To vs Sift Tasks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
To
Organize your daily tasks with a versatile to-do list application. Create unlimited, color-coded folders, add tasks in bulk, and manage them with simple one-tap actions. Set due dates and receive notifications to stay on track, all while enjoying free access to all features.
- Unlimited, color-coded folders
- Bulk task addition and management
- One-tap task checking and sorting
- Due date and repeated notifications
- iOS 14 home screen widget support
- Icon badge display for unchecked tasks
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It's a to-do list app with reminders compatible with iOS14 home screen widgets. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited number of folders - Color folders - Sort folders - Display the number of tasks in the folder list - Select icon badge display for each folder (number of unchecked tasks) - Add tasks at once (separated by line breaks) - Check tasks with one tap - Automatically move checked tasks to the bottom - Batch delete checked tasks - Color tasks - Move / duplicate tasks between folders - Share / copy tasks - Sort tasks (move to top / bottom at once) - Sort tasks by color at once - Check / uncheck all tasks with one tap - Due date / notification (alert) settings for tasks (supports repeated notifications) - Supports iOS14 home screen widget (folder selectable) - Icon badge display (number of unchecked tasks) - Supports dark mode - Free & no additional charge - @icons8.com URL scheme: todolist://
Sift Tasks
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Sift is a fast triage layer on top of Apple Reminders. It uses the lists you already have, and there is nothing to migrate. Your tasks stay where they are. Sift reads and writes them through EventKit, Apple's own framework, so they remain ordinary reminders that Reminders, Siri and every other app you use can still see. Delete Sift tomorrow and Reminders keeps every task exactly as Sift last left it. THE EISENHOWER LENS Urgent against important, laid over the lists you already keep. Four quadrants, derived from a task's due date and its priority, and adjustable by hand whenever the derivation is wrong about your day. Pick the vocabulary that fits: plain verbs, the classic Eisenhower labels, or one word each. TRIAGE, NOT ANOTHER INBOX One card at a time, on the keyboard or under your thumb, until the pile is gone. Place it, snooze it, let it go. A task you are not going to do this week can be put out of sight without being deleted and without being a lie. THE DAILY REVIEW One short ritual that keeps the matrix honest, because a matrix nobody revisits is a drawing. It walks what is overdue, what has gone stale and what you are waiting on, and it ends by asking the only question that matters: what will you actually do today? RIGHT IN THE MENU BAR What is burning, one click from anywhere on the Mac, plus quick add without leaving what you are doing. ON THE PHONE The same matrix, the same quadrants, the same day. Everything a task can be doing has somewhere to be: snoozed until Tuesday, waiting on someone else, ignored until you are ready, or parked in someday. Every verb is one long press away. IT NEVER TOUCHES WHAT IT CANNOT SEE Tags, subtasks, attachments and flags are invisible to EventKit, so Sift neither shows them nor rewrites them. It never writes its own metadata into the notes field of your tasks. NO SERVER, NO ACCOUNT There is nothing to sign in to. Sift keeps a small lens beside your reminders (which quadrant a task sits in, whether it has been triaged, what is snoozed and until when, what you focused on, what you reviewed and when, the log of completed repeating occurrences, and your settings) and that lens lives in your own iCloud private database, which is how the Mac and the phone stay in step. Nobody else can read it, including us. There is no telemetry, no analytics and no advertising identifier. Free. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Sift Tasks at none against To's shown. Sift Tasks also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
To ships an update every 2 months, Sift Tasks every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | To | Sift Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (199 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 82.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 199 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | David Barta |
Bugs and requests
To
Reported bugs
7 issues- Ads cover content
- Repeating tasks do not repeat
- Cannot edit tasks after creation
- Widget display not updating
- Input bug with first character confirmation
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- Badge not appearing
- Live Activities refresh issue
Requested features
11 requests- Add a Shortcut action to refresh Live Activities
- Sort by due date feature
- Automatic repeating tasks
- Option to pay to remove ads
- Ability to edit already created appointments
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- Export or print pending events
- Improve Dynamic Island asymmetry
- Allow disabling notification pop-ups
- Fix input bug with first character confirmation
- Allow multi-line notes as single tasks
- Add a tip jar
Sift Tasks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
To
No in-app purchases
Sift Tasks
No in-app purchases









