Taskwarrior
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Taskwarrior, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Taskwarrior's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Taskwarrior | Free | Open-source command-line task manager · self-managed installation and synchronization |
The facts
Each one read from Taskwarrior's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Current release
- The download page lists Taskwarrior 3.5.0, released 2026-08-16, as the latest stable release.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Customization
- Users can customize reports and store user-defined metadata, and can extend Taskwarrior with hook scripts.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Data protection
- For TaskChampion sync server use, task data is encrypted by Taskwarrior and the server does not see unencrypted data.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Third-party applications can extend Taskwarrior through wrappers or hook scripts, and the maker lists community tools and extensions separately.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- nonechecked 21 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Taskwarrior is a command-line todo list manager for adding, removing, and managing tasks.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recurring tasks
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Reports
- It includes reports for tasks such as overdue, recurring, ready, and tasks grouped by project.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker says support is provided by volunteers and points users to community channels and online documentation.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Synchronization
- Taskwarrior can synchronize tasks through a TaskChampion sync server, supported cloud storage, local files, or a Git repository.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Sync limits
- Cloud-storage synchronization can incur a small cost and requires expertise to configure; the maker lists AWS and Google Cloud Storage as supported providers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Task organization
- Tasks can use due dates, recurrence, priorities, tags, and project groups.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Task reminders
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Time tracking
- The maker says it does not intend to add time tracking to the Taskwarrior core.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Upgrade limitation
- Taskwarrior 3 uses a new sync implementation and does not interface with taskd, so users upgrading from Taskwarrior 2 need a new synchronization approach.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform support
- The download page lists packages for Linux distributions, macOS, and Windows via Windows Subsystem for Linux; Cygwin is no longer supported.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows via WSL,macOS,Linux distributionschecked 21 Sep 2026
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