Where Todoist shines
Todoist is one of the best to-do apps there is, and it’s been around long enough to prove it. You can write dates in plain language, so “take out the recycling every other Wednesday” just works. Projects and filters keep big lists sane. Ramble lets you talk and turns what you say into tasks as you go.
It’s on nearly everything: iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, the web, Apple Watch and Wear OS, plus browser and email add-ons. And it’s built for sharing. The Business plan gives a team shared projects, roles and permissions. Have a look at todoist.com.
If you need a reliable place to catch everything, or you run projects with other people, Todoist is a great choice. Yoodoo isn’t a team tool, and we won’t pretend otherwise.
Where Yoodoo is different
A to-do list tells you what. It doesn’t tell you when, or how long you’ve got. For a lot of ADHD brains, that’s the whole problem: forty things on a list and no sense of what fits before 4pm.
Yoodoo starts with your day. The timeline draws every task as a real block of time around your meetings, so the free gaps are right there, and you tap one to drop something in. It’s in Lite, the free version. Todoist has a calendar layout with task durations too, and it’s a Pro feature there.
Then there’s the bit after planning. The app blocker locks the apps that eat your day, on a schedule or when you start focusing. We couldn’t find one in Todoist. The focus timer keeps proper time even when you leave the app. And Ask Yoodoo does more than capture: say your day and it plans it around your calendar, then changes it when you change your mind.
We still have lists, by the way. Brain dump into one, star what matters, swipe right and it’s on today.
When your day falls apart
In Todoist, a task you didn’t get to becomes overdue. Its help centre shows a Reschedule button that moves overdue tasks in one go, or you can pick a few and give them a new date. That’s handy. It moves things to another day, though. It doesn’t re-fit the rest of today.
Fix my day is built for that moment. It notices when something runs over or doesn’t start, asks you one question, and fits the rest of today around what really happened. Meetings and locked things never move. Your most important task is protected. Whatever doesn’t fit goes to Anytime or tomorrow. Nothing turns red, and nothing piles up.
Price
Todoist Pro is $5 a month billed yearly, so $60 a year, or $7 billed monthly. Those prices came in on 10 December 2025. There’s also a free plan with limits, like five personal projects, and a Business plan for teams.
Yoodoo Pro is $59.99 a year, $7.99 a month, or $149.99 once for lifetime. Everyone gets Pro free for their first week, then Lite is free for good, with the timeline, Fix my day and the focus timer. So the yearly price is about the same. See Pro.
Switching from Todoist
Here’s the quick way across.
- Brain dump your lists. Paste or type what matters into a Yoodoo list. It’s a good moment to leave the stale stuff behind.
- Bring your calendar in, so your meetings are the fixed points.
- Plan your week on Sunday: give things a day, and leave room.
- Talk your day each morning and let Yoodoo place it.
Then, when the afternoon slips, tap Fix my day.