Comparison

Tasks vs Five Tasks

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

Head to head
About

Tasks

This app helps you manage tasks beyond a simple to-do list. It allows for customizable statuses, tags, and hierarchical organization with a Kanban view to visualize project progress. Syncs across Apple devices and offers extensive customization for your workflow.

Highlights
  • Customizable task statuses
  • Tagging and hierarchical organization
  • Kanban project view
  • Smart lists and powerful queries
  • Attachments (PDFs, images)
  • iCloud sync
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Tasks is a flexible task manager built for Apple devices. Start with a simple to-do list, then add structure only when you need it—with projects, subtasks, tags, priorities, custom statuses, Kanban boards, collaboration, and powerful automations. Your work is rarely just “to do” or “done.” A task might be in progress, waiting, under review, or following a workflow unique to your team. Tasks lets you shape every project around the way you actually work, without overwhelming you upfront. START SIMPLE. GROW YOUR WAY. • Capture tasks quickly and organise them into folders, projects, and subtasks • Add tags, priorities, task types, notes, links, images, PDFs, and other details • Create custom statuses for any workflow • Use fixed or completion-based recurring reminders • Build Smart Lists with powerful filters across all your projects • Find tasks, comments, and project information with advanced search • Start faster with project templates and helpful tag and date suggestions SEE WORK MOVE FORWARD Turn any project into a clear visual workflow with Kanban. Move tasks between custom statuses, or let completing a task advance it naturally through your flow. From a personal checklist to a multi-stage project, you can always see what is happening and what comes next. AUTOMATE ALMOST ANYTHING With more than 50 App Intents, Tasks works deeply with Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, and system automations. Create, edit, clone, search, and organise tasks and projects without opening the app. Build workflows around dates, recurring rules, locations, tags, priorities, statuses, comments, and collaborators. COLLABORATE WITHOUT THE OVERHEAD Share projects by email or public link, assign work, add comments, and keep files with the tasks they belong to. Only the person sharing a project needs Tasks Plus—collaborators can join without purchasing their own subscription. MADE FOR THE APPLE ECOSYSTEM Tasks is designed for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro, with reliable CloudKit-powered sync across your devices. • Interactive Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • A full Apple Watch app for capturing and completing tasks from your wrist • Share and Action extensions for creating tasks from other apps • Focus Filters, rich notifications, and Time Sensitive alerts • Keyboard, trackpad, drag-and-drop, and multi-window support • Native dark mode, Dynamic Type, and accessibility support • Face ID and Touch ID protection for private projects • Import from Apple Reminders and Notes • Export and import complete backups using the .tasks format • URL schemes and x-callback-url support for advanced workflows PRIVATE BY DESIGN Tasks is built with privacy in mind, with secure CloudKit-powered sync across your Apple devices. START FREE Tasks is free to download with a generous free tier. Upgrade to Tasks Plus with monthly, annual, family, and lifetime options when you need more. Questions or feedback? We read every message. tasks@msquarelabs.com Privacy Policy: https://thetasks.app/legal/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://thetasks.app/legal/terms/

About

Five Tasks

This productivity app encourages users to focus on essential tasks by limiting their to-do list. It helps prioritize what's important, preventing overwhelm and ensuring key items get done.

Highlights
  • Task prioritization
  • Limited to-do list
  • Simplified interface
  • Focus on important tasks
  • Task completion aid
Features
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Welcome to Five, the to-do app with a limit. By putting a limitation on your to-do list, you are forced to prioritise and focus on what’s important. Five helps you do this with an incredibly simple app With Five you will stop taking on too many tasks, many of which you wouldn’t have time to complete anyway. So welcome to the first step toward simplifying your to-do list, and getting the important tasks done!

Screenshots

Tasks4 screens
Five Tasks3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Five Tasks at none against Tasks's 12. Five Tasks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Tasks's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 15) and review sentiment (63% vs 50%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tasks sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Five Tasks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Five Tasks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasks has 1.9K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Tasks's written reviews are positive against 50% of Five Tasks's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tasks versus Five Tasks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTasksFive Tasks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.9K ratings)5.0 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.9K — better15
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMsquare Labs Technologies Private LimitedSpencer Walden

Customer experience

Tasks

All ratings1,909 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews307 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral13.4%
Negative23.5%

Five Tasks

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Tasks

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Tasks not syncing correctly
  • Inability to delete tasks
  • Crashes when adding comments
  • Unreliable date and time handling
  • Inconsistent behavior when rearranging tasks

Requested features

7 requests
  • Recurring tasks
  • Calendar integration
  • Ability to move tasks between projects
  • Global tag management
  • Expanded note-taking capabilities
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  • Shortcuts and automation support
  • Batch task editing and management

Five Tasks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Tasks

Subscriptions10
  • Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Tasks Plus (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • Tasks Plus Family (Monthly)$7.991 Month
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  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Annual (Offer)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Tasks Plus$24.991 Year
  • Tasks Plus (Yearly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Annual$39.991 Year
  • Annual (Offer)14 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Tasks Family Plus$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • Tasks Plus Lifetime - Individual$59.99
  • Tasks Plus Lifetime - Family$99.99
None

Five Tasks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tasks free?
Tasks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Five Tasks free?
Five Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tasks or Five Tasks?
Five Tasks is rated higher. Tasks averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Five Tasks averages 5.0 from 15 ratings.
Do Tasks or Five Tasks have ads?
Neither Tasks nor Five Tasks shows ads.

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