Superlist - Tasks & Lists Reviews

by Aj Picard 2525

I’ve used Notion, Apples Notes and a ton of other to do list apps but this apps is the one I’m enjoying the most. I love the user interface and the sound it makes on the desktop app when you complete a task. By the way huge fan of their team, they’re always there to help and if I find an issue in Superlist they fix it right away. Love what they’re doing, can’t wait to see the features they cook up this year!

by TheGreenGoose

Superlist is not fully ready yet it needs more features and better UX. Also features parity between web and iOS apps. The screens seem imbalanced which is a strain when working with a productivity app. It’s a hurried launch.

by Quark Gluon Plasma

Superlist feels rather different from Wunderlist. I’m not sure how best to use it, and I feel little interest in learning. I find the lack of landscape mode on iPad to be unfortunate, and the integrations touted are of no interest to me.

by Butteř

I’ve been using this app now and I’m very impressed by its design, features, and performance. It’s a beautiful and intuitive app that helps me organize my tasks, projects, and lists in a simple and elegant way. I love how it integrates with other tools like Google Calendar and Slack, and how it uses AI to make smart suggestions and automate some of the work. It’s also very fast and reliable, and syncs across all my devices seamlessly.
this app is clearly made by the same team that created Wunderlist, one of my favorite apps of all time. It has the same spirit and charm, but with more power and flexibility. It’s not just a to-do app, but a super list app that can handle anything I throw at it. It’s perfect for both personal and professional use, and for both individuals and teams.
The only thing I’m missing is the ability to add widgets to my home screen, so I can see my tasks and lists at a glance. I hope the developers will add this feature soon, as it would make Superlist even more awesome. Other than that, I have no complaints. this app is a fantastic app that I highly recommend to anyone looking for a simple and effective way to manage their life. It’s definitely worth the download. 👍

by Dpeiff

Actual rating is a 4.5 / 5. But they are doing right right that I rounded up.

This feels like a to do list for creatives who appreciate organization and flexibility. I hope they don’t abandon this in favor of dozens of team based features like most productivity apps.

Style/Design: 10/10
+ Great usability
+ Customizable lists (header photo, formatting, etc.
+ Swiping to open tasks is very quick/fluid on iPhone

Unique Features: 9/10
+ Task lists are rearrangeable on pages, like notes. Mix headings, dividers, notes, and comments with tasks. Amazing!
+ Task list sorting
+ Comments and messages in tasks/notes for collaboration or as reminders for yourself
+ Mac desktop app
+ Web app
+ Integrates with Google and Microsoft
- Lacks Apple reminders integration

Optimization: 7/10
+ Opens and loads in a blink
- The offline notification popping in for a split second every once in a while is a minor annoyance
- Still a few little hiccups and occasional bugs. But it’s very good overall. I’m sure the rest will quickly be taken care of.

by Han So Low

In the year of 2024 this developer released a productivity app without landscape support for the iPad. I downloaded Superlist , opened it, then realized quickly that I could not uninstall it fast enough. For such a well regarded developer I am shocked they would release this without landscape mode. Superlist is basically useless for anyone using a Magic Keyboard or any keyboard cover for that matter. 2 stars for making an app. Minus 3 stars for wasting my time.

by Sean Fletcher

The iPad app is pretty bad. No landscape mode, tap targets seem off, non-native copy/paste menu, no multitasking support, animations and transitions are super wonky. I can’t even tap into the “Getting Started” tasks which seem to have details like notes and assignments.

I understand that this may be an early release and that these things could be on the roadmap, but unfortunately this is an instant delete.

by Connor.Rose

I tried using Superlist on iPad and it seems Superlist doesn’t support landscape orientation. Is this true? Seems odd to overlook that in the 1.0 dev cycle.

by WickyTicky845

Finally, they understand the depth and complexity to tasks

by Papa_Smurf65

A very good program, but unless it can go yo landscape it is unusable for me. I use a 12.9 iPad Pro. Any chance this is in the near future?

Cheers!

by Justdep

It's labor heavy to do dinne simple things. Please add human English due date and time creation eg "Lunch with Jane tomorrow at 1p repeat weekly #appointments"

by Doogh2004

There’s no widget support yet.

by Austinbo216

App seems to be an okay start and I like it’s current state. However, I’ve seen enough of these productivity apps get bigger and slower and feature bloated and cost more to individual users over time. IMO it seems like a stripped version of Notion that is a bit streamlined and faster. But, wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the direction they are heading.

If I had feedback, I’d say I understand that teaming apps make money, but as a individual user: I don’t care. I want the focus to be on designing features for my personal life, not scrum/PM/MBA team management stuff. I want an app that’s absurdly fast and simple like Apple Reminders + Apple Notes, but cross-platform, interoperable between some other services, and some other tweaks that can be roadmapped more quickly vs. the 2-3 years you have to wait for new versions in iOS.

I don’t know if it’s me, but my family isn’t a marketing team at a F500 company sending emails back and forth to trigger automations, collaborating and making Kanban boards for our vacation, or funneling tasks to different family members to have @conversation threads.

No, we text and send each other links in other apps and kinda graft things together in whatever works for each of us. I have a shared grocery list and that’s about it. The rest is my own notes and tasks that I jot down and go back through to organize/setup times or categorize. TickTick is the only app I’ve found even close to this sort of perspective, but it still has its own problems.

It may not make as much money, and may not get you cashed out by being acquired by Notion (RIP Cron), but I think Superlist needs to really think about what sets it apart before it becomes just another productivity app eating Notion’s leftovers.

by Ad_Nama_Prhyme

As soon as I heard that this app was made by the founders of Wunderlist, I was sold. It didn’t disappoint on PC and I still have high hopes for it, but no landscape option on the iPad makes it unusable for me. I still have high hopes, but it’s a no-go for me until that is fixed.

by Geekynerddad

I watched a video on this and was all in with the feature set, I downloaded it right away and would easily pay a monthly subscription for this but then I launched on my iPad Pro and no landscape…am I missing something? This must be an over site since the web version is landscape.

I will not be using this until this is addressed so I will check back and hope this is fixed.

by Ron Sauve

I really, really like Superlist, and I look forward to using it. But no landscape mode is a deal breaker for me. I don’t want to have to keep turning my iPad Pro to portrait for only one app. I see it is “planned”, and I hope it comes very soon!

by HelloPretzel

iPad app feels unfinished and is lacking customization features found in the iPhone app.

by Necrophore

Just created my first list, and when I went back to check it, half of the items were lost

by Mgplans

I LOVE IT! 🥰 So impressed, Been trying it out this past week and it’s FABULOUS! Love the design and how easy it is to manage. Unlimited! The ability to theme our personality with productivity is awesome. Things will get done lol. Thanks! #momplans

by Tessietoes

Has potential to be a great ToDo list app. Was hoping for something like Things with collaboration and cross-platform, but unfortunately Superlist falls really short when it comes to syncing data and bulk actions.
You could spend half an hour creating ToDos and writing notes in a list on the web app (which is already sad, why does no one do native apps anymore?), and then as soon as you open the list on your phone you realize that it only synced 1/3 of the content (most of the time cutting some task off on the middle of the sentence), so you go back to the web app to make sure the data still exists but no, it has removed everything that hadn’t synced entirely from the web app as well. Unfortunately, Superlist also bricks itself if you’re ever unlucky enough to go anywhere without cell service.

The UI is above average and is mostly pleasant, but not yet great. There is no easy way to rearrange things (the long-hold gesture or Force Touch gesture is already associated with something so you always have to wait for that to dismiss itself after a long enough pause), and there’s no way to do any actions in bulk, like delete, move, or check things off. I would appreciate not having a header image forced on me for every list, it takes up precious screen real estate which I’d prefer to have back.

by Shaki6232

I used Wunderlist previously. I’d moved to Todoist and just felt it lacked some of the simple things that made Wunderlist so special. Super List has those things. It’s about making lists and it doesn’t need to be anymore complicated than that.

My one missing piece is that Superlist doesn’t have a widget (yet). My ADHD brain would love to see a quick view of a list from my Home Screen. It helps me stay focused on what needs to get done. Im rating a 5 because when it comes to lists, this is Superlist to get! Im excited to see Superlist grow and improve.

by Concept32

This application looks nice and has a pretty UI but the UX is not ideal - a bit of weirdness and workflows that are not intuitive and confusing. The interactions with list sections do not allow you to share an entire group of lists with someone else, and you have to actually share the sublist with other individuals which is not ideal. As a user of Wunderlist and Microsoft ToDo, I really hope the team makes necessary improvements across the board. I’ve attempted to do Slack integration, but that requires a pro version which is not even possible to upgrade to an app.

by Ba-na-naz

I was so excited for this. Wunderlist was one of my favorites. I should be able to open an app like this and work right away, without hesitation. But sync is very unreliable. If I start typing, half or all of it might disappear with a silly “I’m sorry” message.

Sometimes I wait a few seconds before doing something, but that doesn’t always work. I shouldn’t be afraid to use or have to wait and see if a productivity app is going to work

by D_Hew

Beautiful UI. So much more pleasant to use than Notion’s barebones UI. But missing one major feature I can’t live without - SEARCH. I use this for daily notes so I can go back and search my work notes. Not functional without it. Would also like to see subtasks drop down and indent on same page and a few more options for line formatting. Close but not there yet!

by 210m

Significant and consistent sync issues. Data is wiped out off their platform and no way to retrieve it. Not sure what all is being deleted so there is additional concerns over what is missing.

This is a major concern and the this app team is busy tweeting and posting about design details that nobody cares about. Seriously, they've posting about how Superlist 's rounded corners is a design win, how their icon glows when you click to open it and multiple designs on the task dividers.

Can we just get Superlist to reliably sync all data and not randomly delete important data?

It's obvious you are building this to sell, but until that day please ship a product that does the basics first (sync, add a new task button!) before boasting about design innovations. Thanks.

by Rad115

The current version skips over many fundamentals that made Wunderlist solid and intuitive. Instead, there’s more focus on the “team” bloat that came later. I’m more concerned about my Microsoft To Do data that I supposedly “imported.” It wasn’t transferred, it is simply referred via API. This is risky, since MS will eventually shut off API access, as at-risk platforms tend to do.

by Rev George

Lots to love here, but can’t use it with my iPad Pro when connected to the Magic Keyboard bc there’s no landscape mode (that i can find).

by Wenwddev

I do most of my work on my iPad with a Magic Keyboard; since Superlist only has portrait mode, it’s essentially unusable. Which is a shame, since I loved Wunderlist and I’d like to give Superlist a good shot. Hope this is in the development pipeline. Once it appears, I’ll come back and give this app a try.

by Aaronjbach

I had and still have hopes for Superlist. However, quite some time after their 1.0 launch and Superlist is no where near stable. It’s only pretty. App looses notes and detail of tasks. Forget about the simple prospect of syncing your work and personal calendars, even if they’re on the same account. It’s a 3 start app currently and does not stand up to its competition.

by Geet.madan

Superlist is fine. But that’s all there is to it. I don’t see any reason for me to leave something I already have. Also, for a productivity app on iOS 17, you need to have shortcuts support. So many features can be built by the user if you just give them basic shortcuts support. It will also be great for widget compatibility.
Also, please consider adding natural language processing for due dates and projects. Hitting menu icons when you are trying to capture tasks quickly is not intuitive at all.

by 末学子澜

The connection need to be improved

by Psforsberg

I was a Wunderlist user until Microsoft turned it into To Do, so I had high hopes when the Wunderlist team released this app. Unfortunately, it’s not up to that standard yet.

I like the design, mostly. The 3rd pane with the picture feels like a waste of space that could be better used. A calendar view?

I like the Gmail integration where I can add a this app label to an email to add it to my this app inbox.

However, there are key features that are missing and some quirks that prevent me from using this app instead of Todoist for now:

1) Ability to set priority to list items

2) Ability to rearrange items in the Today and Tasks views

3) Ability to make bulk changes to tasks. E.g., change the due date to multiple overdue tasks.

4) Subtasks show as separate items in the Tasks view rather as part of the main task.

5) More options for recurring tasks would be nice. E.g, 3rd Thursday every month.

by Blast1

Nice app. I’m afraid it’s going to be awhile before I could switch and I’m sure I am not alone when I say this. With heavy weight managers out there. Things 3, Todoist, OmniFocus. Superlist has some miles to go to compete. To be a powerhouse. We must have apps for all Apple’s ecosystem. Phone, watch, iPad and Mac. I will say it is promising and I will keep it on my device to keep up with the updates. Still have 1 eye 👁️ on you for the future. Keep up the great work. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for the future updates.

P.S. Don’t forget full keyboard support!

by A.y.meows.

When I use my iPad in landscape mode (which I do 99.9% of the time), it doesn’t go into landscape mode???? I’m not sure why, it just won’t go. I can’t use an app I have to tilt my head every time I try to use it on one of my main devices. Please fix and I’ll give y’all 5 stars!

by Tacogy3

I am just loving Superlist so far and have switched to it full time. The multiple levels of lists are perfect. They listen to feedback and implement new features (wish updates came more frequently). Biggest complaint is the lack of widgets, I wish they would get on that soon.

by Littke

I can’t wait for this to be my main app. Right now, the syncing issues between devices (and the fact that the list view is sometimes completely empty), as well as the lack of landscape support on iPad, makes this not usable for me.

Hoping they’ll fix it though at which point I’ll update my rating. Thanks team.

by SirAero

Superlist just takes too long to load tasks. Yeah it's probably oy half or three quarters of a second, but that's an eternity compared to the instantaneous loading of other todo apps.

I see lot of potential for this app to be far more powerful than any other todo list app out there, but right now it just feels sluggish and unpleasant to use.

by Marin Marketer

I like a lot about Superlist but items I create in the mobile app don’t always make it to the web app which is probably the worst problem to have if you are trying to maintain an accurate list in the most flexible way possible. They keep saying the issue has been fixed but it hasn’t.

by Ronald Cummings

Superlist is the one I’ve been looking for: list with markdown notes.
Other GTD apps focus too much on schedule, they ignored the basic rationale of human beings, we are just not able to perfectly design every step of a project, most often we are just finding our path along the way.
But apps like things3, Microsoft todo, they assume you can plan everything ahead and be precise about date and time, come on that’s so stupid and impossible.
What I need is a list app that also has great note-taking feature. Notion is good at taking notes, but it is not natively designed as a list app, so I am so desperate to find a list app that works as a list but allows you to take note like Notion, and here it is.
I am so happy to see this coming, but I have to say you guys have a long way to go. Please do make the basics above usable level, especially the syncing and saving. It is really annoying to see my notes disappear a newly added part every 3 minutes. And today I even can’t enter Superlist , it keeps loading on Mac, iPhone and web app. Please, make it usable at least, other cool feature can wait!!

by Hdrtdg

Very beautiful app to work with. I used to have to use two apps, one for notes and one for tasks and I would get confused where I listed it and have to search. This solves that problem. I can have notes and tasks all in one app.

by Rockford.fyi

This has quickly become my favorite productivity app, taking the place of apps like Things and Todoist. I’m also glad to finally have a place for all of my notes as well! I’m so glad the old Wunderlist team is back at it again. I’d love some easier task manipulation controls, widgets, and siri/shortcut integration.

by Barb2Heal

I love how I can modify my categories (and highlight these with my own photos). It’s a simple, standalone application that helps me organize steps for repeatable tasks on my iPhone or iPad - and is just fun to use. I’m interested in offering a community education class to folks so others can become more productive with this app - and feel a sense of real accomplishment. Many of us can’t move forward until we clear big projects (physical or mental) first. this app entries help me do just that. And the tool can lead to other broader discussions about purpose, use of time, brainstorming, capturing creative thoughts and ideas on-the-go, breaking down processes to become more efficient and much more. I’m a bit inspired, to be honest as I write this. Does a person stop using this app once all the big projects are done? How can it integrate with other software? How can one capture ideas with the microphone? What are the many uses of this simple but powerful app?

by BAd DeTeCtIvE

Love this app so far. A great bridge between Notion and Things, two heavyweights in productivity apps. Main missing feature is Toggle headings. With large notes and lists it may be hard to stay organized or find something quickly. Endless scrolling up and and down a page to find exactly what I need. That’s why I’m currently using Notion which makes toggles easy to implement and use. If a toggle headings feature is added to this app it would be a five star app.

Also it’s mentioned that this app integrates with Notion, although I can’t seem to find out how this works.

by Eric_yigao

I really really want to love it because todo+mini blog is the way to go for me. But I almost lost my blog due to poor sync. I wrote on my office notebook, when I got home and opened this app in my iPhone, it did not sync, maybe cause I’m in China? But even after I opened an VPN, it won’t sync this time. First time encounter this problem. Luckily I still have the this app web tab opened when I get back to my office.

by BrooklynNadi

I agree with the other reviewers saying this is the best To Do app out there! It’s like a hybrid of notebook and tasks apps. The free option is a god send (thank you developers)! I just wish it has more capabilities like highlighting/underlining texts, adding tables and being able to have drop down option for bullet points and subtasks. All in all I’m happy with Superlist and I recommend!