The Best Alternative to Wunderlist
Microsoft announced a new to-do list app and will shutdown Wunderlist.
Wunderlist came out 6 years ago and did some incredible stuff. They were one of the first apps to do live syncing between platforms and collaboration. They also pioneered a beautiful interface that took out the complexity of adding and creating to-dos.
Once Microsoft purchased Wunderlist, things changed a bit. They attempted to build a new to-do list app over a year ago (Project Cheshire) that was short lived. They didn’t abandon trying to build a new to-do list as they just came out with Microsoft To-Do. With this launch they also announced they will be shutting down, the much accredited, Wunderlist all together in the near future.
Microsoft To-Do is missing a lot of features that users rely on daily with Wunderlist. There’s no subtasks, shared lists, attachments, or filters. Those are just the basic features to make it on par with Wunderlist. Wunderlist hasn’t released a distinguishable feature in the last 2 years — folders came out in March of 2015.
People aren’t happy to hear Wunderlist is going away. Jordan at Venture Beat is sharing people’s frustrations with the new app. And plenty of people are talking on Twitter:
You can find hundreds of tweets like this.
In exchange for all of these features they’ve built an already done Todoist/Any.Do suggestion planner, which basically just gives you an empty list everyday and tells you to work on the tasks you didn’t do yesterday. This can be done with a filter.
This is not a fair trade.
It’s not a bad feature to add, but it needs to be done in a way that can give you tasks that are not just marked as overdue, but intelligently knows which tasks are important, how long they take, how it works into your schedule, and what isn’t as important.
For example, in the screenshot above it suggests Groceries along side calling my Mom and emailing back someone. All of those have completely different context — In what world would I get chicken breast, call my Mom, then email back John, in that order? If you had overdue tasks that all took several hours to complete… it wouldn’t make sense for it to suggest all of those to be done in one day. You can read about how we’re solving this problem over here.
If you are a Wunderlist user, it’s time to make the switch to WeDo: it’s a beautiful and powerful way to-do and people love it.
Here’s the top 3 reasons to switch to WeDo:
1It’s easy to switch and you get WeDo Pro for FREE for 1 month. You can import your tasks from Wunderlist into WeDo in just a few minutes. Users who import their Wunderlist tasks will get 1 month of Pro Features for free (only offered on iOS and Mac App for now). You can go to WeDo.com/import to start!
2 Core features that others charge for like reminders, repeat tasks, attachments are offered for FREE and unlimited on WeDo. We’re dedicated to building the best to-do experience, not a nickel and dime experience.
3 You can track your daily, weekly, or monthly HABITS right in WeDo. ❤️ Habits are a great way to stay on track with things you’d like to repeatedly do.
Need more great reasons to switch?
- WeDo has subtasks, shared lists, themes, attachments, groups, and filters — Microsoft To-Do doesn’t. 🏆
- WeDo is the only popular to-do list app that has TIME ESTIMATING. ⏲
- WeDo has GROUPS in addition to shared lists. 👥
- You can ASSIGN as many tasks as you want for free on WeDo. 📤
- WeDo has custom THEMES. Wunderlist and To-Do only offers backgrounds. 🌈
- WeDo has a motivational QUOTE of the day. 💬
WeDo offers a great experience that continually gets better with every update. It’s available on iOS, Android, Mac App and the web. Check it out today. It won’t disappoint.
Here’s to a productive day,
WeDo Family
P.S. We enthusiastically listen to you. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns please email us at hello@wedo.com. If you have a feature request please checkout our forum.
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