Comparison

Good Todo vs Today's Top5 Task

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Create and edit todos
  • Mark todos as done/undone
  • Reorder todos
  • Categories
  • View attachments
  • Email todos
  • Calendar view with daily lists
Features
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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.

About

Today's Top5 Task

This app helps you focus on your most important priorities by limiting you to just five tasks per day. Plan your day, rank your tasks, and review your progress with helpful reminders and analytics.

Highlights
  • Limit to 5 daily tasks
  • Rank tasks by priority
  • Color-coded priorities
  • Drag-and-drop reordering
  • Morning planning reminders
  • Evening progress reminders
  • 10-day analytics chart
Features
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Today's Top 5 Task is a simple daily task app built around one idea: you can only pick 5 tasks per day. No endless lists, no overwhelm — just your top priorities. Each morning, add up to 5 tasks and rank them by importance. Complete them throughout the day. At the end of the day, review your progress. Incomplete tasks can be moved to tomorrow or dropped. Features: • Add up to 5 daily tasks, ranked by priority • Color-coded priorities: red (#1) to blue (#5) • Drag to reorder tasks by importance • Morning planning and evening progress reminders • Automatic day rollover for incomplete tasks • 10-day analytics chart to track your consistency • Clean, focused interface with no distractions • All data stored locally on your device The 5-task limit isn't a restriction — it's the point. When you can only pick 5, you're forced to decide what actually matters. No account required. No cloud sync. No subscriptions. Just you and your priorities.

Screenshots

Good Todo2 screens
Today's Top5 Task4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Today's Top5 Task at 5.0 against Good Todo's 3.5. Today's Top5 Task also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). Good Todo's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Good Todo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Today's Top5 Task asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Today's Top5 Task holds the better App Store score, 5.0 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Good Todo ships an update every 2 months, Today's Top5 Task every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Good Todo versus Today's Top5 Task: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGood TodoToday's Top5 Task
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB6 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCreative Good Projects, LLCSuleman Mubarik

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

Today's Top5 Task

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Good Todo

One-time1
  • Six months of access$47.99
None

Today's Top5 Task

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Good Todo free?
Good Todo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Today's Top5 Task free?
Today's Top5 Task is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Good Todo or Today's Top5 Task?
Today's Top5 Task is rated higher. Good Todo averages 3.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Today's Top5 Task averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Good Todo or Today's Top5 Task have ads?
Today's Top5 Task shows ads; Good Todo does not.
Which is updated more often, Good Todo or Today's Top5 Task?
Good Todo ships an update every 2 months, and Today's Top5 Task every 9 days. Most recently, Good Todo was updated on November 1, 2026 and Today's Top5 Task on October 28, 2026.

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