2Do Reviews

this app is a great task manager that does what it claims—and does so well. 2Do appears to accommodate a myriad of workflows and workstyles. The layout and numerous features may be daunting to those unfamiliar with productivity apps. But to one who is willing to commit the time and energy to learn 2Do and customize it to accommodate his/her own preferences, 2Do is a useful tool. Success with such apps is founded upon having a keen understanding of one’s own individual ways and methods of working and knowing what you need to know at just the right time when you need to know it in order to accomplish your daily goals.

The interface is somewhat cluttered and in need of a refresh. Also, the slate blue is rather lackluster and unappealing—would love to be able to change the color. And would definitely enjoy a cleaner, brighter interface. Additionally, I would welcome the ability to nest an unlimited number of projects and sub-projects, tasks and sub-tasks.

Overall, 2Do is very well done and performs as advertised. I literally use 2Do on my Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and iPhone 8 Plus every day. I’ve had this app going back to my iPhone 4s, so I’m very familiar with it. No app is perfect, and that includes this app. I’ve abandoned this app and experimented with essentially every task manager on the market throughout the years. And I always return to this app. 2Do became more useful to me when I refined it to complement my work flow and style.

I have loved using this app over the last 2-3 years. It has so many features but none that force you into complex task management like OmniFocus. It can be as detailed or as simple tasks as you want. For example, not only having sub tasks but allowing these to be repeatable, or the various options for custom alarms, due times, and repeats.

The interface is dated and rigid (no left hand options like TickTick), but as much as I try other solutions (Todoist, Things, GoodTask, Reminders, etc), none seems to beat the effectiveness of this app.

Plus, let’s be honest...being able to sync via iCloud or other personal cloud rather than paying yearly subscription fees is all the reason needed. If the developer could loosen the customization options, this would be a 5 star top-of-the-hill task tool.

Use it all the time, it's very powerful and flexible, but also simple interface. It's great for different tasks in different categories at a glance. I mainly use it by setting start dates for every to-do, and then some tasks I can "snooze" by moving the start date to another day. I then use the today view to see all the to-do's I need to take care of today.

One feature request is to have a way to have every new to-do item automatically have today as the start date. I also would prefer if the tasks I create from the today view don't automatically have a due date on them, since I only use start dates. Basically, if you could make it more friendly for people who prefer to organize based on start dates rather than due dates, I’d give it a five stars.

Keep up the great work!

I had bounced around from to-do app to to-do app, tried a lot of the big names in this category, and was never impressed. Usability is key and being able to QUICKLY add, sort, & organize tasks is primary if you’re going to use one of these apps at all; so interface becomes key.

This is a very powerful program that can be customized very well to your needs. I use maybe 70% of the features, there’s some things that aren’t necessary in MY workflow but I could see the potential in them. This makes it even better from the usability standpoint — 2Do is already very streamlined and elegant, but if you want to fiddle with settings and setup, you can make it even quicker to enter and manage your tasks.

The single missing feature for me is the ability to share task lists with someone else. I run a business and I would love to have the ability to share one or a couple of my task lists out so I can Manage their actions and activities as well with less frictional loss.

I am amazed by the fantastic features of 2Do! It is a perfect this app and GTD app, with awesome UI and great features.

The new frequent updates raised 2Do to a new level. It lookes so nice and sleek and using it is a pleasure! I am against any subscription and not even get close to apps that I have to pay constantly! 2Do with so many years of service, so many powerful features and no subscription is a must for everyone! Get it and see yourself what I mean.

I would like to thank the developers for frequent great updates. I am sure these great updates with so many improvements and new features in such a short time would satisfy every one. It is a 10 star app, but I can't give it more than 5! Highly recommended to every one!

I found 2Do very daunting to start with. I’m pretty experienced with TO-DO apps but this one seemed all over the place at first, so many options, so many little things you can click for more options that’s never really explained. I had to force myself to sit down and learn it and once I did and finally “got it” I really enjoy it. Luckily I found the desktop apps on sale for a “Pay what you want” bundle on stack social so I have 2Do on both macs and now my iPad and iPhone. I would have preferred syncing with their own servers instead of logging into Dropbox and replacing local data with server data.

If devs are reading this, you need to make an instructional video for beginners so they don’t have the same experience I did.

I am a project manager by trade so easy and thorough organization of tasks is critical for me. I have tried many other apps but this is hands down the best.

There are so many features-some that I don’t use yet-but the flexibility of 2Do , easy organization of lists, multiple reminders, powerful search and filter, sync, backup, and much more makes this a must have. It also supports Apple Watch which makes snoozing or completing tasks a snap right on your watch. I have the Pro version and it is well worth it. I use this so many times a day-it has totally made my life easier to manage and saves so me much time.

Keep up the great innovation. Looking forward to see what is coming next for this app.

Great app for a power user/ nerd who wants every sort of feature - from tags, to both kinds of repeats, to tasks that are invisible until the day they are to be done. Custom lists are handy, as are project templates that one can duplicate every time a type of project needs to be repeated, etc.

I would use it twice as happily if the watch face/complication synced quicker and could constantly display the next couple tasks (from my chosen view/list) so I would have a constant wrist reminder keeping me on track, updating seamlessly as I checked them off. Also a dark mode for arranging the next day’s tasks last thing at night! I’d donate toward these features if I could.

Thanks for a well-thought app.

I would use 2Do more if it were able to be on my Watch face. Also, it doesn’t seem to be fully optimized for the new SiriKit. (Example: Look at how much power you can wield with Moleskine’s Actions app.) It looks like the pricing model may have changed and I really hope I’m wrong because I have already paid for the features recently and I don’t want to have to pay for them again. So some clarity or a reminder about how this is handled would be great.

For quick, discreet entries, I wish that I could could use Apple’s Scribble feature that could be intelligently translated to a new task with a due date and/or reminder that’s set automatically. As it stands now, I find the Quick Add feature a little confusing to setup. What would be ideal is for me to always be prompted to set a new deadline with unique reminder(s). But adding tasks needs to be simpler.

I love that 2Do can nag you. It’s similar to Due in the way it will nag you. But it’s another feature that could be simpler to get setup with.

As for this app on Apple Watch, the watchOS app appears to not have support for complications on Watch faces. If I’m wrong, can you let me know which Faces your app supports this app complications?

(With maybe the exception of all the coffee I’ve bought in law school.)

I’ve tried some of the other different organization apps and this one is by far the best. 2Do manages to keep my sometimes monstrous to do list fairly manageable. I personally love how 2Do keeps things fairly simple and minimalist in design while also being extremely functional. The color scheme and design is both calming (in its clean interface) and very comprehensive.

I’ve used this for probably over a year now and it’s helped me stay organized when I had a part time job while in full time law school and I expect once I graduate as well. Highly recommend to anyone who hates organization but needs it in their lives. Huge thanks to the developer(s?) for creating 2Do.

I've used 2Do for years and have been sticking with it because the developer had really tailored 2Do to the user. I've contacted the developer and gotten great response and feedback had been Incorporated (also assuming they are usually others requesting similar updates!). I'm using about 70% of the features and it keeps both my work and personal life matters in order! Sure, you have to spend some time getting use to 2Do like any other app. But once you do, you'll give it indispensable. I have my list synced across iPhone and iPad via iCloud and the sync had been perfect. I use iCloud because I can use Siri to dictate items to add to my list. Highly recommended, especially for power users.

Currently the best and most flexible iOS to do list. I’ve tried many apps and different systems and I’ve even written one or two myself. 2Do is a nice balance of features and clean interface. Unlike apps that Require you to drag and drop to establish priority and order, this gets me back to what I really want which is being able to set priority on tasks as well as other meta-data like the star, and then I can use smart lists to show me only the things that I should do first, and then I have another smart list for the things that are the next chunk of work to do. Important: Be sure to use the start date feature so you can defer/hide tasks until the appropriate magic day, So you can keep your most important smart list or list clean and not distract yourself with things that you know you won’t even start to work on until next Wednesday or whatever. Plus, I can still use it as a general list manager for a grocery list. 2Do is very friendly for nerds If the experiment with the syntax for smart list, but you do not have to be a nerd for this to be a good choice for you.

In my opinion, this is by far one of the best apps ever written for iOS. The developer is a perfectionist but unfortunately had to put further development aside to work on other projects. Still the uses for this marvel of software design and engineering are limitless. Some of the gestures, if you’re not used to or familiar with them, can be confusing, but once you get the hang of them, you begin to wish every app had them. This is a productivity app and productive you shall be, all while enjoying the elegance of brilliant design.

The developer has never charged for updates, and while he’s continued to provide updates to coincide with the latest iOS, my hope is that he doesn’t abandon 2Do because it’s far too good for that.l and would be dearly missed.

Task lists are individual, and not every one needs or wants the same thing. My favorite part of this app is how customizable 2Do is. Want to just work with a single simple task list? Slide the sidebar off the screen. Need complex smart lists and tagging to obsessively manage every aspect of your life? Easily done. Pinch to adjust how much info you see about each item on the fly without needing to dive into settings (though there are a ton of those available too!). The feature set is incredible. But even more impressive is the UI, which makes it quick and easy to access all of that functionality in a discoverable, coherent, and efficient way.

Every time I’ve wanted to do something better with my task lists, or in a new way, this app has offered me the chance to do what I need. One of the best apps I have ever used on any platform.

Tried several different apps when the one I purchased years ago no longer supported iOS sync. I appreciate how 2Do allows you to try premium before purchasing. This is much more expensive than many cheaper to do apps, but does not require a yearly fee which other expensive apps now do, including my previous app. After several weeks of using it, I felt it was worthy of the premium price. This is coming from someone who doesn’t like to pay anything for apps. The things that set it apart from the competition: excellent user interface with many customizable options, same for pre-alerts, folders and just about anything else you’d need. I even like 2Do icon better than the competition, which is important to me. The syncing between devices is much better than my previous app as well. Overall, excellent product!

With the latest update, 2Do which I have otherwise depended upon for years has suddenly become useless to me, because the names of tasks cannot be entered or edited anymore … every character typed causes the field to scroll up off the top of the screen so you can’t see what you have typed. Really discouraging. This is on an iPhone SE running iOS 11.

Update: two things. First, the fact that they’ve responded here to simply say they are working on a fix is very welcome (compared to so many developers who actively discourage bug reports in their app comments). Second, I just updated my phone to iOS 12 and that seems to have fixed the issue, so it appears to be iOS 11 specific. (But it should still be fixed for the sake of iOS 11 users, so I’m still glad to see they’re going to work on it.) i’ve amended my rating upwards a few stars.

I’ve been a this app User for 5 Years now. I try others and still come back to it, even if it means reinstalling it. The ability to have Projects (a group of Apple Reminders under one name, within a particular Apple Reminder List) is something not even Apple’s Reminders app allows for.

Now, if you have looked at other companies, apps like Things and Wunderlist, do allow for groups and projects, but I love that with this app, they are Apple Reminders. That means you can talk to Siri, “Add {to-do} to {List Name} Reminder List”.

My only gripe (still giving 5 stars!) is that the Apple CalDav could do a better job of updating in the background for me, to always be in sync. Sometimes, I am waiting for a this app Reminder, but because 2Do wasn’t opened, it didn’t sync properly.

If I am missing something to help the sync work in real time/push, please let me know.

Also - can we get a this app Apple Watch Complication that just gives me some options of displaying All Today’s To-Dos: (1) show all due/overdue reminders (like Fantastical when it only displays Reminders and not Calendar Events) AND (2) the option to just show ONE reminder list (like OneList App). If you added the Complication, with these two options, AND Apple Watch Series 3 LTE support, you would blow all the to-do apps out of the water.

Beyond that, keep up the great work! Here is to 5 more years of this app Reminders!

I want to start out by saying I love 2Do. I have many tasks to manage on a daily basis and 2Do helps me to keep things organized and to complete things on time. I have a request however. I have 2Do set up to do automatic backups, and I also email myself backups daily. When I do an email backup, I first permanently delete the items in the deleted list. This works great unless I am distracted. Twice now, I have accidentally deleted my entire list instead of the deleted list. I know I can restore the list, but if I have added things to the list after the last backup, those changes won’t be restored and I am left racking my brain trying to recall all the things I have added since the last backup. So, my request is to either have an “undo” option after deleting, or to have a big red warning appear if you are about to permanently delete all of the items not already in the list. This is just a suggestion, but I feel I am not the only one who has experienced this problem. Thank you.

this app is packed with advanced functionality and is extremely flexible in terms of how you can manage your tasks. Tags, rich attachments, checklists, projects, list groupings, start dates, due dates, custom alerts, it’s all there. Just about any power user feature is available, and you can ignore the ones you don’t need. Combined with smart lists, which allow you to create many different perspectives on your tasks, you can essentially bend this app into an app that works exactly the way you want it to, which might be completely different from how someone else uses it.

One missing feature that I would like to see is the ability to sync smart lists, list groups, list visibility settings, etc., when using a CalDAV server. Obviously these are extra features outside of the scope of CalDAV, but without a way of syncing these extra features between devices running this app, I have to recreate my smart lists and groups on every device and update them all manually when I make a change. It makes using this app on two devices difficult, and it gets worse with every additional one.

The first time I heard about 2Do was years ago back when it was the free app of the week. I went and hunted it down recently because I needed a to do app but none of the ones I've tried out fit my criteria and I remembered really liking how gorgeous the UI was. I'm so glad I found it again. I tried using Things 3 but I hated that it wasn't possible to view all tasks in one page and I looove that this app let's you do this. It has all the features that I could ever want in a to do app, all without needing a subscription. The widget could use some more information (I'd like to see the due date of tasks in the medium size widget), but I don't mind opening 2Do for that.