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Task management and productivity apps.

12 apps · 3,336 reviews held · 1,410 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

2.3star
How angry
42%
Negative reviews
70%
Room to enter
8 of 12
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: ads. 9 of 10 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 12 of 12 still carry UX complaints.

5 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 1,410 negative reviews.

UXhigh

12.8% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 180 reviews · 12 of 12 apps · 2.3star mean

What they said · 3 of 180
  • Google Tasks: Get Things Done1star· Aug 25, 2026

    gTasks is better — For the biggest tech company this side of the Sun, it’s clunky, unreliable, not nearly as smooth and intuitive as gTasks, and I simply don’t like it.

  • TickTick:To-Do List & Calendar2star· Aug 15, 2026

    99 task limit — I love the Eisenhower matrix and the ways you can organize your tasks. but the free version only allows you to create 99 tasks per list at a time. the whole point of the app is to be a to-do list where I can add tasks, so why is there a limit (and such a small limit at that)? It feels counter-intuitive tbh

  • Trello: Daily Task Tracker2star· Aug 13, 2026

    So difficult — Why can't I just search for a card when I know the name of it? Jesus the iPhone UI sucks!

Sync & datahigh

2.1% vs 0.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 30 reviews · 9 of 12 apps · 2.4star mean

What they said · 3 of 30
  • Trello: Daily Task Tracker3star· Jul 5, 2026

    Syncing — It doesn’t sync consistently. I have all my settings correct. It is not even close to what I have on the web.

  • Trello: Daily Task Tracker1star· May 17, 2026

    Not syncing with my lap top — App on phone is not showing lists i made on my computer. Boards made show but nothing on them

  • Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI1star· May 2, 2026

    Deleted — I tried to just create a simple set of notes with 4 tabs just to keep it simple and learn on, once I went to the page I wanted to copy from my notes template disappeared, I tried to google what happened and even tried to search for the title I created, but is was gone.. If the app can’t hold 1 simple note, it’s going to be more of a hassle to use it than I want to deal with.. I’ll just m

Named problems · 1
  • Sync fails between devices10 of 30

Performanceelevated

20.7% vs 16.3% typical store-wide.

Counted in 292 reviews · 11 of 12 apps · 2.2star mean

What they said · 3 of 292
  • Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI3star· Aug 19, 2026

    Good app, extremely laggy on iPhone — Been using Notion for years, I love the app, and though it takes some time to understand how it all works once you do it’s simple and fun to utilize. With that said the app is really really laggy on iPhone. A few issues I’ve found using Notion on iPhone: 1. I cannot delete text on the app. Say I select text and press the x button to delete it on my iPho

  • Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI2star· Aug 18, 2026

    Great app, just really buggy! — I love Notion, I love the various templates I can use and how more organized I feel once I started using Notion—the only problem being… how buggy it is: widgets on phone screen don’t work properly; they just keep loading endlessly…Sometimes you can’t delete text; it just stays there. You have to select the text and do the cut option just to get rid of it, which is a

  • Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI3star· Aug 15, 2026

    Super buggy — I used to really love this app back in 2022/2023 but over the years it’s became superrr buggy especially with it’s new AI implements. it’s still a good app don’t get me wrong but the bug genuinely makes me so aggravated sometimes because i’ll to deleted a whole template just to get rid of a bug

Supportelevated

9.8% vs 7.8% typical store-wide.

Counted in 138 reviews · 11 of 12 apps · 1.8star mean

What they said · 3 of 138
  • Asana: Work Management1star· Sep 3, 2026

    Horrible customer service — This company will go to great lengths to avoid a three or five minute phone call. I have literally tried to solve a problem that could’ve been solved in five minutes for many months and they just simply are a broken system. I cannot recommend that you invest in Assna. And, I say that after having been a loyal customer for several years. They simply will not have any re

  • Trello: Daily Task Tracker2star· Aug 10, 2026

    Bugs with Apple — Interactions for notes do not work. Reached out to fix but no response. When the face icon is selected to bring up interactions for a note, it says “No results found.” I need to reply with an emoji instead. Also when notification is selected, doesn’t always open the task card.

  • Asana: Work Management1star· Jul 28, 2026

    HORRIBLE — Used for one day, charged me for a year wouldn’t refund. Told them to cancel my account then charged me AGAIN for a year a year later. Paid for two year subscription and there’s no where to cancel on the app. Horrible customer service, horrible app. Unbelievable. This app is a scam

Login & authelevated

9.1% vs 7.5% typical store-wide.

Counted in 128 reviews · 11 of 12 apps · 1.7star mean

What they said · 3 of 128
  • Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI2star· Aug 18, 2026

    Great before the most recent update (2026) — Users used to be able to browse and add templates from the web app, desktop app, or the mobile app. Recently, they removed that ability for users on the mobile app. Incredibly annoying to have to log in on a PC just to add a template. The whole point of Notion is to increase productivity. Forcing users to jump through hoops to use basic functions of the

  • ClickUp: Tasks, Chat, Docs, AI3star· Aug 9, 2026

    I like the app on desktop — As a new entrepreneur juggling multiple clients this platform was exactly what I needed to get my projects organized. Unfortunately, I’m unable to use it in my ipad or phone because I can’t sign in through Google. Otherwise it would be a 5 star review.

  • ClickUp: Tasks, Chat, Docs, AI1star· Aug 3, 2026

    Cant login — I like this application just find I set up my account in my computer and used a gmail address to sign in. I cant log into the app because it wants a password which you don’t setup when you use google to login. So I cant login to the app. Useless…

Also counted

ThemeOf 1,410 negatives
  • Billing390 · 27.7% · 11 apps
  • Ads28 · 2.0% · 8 apps
  • Limits & caps26 · 1.8% · 10 apps
  • Accuracy9 · 0.6% · 6 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after task management and productivity apps, in their order.

App Store
get things donego work management classictask managementto-do list & task manager freeto-do list widget reminderswork managementget things done by befriending a beanto-do list app for managing tasks

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 19 · just a basic one 322
  • Wants it to plug inApple Watch 4 · Google Calendar 3 · iCloud 214
  • Shut out by device or contextiPad 510
  • Outgrown itbulk edit 2 · bulk entry 2 · select all 25

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 12 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 4 of 12 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Clarify: Focus & Task Manager$19.99–$89.99 · 8 tiers33.6% of 173
Motion: Tasks & AI Scheduling$44.99–$294.99 · 2 tiers23.6% of 156
TickTick:To-Do List & Calendar$4.99–$49.99 · 2 tiers10.6% of 47
Asana: Work Managementfree1.7% of 229
Smartsheet: Projects & Teams$94.99–$94.99 · 1 tiers0% of 34
Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI$11.99–$214.99 · 4 tiers0% of 207
gTasks for Google Tasks$2.99–$14.99 · 4 tiers0% of 5
Productivity - Daily Planner$6.49–$65 · 8 tiers0% of 11
MeisterTask - Task Management$8.99–$155.99 · 8 tiers0% of 51

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

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Is there a market for a new task management and productivity app?

12 apps compete on this shelf, holding 3,336 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, ux, runs in 12 of 12 of them at 12.8% of negative reviews against 4.9% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in task management and productivity apps?

1. UX: in 12 of 12 apps, 12.8% of negative reviews; 2. Sync & data: in 9 of 12 apps, 2.1% of negative reviews; 3. Performance: in 11 of 12 apps, 20.7% of negative reviews; 4. Support: in 11 of 12 apps, 9.8% of negative reviews; 5. Login & auth: in 11 of 12 apps, 9.1% of negative reviews.

How many task management and productivity app reviews did App Imp count?

3,336 US App Store reviews across 12 apps, 1,410 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.