Where TickTick shines
TickTick is a lot of app for not much money. You get lists, a calendar with several views including a timeline, a Pomo timer, a habit tracker, countdowns and an Eisenhower matrix for sorting what’s urgent from what matters. You can subscribe to your calendars so they show up next to your tasks.
It’s on nearly everything: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and a browser extension. The free plan is generous, and Premium is cheap. Have a look at ticktick.com.
If you like building your own system and having every tool in one place, TickTick is a great pick.
Where Yoodoo is different
TickTick is a to-do list that grew a calendar. Yoodoo is a day that your tasks live inside.
The timeline draws every task as a real block of time around your meetings, so the free gaps are right there. It’s in Lite, the free version. Ask Yoodoo plans your whole day when you just say it, and changes it when you change your mind. And the app blocker locks the apps that eat your mornings, on a schedule or when you start focusing. We couldn’t find one in TickTick.
Yoodoo also has fewer settings on purpose. We’d rather it just works on a bad day than lets you tune it on a good one.
When your day falls apart
In TickTick, a task you didn’t get to becomes overdue and needs a new date. We couldn’t find anything that re-fits the rest of today for you, so that’s another job when you’re already behind.
Fix my day notices when something runs over or doesn’t start, asks you one question, and fits the rest of today around what really happened. Meetings and locked things stay put. Your most important task is protected. What doesn’t fit goes to Anytime or tomorrow. One tap, in Lite.
Price
TickTick has a free plan with limits, like 9 lists and 5 habits. Premium is $49.99 a year or $4.99 a month on the US App Store.
Yoodoo Pro is $59.99 a year (with 7 days free), $7.99 a month, or $149.99 once. After the trial, Lite is free for good, with the timeline’s Day view, Fix my day and the focus timer. See Pro.
Switching from TickTick
- Brain dump your lists. Bring across what still matters, and leave the stale stuff behind.
- Bring your calendar in, so your meetings are the fixed points.
- Ask Yoodoo each morning and let it place your day.
- Block your phone for the mornings you always lose.
Then, the first time the afternoon slips, tap Fix my day.