What is the best alternative to Trello?

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score 36 · Answer 1

2Do

Top Pro

Updates have remained free since beginning of time

Unlike many other apps that will release a new paid version when major features get launched, 2Do doesn't resort to that. See More

Top Con

Decreased cross-platform support, new versions only for iOS

For those that use multiple mobile platforms, support for the Android version has been dropped meaning there is no longer parity between the apps on iOS and Android. See More

Top Pro

Support for Apple Watch

Top Con

No attachment capability

2Do will create a link to a file, but will not store the actual file as an attachment. See More

Top Pro

Offers detailed options

Adding a task can be as simple or complicated as you like. A to-do list entry can simply consist of its title, or you can also add notes, recurrence, set a due date, tag a location, schedule an alarm, priority (low, medium, high, starred) and tack on a URL or photo. You can even make an audio recording with voice notes. And each list is sortable by a number of criteria, including priority and due date. See More

Top Pro

Flexible

2Do conforms to your workflow instead of forcing you to conforming into some preset workflow. It helps to accommodate your workflow through a series of features including tags, batch editing, configurable presets, and the ability to quickly add tasks at any time. See More

Top Pro

Advanced search

Find old tasks or organize smart lists based on complex search terms (for example, “tasks to do at home between 6 pm and 11 pm”). See More

Top Pro

Get Things Done-style inbox

You can use 2Do according to the Get Things Done methodology – or not. See More

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Variety of organization methods

Use a combination of tasks, projects and checklists. See More

Top Pro

Optionally sync with iCal or Outlook

The app can optionally sync with iCal or Outlook with free helper software available from the 2Do Website. See More

Specs

API:No

Collaborative:Yes (only when syncing via Reminders)

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score 50 · Answer 2

Pocket Informant

Top Pro

Manages much more than events

Pocket informant manages notes, tasks, and calendar info. See More

Top Con

Bit complicated for everyone

It is a feature oriented app for the people who love its multiple functions, but those that don't may find it complicated to use. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with Apple calendar & iCloud

Top Con

Restricted free version

The free version has many restrictions. The full version costs $14.99. See More

Top Pro

Great organizer

Almost everything is provided, from calendar to todo,'s as well as managing lists, all of which is organized via Pocket and syncs perfectly thru all devices. See More

Top Pro

Getting Things Done (GTD) integration

Top Pro

Projects & checklists

Top Pro

Syncs across all devices

InformantSync ensures that your calendar / tasks / notes / etc. are all synced. See More

Top Pro

Displays weather

Temperature and other weather conditions are displayed each day. See More

Top Pro

Easy and great looking Calendar to work with

Adding events and making them visible between other events is easy. Streamlining your multiple events is implemented very well in this app. See More

Top Pro

Configurable views

Top Pro

Advanced filtering system

Events can be tagged, sorted by location, priority, or context. See More

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Scalable

You can use it as a basic organizer or a complex project tool. See More

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Seven Day side-by-side view puts the next 7 days in an easy to use format

It makes is extremely easy to view and provides great functionality for updates or creating new events. See More

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Time zones and trips

Handles time zones automatically considering declared trips. See More

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Calendar printing

Pocket Informant supports printing, meaning that a calendar can be printed after being loaded with information. See More

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score 271 · Answer 3

Google Calendar

Top Pro

Integrates with Google Maps for directions

The app leverages Google Maps when adding location for an event by offering suggestions as well as offers opening Maps to help get directions to an event via shortcut on a reminder notification. See More

Top Con

Google tasks do not show on Google Calendar

You can create tasks in your desktop Google Calendar but they will not sync nor show up in your android Google Calendar See More

Top Pro

Comes pre-installed on most Android devices

Google Calendar is a free Android calendar app without ads that comes already installed on Android devices that have stock support for Google Services. See More

Top Con

No weather forecast

The Android app version of Google Calendar does not show any weather forcast information, even if it is added as an extra calendar in the web application. Being that weather is tied into Google Now, the absence is surprising. See More

Top Pro

Clean design with 5 different views including an excellent schedule view

Google Calendar has a monochrome base design that's accented with colored-coded events and image banners that separate months in schedule view. The app has 5 different views - schedule, day, 3-day, week and month. Day, 3-day and week views split up the days horizontally and hours vertically. Month view lays out all days in a grid and displays up to 3 events in a day. Schedule view displays an agenda view that allows browsing all events by swiping vertically. Additionally, the way events are displayed in the agenda view is context-aware. For example, adding an event called "gym" will display the event on a background with a dumbbell. All views except for month view can be split horizontally to display a condensed month view at the top that can be navigated by swiping horizontally. Events can be added from any view by clicking the red plus button that's available at the bottom-right corner of the screen. See More

Top Con

Privacy concerns

Google integrate all their services to connect and mine information on an individual to better profile and target advertising. See More

Top Pro

Offers creating events from e-mail messages based on content

Google Calendar integrates with e-mail for quickly creating events from e-mails that contain the word "meeting" or dates or times, or any other information about events or plans that it can understand. See More

Top Con

Some recurrence options not available

If you want to add a recurring event based on quirky (but normal) calendar rules, it's not supported by Google Calendar. For example, if you set up a financial calendar in Google Calendar and an event falls on a weekend or bank holiday, Google Calendar cannot schedule the occurrence properly. Worse yet, if you submit those calendar occurences via VEVENT details, Google Calendar displays different information if you use the mobile calendar vs. the desktop web calendar. See More

Top Pro

Can set on-screen and e-mail reminder notifications

Google calendar allows setting how many reminders are needed with each having the ability to set how long before the event the notification should remind and if it should be done via on-screen or e-mail notification. See More

Top Con

Once you create a event on a Calendar, you can't move to a different Calendar

Top Pro

Integrates well with other Google services

Google Calendar is part of the Google ecosystem, it integrates with services like Google Now for creating events, Google Maps for directions and Gmail for pulling information about planned flights. See More

Top Con

No vertical scroll

Like iOS and outlook for Android. See More

Top Pro

Color-coding for events and calendars

The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event. See More

Top Con

Horizontal Scroll

Does not vertically scroll like ios calendars on outlook calendar. See More

Top Pro

Allows subscribing to public calendars through web client

Through the Google Calendar's web client, it is possible to subscribe to any public calendar. Google also maintains a list of public calendars for various sports events and holidays in different countries and for different religions. See More

Top Con

Slow syncing of external calendars

Google Calendar is known to sync external calendars very slowly, takes hours if not a full day before the updated events are reflected. See More

Top Pro

Straightforward event creation with autocomplete

All views have an option of adding a new event by tapping the plus sign at the lower right corner of the screen. This opens up a form and allows the user to add a location, start/end times, guests, description, color-code as well as choosing if it's an all day event, how often it repeats, how many and what kind of reminders are needed and setting the users availability and privacy settings. See More

Top Con

No natural language input support

The Android app has no natural language input support, while it's available using the web client and in a limited capacity using Google Now. See More

Top Pro

Supports non-Google calendars (requires accessing web client)

Google Calendar can be integrated with any calendar that support iCalendar format, including Exchange and iCloud, via URL, but it has to be done using the web client. See More

Top Con

Month view shows limited information about the event

Month view does not show how many events there are in each given day or color-code them in any way, only informs of their existence. See More

Top Pro

Lots of third-party widgets

Google Calendar comes with a home screen widget, and there are also many third party widgets developed for this calendar app. See More

Top Con

Weak default view

Even if month is set as default view, as soon as you touch a day or an event, you have to carefully select twice to get back to month view. See More

Top Pro

Awesome flairs / images view inside the agenda view / event page

Whenever you enter agenda / event title with the keywords (when available), the event will show up interesting flairs whenever the keyword inside the agenda / title you typed matches the flairs that are available inside the system, examples such as haircut, cycling, swimming, coffee, movie etc. See More

Top Con

Time zone is incorrect no matter what's done

Top Pro

Advanced functionality available through IFTTT

IFTTT offers over 198 channels to plug into the users Google Calendar. See More

Top Con

Timezone for Moscow is incorrect

Timezone for Moscow is 1 hour off. This makes the calendar unusable in Russia. See More

Top Con

Setting up non-Google calendars requires accessing web client

There is no ability in the Android app to access other calendars. This limits the usefulness for people that use more than one calendar, such as OSX and iOS users. See More

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score 400 · Answer 4

Wunderlist

Top Pro

Simple & easy to use UI

Wunderlists' UI is very fast and easy to use. The features are easy to find and everything flows together smoothly. See More

Top Con

Subtasks hidden within task window

Wunderlist doesn't have true subtasks but rather a single task list with an entirely different user interface hidden within each task. Having separate interfaces for tasks and subtasks restricts flexibility in how one structures projects. See More

Top Pro

Has a free, adless version

Wunderlist is available both as a free app without ads or heavy restrictions, and in a pro version that enables you to add larger files and take advantage of additional customization options. See More

Top Con

Limited customization and organization options

Wunderlist doesn't allow for much customization in list sorting or visual themes. It offers only a couple dozen background choices and has no option to add your own. See More

Top Pro

Simple, useful task management features

Wunderlist features the standard ability to add tasks and organize them within lists, but one aspect in which it excels is the amount of detail you can add to each task. Rather than simple alerts, tasks incorporate a number of other options, including reminders, subtasks, notes, and recurring tasks. You can also star important tasks, which is simpler than the priority systems used in many other apps. See More

Top Con

Acquired by Microsoft, So Future is Uncertain

Microsoft acquired Wunderlist in 2015, and therefore its future is uncertain. It's unlikely Wunderlist will continue to be an (1) independent product with (2) a free version and (3) continue to develop and innovate at a reasonable pace. More likely, Microsoft will at least monetize Wunderlist the way it monetizes its other products. It's also likely that Microsoft will integrate it into its suite of office products and even its Windows operating systems. To see what this is like search the Web for "Microsoft OneNote Mac OS X," and you will find a host of "standard" features only available in the Windows version, "official" documentation and tutorials that presume you have the Windows version (but never say so), etc. One would also expect versions running on Linux to be worse or nonexistent. Also, Microsoft software in general tends to be bloated with marketable features but little concern for efficiency regarding memory usage, processing efficiency, or unobtrusive updates. See More

Top Pro

Group integration

Wunderlist allows you to share lists and tasks with others via email or Facebook. This allows you to set group tasks and lists. When one person completes the task, they can check it off and it is then completed for every other team member. See More

Top Con

Doesn't have a calendar view

No calendar view, integration with GCal is ridiculous - updates every 8 hours or something, integration with Outlook is ridiculous - tasks only show as all-day event. See More

Top Pro

Public lists

Some lists can be published in order to share them with others. Interestingly, other people can see the items of a public list, but not the notes and sub-lists of those items. See More

Top Con

No utilization of location on mobile apps

Wunderlist doesn't have any location-based reminders, nor does it offer to include your location information as you add items. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform syncing

Wunderlist features cross platform syncing which insures your tasks are always updated across iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, Kindle and browser. See More

Top Con

Does not support postponing tasks

You cannot hide a task from a list if this task will be valuable just from some date. See More

Top Pro

Can add to your list via email or Google Now

If you're on the run or away from your device, you can add items to your list by email. You can also add notes to the list item using the body of the message. Wunderlist supports Google Now, meaning you can add to your list using native voice commands on Android. See More

Top Con

No options for subtasks or subcontexts

Since sub-tasks are included inside a task, you do not have the full set of features for them. No ability to leave comments, for example. See More

Top Pro

Easily customized list icons

Rather than relying on standard icons, users can individually set the icons for their lists using emojis. For example, if the list is about TV shows, you can set the list icon to be the television emoji. See More

Top Con

Incomplete keyboard control

There's no clear way to mark tasks complete using the keyboard, which is frustrating since all other common tasks are keyboard controllable. See More

Top Pro

Supports timed reminders and recurring items

Top Con

Will be discontinued

Wunderlist was purchased by Microsoft in 2015, and will be discontinued after the release of Microsoft To-Do. https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/19/introducing-microsoft-to-do-now-available-in-preview/ See More

Top Pro

Easy to print tasks

Wunderlist automatically translates your tasks into a printer-friendly format when you hit print on Mac, Windows 7, iOS, and Android devices. See More

Top Con

Cannot sort list in the list listing

Wunderlist does not have the ability to sort the list in the list listing. See More

Top Pro

Group members can comment on list items

Found in the detail view, comments let you to start a conversation, leave feedback, ask a question, or add extra insight to your to-dos. They are saved with a timestamp and are immediately accessible to any members of your shared list. See More

Top Con

Sync can be unreliable on mobile devices at times

The mobile app does not always sync smoothly or quickly with the desktop program. See More

Top Pro

Smartwatch compatible

The Wunderlist app supports Apple Watch and Android Wear, which allows for instant action and task viewing on these smartwatches. See More

Top Con

Lack of vision

At start it looks promising, but now they lost direction. Too confusing implementation of workflow details, focusing on irelevant things See More

Top Pro

Beautiful backgrounds

Wunderlist comes with 20 free wallpapers and 10 paid wallpapers for users to customize the background image in the Wunderlist app. In addition, advanced users can also use their own image as background image with few tweaks, which is absent in main Wunderlist app. See More

Top Con

Horrid customer support

Top Pro

Keyboard shortcuts

Wunderlist comes with the Keyboard shortcuts that can allow users to perform task faster using the keyboard. See More

Top Con

Does not have a native Linux app

There is no native application available for Linux-based systems, but you can always work inside of your browser instead. See More

Top Con

Cannot hide task lists which have been completed

Top Con

Does not sync with Google Tasks

There’s no innate compatibility with Google Tasks, which makes it a no-go for users who rely on that service. See More

Top Con

From time to time notes are not synchronizing

Top Con

The pro version is very expensive

And for feature-feature comparisons, it has low value compared to other products. See More

Top Con

Web version attachments are icon only

The web version allows you to attach files, but does not give preview or thumbnail of the attachment. You just see the file name and icon. Clicking it opens the file. See More

Top Con

Microsoft flakeness

Specs

Platforms:Android / iOS / WP / OSX / Windows / Web / Chrome

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score 5 · Answer 5

Fantastical

Top Con

Expensive for a single utility app

Fantastical on OS X costs $49.99 and an additional $4.99 if you want to use it on iOS. See More

Top Pro

Supports multiple calendar platforms

If you're locked into using an Exchange account, Google Calendar won't work without 3rd party syncing options. Fantastical works flawlessly with Exchange and with Google Accounts so you can have both. It also supports iCloud, Office365, Yahoo, and Facebook calendars. See More

Top Con

Only supports iOS and OSX

Fantastical doesn't support web, Windows or Android. See More

Top Pro

Fantastical can comprehend natural language

You can copy and paste a line from a meeting note and Fantastical can copy down and present the relevant information See More

Top Pro

Beautiful and highly polished design

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