TickTick

Overview

TickTick is a task and planning app from TickTick, a company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Hong Kong. It is best suited to people who want reminders and calendar-based planning alongside their task lists, with optional tools for focus, habits, and shared work.

Its breadth is a strength, but the free plan has concrete caps on lists, tasks, reminders, and collaboration. Those limits make it worth checking how you organize work before relying on the free tier long term.

Key features

Tasks, reminders, and calendars

TickTick supports recurring tasks, subtasks, task reminders, and calendar sync. Repeat Reminder rules can run weekly, monthly, yearly, or on custom schedules, which suits routines that need more than a one-off due date. Calendar views span yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and agenda formats, giving users several ways to plan around dates. The app also offers Kanban, timeline, and Eisenhower Matrix views for organizing work by workflow or priority.

Lists can be shared, tasks assigned, and friends or colleagues brought into collaborative work. The member cap is a meaningful constraint for teams: the free plan allows two shared members, while Premium raises that to 29. TickTick also integrates with Notion and supports MCP, CLI, and OpenClaw workflows, useful for users who want to connect task management with those tools.

Focus and personal organization

Pomodoro, habit tracking, and countdowns extend TickTick beyond a conventional task list. More than 40 themes allow visual customization. Together, these features make it a flexible choice for people combining projects, routines, and focus sessions in one place; users looking only for a basic checklist may not need that range.

Pricing

TickTick uses a freemium model. The Free plan costs nothing and includes basic task, reminder, sync, and list features. Its caps are 9 lists, 99 tasks per list, one attachment per day, 19 checklist items per task, two task reminders, and two shared members. That is a usable starting point, but multiple reminders, larger checklists, or wider collaboration can push frequent users toward Premium.

Premium costs $49.99 a year on the Annual plan. It raises the limits to 299 lists, 999 tasks per list, 199 attachments per day, 199 checklist items per task, five task reminders, and 29 shared members, and unlocks premium features. It is the more practical fit for heavy list users and larger shared groups, though the annual commitment is a step up from the free tier. When Premium expires, data is retained but Premium features become unavailable.

Refunds can be requested within 14 days for purchases through Google Play, PayPal, or Stripe. Apple App Store refunds must be requested through Apple Support. Support is available through the Help Center and [email protected].

Platforms

TickTick supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and a Chrome extension. That broad coverage suits people who switch between phone, computer, and browser, rather than keeping task planning on a single device.

Who it's for

TickTick is a strong fit for individuals who plan recurring work, want multiple calendar views, and value focus or habit tools alongside tasks. It can also suit small groups sharing lists and assigning work, particularly if the free two-member allowance is enough. Larger teams or users with high attachment and reminder needs should account for the Premium limits and price.

It is less compelling for someone who wants only a simple list and has no use for its planning breadth, or for a free user whose workflow exceeds nine lists or two shared members.

Pros and cons

• Broad planning toolkit: calendar views, recurring reminders, Kanban, timeline, and the Eisenhower Matrix serve different planning styles in one app.
• Useful personal extras: Pomodoro, habit tracking, countdowns, and more than 40 themes add options beyond task capture.
• Wide device support: Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and Chrome extension support makes cross-device use possible.
• Free limits can bind: nine lists, two shared members, two reminders per task, and one attachment per day may be restrictive for growing workflows.
• Premium is annual: the listed price is $49.99 a year, so users who only need occasional higher limits may prefer to stay within Free's caps.

Alternatives

Any.do is worth considering if unlimited personal tasks and lists on its free plan matter more than TickTick's wider planning toolkit.

Nozbe is an alternative for readers looking for a free plan capped at three users and three active projects.

Routine may suit readers interested in its free plan's three integrations, three custom databases, and 250 AI credits.

Super Productivity is the clearest fit for someone who wants all features and platforms on a free plan with no premium tier.

SingularityApp is another freemium option, with a free Basic plan capped at 10 projects, five sections per project, three habits, and one reminder per task.

Todoist is an alternative whose Beginner free plan is centered on five personal projects, three filter views, and one week of activity history.

Superlist is an option for readers who want unlimited tasks and notes on a free plan, with five private and shared lists and five people in shared lists.

Tasks.org is an alternative for readers seeking a free plan with unlimited tasks, lists, tags, and reminders.

Explore the To-do list apps, Time Management Apps, and Task Management Software collections for more options.

Verdict

Choose TickTick if you want tasks, reminders, calendar planning, and personal focus tools in one app, with enough platform coverage to use it across devices. Its main trade-off is the gap between the free caps and Premium's annual price; look elsewhere if your work needs larger free limits or a simpler, narrower task list.