Looking for a Todoist alternative? An honest comparison

Todoist is one of the best task managers you can get. It’s quick, it’s mature, and it runs on almost anything with a screen. If it works for you, I’d keep it. I built Morrow for a different situation: your list grows faster than your days, and Today has quietly become the place where tasks wait to be moved to tomorrow. Morrow’s answer is a small Today you fill yourself, and a companion, a small cloud, that starts and ends the day with you.

I make Morrow, so read this as the maker’s view, not an independent review. Everything I say about Todoist comes from Todoist’s own help centre, read on 17 October 2026, and is linked at the bottom.

What Todoist does well

Here’s what I like about it. Todoist has had years to get the basics right, and it shows in how little friction there is between thinking of a task and having it saved. According to Todoist’s help centre:

• Apps everywhere. Native apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux, plus Apple Watch, Wear OS and browser extensions.¹
• Fast capture. You type dates in plain language, and there are recurring tasks, priorities, labels and saved filters.²³ With Ramble you can add tasks by speaking.⁴
• Several views. List and board layouts on every plan, and a calendar layout on the paid plans.⁵
• Your calendar inside. Events from Google Calendar or Outlook can show in the Today and Upcoming views, on every plan.⁶
• A free plan, and plans for teams. The Beginner plan is free, with up to 5 active personal projects. Pro costs $7 a month or $60 a year, and Business adds shared team workspaces.⁷⁸

If you share projects with other people, or you want a task manager on your watch, Todoist is simply the better tool. Morrow does neither.

The biggest difference: a companion for your day

Todoist has more of this than people expect. Todoist Assist can break a task into sub-tasks or suggest a next step,¹² Ramble turns what you say into tasks,⁴ and on your phone a Morning overview tells you how many tasks are left for the day, while an Evening review asks you to look over what’s still open. A Daily digest email can bring your tasks for today every morning.¹³

Those are reminders about a list. What I wanted was a companion for the day itself: something that knows where you left off, notices what has stalled, and sits down with you when the day is done.

Morrow comes with a companion for that part: a small cloud in the corner of the app. I drew it myself. It speaks in short notes, each with a button that says exactly what pressing it does, so there’s no chat window and nothing to type a prompt into.

• It starts the day. The first time you open Morrow in the morning, it asks whether you want your brief: what you finished yesterday, where you left off and what’s on today.
• It helps you choose. Press Help me choose and it suggests a few cards for today, each with a reason you can check. Nothing goes on Today unless you put it there.
• It notices. A card that hasn’t changed in weeks, with an offer to break it into small steps, and a card you keep moving forward. After some time away it says “There you are.” and names the card you last worked on.
• It ends the day. At the hour you choose, it offers to close the day with you, which takes about two minutes, and then it says good night.

Its face works as a status line: it looks thoughtful while it reads, smiles when you tick something off, and yawns and goes to sleep after you’ve closed the day. Todoist’s Karma keeps streaks if you want them,¹⁰ and its evening review is a notification. Closing the day in Morrow is two minutes in which every card you didn’t get to gets a decision. The cloud doesn’t count anything against you. On your seventh and your thirtieth closed day it’s a little proud of you, and that’s all. Most of what it says it works out from your own board, on your device, without AI.

What “today” means

Todoist’s Today view collects every task dated today, across all your projects. A Reschedule button moves the overdue ones in one go.⁹ There’s also Karma, which gives you a daily goal for completed tasks (five by default) and keeps streaks. You can switch the goals off.¹⁰

For a lot of people that’s exactly right. But when your list is longer than your day, a view that gathers everything due today will always be longer than your day too. Moving the leftovers to tomorrow in one press is convenient. It also makes it very easy to never decide anything about them.

I built Morrow around the opposite order. Today starts empty and holds only the cards you put there, up to five by default. Every card has a plus that puts it on Today. When the day is full, Morrow tells you, and adding one more means taking another off, or raising the number on purpose. There are no points and no streaks. I took a “best day” figure out of Morrow early on, because with a limit of five, the only way to beat your record was to have an unusual day.

Yesterday’s leftovers get a decision, not just a new date

A card that was on yesterday and didn’t get done comes back the next morning, one at a time, with four choices: put it on today, give it a new date, park it on the board without a date, or mark it done. It’s a small thing, but it’s the moment where a list either gets honest or gets longer.

And when a whole day went sideways, deciding card by card is a lot to ask before your coffee. A pile of leftovers is usually just one day’s plan that the day didn’t allow. So one press keeps one card and parks the rest.

A card is a page

Todoist task descriptions support formatting such as headings, lists, quotes and links, and files go in as comments.¹¹ That works well when a task is one line. A lot of real tasks aren’t: there are notes from a call, a checklist, a link to the document. In Morrow the card itself is the page, with headings, checklists, tables, pictures and link previews, so the next step and everything you need for it live in one place.

An end to the day

Each evening the cloud asks if you want to close the day, which takes about two minutes. You see what you finished, and what didn’t get done gets a decision. That evening routine is what keeps the list from quietly growing back.

AI that works on your words when you ask

Beyond the cloud, Morrow’s AI helps when you ask: rewrite or translate your own words, organize a messy note, break a big task into steps, or suggest which cards fit today, each with a reason. Every change is shown first and waits for your yes.

Morrow and Todoist side by side

Todoist’s prices are in US dollars, as its help centre lists them, and may differ in your country. Check todoist.com for the current plans.

What Morrow doesn’t do

It’s worth being clear about this before you spend a week moving your tasks. Morrow has no native apps in the app stores: it’s a web app you install from your browser, with its own icon and window, and it works offline. You can’t share a board or assign a card to someone. There’s no free plan after the first month. Repeating cards exist (daily, weekly or monthly), but Todoist’s recurring schedules go much further. And there’s no direct import from Todoist.

So which one should you use?

Stay with Todoist if you share projects with a team or your family, if you want an app on your desktop or your watch, if you lean on detailed filters and recurring schedules, or if you need a free plan for the long run. It does those things well, and Morrow doesn’t try to.

Morrow might suit you better if your list for today is always longer than your day, if the same tasks keep moving to tomorrow, if you want to actually write in your cards, and if a fixed moment to start and end the workday sounds like a relief rather than a chore.

Questions

Can I move my tasks from Todoist to Morrow?

Yes, though not with an import: there’s no direct import from Todoist. The quickest way in is Morrow’s brain dump. Paste your tasks as a list, one per line, and every line becomes a card on your board. Then give each card a project. If you’re not sure yet, run both apps side by side for a week. You’ll know fairly quickly which one you open first in the morning.

Is Morrow free, like Todoist?

Not for good. Morrow has a free first month with everything on, counted from the day you sign in. After that it’s €6 a month or €54 a year. You don’t need a card to start. Todoist has a free Beginner plan.

Does Morrow have an app?

Morrow is a web app. You install it from your browser on your laptop and your phone, and it gets its own icon and window. It works without a connection, too.

Can a card repeat in Morrow?

Yes, a card can repeat daily, weekly or monthly. Finish it and the next one appears. Todoist offers more detailed recurring schedules.

What is the cloud in Morrow?

Morrow’s cloud is a small companion in the corner of the app. It brings your morning brief, notices cards that have been waiting, offers to close the day with you each evening, and suggests cards for today when you ask, each with a reason. It never counts streaks, and nothing changes until you say yes.

Is this comparison independent?

No. It’s written by the designer who makes Morrow. I’ve kept every claim about Todoist to what Todoist’s own help centre says, and linked each one, so you can check it yourself.