CapyDo vs Todoist
By Camille ·
Todoist is a full task manager, with projects, filters, labels and people to share them with. CapyDo shows one task on your Home Screen and Lock Screen until you tick it off. If you came here looking for a simpler alternative to Todoist, the useful question is how much of Todoist you actually use.
| Category | CapyDo | Todoist |
|---|---|---|
| What you see | One task | A whole system |
| Where your tasks are stored | Apple Reminders, iCloud | Todoist servers |
| Widget | One task, tick it off | A set of tasks |
| Adding a task | In CapyDo or in Reminders | In Todoist |
| Typing a date in plain words | No | Yes |
| Working with other people | Tasks from shared lists | Yes |
| Free plan | 1 task a day, the widgets | 5 projects, 3 filters, 1 week of history |
| Account | None | Required |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, web |
| Cost | Free, subscription or one time purchase | Free, subscription |
Todoist is built to hold a system
Projects, labels, filters, recurring tasks written in plain words, work shared with other people, the same data on Android and Windows and the web. If you run anything with anyone else, this is not a category CapyDo competes in, and no amount of simplicity replaces a shared project.
CapyDo is built for the moment you freeze
Seeing forty tasks at once does not help you start one, and it does not help you stay on the one you are doing. CapyDo reads the Apple Reminders you already have and puts a single one on your Home Screen, where you see it without opening anything. Your tasks are still reachable, on the screen headed “Choose your one thing to do”, which is where you pick. Once you have picked, the app is back to showing that one.
What you give up
Moving from Todoist to CapyDo means giving up projects, labels, filters, and everything outside Apple devices. Sharing keeps a nuance: a shared Reminders list is still readable in CapyDo, so you can tick off a task that came from someone else, but that is not project management. It also means your tasks move to Apple Reminders, because that is where CapyDo reads them from. If most of your Todoist is one long personal list you keep postponing, you lose very little. If it is genuinely a system you run, you would be trading down.
You can keep both
Plenty of people run a real system for work and still freeze on their own errands. Todoist for the shared and the scheduled, Apple Reminders plus CapyDo for the things that are only yours, is a combination that works and costs nothing to try.
Which one is for you
Stay with Todoist if
- You work on shared projects with other people.
- You rely on filters, labels or recurring rules.
- You use Android, Windows or the web.
- Capturing quickly matters more to you than deciding what to do next.
Try CapyDo if
- You have 47 tasks and the number never goes down.
- You are on Apple devices and already use Reminders.
- You want to finish what you planned, not plan more.
- You want to see the next thing to do on your Home Screen.
Questions people ask
Can CapyDo import my Todoist tasks?
No. There is no import from Todoist, so moving over means writing again the tasks you want to keep, in CapyDo or in Reminders. They are then kept in Apple Reminders like the rest.
Is CapyDo a Todoist replacement?
For a personal list you keep postponing, often yes. For shared projects, filters and anything outside Apple devices, no, and CapyDo does not try to be.
Does CapyDo work on Android or on the web?
No. CapyDo runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, because it is built on Apple Reminders.
Try CapyDo
Free to use. No account needed. It reads the Apple Reminders you already have.
