Any.do: To do list & Planner 4+

Really though; for me, feature set is everything. I want tools and I want them to all play together under the same umbrella/ecosystem. - W/ the addition of Focus mode just recently, we now have an app that offers most if not all of the useful task tracking features present usually only across separate apps - AND the ability to choose one, hunker down and get it done in a guided way within the app.

I won’t dock a star for it, but I do wonder if the “Forest growing” method for focus tracking is actually more useful to the mind than more traditional pomodoro. - I recently switched from using an app like this focus mode - “stay on task, grow trees, grow a focus forest” to using a more simple pomodoro, but I’m definitely excited for ANY style of focus feature because let’s face it, that is the HARDEST part about task management. No other app has taken this into consideration to my knowledge and this is a big step I think for the standards of productivity apps.

Thank you for the detailed review! We love getting our users' input and glad seeing that you're enjoying the app 🤓We would also love to hear more about your experience with our new focus mode and welcome you to share more thoughts with us at customers@any.do.

I have used this app daily since 2007, I think. After 15 years, I can honestly say it is no longer a simple and reliable tool for productivity. In the last year or so, approximately 1-5 times per month, the app freezes or crashes and has be deleted and reinstalled. When this first started, I pointed out the the constant freezing and crashing issue on the app, and they wanted me to somehow show them with the app was doing wrong, but it’s really hard to show that when it just happens out of the blue and all of a sudden crashes. That’s not something that can be easily recorded via video. I wasn’t interested in discontinuing use of the app for days while they take their time to look into the issue. It wasn’t until weeks after first reporting the bug that they finally admitted there was an issue… But mostly I just got a “thanks for your patience and we’ll look into it.” After all these years, I thought they would be willing to spend a smidge of their time investigating a known issue that they have a vested interest in correcting. I guess if you are not a premium user, they are not that interested in providing a reliable product.

Update: I do not believe that you don’t understand that this is an issue. Looking through these reviews there are lots of other people with the same complaints about the app freezing and crashing. Upon reloading, the subtasks disappear or are re-organized. There is a systemic problem, it’s not isolated to me.

We're sorry you feel this way! Our app has millions of active users worldwide and individual matters can take time to resolve as our team processes all requests by priority. Issues that affect only a single user may take time to resolve, however this does not mean that we will not do everything we can to provide a possible solution. In fact, when we thank users for their patience and tell them we're looking into it, that's when our Dev and QA Teams review the matter, investigate logs, try to reproduce the problem and take all possible actions to understand the issue. This takes a while as we work by priority but has nothing to do with your plan's status. As explained to you, your issue wasn't reproduced nor were we able to find any problem based on the partial information you provided. We understand taking screencasts can be difficult at times but when our team cannot pin point the matter it is crucial in order to keep our investigation going. As you did not wish to comply and since we have exhausted all efforts from our end without any luck of reproducing the same on a similar device we were unable to provide you with a solution. As mentioned several times already, we would be happy to continue investigating this matter for you should you cooperate with our Support Team. With regards to issues reported by other users, crashes and freezing may be due to various reasons. All known crashes have been resolved and the user have been informed accordingly so looking at old issues may not be relevant to your specific inquery. Also, without having the exact details of you problem in the form of a screencast we are unable to confirm if this matter is related to other reports or not. As stated several times already, if you choose to continue to cooperate with our team they will gladly continue their investigation into this matter.

I downloaded this app for one reason only. It works with Alexa. Ok, I said, ill give it a try, so I got it and signed up for a month of premium ($5.99) The rest of my morning was spent trying to figure the app out. After the first three crashes, it smoothed out. The UI is simple, white back ground- no Dark Mode. You have the ability to change the font color. The screen that allows you to show all of your calendar and to dos is a scrolling clunky mess. You can get this view from any app on the market. On the To Do side, adding them is simple- not by keyboard shortcuts, unfortunately (like CMD-N) Adding repeating events is very clumsy (this feature is only available with premium) The repeat automatically defaults to the present time with no way to edit this and you cannot go into a task and edit it to repeat- this has to be done during the initial task set up. On the to do page, it gets worse. In one view (on iPad) on the left is a list of My Lists- which cannot be edited- cannot remove a list..I turned off Apple Reminders, yet there is still a box there,unused, that I can’t get rid of. There is another tab for Tags, which are color coded. Nice, but when you add a tag to a To-Do, you only get the color- not the label for the tag in the To Do view. So, this is about as far as I got with this app. I’m not happy with all of the little “quirks” and weirdness of it. Deleted it.

We're sorry you feel this way! Be advised that Any.do does offer a dark theme which syncs directly with your device's settings and can be changed from under the 'dynamic theme' option in your account's settings. We also offer unique keyboard shortcuts which are details on our Help Center and in the desktop apps as well (https://support.any.do/keyboard-shortcuts/). Recurring events are part of the free plan and only advanced recurrence options are part of the Premium plan as details here https://support.any.do/recurring-reminders/. Any type of reminder (https://support.any.do/reminders/) can also be added and edited after the initial set up of your tasks and in any point in time :) Lists can be removed per the instructions on our Help Center (https://support.any.do/lists/) and you can see the Tags titles when you choose to filter accordingly (https://support.any.do/sorting-and-filtering/). Though we're not aware of any issue with the Calendar view but our Support Team will gladly look into that and any other issue should you contact them via https://www.any.do/contact_form.