How Mindwtr compares

Method. Checked September 7, 2026 against each maker’s own product, pricing, download, and help pages. “Full GTD” requires first-class Inbox, Next, Waiting, Someday, Review, and sequential projects. “Sync encrypted before it leaves your device” means the app encrypts your data locally, with a key or passphrase the vendor does not hold; transport encryption and server-side encryption at rest are table stakes and are not counted here. “Built-in import” means an importer for another task manager’s data, not a hand-built file format. “No” means official sources do not document the capability; “Partial” means part of it is documented — the notes below say which part.

What each one costs. Mindwtr is free under the AGPL-3.0 license, with no paid tier and nothing to unlock. Microsoft To Do is free too — Microsoft’s own page says “use Microsoft To Do for free” — and asks for a Microsoft account rather than payment. Todoist, TickTick, and Nirvana each pair a capped free plan with a paid subscription: Todoist’s free Beginner plan stops at 5 active personal projects, with Pro at $7 per month or $60 per year and Business at $10 per user per month; TickTick Premium is US$49.99 per year; and Nirvana prices its Pro plan on the page linked above. Everdo’s free tier is capped at five projects and two areas; Pro removes both caps for a one-time $99.99, and syncing over the internet through its Encrypted Sync Service adds a subscription ($1.66/month on that page). OmniFocus 4 is $74.99 (Standard) or $149.99 (Pro) as a one-time license, or $99.99 per year by subscription, with web access bundled into the subscription or sold separately at $4.99/month or $49.99/year. Things 3 is a one-time purchase per platform — Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Vision are bought separately, the Watch app comes with the iPhone one — and Cultured Code sets prices in US dollars and sends you to the App Store for your country’s figure.

Cell notes. Todoist and Everdo are “Partial” on import because Todoist documents CSV import and export per project rather than importers for named apps, and Everdo documents a JSON import format you assemble yourself plus an export. TickTick imports from Todoist, Microsoft To Do, Wunderlist, OmniFocus and others and generates a backup file you can take away; Things imports from Apple Reminders, Todoist, and OmniFocus but documents no CSV or JSON export — only a copy of its SQLite database or a printed PDF. Nirvana exports .csv, .xml, or .json from the account dashboard and documents a guided Weekly Review in its AI assistant; it ships Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android apps, but no Linux one. OmniFocus and Things are “Partial” on platforms because both are Apple-only: Omni lists Mac, iPhone, iPad, Watch and Vision Pro and points PC and Android users at OmniFocus for the Web, and Cultured Code sells Things for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Vision only. Both are “Partial” on accounts because the apps open without one, but a second device does not: Cultured Code writes that “a free Things Cloud account is required”, and that article also rules out choosing your own destination: “Third-party services like iCloud, Dropbox, etc. are not supported.” OmniFocus is “Partial” rather than “Yes” on sync destination because it syncs to your own WebDAV server — the same page documents its encryption and its CSV, plain-text and HTML exports — but its web app can’t read a database you host. For wearables, Mindwtr supports a native Apple Watch companion and direct Pebble Index 01 smart-ring capture. Todoist lists Apple Watch and Wear OS apps, and TickTick lists Apple Watch support. Everdo’s published downloads and Nirvana’s published apps do not list a wearable app. OmniFocus and Things both document native Apple Watch apps. Microsoft To Do is “Partial” because its official Watch instructions surface tasks through Apple Reminders instead of a native Microsoft To Do Watch app. Microsoft To Do is “Partial” on offline: Microsoft documents that “you’ll still be able to use To Do in offline mode” while warning that unsynced data is lost if you sign out, and your tasks live on Exchange Online servers. It wins the collaboration row, where it assigns tasks in shared lists, alongside Todoist and TickTick; Mindwtr’s People and Waiting views record delegation inside one person’s GTD system; they do not invite another user or assign a task to a member account. That is why the multi-user collaboration row is a “No” in our own column. Remaining sources: Mindwtr, Todoist apps and offline mode, TickTick apps, Everdo projects and Encrypted Sync Service, the OmniFocus glossary and feature list, Things features, and Microsoft To Do system requirements.