Microsoft To Do vs ShiftLife
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
ShiftLife
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You work shifts, but your life is more than your shifts. ShiftLife sets up your rotation and plans all 24 hours of every day, so sleep, family and your own goals fit around the schedule. Made for nurses, doctors, paramedics, police officers, firefighters, security staff, factory and call-center workers. SET UP YOUR ROTATION IN A MINUTE • Ready-made patterns: 12/36, 12/24, 24/48 Kelly, triple rotation 08-16-24, Pitman 2-2-3, DuPont, Southern swing, 4-2, physician on-call, fixed hours, or your own pattern. • Your whole cycle on one screen: day shifts, nights, recovery days and days off, color-coded. • Give your rotation and day types your own names. ALL 24 HOURS, PLANNED • A 24-hour template for every day type: sleep, work, commute, family, exercise and focus time. • Change your shift hours and the plan stays; in most cases blocks line up with the new times. • Shift ran long? One tap logs the overtime and the rest of the day adjusts. SLEEP AROUND NIGHT SHIFTS • Sleep is planned in 90-minute cycles, so you know how many cycles you get after a night shift. • Sleep against your goal across the whole cycle, with sleep debt. • Connect Apple Health to see sleep, steps and active energy. Sleep is written to Health only with your permission. LEAVE, SICK DAYS, SWAPS • Log leave, sick days, guest days or shift swaps on the right calendar day; your cycle stays intact. ROUTINES AND GOALS • Repeat routines by date or by day of your cycle. • Break goals into projects and milestones; your focus time is spread across the cycle. • The Today screen shows the current block, your next step and the day at a glance. PRO • Send shifts and handovers for 90 days, and timed plan blocks such as sleep, family, exercise and focus time for 30 days, to Apple Calendar or Google Calendar (one-way). • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. • Weekly report, cycle chart, CSV export and archive. • All themes, plus unlimited projects, plans, milestones and notes. Core planning is free and needs no account. Pro is available monthly, yearly or as a one-time lifetime purchase; the yearly free trial is shown only to eligible App Store accounts. Your plans and records stay on your device; if you turn on calendar export, only those events go to the calendar you choose. The app is available in English and Turkish, with light and dark themes made for night shifts. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lifedevlabs.com/en/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Microsoft To Do at none against ShiftLife's 3. Microsoft To Do also leads on chart position (#155 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). ShiftLife's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. ShiftLife sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Microsoft To Do asks for nothing beyond the download.
Microsoft To Do ships an update monthly, ShiftLife every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Microsoft To Do | ShiftLife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (270K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 270K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #155 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 160 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Microsoft Corporation | TAHIR GENCTOG |
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
ShiftLife
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Microsoft To Do
No in-app purchases
ShiftLife
- ShiftLife Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- ShiftLife Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- ShiftLife Pro Lifetime$99.99









