Comparison

Task Office lite vs Do Next

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Task Office lite

Organize your daily tasks, projects, and contacts with this comprehensive GTD organizer. Plan your day, track project progress, and manage team collaborations. Syncs with your existing calendars for seamless scheduling.

Highlights
  • Daily task and project planning
  • Contact and relationship management
  • GTD methodology organization
  • Calendar synchronization (iCloud, Google, Exchange)
  • Team management and collaboration
  • Visualized daily, weekly, monthly calendar views
  • Progress tracking for projects
Features
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Task Office is the best of ever existing GTD, to do lists, projects and contacts management apps. Manage both simple and complex projects, to do lists without any difficulties and focus on the final result. Manage your contacts and relationships, schedule your time and succeed. Planning & Performing • Start scheduling each new day on Home screen. Here you will find your current projects and to dos: a timeline with tasks you have planned for today and outline of upcoming tasks. Home screen allows you to focus only on current tasks, planned for today, and not to get lost in plenty of other planned tasks. You can plan your day directly from Home screen creating new tasks, projects, contacts and companies Quick & Easy navigation • Reach any project, task, to do list or contact in seconds. Task Office is designed in a way that will allow you to navigate within app screens just in one tap • Organize your tasks by categories, projects or priorities and make a logic order of all your plans Detailed GTD • Add all important details to get things done: choose tasks category, status, priority and set dates • Assign tasks to people by choosing a person from all existing contacts • Add locations to each task and project • Make all your information categorized – assign special categories for easy filtering and browsing through tasks and projects Comprehensive GTD Tab • All tasks are organized according to GTD methodology (by D. Allen) • Add tasks of different types: - ToDo – tasks with duration of several days - Appointment – assign task duration accurate to minutes - Email/Call – short task for making calls or sending emails to any user Alerts • Use double alert and let the program remind you what is next to be done Tracking project progress • Track the progress of your projects and to do lists by viewing the pipeline: view the percentage of work performed and how many tasks still need to be done • Check out everyone who is involved in project: view the list of contacts involved in the project Managing your team • Create new contacts and companies; add all the important information about your contact or company. Either you can import existing contact from your iOS device Address Book • Send e-mails directly from Contacts Screen • Group your contacts creating your Private Lists, so that you can easily monitor their productivity and track task implementation. Save each Private list and refer back to easily Visualized Calendar • Task Office calendar allows you to focus on what is important in your timeline. See your planed To Dos, Appointments, Emails/Calls to get things done in time • View calendar by day, week or month • Add tasks directly to the Calendar by Tap&Hold • Change tasks duration or Start and Due Dates simply Drag&Drop Calendar Syncing • Task Office syncs with Calendars (iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, Yahoo, Outlook) and you will not miss anything checking out due dates iCloud Sync • Sync your information – tasks, projects, contacts, etc. – between your devices Repeating tasks • Add repeated tasks, choosing recurrences frequency Set goals and achieve them. Become a part of Task Office team today!

About

Do Next

This app helps you manage your tasks with a straightforward approach. It uses a single list with four categories to prioritize what needs to be done. Features include easy task completion, reordering, and helpful widgets.

Highlights
  • Minimalist interface
  • Swipe to manage tasks
  • Prioritize tasks
  • Widgets for quick access
  • iCloud sync
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Stop wasting time with complicated apps. Keep it simple with Do Next and actually get things done. One list and four basic categories (Now, Next, Later, Someday) is all you need. Prioritize your tasks and mark them complete... that's it. Features: * Minimalist interface * Swipe to complete, edit, or delete * Highlight important tasks * Simple tags * Press & hold to reorder * Widget shows tasks that you need to do now * Lock screen widgets * Fun color themes * Split screen support on iPad * Sync across iOS devices using iCloud No monthly subscription! A one time In-App Purchase gets you: * Add & edit sections * Configurable checkboxes * Color themes * Widgets * Custom app icons * Lock screen widgets

Screenshots

Task Office lite4 screens
Do Next4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Do Next at 100% against Task Office lite's 53%. Do Next also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0). Task Office lite's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Task Office lite sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Do Next sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Do Next holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Task Office lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Do Next's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Task Office lite ships an update every 3 weeks, Do Next every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Task Office lite versus Do Next: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTask Office liteDo Next
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (16 ratings)4.8 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1620 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDK CONSULTING, TOVDustin Wiens

Customer experience

Task Office lite

All ratings16 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative33.3%

Do Next

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Task Office lite

One-time2
  • Start Trial periodFree
  • Task Office Premium version$19.99
1 purchases

Do Next

One-time1
  • Premium Upgrade$4.99

Questions

Is Task Office lite free?
Task Office lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Do Next free?
Do Next is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Task Office lite or Do Next?
Do Next is rated higher. Task Office lite averages 4.0 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Do Next averages 4.8 from 20 ratings.
Do Task Office lite or Do Next have ads?
Neither Task Office lite nor Do Next shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Task Office lite or Do Next?
Task Office lite ships an update every 3 weeks, and Do Next every 5 weeks. Most recently, Task Office lite was updated on October 14, 2026 and Do Next on September 25, 2026.

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