Plan7 vs Todoist
Todoist is one of the best tools for capturing and organizing what you have to do, but a full inbox doesn't say when any of it will happen. Plan7 is an iPhone app for that other half: it counts the hours you really have, builds a week of time blocks around your goal, fixed commitments and sleep, and keeps you on the current block through the day.
Last verified 2026-07-30
For many people the honest recommendation is to use both. Todoist holds the tasks; Plan7 holds the week. They answer different questions.
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| Dimension | plan7 | Todoist |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | An iPhone app that plans and runs your week around one 30-day goal | Task capture and organization |
| Planning starting point | One goal, your fixed hours, what you protect and your sleep | Your tasks and projects |
| Personal assessment | StrongShort onboarding that counts your 168 hours | Not offeredNo life assessment; you add tasks |
| Goals | StrongOne 30-day goal, made measurable | LimitedGoals as projects/labels you define |
| Responsibilities | StrongFixed hours stay put; protected time is never cut | LimitedTracked as tasks you create |
| Sleep | StrongSleep set first; Lights Out at bedtime | Not offered |
| Energy | AvailableYou say when you're at your best; no device data | Not offered |
| Constraints | StrongFixed commitments placed first | Not a core featureNo capacity or constraint modeling |
| Weekly routine generation | StrongSeven days of time blocks with day intensities | Not offeredNo routine generation |
| Daily planning | StrongToday view, Live Activity, Edit day by message | LimitedToday/Upcoming lists; you set timing |
| Automatic rescheduling | LimitedYou ask in Edit day; nothing moves on its own | Not offeredManual; recurring due dates only |
| Calendar integrations | LimitedReads your iPhone calendar; never writes | AvailableTwo-way Google/Outlook (events read-only) |
| Task integrations | Not offeredNo task-tool integrations | Strong80+ integrations |
| Focus tools | StrongScreen Time app and website blocking; focus timer | Not a core featureReminders, not a focus mode |
| Progress tracking | AvailableTune my week reviews 7 days; wake-up streaks | LimitedKarma productivity trends |
| Team features | Not offered | AvailableShared projects; Business workspace |
| Platforms | iPhone only (iOS 16.4+) | Web, desktop, mobile, watches, extensions |
| Pricing model | Monthly or annual subscription; no free plan | Freemium; Pro/Business subscriptions |
| Best for | Fitting one goal into a real week and following it day to day | Capturing and organizing everything you have to do |
plan7
Plan7 assumes you already know what you have to do and need to know when it fits. It asks for one 30-day goal, your fixed commitments, what you protect and your sleep, counts the 168 hours in the week, and says whether the goal fits. Then it builds seven days of time blocks with an intensity for each day. It answers 'when, and how much'; the list of 'what' stays wherever you keep it.
Todoist
Todoist is built around capture and organization: get everything out of your head fast, sort it into projects and labels, set due dates and reminders, and see it through Today, Upcoming and custom filters. It's excellent at holding the 'what,' but it deliberately leaves the 'when' to you — a task with a due date isn't the same as a realistic plan for the day.
plan7
You download Plan7 on your iPhone, sign in with Apple or Google and answer questions about your goal, your fixed hours, what you protect and your sleep. There's nothing to import; you don't need a task list. You can let it read four weeks of your calendar to find repeating events. After you subscribe, the week takes up to five minutes to build.
Todoist
Todoist is fast to start — add a task with natural language and you're going. The depth comes over time as you build projects, labels and filters. Setup is light, but the value is proportional to how much you organize.
plan7
Plan7 places sleep and fixed commitments first, keeps protected time intact, gives each day an intensity and tells you when the goal needs more hours than the week has. The result is a frame you can see: a focus morning here, a lighter evening there. Each week, Tune my week rebuilds the next one from how the last seven days went.
Todoist
In Todoist, the week is whatever your tasks and due dates add up to. You can schedule tasks and view them in a calendar layout, but nothing warns you when the day holds twelve hours of work in eight — capacity is your responsibility, not the app's.
plan7
Plan7 runs the day on your iPhone. Today and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen show the current block with a countdown and what's next, and the apps you chose in Screen Time stay paused during focus blocks. If the day changes, you say so in Edit day. Plan7 tracks blocks and their steps; it has no list of individual to-dos, which is where Todoist fits alongside it.
Todoist
Todoist is strong here in its own way: check off tasks, get reminders, see recurring items reappear, and track streaks with Karma. It's about completing items, not following a daily structure — the two forms of 'done' are different.
Concrete cases, with the honest pick for each. Sometimes that is the other tool.
The organized over-planner
Todoist is immaculate, with every project labeled, but the day still ends with half the list untouched and no sense of why.
What's missing is the week around the list. Plan7 counts the hours that are really free, gives work a set number of blocks and shows the current one on the Lock Screen. An organized inbox can't tell you that a day only has five working hours in it.
The team lead
Coordinates shared projects, assigns tasks to teammates, and needs comments, labels and integrations across a stack of tools.
This is Todoist's territory. Plan7 plans one person's week on an iPhone, with no shared projects, assignment, comments or integrations.
The freelancer starting over
New to structured planning, no productivity stack yet, and wants a realistic week plus a simple way to track tasks inside it.
Both, each for its own job: Plan7 on the iPhone to set the week and keep the day on track, Todoist's free plan to hold the tasks that go into the work blocks.
plan7
You cancel from your Apple account, like any other App Store subscription.
Todoist
Todoist has a free Beginner plan. Pro is $5/month billed annually ($60/year) or $7 month-to-month; Business is $8/user/month annually ($96/user/year) or $10 monthly. A price update took effect for renewals from December 2025.
As of 2026-07-30
If you need a place to capture and organize tasks, collaborate and connect everything, Todoist is a mature choice that runs everywhere, and Plan7 does not replace it. If your tasks are clear but your week isn't, and you use an iPhone, Plan7 is the missing half. For many people the answer is both: organize in Todoist, let Plan7 set the week and run the day, and pull tasks into its work blocks instead of into a day that never had room for them.
No. They do different jobs. Plan7 builds your week and runs it on your iPhone; it has no task list, projects, labels, filters or collaboration. If you want a to-do list, keep Todoist. Plan7 decides when the work in that list gets time.
Yes, and for many people that's the best setup. Plan7 sets the week and shows the current block; Todoist holds the tasks you pick from when a work block starts. There's no integration between them, so you use each for its own job.
There's no Todoist integration. With your permission, Plan7 reads four weeks of your iPhone calendar and proposes repeating events as fixed hours, but it never writes to the calendar. Todoist offers two-way Google and Outlook calendar sync and 80+ integrations.
Todoist has a free plan and paid Pro and Business subscriptions. Plan7 has no free plan: it's a monthly or annual App Store subscription, the App Store shows the price in your currency, and you cancel from your Apple account.
Only inside its blocks. A block can have steps you check off, and Plan7 sends reminders to plan the day in the morning and review it at night. It has no to-do list with due dates and per-task reminders. That is what Todoist is built for, which is why they pair well.
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Download Plan7 on your iPhone, answer the questions, and see whether the goal fits your 168 hours before the week is built.