About Best To Do Apps
We review to-do apps.
That is the whole job.
There are hundreds of ways to keep a list, and most people would rather not spend a weekend trying them. We narrow the field, use the apps, check the details and tell you where each one becomes annoying. Rankings are independent and paid placement is not available.
Edited by Harris A. (Apple "App of the Day" award recipient) · First published
Editor and ownership
A named editor, with work you can check.
Harris A. edits and owns Best To Do Apps. He builds consumer software and is the developer of Dosewolf, a medication tracker that Apple featured as App of the Day. Apple later published a founder profile about the app and its development.
That background helps when judging interface decisions, product claims and release quality. It does not settle a recommendation. The evidence, drawbacks and reasoning still have to stand on the page.
Dosewolf is a medication tracker, not a to-do app. It is outside this publication's category and cannot appear in the Top 10. If the editor develops, advises, invests in or is paid by a to-do app, that app will be excluded from ranked recommendations while the relationship exists. Any coverage will begin with a visible disclosure.
- Editor and owner
- Harris A. (Apple "App of the Day" award recipient)
- First published
- Affiliate links
- None on the current site
- Paid placements
- Not accepted
How we stay independent
The rules are simple
Nobody can buy a place
An app cannot pay for a ranking, a “best for” label or a kinder review.
You can check our facts
We link prices, platform support and plan limits to the product maker. The recommendation is our opinion.
We put disclosures where you will see them
If we have a financial or product relationship, we say so beside the recommendation, not in a forgotten footer.
What we look at
We do not trust one source to tell the whole story
An App Store rating can flag a problem. A product page can confirm a feature. Neither can tell you, by itself, whether an app is good.
- 01The app itself
We look at the current interface and record common jobs such as adding, rescheduling, sharing and completing a task.
- 02The official details
Documentation, pricing pages and release notes are where we check features, limits and platform support.
- 03Other reviewers
Good videos and specialist reviews often uncover edge cases worth checking for ourselves. We link them when they add something useful.
- 04People who use it every day
App Store reviews and community posts can reveal problems that take months to appear. We treat them as anecdotes, not polling data.
Corrections and updates
We do not change the date just to make an article look fresh
When a price, limitation or recommendation changes, we update the article and its source list. If we made a meaningful mistake, we note the correction on the page.
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