel contexts — work, side project, home, three clients — burns through nine fast.

3. Calendar depth. The free calendar view is described as "Basic." Multiple calendar views and the timeline (Gantt-style) view are Premium-only. If the reason you're looking at TickTick is calendar work, free won't be the version you evaluate.

4. Two reminders per task and two members per shared list. Fine solo; awkward the moment you're coordinating with a partner or a small team.

Habits and countdowns are capped at 5 each on free — generous enough that most people never notice, and a hard stop for anyone using TickTick as a habit tracker.

Is US$49.99 a year fair?

Compared with the rest of this category, yes — TickTick sits at the low end. Sunsama lists at $17/month billed yearly and Akiflow at $19/month billed yearly; both are multiples of TickTick's annual price. Todoist's paid tier is closer, and it ships its own calendar and board views — but TickTick adds a dedicated habit tracker and a built-in Pomodoro timer, neither of which Todoist has.

The honest framing: TickTick Premium is cheap because it's a capacity upgrade, not a capability upgrade. You're mostly buying bigger numbers next to features you already had. That's good value if the free limits are annoying you, and poor value if they aren't — there's no third thing Premium unlocks that changes how you work.

Billing details worth knowing

• The pricing page lists only an annual plan. If there's a monthly option, it isn't advertised there.
• Refunds: TickTick's FAQ says purchases made through Google Play, PayPal, or Stripe can be refunded within 14 days; after 14 days, refunds are unavailable. App Store purchases go through Apple Support instead.
• Your data survives. TickTick states that when Premium expires your data is fully retained — you drop back to free-tier limits rather than losing anything.
• Education discount: 25% off, bringing Premium to US$37.99 for the year. TickTick's education page offers this to eligible students, faculty and staff — not students only. It isn't automatic: you apply with educational documents, and once approved you get an emailed link to buy at the discounted rate. Worth noting the published figure is $37.99 rather than the $37.49 a flat 25% would give, so use their number, not your own arithmetic.
• TickTick also sells gift cards.

What TickTick doesn't sell at any price

Price aside, there are things Premium doesn't buy, and they're the reasons people leave rather than upgrade:

• No messenger-native capture. There's no Telegram or Slack bot you can message to create a task with text, voice, or a photo.
• No bring-your-own-key AI. TickTick's AI is whatever TickTick ships, priced into the subscription.
• Holiday handling is partial. Recurring tasks don't reliably skip public holidays across countries — the usual workaround is manual rescheduling.

None of these are flaws in TickTick's design. They're just outside what a $49.99/year all-in-one is built to do.

How Vyneron compares on price

If you got here comparing annual costs, here's the parallel line — kept separate on purpose so you can weigh it after the TickTick facts rather than in between them.

Vyneron is an AI task and note manager that lives in Telegram and Slack alongside a web app and PWA. Its pricing:

• Free — $0 forever. Unlimited tasks, notes, and routines, plus Telegram and Slack integration and worldwide holiday coverage. AI is included for the first 7 days (50 messages/day); after that, add a free Gemini or Groq key and AI stays on at $0 with 0% markup.
• Solo — $6/month or $59/year. 150 AI messages/day, unlimited voice transcription, 500 files / 2.5 GB.
• Multi — bracket pricing rather than per-seat: $12/mo ($119/yr) for 2–3 users, $20/mo ($199/yr) for 4–6, $35/mo ($349/yr) for 7–12, $60/mo ($599/yr) for 13–25.
• Enterprise — custom, for 26+ users.
• 14-day money-back guarantee. The first 250 Founder members lock 33% off Solo yearly — $39 instead of $59, permanently.

So on annual price the two land close ($49.99 vs $59), and the difference is what you get for it. TickTick gives you a mature all-in-one with habits and a Pomodoro timer. Vyneron gives you Telegram capture, AI semantic search across tasks, notes, files, and voice transcripts, recurring tasks that skip public holidays worldwide, and BYOK so the AI bill never scales with you.

The clean way to decide: if TickTick's free limits are what's bothering you, Premium at $49.99 is the cheapest fix in the category. If it's the shape of the tool — no messenger capture, no real AI, holidays you handle by hand — a bigger number next to "lists" won't help.

Want the feature-level head-to-head instead of the price sheet? Read TickTick vs Vyneron, or the wider survey in the 5 best TickTick alternatives. Or just try Vyneron free — the free plan has no clock on it.