Todoist Competitors in 2026, Compared on Price

I opened eight pricing pages this morning and wrote down what each vendor charges and how it bills, because $10 billed yearly and $10 billed monthly are not the same $10. Most Todoist comparisons walk past that on the way to a feature grid.

Short answer: the cheapest serious alternative is TickTick at $49.99 a year, Todoist Pro is $60, and everything past those two is a jump rather than a step. The thing they are all being measured against is Todoist's free tier, now called Beginner — 5 personal projects, 3 filter views, one week of activity history.

The baseline: Beginner, Pro, Business

Todoist's pricing page lists three plans. Beginner is $0 and still ships recurring due dates, labels, sub-tasks and 90+ integrations, with 5 MB uploads and limited Ramble voice sessions. Pro is $5 per user per month, $60 billed yearly, which moves you to 300 projects, 150 filter views, full history and 100 MB uploads. Business is $8 per user per month plus local tax, $96 billed yearly, and adds the shared team workspace, up to 500 team projects, 1,000 members and roles.

One caveat on the record: the page has a Monthly / Yearly toggle advertising 20% off, so $5 and $8 are the yearly rates. I did not capture the month-to-month figure and will not quote one.

The whole grid, with the billing basis attached

Notion's page opens on yearly billing and advertises "Save up to 20% with yearly," so those two are the yearly rates. It does not put the monthly figure in the page source, so I have not quoted one.

TickTick

$49.99 a year, and there is no monthly plan at all. The page frames it as less than $4.17 a month, which is the honest way to read a yearly-only product.

The free tier is where TickTick gets interesting, because the ceilings are published rather than vague: 9 lists, 99 tasks per list, 1 attachment a day, 19 checklist items per task, 2 reminders per task, sharing with 2 people, 5 habits. Premium lifts those to 299 lists, 999 tasks per list, 199 attachments a day, 29 members. You always know which wall you just hit.

Habits and countdowns in the same app as the task list is the not-Todoist part. Refunds run 14 days through Google Play, PayPal or Stripe. If Premium lapses your data stays put, you drop to the free ceilings. Wider field: TickTick alternatives.

Reclaim.ai

The free plan is called Lite, not Free — the pricing page puts the word "Free" in the price slot and "Lite" in the name slot, which catches people out. It is free forever, which already separates it from half this list.

Paid is $10 per seat per month for Starter, $15 for Business and $22 for Enterprise on yearly billing. Month-to-month, Starter is $12 and Business is $18; there is no monthly rate published for Enterprise.

One line the table cannot hold: Reclaim also sells Attendee Users in packs on top of the seat price, so the seat figure is a floor rather than a total, in the same way Todoist Business carries "plus local tax."

Calendar-first software, sold per seat to teams already living in Google Calendar. Priced for a manager approving seats, not for one person buying an app.

Amazing Marvin

$8 a month, billed as $96 a year, 14-day trial, no credit card, no free plan. Their FAQ answers "is there a free plan" by pointing at the trial. There is a Monthly / Annual toggle advertising 33% off and I did not capture the monthly rate.

Marvin is for the person who wants to assemble their own system out of toggles rather than accept someone else's defaults. Same annual figure as Todoist Business, sold to one seat.

Akiflow

$19 a month billed yearly, $34 billed monthly, 7-day trial, no free plan. A rotating banner was showing $16 with a coupon while I was on the page. That is a promotion, not list price, so budget for $19.

At almost four times Todoist Pro's monthly rate, Akiflow is not chasing the same wallet. It is a command bar and a time-blocking board for a day scheduled to the half hour.

Sunsama

$17 a month billed yearly, $22 billed monthly. Fourteen-day trial, no card until it ends, no free-forever plan, and the page says outright they do not plan to add one. I respect that more than a free tier built to be outgrown.

Sunsama sells a ritual: plan tomorrow tonight, pull tasks in one at a time, get pushed back on when you overload the day. Nobody buys it to store 300 projects.

Morgen

No free plan on Morgen's pricing page today, only a 14-day full-access trial with no credit card. Individuals pay $30 a month billed monthly, or $15 a month billed yearly. Teams pay $25 per seat monthly, or $10 per seat yearly, minimum 2 seats.

Two discounts are printed there, both claimed by emailing connect@morgen.so after the trial starts: 25% off forever for students, academics and nonprofits, 15% off for a year if you switch from Motion, Reclaim, Fantastical or Sunsama. Thirty-day money-back guarantee, Swiss hosting, Paddle billing. Also: Morgen alternatives.

Notion

Free is $0 per member per month, Plus is $10 and Business is $20, all on yearly billing. Free caps uploads at 5 MB per file, and a solo free workspace gets unlimited pages and blocks while a free workspace with more than one member hits a block limit. That last one ends most team trials. Plus is free for students and educators on a one-member workspace.

Notion is a database you shape into a task manager. That flexibility is why people move to it, and a year later why some move off.

Two I did not price

Things 3 is a one-time purchase, Apple only. I did not measure its price today, so check Cultured Code instead of trusting a blog post. Microsoft To Do is free with Microsoft 365.

The price gap is telling you what you are buying

Line the monthly figures up and the field splits. TickTick's own page says under $4.17 a month. Todoist Pro is $5. Then a gap, and on the far side of it Morgen at $15, Sunsama at $17, Akiflow at $19, all on yearly billing.

That gap is not a quality difference, it is a category difference. Under $5 a month you are buying a place to put tasks, and the app waits for you to open it. At $15 to $19 a month you are buying a daily planning ritual welded to a calendar: something that decides what today looks like, blocks the time, and asks you at 9am whether you meant it.

So if Todoist felt thin, the expensive group fixes that. If $60 a year felt like a lot, it is not your aisle, and TickTick at $49.99 is the only meaningfully cheaper serious option here. The feature side: Todoist alternatives.

Which ones are actually free, and which are a countdown

Free forever: Todoist Beginner, TickTick Free, Notion Free, Reclaim.ai Lite. Trial only: Amazing Marvin (14 days), Akiflow (7 days), Sunsama (14 days), Morgen (14 days).

That split matters more to a shopper than any feature row. A free tier lets you keep a tool around for eight months and decide slowly. A trial decides for you on day 8, usually the day you were busiest and least able to judge it.

The rows above are all priced per seat. Ours is not.

Multi is priced by workspace bracket. 2 to 3 users is $12 a month or $119 a year for the whole workspace, 4 to 6 is $20 or $199, 7 to 12 is $35 or $349, 13 to 25 is $60 or $599, and Enterprise is custom above 26. Add a teammate and you do not add a line item, which is a different shape of bill from every row in the table above.

Free is $0 forever: unlimited tasks, notes and routines, Telegram and Slack capture, a calendar that knows public holidays worldwide. AI runs on a 7-day Solo trial at 50 messages a day, then on your own provider key at 0% markup, and the Gemini and Groq free tiers keep it at $0 (how that works). Solo is $6 a month or $59 a year: 150 AI messages a day, unlimited voice transcription, 500 files and 2.5 GB storage.

We have a wall of our own and it is storage. Free gives you 10 files and 50 MB, and if you keep attachments in your task manager you will hit that fast. Depth is not the compromise: sub-tasks, blockers, projects, labels, assignees and owner/admin/member/viewer roles are all there, with AI chat and voice on top.

For the head-to-head rather than the price sweep, we wrote Todoist vs Vyneron. Otherwise the Free plan does not ask for a card.

Prices read from each vendor's pricing page on 3 September 2026. Follow the links before you buy. Every one of these pages will change.