Alternatives to Taskwarrior
The command-line task manager
Taskwarrior ranks #19 of 20 in Task managers, with an Alt Score of 38. It is licensed under MIT, free and available on Windows, macOS and Linux. 11 of 11 checklist rows are verified against a public source.
Command-line users and developers who want to manage personal or work tasks without leaving the terminal, and who prefer a scriptable, keyboard-driven tool over a GUI or web app.
Taskwarrior stores tasks locally as structured data with attributes like project, tags, priority, and due dates. It computes an urgency score to automatically surface what to work on next, supports flexible filtering and custom reports, and can sync the same task list across multiple machines. It's free, open source, and extensible via hooks and a plain-text (or JSON) data format.
You add tasks with `task add`, review what's pending with `task list` or `task next`, and mark items finished with `task <id> done`. Tasks can be modified, annotated, or filtered by project, tag, or due date at any time using short command-line expressions.
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Ranked alternatives
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Feature comparison
Rows come from the Task managers checklist (15 rows). Human-verified cells only. ? means the value has not been verified.
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Every fact and feature listed for Taskwarrior is verified against its own pages. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.
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License MIT verified 2026-07-12
The MIT License
https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior/blob/develop/LICENSE -
Pricing model Free verified 2026-07-12
The source code, plans, designs, bugs, testing, docs, and website are all free and open source.
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Platforms Windows, macOS, Linux verified 2026-07-12
Please note, that Cygwin is not supported anymore. Use the Windows Subsystem for Linux to use Taskwarrior on Windows.
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Status active verified 2026-07-12
Taskwarrior is a command line task list management utility with a multitude of features, developed as a portable open source project with an active and quite vast ecosystem of tools, hooks and extensi
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Natural language input No verified 2026-07-12
task add Pay the rent due:2024-01-31
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Recurring tasks Yes verified 2026-07-12
A recurring task is a task with a due date that keeps coming back as a reminder.
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/recurrence/ -
Subtasks depth Partial verified 2026-07-12
These are examples where you could use task dependencies to formalize the sequence.
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/best-practices/ -
Projects & labels Yes verified 2026-07-12
`PROJECT` - Does the task have a project?
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/tags/ -
Priorities Yes verified 2026-07-12
Priority was defined to have four allowable values, `H`, `M` and `L`, with the additional option of having no priority at all. The values represent High, Medium, Low and No priority.
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Reminders (time & location) No verified 2026-07-12
it has no way to notify the user if a given point in time has arrived. Remember: most of the time, Taskwarrior isn't running.
https://taskwarrior.org/support/faq/ -
Shared lists No verified 2026-07-12
syncing" tasks between multiple "replicas". For example, you might sync tasks between a laptop and a desktop machine."
Taskwarrior supports
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/sync/ -
Calendar sync (2-way) No verified 2026-07-12
The `export` command accepts a filter, and generates a JSON formatted text output.
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/commands/export/ -
Widgets No verified 2026-07-12
it has no way to notify the user if a given point in time has arrived. Remember: most of the time, Taskwarrior isn't running.
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Quick capture (global shortcut) No verified 2026-07-12
it has no way to notify the user if a given point in time has arrived. Remember: most of the time, Taskwarrior isn't running.
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Offline Yes verified 2026-07-12
That configuration variable named `data.location` points to your task data directory, which contains an SQLite database.
https://taskwarrior.org/docs/introduction/
FAQ
Yes. Todoist, TickTick and Any.do have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
Tasks.org, Super Productivity and Vikunja — every license claim links its source.