Good Todo vs ToDoList
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Good Todo
Manage your tasks with a straightforward yet effective to-do list application. Easily create, edit, and organize your tasks, with options to categorize, view attachments, and even email tasks. Syncs with your online account for access anywhere.
- Create and edit todos
- Mark todos as done/undone
- Reorder todos
- Categories
- View attachments
- Email todos
- Calendar view with daily lists
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Access your todos any time with this simple but powerful todo list. Good Todo is easy to use and syncs with your online account. iPhone AND iPad versions are both included in one download. Create new todos, edit existing todos, mark todos as done or undone. Reorder todos up and down the list. Other features include categories, viewing attachments, separate todo lists for each day in the calendar, the ability to redate todos to different days, and emailing a todo to any email address. The main feature, though, is the SIMPLICITY of the tool. Anyone can begin managing their todos immediately with Good Todo. Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/good_todo FEATURES: - Reorder your todos (iPhone and iPad): tap-and-hold until little drag icons appear on right. Then drag todos up and down the list, and tap Done when complete. - View links (iPhone): tap "View links" button to turn into links any phone numbers, email and Web addresses, etc. in the todo detail. - Full screen (iPad): tap "Full screen" button to use the entire iPad's screen to read through any todo. This also turns on any links. (Operates much like "print" link in the web app.) - Clear details (iPad): To clear the view of the right-hand pane in the iPad app, leaving only the todo list visible, swipe the right side of the screen to the left with two fingers. - Capitalize first word of title (iPhone and iPad): new item in Settings allows you to decide whether the first word of a todo title should be capitalized by default. - Swipe left to move ahead one day. Swipe right to back back a day. - SEARCH: Pull down the todo list to reveal the search field. TESTIMONIALS: "Good Todo is best system I've ever worked with." - Julien Smith, co-author of "Trust Agents" "Folks who find Getting Things Done too vague or complicated should check out 'Bit Literacy' [the book describing Good Todo]." - Lifehacker.com "Good Todo is the fastest, simplest tool to help keep your priorities straight." -Carolyn Pittis, SVP, Global Author Services, HarperCollins Publishers "I LOVE LOVE LOVE Good Todo. It really has made me feel a lot better about my productivity and my workload." - Nick G.
ToDoList
Manage your daily tasks with this beautiful and fast to-do list application. It offers iCloud synchronization, customizable task details, and helpful reminders. Widgets provide quick access to your tasks.
- iCloud sync support
- Date/Time for tasks
- Sort, filter, and prioritize tasks
- Push notifications for reminders
- Widgets
- Open source
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ToDoList is a light, beautiful and ad-free To-do list app build for iOS 26+ Main features: - iCloud sync support - Date/Time for tasks - Sort, filter and prioritize tasks - Push notifications for reminders - Widgets ToDoList is open source and you can grab the source code on GitHub - https://github.com/rursache/ToDoList
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Good Todo at Free against ToDoList's $0.99. Good Todo also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). ToDoList's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads 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
Good Todo is free to download; ToDoList costs $0.99 up front. Good Todo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ToDoList asks for nothing beyond the download.
ToDoList holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Good Todo has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Good Todo's written reviews are positive against 100% of ToDoList's.
Good Todo ships an update every 2 months, ToDoList every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Good Todo | ToDoList |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (6 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Creative Good Projects, LLC | RanduSoft SRL |
Customer experience
Good Todo
ToDoList
Bugs and requests
Good Todo
Reported bugs
11 issues- App does not sync consistently
- Cannot sign up via iPhone app
- Cannot login on iPhone
- Triple, quadruple, or higher multiples of repeat entries when syncing
- Suddenly requires a password, no option to create one
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- Update crashes every time
- Upgrade crashes every time
- Deleting items on the iPhone app is unclear
- Categories not always saved properly
- Cannot delete a task in the app
- Cannot add categories in the app
Requested features
7 requests- Expiration Date for each to-do
- Display of to-do's in lock screen
- Ability to delete items in the app
- Add categories in the app
- Search functionality in the app
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- Ability to create subtasks
- Tagging functionality
ToDoList
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Good Todo
- Six months of access$47.99
ToDoList
No in-app purchases









