TaskForge vs Avlu

Your Obsidian tasks on your Home Screen: a to-do list, widgets, reminders, kanban and a calendar, read from the Markdown files in your vault. Every edit goes back to the original file. No account and nothing to import: pick your vault or any folder of Markdown files. Start free, and try Premium with a 7-day free trial on the monthly plan. "After trying many apps and workflows, this is the first one that actually stuck and made me productive!" From an App Store review. Works with your vault Reads and writes Obsidian Tasks emoji fields, Dataview fields, Task Genius, and TaskNotes YAML frontmatter, with your own field mapping. Checkbox tasks inside any note and one-file-per-task notes both work. Home Screen widgets Today, overdue, a tag, a saved filter or any section of a space, small to large on iPhone and up to extra large on iPad and Mac. Check a task off without opening the app. Month widgets page forward and back. Reminders that reach you Notifications for due and scheduled work, several reminders on one task, and a daily summary. New in 3.1 on iPhone: mark a task persistent and its alerts break through Focus until you finish it. Your calendar beside your tasks Device calendars, including iCloud, Google and Exchange calendars set up on your device, show in the month, week and day views, in spaces and in widgets. New in 3.1, in beta: connect a Google or Outlook account to see and edit its events, calendars shared with you and your invitations. A note for every meeting New in 3.1. Every calendar event gets a note. Recurring meetings share one thread, and open action items carry forward to the next one. Notes and daily notes Open, read and edit any note in your vault, next to the tasks inside it. Your vault gets a daily note, one tap from search or the calendar. Type /today or /date to insert a date. Note editing is in beta. Lists, kanban and search Spaces that stack task and event sections. Filtered lists, a kanban board with drag and drop, tags, contexts, projects, priorities, subtasks, recurring tasks, and start, scheduled and due dates. New in 3.1: your own properties, like client or area, to filter, sort, group and build boards by. Search across the whole vault. Archive completed tasks instead of deleting them. Quick add Type a task the way you would say it, like "call Sam tomorrow 9am #work", and TaskForge fills in the date, time and tag. Optional tools for your AI agent Use your own AI agent to turn meeting notes into tasks or update your task list. TaskForge generates a guide to your folder's format. The free taskforge desktop CLI and local MCP server, installed separately on your computer, give compatible agents tools to read and edit tasks and notes. These tools run locally without network access. They do not include an AI assistant or subscription. Your chosen AI provider's account requirements and data handling still apply. Privacy No account. No tracking. No ads. Tasks and notes work offline. TaskForge does not upload your task or note files to its own servers. External sync and AI services handle data under their own terms. TaskForge Premium Free: the to-do list, kanban, search and filters, notes and daily notes, quick add, viewing your device calendars, the daily note widget, two themes, and the taskforge CLI and MCP server. Premium adds task and calendar widgets, notifications and reminders, connecting Google and Outlook accounts, creating and editing events, meeting notes, custom properties, your own spaces and lists, task defaults, 11 more themes and your own, the app font, and editing many tasks at once. Buy it once and keep it, or subscribe monthly with a 7-day free trial. A monthly subscription renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Not affiliated with or endorsed by Obsidian.md or Anthropic.

Memory is a place you build by hand. Avlu puts a palace over your notes. Every note is a plain markdown file in a folder you own; the palace arranges them as rooms you furnish, so that walking the room brings the ideas back with it. No account, no server, and nothing that leaves your iCloud. ROOMS YOU FURNISH A room is one subject. Start from a template — a library, a workshop, a music room, a memory gallery, a living hall — and put things in it: a writing desk, an armchair, an arch. Each piece of furniture holds one note or several, and it is the object you remember, not the file name. More than a hundred pieces wait in the catalog. Pinch to zoom, drag to pan, turn an object to face the other way. Take a piece out and it waits in storage with its notes intact. Removing something never destroys it. MARKDOWN THAT RENDERS AS YOU TYPE No edit mode and no preview pane. Headings, lists, tasks, quotes and code render in place, and the markup shows itself only on the line you are writing. Add a picture from Photos or Files, or paste one, and it stands where you put it; tap it and set it small, medium or big. Any other file drops in as a card that opens on a tap. Type [[ and pick the note to link. Rename a note and every link to it is repointed. Frontmatter you wrote yourself is left exactly as it was. LINKS BECOME THREADS Write [[a link]] between two notes and Avlu lifts it onto the furniture holding them, then draws it as a line across the floor. A connection becomes something you can see from the doorway, and every idea comes back with its neighbour. ROOMS FADE IF YOU NEGLECT THEM Notes you stop opening fall due, and the room they stand in dims. The dashboard counts what is waiting and lists the notes you have left longest. Opening a note is what reviewing means: no ratings, no schedules, nothing else to remember to do. BUILT FOR EACH SCREEN On iPhone, four tabs: Today, Palace, Notes and Commands. A room fills the screen, and a note opens as a page. On iPad, every screen and feature of the Mac app at touch proportions, in both orientations, with a sidebar that folds to a ribbon. The command list holds every action in the palace: make a note, a room or an object, jump to any room, change the theme. Its search reads every note's title and text. YOUR FILES, YOUR ICLOUD • A palace is a folder: plain .md files, plus one small folder beside them that holds the room layouts • Open it in the Files app, back it up, or point any other markdown app at it, Obsidian included • Keep it in iCloud Drive and your iPhone, iPad and Mac open the same palace • No account, no analytics, no advertising, and no network access of any kind • No permission prompts: Avlu never asks for your photo library, camera, contacts or location WHO IT IS FOR Students with a room for each subject. Engineers with runbooks they can walk. Designers, travellers, athletes — anyone whose notes have outgrown a list. Your first palace is built in four steps, and its first notes are already written for you. AVLU FULL Avlu is free: rooms, furniture, notes, threads, storage and review, without limits. Avlu Full is an optional subscription, monthly or yearly, that adds one thing: you choose the tile an object stands on, and you can move what is already placed. On a free palace every object finds its own spot. If a subscription ends, nothing moves. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://useavlu.com/privacy/