Comparison

Microsoft To Do vs Mettle Inspect

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

Head to head
About

Microsoft To Do

Manage your daily tasks and create various lists to stay organized. This app offers personalized daily planning tools and intelligent suggestions to help you focus on what matters. Collaborate with others on shared lists and access your tasks across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily planner
  • Intelligent task suggestions
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Collaborative list sharing
  • Task breakdown into steps
  • File attachments up to 25MB
  • Customizable themes and dark mode
Features
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Stay organized and manage your day-to-day with Microsoft To Do. Make shopping lists or task lists, take notes, record collections, set reminders and more to improve your productivity and focus on what matters. Microsoft To Do is the task management app that makes it easy to stay organized and manage your life. Accomplish what’s important to you each day with My Day and Suggestions, personalized day planner tools. Intelligent suggestions recommend tasks from across your lists that may be relevant each day. Quickly capture and retrieve your lists and tasks across devices by syncing reminders and tasks with Microsoft 365 to access them anywhere. For lists in personal accounts, you can collaborate with anyone with updated notifications for any changes to your to-do lists. Capture tasks from different Microsoft apps and services and sync them with Microsoft To Do, from flagging emails as tasks in Outlook to lists from Cortana. Your tasks and lists are hosted securely on the Microsoft 365 service. Make your lists unique with customizable features like emoji, colorful themes, dark mode and more. Stay connected and collaborate with friends and family by sharing lists that stay synced as changes are made. Microsoft To Do Features: Daily planner • Stay focused with My Day, a personalized daily planner with suggested tasks • Get your lists anywhere, on any device • Share your list with anyone and work together • Add notes to any task Task manager • Share lists and tasks with your friends, family, colleagues, and classmates • Get notified when others create, complete or remove tasks in shared lists • Personalize your lists by choosing theme colors or backgrounds • Set one-time or recurring due dates and reminders • Break your tasks into manageable steps • Attach up to 25MB of files to any task To-do lists for any purpose • Bill planner • Shopping lists • Set reminders • Task management • Business calendar • Note taking • And more Microsoft 365 Integration • Sync your tasks between Outlook and To Do • Host lists and tasks with the reliability and security of Microsoft 365 • Compile tasks from across your Microsoft 365 apps and services Whether it's for work, school, or home, To Do helps you organize and simplify your plans. To Do is free and available on all your devices. Learn more: https://to-do.microsoft.com Follow us on Twitter: @MicrosoftToDo Have an idea or feature suggestion? https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2171952 Need support? https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2156547 By installing Microsoft To Do, you agree to the Microsoft Terms of Use: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=842575

About

Mettle Inspect

This platform enables inspection organizations and their teams to manage and capture on-site inspection information. It allows for project management, detailed field inspections, and secure data synchronization with an organization's workspace. Capture visual evidence, record observations, and collaborate with team members, even with limited connectivity.

Highlights
  • Project management
  • Field inspections
  • Picture documentation with annotations
  • Offline workflows
  • Team collaboration
  • Secure data synchronization
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Mettle Inspect is a field inspection platform for inspection organizations and their teams. This app is the field companion to the Mettle Inspect web platform, used by authorized team members to capture inspection information on site. Access requires an organization workspace. You can create a free account in this app to start a business workspace and begin an inspection, or sign in if your organization already invited you. Mettle Inspect is sold to organizations for authorized employees and contractors — not as a personal, individual, or family subscription. FEATURES • Project management Create and organize inspection projects with project details and inspection information. • Field inspections Create and complete inspections with organized observations and inspection details. • Picture documentation Capture inspection pictures, add annotations, and attach visual evidence directly to observations. • Offline workflows Continue working in areas with limited connectivity. Save inspection data offline and sync updates when back online. • Team collaboration Work with project teams using role-based access for owners, managers, and inspectors. • Inspection documentation Record observations, priorities, deadlines, recommendations, and inspection information in one place. • Secure synchronization Keep inspection data synchronized with your organization’s workspace. Mettle Inspect connects field capture, team review, and inspection reporting in one workflow, so organizations can document site conditions without duplicate data entry. New organizations can create a free account in this app. Billing and organization administration stay on the Mettle Inspect website. If your team already uses Mettle Inspect, sign in with the account your organization administrator provided, or accept their invite.

Screenshots

Microsoft To Do4 screens
Mettle Inspect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mettle Inspect at 100% against Microsoft To Do's 42%. Mettle Inspect also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Microsoft To Do's advantage is ratings volume (270K vs 2) and chart position (#191 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mettle Inspect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft To Do has 270K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Microsoft To Do's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mettle Inspect's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Microsoft To Do ships an update monthly, Mettle Inspect weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Microsoft To Do versus Mettle Inspect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicrosoft To DoMettle Inspect
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (270K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings270K — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#191 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size160 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMicrosoft CorporationKUVO LABS, LLC

Customer experience

Microsoft To Do

All ratings264,508 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews1,490 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral15.5%
Negative42.8%

Mettle Inspect

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Microsoft To Do

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Disappearing tasks and lists
  • Inconsistent behavior when checking off tasks
  • Syncing issues causing duplicate lists
  • Login problems and account suspension
  • Formatting issues and random spacing
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  • Inability to delete or rearrange completed tasks

Requested features

6 requests
  • Calendar view for planned tasks
  • Ability to create custom smart lists
  • Improved sorting and filtering options
  • Automatic population of 'My Day' tasks
  • Subtask and nested list functionality
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  • Direct integration with Outlook and Planner

Mettle Inspect

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Microsoft To Do

No in-app purchases

None

Mettle Inspect

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Microsoft To Do free?
Microsoft To Do is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mettle Inspect free?
Mettle Inspect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Microsoft To Do or Mettle Inspect?
Mettle Inspect is rated higher. Microsoft To Do averages 4.7 out of 5 from 270K ratings, while Mettle Inspect averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Microsoft To Do or Mettle Inspect have ads?
Neither Microsoft To Do nor Mettle Inspect shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Microsoft To Do or Mettle Inspect?
Microsoft To Do ships an update monthly, and Mettle Inspect weekly. Most recently, Microsoft To Do was updated on November 1, 2026 and Mettle Inspect on October 29, 2026.

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