A Todoist alternative for what you never wrote down
Todoist and Wasp look adjacent and are solving different halves of the problem. An honest comparison, including where Todoist is the better choice.
The short version
Todoist is a better container than Wasp and costs a fifth as much. It also holds exactly what you type into it, which is the whole problem: the commitment made in a reply at 6pm never gets typed. If your list is working, stay on Todoist.
Why people look for a Todoist alternative
Todoist is the classic task manager, and one of the best built pieces of software in this category. Fast, cheap, on every platform, with natural-language entry that has been refined for well over a decade.
Almost nobody leaves Todoist because Todoist is bad. They leave because the list stopped being the whole picture: everything in it is something they stopped and typed, and the things that actually went wrong were never typed at all.
What Todoist is genuinely good at
It is the best value on this page by a wide margin. The free plan is genuinely usable, Pro is 7 dollars a month, and it is more reliable and more portable than anything newer. If what you need is a list you control, buy Todoist and stop reading.
This page is not going to pretend otherwise. If the paragraph above describes your problem, the honest recommendation is to stay where you are.
Where the two diverge
Todoist is the purest example of the gap Wasp exists for. It is a container, and a very good one, and it holds exactly what you put in it. The commitment made in a reply at 6pm on a Thursday does not appear in Todoist unless you stop and enter it, and the reason it gets dropped is that you did not.
The second half is accountability. A Todoist reminder fires once and lets you reschedule it forever, and a task deferred fifteen times looks exactly like a task deferred once. Wasp records that pattern, learns from it, and escalates earlier on the categories your own history says you avoid.
Wasp reads Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack and on-device capture, and detects commitments as they appear, confidence-gated so low-signal noise never surfaces. It also reads what you send, which is the part nothing else does: a line like "I will get you the numbers by Friday" takes ten seconds to type and is gone from memory in five minutes. Wasp keeps it, then holds you to it.
Wasp and Todoist, side by side
| Wasp | Todoist | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Catching commitments you did not record, then making them happen | Holding tasks you enter yourself |
| Finds work you never entered | Yes, from Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack and the desktop | No, you enter it |
| Reads your outgoing messages for promises you made | Yes | No |
| Escalates when you stall | Yes, four rungs, and it requires an answer | No, a reminder fires once and can be deferred forever |
| Learns your personal follow-through pattern | Yes, over weeks | No |
| Auto-schedules your calendar | No | No |
| Price | Essentials 15/mo, Pro 35/mo | Free, Pro 7/mo, Business 8/user |
| Trial | 14 days of full Pro, no card until it ends | Free plan, no trial needed |
| Available today | Pre-launch, waitlist open | Yes |
Todoist pricing read from their own pricing page on 23 August 2026. Prices move: check before deciding on the strength of this table.
Which one to choose
Choose Todoist if
Choose Todoist if you want a fast, reliable, inexpensive list and you are content to enter things yourself. That is a completely reasonable thing to want, and Wasp costs five times as much.
Choose Wasp if
Choose Wasp if you already keep a list faithfully and things still slip, which usually means the problem was never the list.
Choose both, honestly
They are not mutually exclusive. Wasp is the layer that catches what never got recorded and then applies pressure, and it is compatible with keeping Todoist for what it is already doing well.
Where Wasp is today, plainly
Wasp is pre-launch. The product is built and the waitlist is open, and there is nothing to buy yet. If you need to move off Todoist this week, Wasp cannot help this week, and it would be a poor comparison page that let you find that out later.
There are no customer testimonials on this page because there are no customers yet. Rather than borrow someone else's quotes or manufacture any, here is what can be checked instead: the live demo runs the real interface on invented data with no account needed, and the changelog lists what has shipped and when.
Questions
Wasp costs several times more than Todoist. Why?
Because it is doing a different and more expensive job. Todoist stores tasks you enter. Wasp reads across Gmail, Calendar and Slack to find commitments you did not enter, including ones in your own outgoing messages, and runs language models over that continuously. If a list you maintain yourself is working, Todoist is the better buy.
Can Wasp replace Todoist entirely?
For most people, yes: Wasp has a unified list with manual and voice capture. But Todoist is more mature as a pure task manager, with deeper project structure, filters and cross-platform reach. Wasp is chosen for what it catches and how it chases, not for being a better container.
Next
Joining the waitlist puts you in the queue for early access as it rolls out in waves. It costs nothing and there is no card involved.
Other comparisons: all alternatives. Not sure Wasp fits how you work? See who Wasp is for. Still deciding what Wasp actually does? The FAQ is the short version.