The Hit List Reviews

The Hit List is a great app over all and when it works, it’s seamless, powerful and gives me exactly what I want. However, I find the iOS version to be very buggy. Lately, every time I open it it crashes immediately despite the fact that I have a fairly new iPhone and the latest iOS update. I’ve tried reinstalling but, as of now, it doesn’t work at all.

great

TheHitList appears to be one of the better task management apps.

My low rating is because there is no way to export your data - you can't email a list, share a task, or extract all of the data to a csv list. I can't use an app that I can't get my data out of.

I like HitList but company has been slow to update and it lags behind others apps like Things, 2Do, and Todoist... this update crashes each time i go to sync on my 10.5 in iPad Pro... So I can’t use... it does appear to run fine on my iPhone X. Still no update for the Mac...

This was my favorite app for so many years. But now it is impossible to launch, just getting a white screen. Over a year since the last update. Seems they went extinct - I so do not hope so.

Searched thru most of the major available ‘To Do’ related apps, read functionality, looked at websites, read reviews, downloaded a couple prospects - mostly disappointed - either too expensive, lacked the desired features I wanted (a good printing capability, particularly), or over sophisticated for my current personal needs ( not working in a team-share-collaborate environment).

But, I found ‘The Hit List’, which sounded to cover most of my needs, though not as high rated as others. Downloaded, installed and went to work. Loved that it was quite intuitive with just exploring solving most of my issues. Especially liked that sub tasking was native and easy. Task time assignment and accomplishment tracking was adequate. Priority assignment adequate. Tagging/labeling has added potential that I haven’t explored yet. The project/file/list/task structure was perfect for my set-up needs.

Then printing - I was almost excited. Was able to print a nice list of all items placed in Inbox - great. Then made assignments to folders/lists and added dates. Tried to print ‘Today’ tasks - worked ok - tasks were accounted for in mailed list properly for printing. Next, the big one, ‘Upcoming’. Well right off, the preview looked perfect (ordered by ‘List’ option) - upcoming items were properly allocated to Inbox, and my designated folder/file designations, Wow, looks great - just what I wanted. Then I sent to email (using Share) so I could get a printable copy. Well, for whatever reason, the printed checklist I got reverted to the Inbox list, not the correct list that showed up in the preview version... RATS!

Update: I made a MISTAKE. Further work with TheHitList to understand what it’s doing shows that printing is working pretty good, accurate in general, just not perfect. The results seen ‘on-screen’ in the Inbox, Today and Upcoming views are correct, and complete if you have made date assignments, and Folder/List assignments. The views also break out the tasks under a category title, which is great. However, when you send the view to email, in order to get a printable checklist, the data is correct, but will not be in the same order as the view and will not have the category title grouping the tasks. So the checklist printout seems workable, just not as nice as the on-screen presentation with the categories broken out. Would give TheHitList 5 stars if this small correction was made! Overall, TheHitList is great for my purposes.

App is still too dependent on the Mac version for editing. I should be able to manually reorder lists on my iPhone.
Also miss the Watch app but maybe it'll return next year.

Cannot get any response from the company. No longer seems to work.
No updates seem to be forthcoming.

It used to work. Now all I get is a white screen.

Previously gave The Hit List 3 stars due to the repeat functionality not including the ability to repeat on specific days of the week (every Tuesday and Thursday for example). After digging into TheHitList a little more I discovered that it does have the ability to repeat on specific days of the week which is great. As such I have increased my review to 4 stars. I would still like to see the developer add a smart list/perspective feature. Currently the only smart lists available are Today and Upcoming. I would like to have a smart list that includes all of my high priority work tasks due in the next 7 days, or a smart list for all tasks with certain tag that are past due or due today, etc. You can add tags/contexts but you can't create a list or folder that includes tasks with a certain tag, that's due in x number of days, and is high priority. There are other apps out there that do include this.

The Hit List is remarkable in how it combines simplicity with extraordinary power. I’ve tried nearly every major task manager and this is my permanent companion.

The iOS version is solid in its own right but it’s the Mac version that it’s a companion to that really shines. If you do most of your work there it’s worth considering the joint system.

What’s so good about it:
- the ability to have infinite nesting. It’s most natural for me to add high level tasks and then later break them out into subtasks at will. THL makes it as easy as writing a bullet list. Other managers force you to decide what’s a “project” and what’s a “task”.
- the combination of tagging and custom views - for instance, all tasks marked today + start of the day, to track what I need to do at the start of the day, or on the phone, or on the go.
- the differentiation between start and end dates. Something can’t be done until next week? No problem, just defer it. Other managers often only have due dates, which makes it hard to differentiate between “have to do this tomorrow” and “can do this tomorrow”.
- the masterful keyboard shortcuts on desktop. Anything you want to do can be done in less than a second and you feel like a ninja.
- the ability to add estimated time while on desktop. This easily lets me see if I’m biting off more than I can chew for the day. And the attached timer adds some soft accountability - why have I spent an hour on something that I thought could be done in 20 minutes?

THL deserves to be near the top of every productivity addict’s toolbox - props to the creators.

When to Support iPhone X?

I have been using TheHitList for over two years. It fills most of my needs but an iPad version is a must. It is better than Things in my opinion and not as complex at Omnifocus 2. I am still trying iQtell also as no one app has given me everything I need. However, THL is closest to my form of GTD. I will say the updates are slow and the lack of iPad version is frustrating. I would also like to see a true "Review" option like with OF2, I think most GTD folks fail due to not reviewing their tasks on a regular basis. I hope the developer considers these options. Please iPad version before iWatch version also.

THL landed on scene when Getting Things Done apps were the focus of developers exploring where mobile and desktop meet over productivity. It was from a single developer and didn't have the full team behind it that other apps, notably Things and Omifocus, had. As such it didn't get the profile and love that it deserves. Those days are over now Karelia took it on. It's an excellent, flexible, intelligent app that handles tasks, projects, lists and notes with ease. Download the Mac trial and see if it works for you. TheHitList lies between Things and Omnifocus in terms of complexity and features. It far exceeds both in terms of character, it's immensely likeable. Syncing is seamless and now there's an iPad version which makes it pretty well feature complete. Highly recommended.

On the upside, TheHitList is easy to use, it has a nice UI (with one glaring exception), and the sync works well (though the Mac version is really dated and unpolished, so why would you want to sync to that?).

Its use of tags is more intuitive than Things (whose use of tags is incomprehensible) or OmniFocus (which doesn’t have tagging). However, the UI that the The Hit List uses for tags is so poor that it looks like they were designing for Windows 3.2. Seriously, what modern application requires using a backslash in front of the word for a tag?

In short, The Hit List has some pros and cons. Like Things, TheHitList is a tweener between a full-fledged GTD app like OmniFocus and simple checklist apps like Due. There’s a place for an app like that. But it’s not quite a modern app in terms of design, with one leg in 2015 and the other in 1998. As a result, I’m still up in the air about it.

The sync is now free which is awesome. They have ticked off most of the missing parts when TheHitList was 1st released. Background sync would make it even better. Watch OS 2 native app is needed. I would also love to see geo location and a way to add pictures and audio to tasks. Start and due times also would move TheHitList to the top of the field.

It’s a start, now the UI is better suited to the latest version of iOS. As a long-time user of THL on the Mac, I was willing to pay the extra $$ to get a better-looking version of THL on my iPhone and iPod Touch. But I do hope that this will turn into a universal version, so I won’t have to pay yet again for a version that runs on my iPad. If so, that’s probably when I’d drop using TheHitList on all platforms!

One bug (?) — TheHitList only runs in portrait mode and does not recognize switching the iPhone or iPod Touch to landscape mode; the older version does/did,

Waiting (and hoping) for more — functionality, device support, etc. — not more $$!

I’ve tried most of them. Things is beautiful but so irritating in how you create repeating tasks. Omniweb is okay, I really hate the layout of it. Most of the Google Tasks apps are decent but limited. The Hit List for some reason really clicks with me, I love the card layout and the general layout of TheHitList . I just bought the desktop version and setup a javascript bookmark to bookmark sites from Safari into The Hit List. I really enjoy using TheHitList.

I've used quite a few to-do apps over the years, and none have stuck with me like The Hit List. It's intuitive and simple, yet powerful features are there if you need them. I love the elegant recurring items, the list-based system makes sense to me - and the look of the iOS app (now gorgeous on iPad!) is clean, bright and engaging. Well done Karelia - can't wait to get an Apple Watch and use it there as well!

I've been along time THL user on the Mac, and even though I occasionally abandoned it for laziness or more recently for Apple's Reminders system, I always come back. This new iOS app just makes that easier, and the pace of development keeps it amazing. The sync is fast and reliable, so much so that I don't think about it. The Today widget is clear and concise, and the share extension saves me a lot of time. Kudos!

Previously gave The Hit List 3 stars due to the repeat functionality not including the ability to repeat on specific days of the week (every Tuesday and Thursday for example). After digging into TheHitList a little more I discovered that it does have the ability to repeat on specific days of the week which is great. As such I have increased my review to 4 stars. I would still like to see the developer add a smart list/perspective feature. Currently the only smart lists available are Today and Upcoming. I would like to have a smart list that includes all of my high priority work tasks due in the next 7 days, or a smart list for all tasks with certain tag that are past due or due today, etc. You can add tags/contexts but you can't create a list or folder that includes tasks with a certain tag, that's due in x number of days, and is high priority. There are other apps out there that do include this.