TaskTide vs Simple ToDo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TaskTide
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TaskTide – your wave of productivity. TaskTide brings structure, focus, and flow to your everyday life. The app helps you break down large projects into manageable steps and complete tasks efficiently – whether you're writing your bachelor's or master's thesis, planning a renovation project, studying for exams, or simply want to keep track of your daily to-dos. Create clear projects, assign tasks with priorities, deadlines, and checklists, and track your progress in a clear, motivating display. Thanks to the integrated Pomodoro timer, you can use your time effectively, work with focus, and at the same time track how much energy you are investing in each goal. TaskTide combines project planning and time tracking in a modern, intuitive design that supports you without overwhelming you. Everything stays synchronized—on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro—so you can stay productive wherever you are. With TaskTide, you can navigate your day with clarity, motivation, and balance—and do what really matters, step by step.
Simple ToDo
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Simple Todo is a radical reimagining of task management—designed to combat procrastination and endless todo lists through intentional constraints. Why Simple Todo? Traditional todo apps let you add infinite tasks and set deadlines weeks away. This creates anxiety, procrastination, and a graveyard of forgotten tasks. Simple Todo takes a different approach: brutal simplicity that forces focus. Core Features: • Maximum 2 Tasks at a Time Focus on what's truly important. When you hit the limit, you must finish or abandon a task before adding another. • 6-Hour Deadlines Create real urgency. Tasks created during the day (4am-9pm) expire in 6 hours. Night planning (9pm-4am) gives you 16 hours for next-day preparation. • Auto-Expiring Tasks Tasks automatically archive 30 minutes after their deadline. Finish them or let them go—no endless scrolling through old tasks. • Smart Archive System Review your finished and unfinished tasks. Re-enable any unfinished task to create a new instance with a fresh deadline. • Insightful Analytics Track your completion rate by day, week, or month. Understand your productivity patterns with minimal, text-based insights. • Paper & Ink Design A distraction-free interface inspired by paper and ink. Warm white background, clean typography, and red-orange urgency indicators keep you focused. • Smart Notifications Get reminders when tasks are approaching their deadlines or entering the expiration buffer period. The Philosophy: Less is more. By limiting tasks and enforcing deadlines, Simple Todo helps you distinguish between what's truly important and what's just noise. If a task keeps expiring unfinished, maybe it doesn't matter as much as you thought. Perfect For: • People overwhelmed by endless todo lists • Anyone struggling with procrastination • Those seeking intentional productivity • Minimalists who value focus over features Stop planning. Start doing. Download Simple Todo and experience what happens when you can only focus on what matters most—right now.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple ToDo at weekly against TaskTide's fortnightly. Simple ToDo also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.5). On price, ads, 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.
TaskTide ships an update fortnightly, Simple ToDo weekly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | TaskTide | Simple ToDo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lennart Huwald | Shuhao Zhang |
In-app purchases
TaskTide
No in-app purchases
Simple ToDo
No in-app purchases









