Taskwarrior vs Checkvist

The command line interface puts powerful filtering expressions, context, annotations, tags, due dates, reoccurrence, and user-defined-attributes totally in your hands. It’s fast and low friction.

Taskwarrior has many front-ends, services, extensions, hook scripts, and capsules available. Taskwarrior keeps a list of contributed tools on their site.

Taskwarrior is written in the speedy C++ language.

Future-proof and easily integrated with version control system. You never lose access to your data.

When used in conjunction with the Taskserver, it can sync tasks (conflict-free) across your Taskwarrior devices. This includes integration with Mirakel.

It has UTF8 support and is translated into many languages.

Taskworrior allows you to define custom attributes and reports to your needs.

You can be in full control of your data.

Checkvist hits a sweet spot between minimal and complexity. It gives you a host of options and extras to use on your lists, but you can completely ignore them if you don't need them and keep it very simple. This makes Checkvist a one-stop shop, regardless of what type of 'list' you need.

Search filters help you search for tasks by tag, due date, assignee, etc.

To-do lists often need to be grouped and regrouped for clarity. The outline-based nature of Checkvist makes it easy to move things across categories, to increase and decrease priority, etc.

Parses markdown, html links, hashtags to become formatted text, clickable links, and tags, respectively.

Checkvist offers many free features if you are using this individually.

Any item can have a free-text comment, which can be shown or hidden as desired.