Tweek: Minimal To Do List 4+

Tweek is a fantastic planner and todo list. It beautifully and functionally replicates how I was tracking tasks in a paper journal - most tasks assigned to a day, with some others in a floating pool.

Tweek’s UI is well-done, too; the menus are simply designed and very useful, without being cluttered or complex. Your focus is always on the actually important part: Your tasks. The week-centric view is just the right granularity for my use-cases, and there’s a monthly zoom-out view as well.

I’m also a fan of the quality-of-life features. Things like (optionally) sorting completed tasks to the bottom, or rolling over undone tasks to the next day, makes managing a large number of tasks easy. And those are list-specific settings, as well as, so different lists can have different behavior as appropriate.

I do have two criticisms of the app. The minor one is that there’s no preview of the different UI densities (“default” and “compact”), so you have to pick one, back out of the settings to see it, and then go back into the settings to change it.

The major criticism is that the app supports only Google Calendar integration right now. I would love to have my calendar events reflected in Tweek, but Apple Calendar (or any other standard iCal-supporting service) is unsupported.

Otherwise, I’m very happy with Tweek.

Thank you so much for your wonderful and comprehensive review! We're glad you like Tweek. Apple Calendar synchronization is already on our roadmap for future updates. We'll see what we can come up with to do a density preview, thanks for the idea 👍

Tweek is awesome if you don’t really need anything powerful for recurring tasks. I like Tweek a lot. It has a distinct personality and clear perspective on managing tasks. It turns out it does not match my perspective, so I’ve struggled to use it. For one, there’s not a great way to inbox tasks to later triage. You can, theoretically, add them to “someday,” but this is somewhat tedious (constantly scrolling down, etc). In general, input feels slightly more tedious than it should be when you want to move fast, and woefully incomplete when you need more structure and detail. Also, can set up recurring tasks, but you cannot defer them. When the date is passed for other tasks, you can set them to persist in your subsequent days, which is great. But not recurring tasks, which is less great. In addition to all of that, the app (both iOS and web) is buggy in some predictable ways. For example, if you create a recurring task with lots of subtasks, it will crash the app. Every time you complete a subtask it will check with you if you want to check that subtask for every future instantiation of that subtask. I get how this could be the case, but it’s not, so I want it to stop. I think what I’m realizing as I type all of this, and I’ll add to the top, is that Tweek is awesome if you don’t really need anything powerful for recurring tasks.

Updated review score to reflect my satisfaction with a delightful developer response.

Thank you so much for such comprehensive feedback!

Tweek was originally intended to be a simple, minimalist app for to-do lists, this is the concept behind Tweek. But you can adapt it, for example for GTD, we have an article — https://scadalv.medium.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-getting-things-done-method-with-examples-1fc9b4a84a50

Regarding the mechanism of adding subtasks to recurring tasks - it's normal, that's how the modification of recurring tasks works, as the list of subtasks is stored inside a particular task 👍

There are so many good things I can say about this app but I only have time for a few :) okay, first of all, I am that girl who always needs to know what will happen this week and even the week after. So, I always carried around a physical planner because I loved the format and it was easy and simple for me to glance over my whole week (especially school assignments). I refused to go digital because it looked not the same as my notebook with its simplicity, but after hearing about Tweek, I instantly felt like this was for me. And I was not wrong.

1. Very intuitive and simple. AMAZING format for assignment tracking
2. No rewriting stuff but instead moving it with a swipe! So good
3. I can open it online on a computer while I’m at work and not allowed to use a phone. Or I can access quickly from anywhere. You can’t do that with a paper notebook
4. Tasks automatically can roll over to the next day that are not finished
5. There is a “additional consideration section” that remains consistent through all weeks
6. I just love it. This is my 6th reason. One of the best things I have changed in my routine is adding this app in!

Thank you so much for such comprehensive and heartwarming feedback! We’re happy to know that you like Tweek 💖