Comparison

Matterlist vs Remember To Do

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

Head to head
About

Matterlist

This to-do list app helps you focus on current tasks with an infinite timeline and safe deadlines. It offers robust recurring tasks, hierarchical subtasks, and local data storage for complete user control.

Highlights
  • Completely free, no ads or purchases
  • Local data storage, no cloud sync
  • Infinite timeline for past and future tasks
  • Safe deadlines that don't shift
  • Robust recurring tasks with individual edits
  • Hierarchical subtasks with unlimited nesting
Features
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Matterlist is a 100% free to-do list app focused on helping you keep your task list relevant to the present moment. COMPLETELY FREE. There’s no up-front cost, no ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no account. All features are unlocked for all users. LOCAL DATA STORAGE. Matterlist stores data on your device only – there’s no cloud sync and no account. You own and control your data. EXPORT AND IMPORT. The export and import functions allow you to manually backup and restore your Matterlist database whenever you want. INFINITE TIMELINE. If a task has a date, be it tomorrow, next Monday, or sometime in 2050, jump to that date and put your task there. When that day comes, you’ll see this task on your Today list. Go back to any date in the past to see what you accomplished on that day. SAFE DEADLINES. When you postpone a task, it disappears from your Today list, but its due date stays unchanged. Matterlist doesn’t shift Due Dates as other to-do list apps do, so your deadlines remain safe. ROBUST RECURRING TASKS. Create tasks that repeat periodically and manage them separately from regular, non-repeating tasks. If you edit or delete a single event in a recurrence (e.g., move a gym workout only for this week), the rest of the events in this recurrence will stay intact. HIERARCHICAL SUBTASKS. Divide a bigger task into smaller ones that you can do right now. Use unlimited nesting levels to represent any complex task you might have. Work with a subtask like any other task: assign contexts, add notes, create due dates, and postpone them whenever you like. STARS, NOTES, PRIORITIES: Make important tasks stand out with a star, mark them with color to stress their importance or urgency, or attach notes with additional task information. Matterlist is completely free – no up-front cost, no ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. With Matterlist, you own and control your data – it stores your tasks on your device only and doesn’t upload them to the cloud. Get Matterlist and start organizing your life right now! Terms and Conditions: https://matterlist.com/terms-and-conditions.html Privacy Policy: https://matterlist.com/privacy-policy.html

About

Remember To Do

Features
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Tomorrow can wait. Remember To Do shows you what you have to do today, and nothing else. No backlog that only grows. No project folders you never open again. No settings to learn. Open the app, see today, finish it, and the screen goes empty. That's the whole idea. TODAY, AND ONLY TODAY Type a task and it lands on today's list. Check it off and it folds away, so only what's left is in front of you. An empty screen is the reward for a finished day. REPEATS THAT COME BACK ON THEIR OWN Repeat every day, or only on the weekdays you pick. Set it once and it returns whenever that day comes around — vitamins every morning, the gym on Mon/Wed/Fri, trash out on Friday. You never type them twice. THE LAST FEW DAYS AT A GLANCE Repeating tasks carry a small strip of recent history. You can see straight from the list whether you did it yesterday and how many days you kept it this week. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Small and medium widgets put what's left of today on your home screen, and they stay current without opening the app. RIGHT IN THE MAC MENU BAR On the Mac it lik the icon, apopover opens, you type the thing you just remembered and close it. No win CARRIED ACROSS Y What you write on your iPhone shows up on your iPad and your Mac. There unt to create —your iCloud account is all it uses. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND No account · no rms · nosubscription upsell · no collaboration invites · no tutorial to sit Built for peopleed out.

Screenshots

Matterlist4 screens
Remember To Do4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Remember To Do at every 4 days against Matterlist's every 2 months. Remember To Do also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Matterlist's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Matterlist ships an update every 2 months, Remember To Do every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Matterlist versus Remember To Do: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMatterlistRemember To Do
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.1 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFILTER FORGE OUNerdens

In-app purchases

None

Matterlist

No in-app purchases

None

Remember To Do

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Matterlist free?
Matterlist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Remember To Do free?
Remember To Do is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Matterlist or Remember To Do have ads?
Neither Matterlist nor Remember To Do shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Matterlist or Remember To Do?
Matterlist ships an update every 2 months, and Remember To Do every 4 days. Most recently, Matterlist was updated on November 2, 2026 and Remember To Do on October 31, 2026.

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