# Routine: Calendars & Tasks — user reviews

> 66 indexed App Store user reviews of Routine by Routine, rated 3.60/5 from 47 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 21 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 10

## What do users think of Routine?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- ✨ Clean, modern interface
- 💡 Excellent concept and potential
- 🔄 Integrates calendar, notes, tasks
- 🧠 ADHD-friendly design
- 💻 Superior desktop app experience
- 🌟 Visually simple and clean layout
- 🎨 Beautiful design and thoughtful features
- 🚀 Seamless Google Calendar integration
- ✅ Great for time blocking
- 💡 Captures quick thoughts easily (desktop)
- 💯 Best all-in-one productivity app
- 👍 Highly recommended for organization
- 📝 Markdown support for notes
- 🗂️ Tasks organized into sections
- ✨ Sleek design with great widgets

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐌 Slow loading times
- 🔄 Syncing issues with Google Tasks
- 🤔 Confusing recurring task management
- ⚠️ Google account required for access
- 📱 iOS app is glitchy and buggy
- 🗑️ Randomly deletes data
- 🚫 No local or iCloud calendar support
- 🎛️ UI contrast issues, hard to see text
- ⏳ Development feels slow
- 💸 Expensive paywall for some features
- 🔒 Excessive privacy permissions requested
- 🙅‍♀️ Not a standalone app, extension of Google
- 📉 Functionality not up to par with competitors
- ❓ Tasks not appearing correctly
- 🪞 Duplicates tasks
- 😵‍💫 Overwhelming for some users
- ⚠️ iPad app not optimized for screen size
- 🔌 Requires internet connection to work
- ❌ Drag and drop issues on iOS
- 🗄️ All-day events broken on iOS
- 🚫 Can't add more than one Google calendar
- 🗄️ Tasks disappear after creation

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes immediately on launch
- Crashing on boot after setting up Google calendar
- App freezes and data disappears
- Tasks duplicated
- Calendar events not saving
- Issues with typing and editing
- Tasks from checklist duplicating
- Calendar events not saving
- Tasks not reflecting in Google Task
- Drag and drop feature not working on iOS
- App shuts down when dragging tasks
- Tasks disappear after creation
- Drag scheduling not working
- Create tasks don't populate correctly
- Completed tasks can't be found to mark incomplete
- Task creation prompt appears but task is not found
- Tutorial is unresponsive
- App is unresponsive when typing/editing
- Notes disappear
- App freezes
- Add button doesn't always work
- Stuck on pages
- Deleted calendar event causes app to freeze
- Tasks bugging out and disappearing
- All-day events broken on iOS
- Tasks not saving in the correct screens

**Most requested features**

- Improve task editing and usability
- Better recurring task management
- Automatic sync with Google Tasks
- Develop iPad version
- Add repeat function for appointments (daily, weekly, etc.)
- Improve speed and sync performance
- Add tags for different tasks
- Add reminders
- Add iCloud calendar integration
- Visualize remaining time on tasks (like Tiimo/Structured)
- View remaining time with live activities
- Option to minimize picture section at the top
- Option to change colors and theme of the app
- Support for Apple/iCloud calendar
- Local calendar support
- Better text contrasting for UI
- Option to view tasks without the calendar

## Newest reviews (11 of 66)

### 4/5 — I totally see its potential

*2026-07-06*

I really want to use this app because the overall idea is excellent. I like how tasks are organized into sections like Due and Due Soon, and the interface has a clean, modern feel.

Unfortunately, the experience feels a bit clunky in everyday use. Editing tasks and working with notes isn’t as smooth as I’d expect, and I found recurring tasks confusing. I accidentally created a daily recurring task that I couldn’t seem to delete—it just kept moving to the next day, which made me lose confidence in the app.

The app has a lot of potential, and with improvements to task editing, recurring task management, and overall usability, it could become a great productivity tool. Right now, though, it feels like the core experience needs a bit more polish.

### 2/5 — Confusing

*2025-06-20*

It’s a typical calendar app but I don’t understand how to sync my google account to this app any instructions I find just tells me to download the app and go through that process which I’ve done but nothing has synced.

**Developer response:** NJ4327, thank you for leaving an honest review. To set up Routine, simply log in with your primary Google account, give permissions to the app and then all your events & tasks will show up in your calendar! If you need any assistance, please reach out to us and we will gladly guide you through. Have a lovely day.

### 2/5 — Confusing

*2025-05-05*

It’s a typical calendar app but I don’t understand how to sync my google account to this app any instructions I find just tells me to download the app and go through that process which I’ve don’t but nothing has synced.

### 3/5 — Few Things

*2025-02-13*

I really like this app. It’s beautiful and has a lot of potential. I’ve downloaded it multiple times but I’ve also gotten rid of it multiple times. I just can’t use it as a ‘productivity’ app when it’s clearly got some optimization issues. Compared to other named productivity apps it’s just not up to par. I still plan to come back should the app be optimized better.

**Developer response:** Gman5524, Hi there, thanks for your feedback! We do appreciate the honesty and we're happy to report that we've spent a substantial amount of time working on the foundations of Routine mobile apps. We're very close to launching the offline mode, which will increase the stability a multiple times over! We'll be happy to have you back onboard, should you decide to give Routine a try. Have a blessed day!

### 4/5 — Solid work, just a few things …

*2025-01-31*

AMAZING I love it. It’s got a schedule view for the day, an adjustable calendar view that is pretty much PERFECT. The only downside is the calendar takes a second to load upon opening the app, otherwise amazing. My only real criticism is that, and that when typing in the notes area on the calendar events, it likes to scroll all the way to the bottom or to the top opposite of where you click, no option to minimize the section that shows pictures of your pages at the top, and that YOU CANT MAKE REOCCURRING EVENTS or change the color of them. I know it’s connected to google calendar, but still would be nice to not have to switch apps just to make a reoccurring event. Can’t wait to see this app progress and love it already. 
- side note of concern: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep it free, if you do add a paid version, just make it so you get extra stuff, and not that the free version is limiting. Ex: don’t restrict number of pages/tasks. Just make the paid version so you can change the colors and theme of the app and icon. Just keep it to being additional customization rather than unlocking restrictions.

**Developer response:** Hi Anton, thank you so much for the wonderful feedback! We're delighted when such honest comments come our way. Thank you! We heard what you're saying and I can confirm that there are several fixes that will come into the mobile apps to make your experience multiple times better. Firstly, we're launching offline mode soon, and this will improve the core stability of all the apps. Secondly, we've launched a new editor on the desktop app that we will transition over to the mobile environment as well. Moreover, we're going to introduce more options for colors as well as recurrences. Lastly, we will always keep Routine free to use for the majority of the features! We'll be happy to assist with any questions or concerns you might have. Enjoy your weekend!

### 2/5 — iOS iPhone App is Super Glitchy

*2025-01-04, version 0.11.4*

Great product concept & using the other platforms including the web are far better than the iPhone app. Creating tasks in pages doesn’t always work or duplicates the task & sometimes a task appears in the inbox from a page, but there is no task that matches on the supposed corresponding page & sometimes the task title is either incomplete or just doesn’t save which is exasperating.

### 2/5 — Buggy

*2024-10-16, version 0.11.3*

I really wanted to make this my main productivity app but it’s very buggy on mobile. It’s slow to load, freezes, and randomly deletes stuff. I created a note and when the app froze and I had to close it, the note completely disappeared. It’s very frustrating to use and it makes me sad because the UI is clean and functional.

### 3/5 — Great potential

*2024-08-26*

This is exactly the kind of calendar/to-do list app that I’ve been looking for. It’s just needs some finishing touches. It’s still functional, but there are some noticeable bugs. Please keep working on it because this app has amazing potential.

**Developer response:** Hi there, thank you for leaving your feedback! We're happy to announce that the application received a major update - offline mode. It's now more stable and ready to get updates faster. We hope you give it a try and let us know what you think!

### 4/5 — Amazing planner app with some bugs

*2024-08-01*

I just recently found Routine and it has been so intuitive and easy to use on iPhone. I also love how easily it integrates with Google Calendar.
Like others have mentioned, though, there are some bugs that render certain features of the app unusable. For example when I try to drag weekly tasks on the agenda tab to a day on the calendar above, the app shuts down and returns me to the home screen.
Otherwise, Routine is a fantastic platform and I will definitely recommend it to friends!

### 4/5 — Good app, but…

*2024-07-09*

Would like to see the option of setting up appointments with a repeat function for daily, weekly, bi-weekly monthly and so on

### 2/5 — Too many emails?

*2024-05-06, version 0.11.2*

Ik I can unsub but wow too much stuff.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Useless if you don’t use google

*2026-01-12, version 0.12.11*

Can’t even access the app or preview any of the features without having a Google account. It’s really an extension for your Google account not a standalone app.

### 1/5 — I was wrong

*2025-11-15*

UPDATE: I was wrong.

Let’s just start by saying I NEVER write reviews. In fact, this is only my second one! 

I’ve been on a search for THE task/note/calendar tool for what feels like years, and I think I finally found it.

It has a great looking interface that has all the features I need (notes, calendar, tasks), and the best part, it doesn’t feel all bloated and confusing to navigate.

All the big ones like Todoist, TickTick, etc are great tools, but they’re all almost overwhelming for the way my brain works and I give up on them after a month. Then I’ll download again thinking I figured out a better system to use the app, and give up again. 

Then there are things like Structured, Brite (super bloated), and visual day planners, but I just simply don’t like the apps for various, albeit minor, reasons.

Routine finally brings together everything I need and want in a life/work organization app, and it’s super sleek with great widgets too.

Fantastic job already, and I can’t wait to see what’s to come!

**Developer response:** LDMyers, thanks for your review! We're glad to hear that Routine fits your needs and you're enjoying using it. We'd love to support you further if you wish please forward us an email at support@routine.co and we'll engage in conversation! We'd love to see the positive energy reflected on the review as well! Talk to you soon.

### 1/5 — Keeps crashing

*2025-10-13, version 0.12.7*

I can’t use the app because it crashes immediately

### 1/5 — Slow development

*2025-04-25, version 0.11.8*

I like the concepts in Rountine but its development has slowed down so much I just lost patience on all the promised enhancements on the roadmap.

### 1/5 — Crashing on boot

*2025-02-16*

Would love to use it, but it crashes on boot. Started happening after I set up my Google calendar and opted to view a non-default Google calendar as my main calendar in Routine. Hopefully this gets fixed. Happy to update my review then.

**Developer response:** Hi Vijay, thanks for taking the time to review the Routine app. We're aware that currently we support only Google accounts, but we have a public roadmap where you can track the upcoming releases for Apple Calendar, Outlook calendar and more. You can find the public link here: https://feedback.routine.co/

Let us know if we can support you with anything else in the meantime.

### 1/5 — Fix this app!!

*2025-01-05*

As a productivity app, this gets in the way of itself and productivity. It takes a whole 15 seconds to load, doesn’t work without an internet connection, and crashes regularly. These fixes have been promised for years now and are now listed behind a ridiculously priced paywall subscription for some still unknown date. It seems the developers are more concerned with adding new features, rather than making the current ones actually usable. This app has soo much potential to be your one, every solution app. Unfortunately, until these issues are fixed it won’t be.

**Developer response:** Hi there, thanks for your feedback. We are aware that some stability/loading issues have been occurring from time to time and we're publicly committed to improve those issues. You can have a look on our public roadmap here: https://feedback.routine.co/roadmap/ and see what we're working towards. The major milestone at the moment is the offline mode. This will improve the stability, loading time and so much more. We're also taking a step back and refining what features we already have and we frequently run surveys to get your feedback on what to improve and where to focus. We welcome you to join our community and feel free to ask for support - we'd love to have you connect with us and chat more! Enjoy your day and your weekend!

### 1/5 — Crashing

*2024-12-07, version 0.11.3*

As soon as I open app. Looks like they haven’t updated in a while so, idk.

### 1/5 — Why do I need Google???

*2024-08-10, version 0.11.3*

I don’t understand why this can’t be used locally on my phone with my iOS calendar. I don’t WANT to use Google calendar. I want a calendar app that is it’s own standalone thing and can update my iOS calendar.

### 1/5 — Terrible app experience

*2024-06-10*

Why does this app take 10 minutes to load and turn on? Worst iPhone experience ever. 

The desktop experience isn’t perfect but is miles better. 

And are we ever going to get an iPad version?

### 1/5 — Very slow

*2024-05-24, version 0.11.2*

Please fix this, this app is very slow on iOS. Like very slow. It takes 30 seconds to load up the calendar and notes. And, when I type something, the text just goes away and loads back after 20, 30 secs after.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — My review

*2026-06-06, version 1.0.3*

This app is helping me a lot to stay organized and track my routine , it has a journal to express myself about my day to day goals , it has a calendar to track your activities highly recommended

### 5/5 — Excellent

*2026-05-21, version 1.0.2*

Routine finally replaced Google Calendar, Todoist, and Notion for me. The desktop app is excellent and the iOS app keeps getting better. Routine AI also looks very promising, especially for quickly capturing ideas with voice.

### 5/5 — Keeps getting better

*2026-01-22*

I long had looked for a good FranklinCovey digital version. While this isn’t a perfect one to one fit, it is quite good. They bring calendar, notes, contacts, and tasks together in one place and more. As they get closer to a 1.0 release, the product continues to improve and is worth a look.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the great review! Bringing calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts together in one powerful place is exactly our vision. We're thrilled it's working for you and appreciate your support as we keep refining the experience! 💙

### 5/5 — Finally can integrate all Google Tasks and Goole Calendar from multiple accounts!

*2025-11-23*

Google ecosystem user for multiple work and family accounts, and have been looking for a SIMPLE app that can integrate my schedules and tasks I add from emails in one place, and plug them in calendar view with other schedules. 
Tried many productivity tools and apps and ends up being not simple and often are bloated or visually overwhelming. 

Routine is visually SIMPLE  with clean LAYOUT.  It helps a lot with less switching between apps, then lessens distractions and context switching, which overwhelms my ADHD brain. So happy I found this tool!!

At the moment the free version is doing what I need with Zapier integration. 
One downside is tasks updated or completed in Routine doesn’t reflect in Google Task (and other way around), so have to manually delete once completed. Not a big deal for now. 

Any chance of developing the integration to be automatic instead of the user having to set it up?

Thank you so much for designing and developing Routine!

**Developer response:** finding adhd friendly apps, thanks so much for the detailed review! We're happy that you found a tool that fits your use case and is easy to use. We're always making sure to keep all our updates centered around the customer experience. We're excited about the way you use Routine, and I'm happy to report that we have a public roadmap: feedback.routine.co/roadmap where you can track all upcoming features across Routine. You can also vote for what you want to see! Again, many thanks for your sharing your thoughts and have a wonderful holiday season.

### 5/5 — Best all in one app!

*2025-11-21*

This is the best app i ever used for productivity and knowledge management it combines tasks, notes, calendar, contacts with the ability to customize it however you want, beautiful design and thoughtful features, just love it!

**Developer response:** yotitsken, thanks for taking the time to write in! We sincerely appreciate the support you're showing. More and more updates as coming based on customer feedback and we're also continuously building the foundation of Routine for all upcoming updates. Both visible and background improvements! You can always track and vote for your favorite upcoming features in our public roadmap: https://feedback.routine.co/roadmap

### 5/5 — Amazing

*2025-01-23*

App is almost perfect. A lot of premium features for free and plenty of tools to make to do lists and planning ahead for the week. The only thing really missing is tags for different tasks.

**Developer response:** Hi there! Thank you for your wonderful feedback and for the love you're showing for Routine. We're working hard to improve the functionality of Routine on mobile and we're also working on a "tag" functionality. You can find all the information you need on our public roadmap here -> https://feedback.routine.co/roadmap/

If there is anything else we can do to help, please let us know! Enjoy your day!

### 5/5 — Best App in its Class

*2024-12-03*

I don’t write reviews so this shows how amazing I think this app is. I’ve been using Routine for over a year on my Mac as well as my iPhone. I balance multiple calendars as a student who also works full time and it’s been an incredible tool for keeping my schedule straight. So many things used to slip through the cracks because I would forget or they’d get lost in one of my many long to do lists, or I’d find myself being double booked with work because I had to look at 3 separate calendars all at once to find free openings. Now I’ve been able to get so much more done and work so far ahead because I can keep track of everything and seamlessly move and change things if needed. Thank you Routine for seriously helping my task management and calendar in a way that no other app I’ve found has done.

### 5/5 — Request for iPad version

*2024-07-11*

Really Love this app, so convenient, combines everything in one, looking forward to iPad version.

### 5/5 — EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for

*2024-03-20, version 0.11.2*

I’m neurodivergent and in a PhD program so I regularly swing between hyperfocus/ needing to catch a random thought*/ hyper organized/unorganized. I have tried probably 10 personal knowledge management, calendar, or list apps - even paying for the premium in some - and none worked for my brain the way routine does (TickTick, timo, notion, click up, asan, Monday.com, etc). I do use it in combo with obsidian (main note-taking app on my computer), google calendar (was my main calendar, now use it to view on my ios b/c I prefer the month view widget), and outlook to-do (for phone checklists like groceries). Though this sounds chaotic, it’s better than it was and routine has filled a sweet spot for managing my work tasks, personal to-dos 

✔️There’s a calendar

✔️There’s to-dos. 

✔️There’s notes. (That use mark down, making them way more functional than any other hybrid app I’ve used that tries to add notes)

✔️ Easy to add your to-do items to your calendar (drag and drop feature is superior compared to other apps that do this, but I think that’s primarily on the computer)

✔️perfect for time blocking 

✔️✔️✔️ capturing a random thought without stopping what you’re doing (on computer) *see star above 

I think it was developed as a computer app first, and most of the best features are there. For me, that’s okay because that’s where I do most of my work. I primarily use routine to organize my work to-dos, personal to-dos, time blocking, etc. which is what was missing from my previous work flow. I landed on a combo of google cal (my previous main calendar, and I prefer the month view widget on my phone), obsidian (main note-taking on my computer, but could be replaced by routine soon with some upcoming features they’re adding to the notes), and outlook to-do (for phone checklists like groceries). This sounds chaotic, but if you’re like me and already use a combo of apps for organization but they’re not totally meeting your needs, routine might fill the gaps as it did for me.

The most important features for me (that makes it superior) are:

the ease of dragging/dropping to-dos from lists to your calendar
Superior computer app
Intuitive, simple, and intuitive combined view of to-dos and calendar (obsessed with how there’s a to-do box under each day on the week view where your to-dos for thy day live even if they don’t have a specific time - feels like something I missed from paper calendars that I haven’t seen in online options)
THE DASHBOARD!! hands down the best feature - once you download the computer app, you can hit ctrl + space anytime from anywhere on your computer, and type a quick note/to-do without having to navigate to the app. 

It reminds me of ticktick and timo most - but for me is better than both. Timo seems to have been made for phones, and the web app was basically non-functional. Routine seems to have been made as a computer app, so many of my favorite of features are there, but that works for me because that’s where I do most of my work scheduling, to-dos, etc. Plus the google calendar integration is way better on routine than either, and the hybridization of notes, lists, and calendar is what sets it apart.

I’ve never written an app review before, but if you’re like me and searching endlessly for a good hybrid calendar, list, note app (and use the computer for a lot of this work), search no more. 

Tldr; 

I love it, it’s the best of many I’ve tried. The web-based is better than iOS, but still nothing like it. Best for people who 1) use google cal but are looking for an app with better lists/notes/functionality and 2) use the computer app as much or more than phone (best features are there).

### 5/5 — Everything I needed

*2024-02-20*

Let’s just start by saying I NEVER write reviews. In fact, this is only my second one! 

I’ve been on a search for THE task/note/calendar tool for what feels like years, and I think I finally found it.

It has a great looking interface that has all the features I need (notes, calendar, tasks), and the best part, it doesn’t feel all bloated and confusing to navigate.

All the big ones like Todoist, TickTick, etc are great tools, but they’re all almost overwhelming for the way my brain works and I give up on them after a month. Then I’ll download again thinking I figured out a better system to use the app, and give up again. 

Then there are things like Structured, Brite (super bloated), and visual day planners, but I just simply don’t like the apps for various, albeit minor, reasons.

Routine finally brings together everything I need and want in a life/work organization app, and it’s super sleek with great widgets too.

Fantastic job already, and I can’t wait to see what’s to come!

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