With the loss of a day job meant taking a hard look at my monthly outgoings and figuring out what can be dropped, the non essentials. Whilst some might say a monthly fee for your productivity app is essential, for me paying the electricity bills are more important.
I’d been using Todoist for a few months and enjoyed it but needed to either use the free tier or switch to something else.
I’m still debating the switch to something else but I’ve been testing if I can get away with not paying for a subscription.
Well, I’m about 80% certain I could but there’s one problem that’ll most likely mean a switch to a different app – notifications.
I can mostly use the app as I have been on the paid tier. I don’t use comments on a task, tags and the widgets all work fine. The only stumbling block is that the app won’t send me notifications unless I pay the monthly £3.99, which is half of my phone bill. I can’t justify it in these difficult times.
So, can you use Todoist for free? I’d say yes, as long as you can manage not getting notifications for your due tasks. For me it’s a no, I’m missing them too much and have missed several tasks because of it. I’ll be making the switch away from Todoist to another task manager.