WorkFlowy: Note, List, Outline 4+

Notes App and To Do List

FunRoutine INC

    • 4.8 • 7.9K Ratings
    • Free

Screenshots

Description

Workflowy is a clean and distraction-free app that helps you quickly capture notes, plan your to-do's, and get organized.
Simple to use, but incredibly powerful, Workflowy can help you manage all the information in your life.

With Workflowy you can:
• Capture notes and ideas in an instant
• #Tag and @assign items for easy access
• Mark to-do tasks with one-swipe completion
• Upload photos and files from your device
• Organize complex ideas with infinite nesting
• Manage your activities using kanban boards
• Share notes and collaborate in real-time
• Filter your entire Workflowy in seconds
• Embed YouTube videos and tweets

Workflowy automatically syncs across all your devices and auto-saves all your data. No more missing notes or lost files!

Workflowy is used by:
• Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian, a company worth over $10 billion
• Farhad Manjoo, the New York Times technology columnist
• Slack's founders
• Nick Bilton, New York Times Bestseller and author of 'Hatching Twitter'
• Ian Coldwater, Open Source Security Foundation board member
• Thousands of entrepreneurs, writers, engineers, scientists, creatives and students across the globe

Feature highlights:
• Infinitely nested lists
• Works offline
• Automatically syncs with desktop and web versions
• Simple document sharing and permissions
• One swipe item completion
• Kanban boards
• Global text search
• Expand and collapse lists
• Tap and drag to move items around
• Highlight text, color tags
• Tag and assign items
• Mobile keyboard shortcuts
• Mirrors (Live copy)
• MFA (Multi-factor authentication)
• Item starring
• Date tags
• YouTube and tweet embeds
• Auto-backup to Dropbox

What’s New

Version 4.3.2510090543

2025.17 Update
- The Calendar/ Today Feature:
- On mobile, tap Today in the navigation bar. This creates a Calendar hierarchy of Year → Month → Day nodes;
- Use the Next, Previous, and Calendar Picker buttons to jump between dates. New nodes are created automatically as needed;
- To customize the Calendar node, open the Calendar Picker, select Calendar Layout , and choose any combination of Year, Month or Week for your desired hierarchy. You can also select Friendly day names to visually clue you in when you're looking at yesterday, today or tomorrow's nodes;
- You can move your own-rolled calendar, journal or any nodes with Date tags into the new Calendar. To do this, drag any node with a Date tag (type !! to add one) under the Calendar node. Then, open Calendar Layout from the Calendar Picker, and press Update to reorganize.
- Calendar migration: finally, you can move any node to the current day with the /Move to Today and Mirror to Today commands (or their multi‑select menu options).
- Lots of mobile TLC:
- Multi-Select is now available to everyone (previously Labs only);
- We've added Export to the mobile multi-select bar;
- Long pressing a selected node now initiates drag‑and‑drop for one or more nodes;
- Templates, date nodes and images are now easier to select;
- We've fixed finicky page scrolling when items are dropped into a collapsed bullet;
- Mobile multi-select now stays open after using the /MoveTo command;
- Changing the layout type no longer deselects items when pressed;
- We've fixed the drag handle in todos with long names;
- More quality-of-life items:
- Workflowy now imports tags from Readwise;
- The create a node API endpoint now graciously accepts markdown;
- You can now find 2025 in a jump-to search, even if your date format in Settings doesn't display the current year.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
7.9K Ratings

7.9K Ratings

By_Thor ,

The good the bad and the ugly

I've been using Workflowy for about 5 years and I pay the subscription fee every year. I use this app as a first step in the writing process and not for tasks.
Functionally, it's great. Simple and fast to capture ideas. You can easily move sections around (on web platform) and the export function is decent. It's cross platform since it resides on web.
The bad: As a paying customer I expected more attention to improving the features and customizations. Why do you not support markup? Why can't I selectively change font color, size or imbed images? Why can't I change background color?
The ugly: This app has been left untouched for a long, long while. What the heck?! One annoying part of the functionality is the floating bar that always pops up over the words I'm trying to type. It would be nice to 3D touch on a bullet point and have to option to indent or de indent or move it etc. The app lacks severely the same functionality as the web app.
At $50 bucks a year, and no sign of development, im kinda wondering if it's worth it. Hopefully we start seeing some action from the developer. I know from reading the reviews that some of us like to actually support the developer of good apps with our cash, but we also want to see continuous improvement and functionality.

Duff Nobles ,

My Most Used App

I have been using Worflowy on an almost daily basis for years. It is a clean, easy to use product that uses a simple outline format that I find useful for all of my note-taking needs. I am a prodigious e-book reader and I capture ideas and quotes from everything I read by just cutting and pasting text directly into Worflowy. The tab button indents automatically so organizing information is quick, and once entered, the "touch and move"feature, along with the editing, highlighting and search options allow you to format and easily locate your text depending on your own specific search criteria.

I also use this for my todo lists, for brainstorming and capturing ideas, storing my favorite internet sites and links, long term planning, keeping track of my accomplishments and bucket list items... everything! After several years, I have pages and pages of well organized information in one place that I can retrieve with just a few search terms. I would call this a grown-up app for people who want to keep track of any kind of data in any form. This is my most used app and I would be lost without it.

Mike Gutz ,

Less really is more! My digital whiteboard

In all my years with Apple this is my first review. I'm a productivity and GTD guy and I've tried a lot of tools. I usually end up back at Evernote trying to force "the Secret Weapon", because tasks become projects and you usually need more than a task manager, which Evernote is not. Don't get me wrong, couldn't live without EN. I almost dismissed WF out of the gate due to the old school look and feel, but the simplicity is really what you need. You can draft agenda's, story's, keep team notes, personnel notes, account notes, task or projects lists, any list. You can infinity expand and and use tags. The clincher for me was that you can share or just copy/paste to word and the bullet points transfer perfectly. So your not trapped in the app. I use it from the web on my work laptop and on my iPad and iPhone via the app. Michael Hyatt has it right, everything seems to start on WF now for me.

App Privacy

The developer, FunRoutine INC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

You Might Also Like

Noto - Elegant Note
Productivity
Simplenote
Productivity
Logseq
Productivity
NotePlan - To-Do List & Notes
Productivity
Amplenote
Productivity
Standard Notes
Productivity