Todoist vs TickTick: which is right for a small business?

How do Todoist and TickTick differ in approach?

Todoist is a task manager that scales from one person to a team, and TickTick is a personal planner that does more than tasks. Todoist keeps to tasks done well: Smart Quick Add, due dates and times, priorities, sub-tasks, labels, recurring due dates, reminders, filters, and a shared team workspace on Business.

TickTick adds the rest of a personal day to the task list: calendar views, a timeline, an Eisenhower matrix, a Pomodoro timer, a habit tracker, countdowns and a Constant Reminder that keeps ringing until the task is done. It's aimed at individuals planning work, personal tasks and study.

How much do Todoist and TickTick cost?

For one person they cost about the same, and Todoist adds a Business plan for teams. Todoist Pro is $5 a month billed yearly, $60 a year, or $7 monthly, and Business is $8 a user a month billed yearly, or $10 monthly, plus local tax. TickTick Premium is $49.99 a year, which TickTick puts at less than $4.17 a month, with a 25% education discount for teachers and students.

Both free plans are usable on their own. Todoist's Beginner plan allows 5 personal projects, 3 filter views and 5 MB uploads. TickTick's Free plan allows 9 lists of 99 tasks, one attachment a day and 5 habits, and if Premium lapses, your data stays and you continue on Free.

How does the AI compare?

Both bundle AI into the price, with more on paid plans. Todoist's Ramble turns spoken words into tasks with dates, labels and priorities, Filter Assist builds a filter from a description, and Task Assist and Email Assist come with Pro and Business; it can also turn a photo, PDF or meeting notes into a task list. Todoist says it runs its AI on its own infrastructure, with providers committed not to train on your data.

TickTick's AI is on Premium only: an AI assistant that creates tasks, organises lists and breaks down projects by conversation, AI Voice Capture that creates several tasks at once from speech, and Recording Summary that turns meeting recordings into transcripts and structured summaries.

Which connects better to other tools and AI agents?

Todoist connects more on its free plan. Its 90+ integrations, including Google Calendar, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zapier and Outlook Mail, are on every plan, and its official MCP server and connectors for Claude and ChatGPT are open to free users too, along with a command line and an API. TickTick lists Zapier, IFTTT, Gmail, Outlook, Slack and others, but marks integrations as Premium only; its MCP servers are listed on both plans.

Where does Mojobase fit?

Mojobase's Tasks will feel familiar to Todoist users: it reads the same Quick Add syntax, keeps Inbox, Today and Upcoming, handles the same recurring dates and imports your Todoist projects. It's made for running a business rather than one person's day, built for 1 to 25 people, and it works well for teams up to 100: tasks are suggested from the team's email and meetings, with links back, and sit beside calendar, customers and documents. It has no board or calendar layouts, habits or Pomodoro timer, and for one person's to-do list Todoist or TickTick costs far less. Mojobase costs $39 a month for the first person and $25 for each after, with every app and the AI included.