Comparison

TaskHero vs MagicTask

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

Head to head
About

TaskHero

This app gamifies your to-do list and habit tracking by turning daily goals into an RPG adventure. Earn experience, level up, and customize your character as you conquer tasks and build healthy habits in a vibrant fantasy world. Collaborate with friends to tackle quests and build a guild.

Highlights
  • RPG-style goal and habit tracking
  • Daily to-do lists with focus timers
  • Habit scheduling and reminders
  • Team quests and accountability
  • Character progression and customization
  • Guilds and collaborative building
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Introducing TaskHero, a gamified habit tracker, daily goal tracker, and RPG task manager built to make real-life productivity feel like a true adventure. Use the motivational power of a real game to stay consistent with your goals, to-dos, tasks, and habits. TaskHero blends habit tracking, task tracking, reminders, lists, scheduling, focus timers, and RPG progression into one immersive gamified tracker. Journey through the habit-powered world of Tasklandia! Become an epic hero while tracking your daily goals, completing your to-do list, and building healthy habits. TaskHero turns goal setting, task management, and habit tracking into a rewarding RPG journey you’ll actually look forward to. DAILY GOAL TRACKER The TaskHero daily goal tracker makes goal setting simple through the today list. The today list keeps you focused on your most important tasks, habits, and to-dos so your day will be clear and easy to manage. BUILD AND TRACK NEW, HEALTHY HABITS TaskHero includes a habit tracker designed to make building habits easier. Habits are automatically inserted into your lists with flexible scheduling options, helping you stay consistent with any habit, routine, or goal you want to track. INTENSIVE FOCUS TIMERS Use focus timers to defeat distractions and focus on a specific set of tasks, habits, goals, or routines. TaskHero helps turn focus sessions into meaningful progress through the gamified task tracker systems. FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING TaskHero includes flexible scheduling for to-dos, tasks, goals, and habits, making sure everything appears in your today list exactly when you want it. Keep your habit tracker and task manager organized in one place. PERSONALIZED OVERDUE TRACKING Customize the game consequences for overdue tasks, missed habits, or unfinished to-dos to match your motivational style. TaskHero lets your habit and to-do tracking feel challenging without feeling overwhelming. SIMPLE LIST ORGANIZATION Sort and organize your tasks, habits, goals, and routines into flexible, customizable lists using intuitive drag and drop functionality. Build the to-do, habit, and task lists that fit your life. TEAMWORK AND ACCOUNTABILITY Join quests with friends and explore Tasklandia together. Travel beautiful maps, fight monsters, and heal, protect, and buff each other with powerful abilities. But beware: missed tasks, overdue to-dos, or skipped habits might harm your companions! EXPLORE TASKLANDIA Your daily goal tracker drives your progress through the massive world of Tasklandia. Complete tasks, track habits, and manage your to-do list to encounter monsters, meet quirky characters, and travel through beautiful landscapes across the realm. IMMERSIVE RPG MECHANICS Gain XP, level up, upgrade character stats, cast spells, and gather gold to buy powerful gear. The tasks, goals, and habits you complete reward you with RPG loot, helping you face stronger monsters and more challenging quests. CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION Be a mighty spellcaster, a high-damage warrior, or a gold-chasing rogue. The habits and tasks you track give you the skill points to shape your hero around your unique playstyle. THOUSANDS OF COSMETICS Amass a huge collection of cosmetics through your real-world habit tracking and task tracking efforts. Your completed habits, tasks, goals, and routines unlock fabulous attire to show off your personal style. JOIN A GUILD Find accountability and support with other players! Guild members can collaborate to build a magnificent guildhall and gain glory by defeating legendary titans together. TaskHero re-imagines goal setting, task management, and habit tracking as a true RPG adventure. Ready to upgrade your daily goal tracker, turn your to-do list into a game, and become a legendary hero in Tasklandia? Privacy Policy can be found at: https://www.taskheroics.com/privacy Terms of Service can be found at: https://www.taskheroics.com/terms

About

MagicTask

This app helps manage overwhelming amounts of information by organizing and prioritizing tasks. It allows for multiple segmented workspaces and collaboration with others, rewarding users for task completion.

Highlights
  • Organize work and personal tasks
  • Create multiple workspaces
  • Invite friends, family, and co-workers
  • Earn points for completing tasks
  • Segment different teams
Features
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Most task apps get deleted within a week. MagicTask is the one you'll keep coming back to. That's because MagicTask turns your everyday work into an adventure. It's a real task manager underneath, add your tasks, organize your projects, get things done, but instead of a flat checklist that gives you nothing back, every bit of work moves you through an adventure. Worlds to explore, rewards to unlock, and progress you can actually see, track, and enjoy. Other apps organize your work. MagicTask makes you want to do it. TURN WORK INTO AN ADVENTURE Plenty of apps add a points counter to a checklist and call it gamification. MagicTask is built on a full game engine that runs on your real work. Pick your Realm and choose the world your work lives in, each with its own look and feel. As you work, you move through your Dungeon, filling the progress bar toward the next chest. Reach it, and a cinematic boss fight plays before the chest opens with a reward inside, skins, pets, and backgrounds to collect and make your own. Hit a milestone and earn a badge for it. New Realms, Dungeons, and rewards drop regularly, so your journey never runs out and no two days feel the same. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO GET WORK DONE MagicTask is simple on the surface and serious underneath. No endless setup, no forty-page help center. You'll be using it the moment you open it. Create tasks, subtasks, and projects in seconds. Organize your work into sections that fit how you think. Switch between List and Board views whenever it suits you. Assign tasks, add comments, and attach files. Set due dates and task sizes so nothing slips, and see everything on your plate in one place with My Tasks. WORK TOGETHER, OR JUST RUN YOUR OWN DAY Share projects with your team, hand off tasks, and keep everything in one place. Whether you're leading a team or just managing yourself, MagicTask keeps things moving without the constant chasing. Your Realms, progress, and rewards sync across all your devices, so you can pick up right where you left off. MADE FOR PEOPLE WHO'VE QUIT EVERY OTHER APP MagicTask is for teams who want a more engaging alternative to heavy project tools. For entrepreneurs and freelancers juggling a dozen things at once. For gamers who want work to feel as good as their favorite games. And for anyone with ADHD who thrives on quick wins, instant feedback, and visible progress. Traditional apps treat productivity like a chore. MagicTask treats it like a quest, which is exactly why people stick with it. You keep opening it not because you have to, but because you want to see what's next. Download MagicTask and turn your to-do list into a game you actually look forward to.

Screenshots

TaskHero4 screens
MagicTask4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MagicTask at none against TaskHero's 12. MagicTask also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). TaskHero's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. TaskHero sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. MagicTask asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for TaskHero against 4.6 for MagicTask. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 40 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of TaskHero's written reviews are positive against 78% of MagicTask's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TaskHero ships an update every 6 days, MagicTask every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TaskHero versus MagicTask: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaskHeroMagicTask
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (40 ratings) — better4.6 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better77.8% of reviews
Number of ratings40 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size199 MB212 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperWhetware IncImaginovation, LLC

Customer experience

TaskHero

All ratings39 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

MagicTask

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

12 purchases

TaskHero

Subscriptions1
  • PlusPass7 Days trial$4.991 Month
One-time11
  • 100 gems$0.99
  • 50 Gold$0.99
  • Epic Gold Booster$2.99
Show 8 more
  • Epic Gold Crystal$2.99
  • 550 gems$4.99
  • Legendary Gold Booster$4.99
  • Legendary Gold Crystal $4.99$4.99
  • 1200 Gems$9.99
  • 1850 Gold$24.99
  • 4200 Gold$49.99
  • 9500 Gold$99.99
None

MagicTask

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TaskHero free?
TaskHero is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MagicTask free?
MagicTask is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TaskHero or MagicTask?
TaskHero is rated higher. TaskHero averages 4.7 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while MagicTask averages 4.6 from 14 ratings.
Do TaskHero or MagicTask have ads?
TaskHero shows ads; MagicTask does not.
Which is updated more often, TaskHero or MagicTask?
TaskHero ships an update every 6 days, and MagicTask every 2 months. Most recently, TaskHero was updated on October 21, 2026 and MagicTask on October 2, 2026.

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