Comparison

Principal Task vs Accomplist

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

Head to head
About

Principal Task

This app helps you manage tasks by tracking your completion rate against new tasks created. It offers a unique 'Task Velocity' score to show if you're keeping up with your workload. Organize with folders, contexts, and priorities, with advanced features available through a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Task Velocity score
  • GTD-native structure
  • Due dates and repeating tasks
  • Markdown support
  • Kanban boards
  • Private templates
Features
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Track your Task Velocity — the ratio of tasks you complete against the ones you create, updated every day. See at a glance whether you're ahead or falling behind, not just what's on your list. Principal Task is a GTD-native task manager built for people who've outgrown to-do apps. Folders, contexts, priorities, statuses, and unlimited nested subtasks — organized the way real work actually happens. TASK VELOCITY Your 30-day completed-vs-created ratio, shown as a simple multiplier. Free members see their current score. Premium unlocks the full history, filterable by folder, context, priority, and status. SYSTEM HEALTH A live verdict — Healthy, Strained, or Overloaded — so you know where things stand today, separate from where they're heading. BUILT FOR GTD Folders and sub-folders, contexts, priorities, statuses, and stars. Subtasks nest as deep as you need, with independent completion — no forced parent-child status. KANBAN, HEATMAP, TEMPLATES See your work as a board. Watch your activity over time. Turn repeatable processes into templates you can apply in one tap. BUILT FOR AI ASSISTANTS Principal Task connects to AI assistants over MCP — read and write your tasks, subtasks, and folders directly from the assistant you already use. SHARE WITHOUT FRICTION Share a task list with a four-word link. No account required to view. You control how long it stays open. Free, no credit card. Premium is about $3/month or $24/year, and it doesn't limit how much you can do — it unlocks Task Velocity history, Kanban, the Activity Heatmap, and private templates. Principal Task. Software that gets out of the way. Terms of Use: https://principaltask.com/terms

About

Accomplist

This productivity app helps you manage your daily tasks and habits more effectively. It allows you to categorize tasks as underway, delegated, or skipped, and provides a built-in habit tracker to keep your routines on schedule. The app aims to provide a more realistic and encouraging view of your accomplishments.

Highlights
  • Mark tasks as Underway, Delegated, Skipped, or Completed
  • Overdue tasks displayed without red highlighting
  • Integrated habit tracker
  • Realistic accomplishment tracking
  • Helps visualize progress
Features
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You end every day feeling like you didn’t get enough accomplished. But what if your to-do app could change that? To-do lists are great for keeping your day on track and making sure you don’t forget to do something important. But sometimes you have to push back something important. Or you start a task, but can’t finish it. Or skip doing something that you were never going to get to in the first place. That’s just life. Do you end the day admiring your mostly crossed off to-do list and bask in the glory of your day’s accomplishments? Of course not. All you can see is what you didn’t do. And when you write your to-do list the next day, all those uncrossed-off tasks are looming over you. That’s a lot of energy you could put towards literally anything else - including actually doing your to-dos. Accomplist keeps track of everything you need to get done, but it also handles all of those things in a helpful, productive manner. Features: Mark tasks Underway, Delegated, and Skipped (and Completed) Tasks that are overdue show up on Today’s list, but not in red Built-in habit tracker puts your habits on your daily lists so they don’t get lost in the shuffle. With most systems, tasks can be done or not yet done and that’s it. In Accomplist, tasks can be Skipped or Delegated. (You remember delegation, right? That thing you were totally going to get better at?) Started something but didn’t finish? Mark it Underway. Your act is a lot more together than you think it is. Accomplist will help you see that. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Principal Task4 screens
Accomplist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Accomplist at every 3 weeks against Principal Task's every 3 months. Accomplist also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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. Principal Task sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Accomplist sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Principal Task against 5.0 for Accomplist. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Accomplist has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Principal Task ships an update every 3 months, Accomplist every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Principal Task versus Accomplist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrincipal TaskAccomplist
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZechariah SchwenkAccomplist Inc.

Customer experience

Principal Task

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Accomplist

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Principal Task

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Accomplist

Subscriptions2
  • Accomplist Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Accomplist Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Principal Task free?
Principal Task is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Accomplist free?
Accomplist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Principal Task or Accomplist?
Principal Task and Accomplist are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Principal Task or Accomplist have ads?
Neither Principal Task nor Accomplist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Principal Task or Accomplist?
Principal Task ships an update every 3 months, and Accomplist every 3 weeks. Most recently, Principal Task was updated on October 18, 2026 and Accomplist on October 24, 2026.

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