Microsoft To Do vs. OmniFocus

Microsoft To Do

Microsoft To Do

246 Reviews and Ratings

OmniFocus

OmniFocus

31 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft To Do	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft To Do replaces the former Wunderlist task management tool.	N/A
OmniFocus	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	OmniFocus is a project management platform for iOS: Mac, iPad, and iPhone. It has features such as task management, Siri capture, and workflow automation.	$4.99 per month

Pricing

Microsoft To Do

OmniFocus

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Web Add-On Subscription: $4.99
per month
Cross-Platform Subscription: $9.99
per month
OmniFocus 3 Standalone (Mac only): $49.99
per month
OmniFocus 3 Standalone (iPhone only): $49.99
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft To Do	OmniFocus
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft To Do	OmniFocus
Considered Both Products	Microsoft To Do Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Wrike and monday.com are the big siblings of Microsoft To Do. Even the free versions allow you so much more customization than Microsoft To Do. Miro is an infinite whiteboard style workspace that can be used for project management if your work style is more visual. Again, the … Incentivized Helpful? JK Jonathan Kolarik CEO Chose Microsoft To Do No comparison. Microsoft To Do is far better, simply because of the easy integration with Outlook email, allowing me to simply flag an email in Outlook, then recognize it as a task in Microsoft To Do. iCloud does not integrate well, even though it claims to. iCloud also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Microsoft came with the company laptop. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I choose Microsoft to do because is easier and is on the job email, but Clickup is more handful and Google Tasks its in my personal email, so its more convenient. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Microsoft To-Do simply put just does to-do lists very well. I don't want the visual components of software like Trello or ClickUp, and I had used Asana in previous roles and just found it to have too much going on. I also didn't like the notification system of Asana, constantly … Incentivized Helpful? Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Chose Microsoft To Do I am a fan of to-do lists. Previously they were all pen and paper though, which is fine for chores but not so much when you consistently receive emails and chat messages with various tasks mentioned in there. To Do helps keeping track of them. Incentivized Helpful? TK Thomas Knight Product Manager Chose Microsoft To Do The main alternative that I've used is Todoist. Todoist is better at auto-detecting dates and tags, and I found it easier to assign items to other people using Todoist. I think the big benefit that Microsoft To Do has is that it is more integrated into existing Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do The biggest selling point of Microsoft To Do is that it's free. We were able to jump in and start learning it without having to worry about making up for the cost of the software. We liked the idea of using all Microsoft products in hopes of some of our older employees being … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Its the only tool I use to manage my to dos and daily tasks Incentivized Helpful? AM Alejandro Montes Team Lead Chose Microsoft To Do I selected MS To-Do because is easy to use, has a pretty UI and in my organization is free to use. Amazing to schedule your work, meetings, to-do list, prioritize task, etc, but is not like other software like Evernote that have more functionalities like a diagram, … Incentivized Helpful? YL Yuen Liang Enrollment and Marketing Consultant Chose Microsoft To Do To be honest, I loved Wunderlist, and so just moved over to Microsoft To Do out of inertia. Also Trello is more Kanban than a to-do list, so not exactly what we needed. Todoist might be more what we need, but we were already using Wunderlist, so we didn't want to take the time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I prefer Microsoft To Do because of it's amazing app. It seamlessly integrates with mobile so if you're on the go or need to set a reminder, you can very easily take care of it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Trello Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Compared to in-built apps from Microsoft or Apple, Wunderlist is far better. It is incredibly hard to collaborate on both Outlook, Gmail, or Apple calendar/reminders. I wouldn't suggest any of those for team projects. Additionally, Wunderlist allows me to separate your work and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Wunderlist is overly simplistic and a bit outdated compared to competing tools. Trello and Microsoft To-Dos and Planner accomplish the same things better. Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas De Salvo Chief Executive Officer Chose Microsoft To Do I started using Wunderlist purely to keep track of my to-dos and organize my time around the general tasks I have to complete. Attempts I have made to extend Wunderlist into project management or other broader tasks have been largely unsuccessful because it feels like there … Incentivized Helpful? Joel Tanzi Business Owner Chose Microsoft To Do Both Trello and Remember the Milk offer their own value in managing tasks and projects. Wunderlist is the best simple task manager I've come across in that it focuses on the critical features you'd want in a task manager - great interface, ease of use, and accessible anywhere. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Tried Google Tasks, and Microsoft To-Do (before its integration with Wunderlist) and they didn't quite serve the purpose we were looking for. Incentivized Helpful? Paul Weber Manager, Digital Media Services Chose Microsoft To Do Wunderlist was a good starting point, but we now use Todoist, and I definitely wouldn't look back. It is more complicated, but with that comes much more control than you get in Wunderlist - rather than simple search tags you have filters that can run across projects, human … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I have tried numerous programs in the past, this one, in particular, has an easy interface and almost anyone can use it. One of the most recent programs we have tried is Microsoft To-Do and it does not even compare. We have created access databases specific to do this type of … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Cohen President Chose Microsoft To Do Any.do had a nicer interface but was not as easy to use as Wunderlist. Incentivized Helpful? Anna Jacobs Project Coordinator Chose Microsoft To Do It is more simple, direct, and easy to manage. Also, the price point is much less than most, if not all CRM's on the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do While I have tried a number of other to-do lists, Wunderlist is easy to use and free. Most other to-do lists that I have tried I have used for a day or two and the have deleted and returned to Wunderlist. Part of it is that I am used to this tool, but I think it is also just … Incentivized Helpful? Tish Cator Office Manager Chose Microsoft To Do I think they merged or something—I don’t remember—but it was not as easy as this one was. We love that it is simple and easy. Incentivized Helpful? BW Ben Westby Educator Chose Microsoft To Do Not available, this is the first task management app we have tried so far. Slack is the closest thing we have. Incentivized Helpful?	OmniFocus Verified User Anonymous Chose OmniFocus OmniFocus is simpler, with a better front end experience. For individual use, OmniFocus is probably more powerful too. It also doesn't cost as much, which is why we ended up going for it. Incentivized Helpful? Rob Gokee Composer Chose OmniFocus OmniFocus is built for the user with a lot going on - consequently, it does a great job at organizing lots of things in a manageable workload. It's perfect for taking a project and breaking it down into small tasks for yourself or teams. Once you get past the learning curve, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OmniFocus OmniFocus is the most robust. Some criticize OmniFocus for focusing too much on task organization and not enough on task execution, and that may be valid depending on one's use-case. However, if you ever find things slipping through the cracks and unable to trust your system, … Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Stasel IT Operations Manager Chose OmniFocus Part of O365 is the Tasks application, which is "free" with O365 and does a lot of essential task management. Yes, it's very basic. Yes, it's basically "To-do," but it works quite well. Omnigraffle does everything better, and more thoroughly, but at a higher initial cost. If … Incentivized Helpful? Brian Bliss Freight Agent \| Transportation Broker \| Truckload Broker Chose OmniFocus I initially liked how OmniFocus was set up, but over time have gone back to a combination of Evernote and Todoist/Drafts for my daily organizing. This has been strictly from an ease of use and functionality perspective. Incentivized Helpful? Che Odom Marketing and Business Administrator Chose OmniFocus We have used Microsoft One Note and To Do as other ways of increasing organization across our company, however, we don't feel that those tools are appropriate for that use (in the instance of One Note) or as robust (in the instance of To-Do). Both are, however, easy to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose OmniFocus While Asana and others are more conducive to groups, OmniFocus is the best stand-alone task manager in almost all aspects. The visual appearance, flexibility, ability to script, predefined views, reporting, and performance. Incentivized Helpful? John Rougeux VP Marketing, North America Chose OmniFocus I have used Wunderlist and Trello but OmniFocus is my go to tool. Wunderlist is a bit too simple for my tastes; it's fine for things like shopping lists but wasn't well suited to more complex projects. And it takes time to use, since there are fewer keyboard shortcuts. Trello … Incentivized Helpful? AS Ash Sharma Director Chose OmniFocus The market is flooded with productivity apps; I have field-tested a large number of these, and continue to do so. However, without fail, I always come back to OmniFocus - it outstrips the competition by far. The sheer richness and flexibility of the product has no peer worthy of … Incentivized Helpful? Brad Pearce Member Chose OmniFocus The closest analog to OmniFocus is Todoist. OmniFocus, however, runs circles around Todoist and every other to-do list and reminder system. OmniFocus is not just best in class, it is in a class by itself. I feel somewhat incompetent saying more about how powerful OmniFocus is. … Incentivized Helpful? DE Doug Eli Director Of Technology Chose OmniFocus Most of the others are basic check lists. It is the context and perspectives of OmniFocus that has me using it. Using it is not as easy as others, but not as complicated as some (I'm looking at you Project!). Incentivized Helpful? Christian Payne Director Chose OmniFocus I selected Omnifocus, initially as it was Mac based and allowed me to keep on top of all my projects and tasks due to access on an iPhone and iPad. Previously I have used Microsoft Project, however I feel that Omnifocus is more powerful and easier to use. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft To Do

OmniFocus

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft To Do 5.6 Ratings 32% below category average	OmniFocus 6.6 Ratings 15% below category average
Task Management	8.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Resource Management	6.20 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Gantt Charts	4.50 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Scheduling	8.20 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	3.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Team Collaboration	5.00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology	6.00 Ratings	4.00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology	7.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Document Management	3.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Email integration	6.30 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Mobile Access	7.50 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking	3.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management	5.30 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management	4.90 Ratings	5.00 Ratings

Professional Services Automation

Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft To Do 6.5 Ratings 17% below category average	OmniFocus 2.7 Ratings 96% below category average
Quotes/estimates	5.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Invoicing	7.00 Ratings	1.00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting	7.90 Ratings	2.00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software	6.00 Ratings	1.00 Ratings

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	Microsoft To Do	OmniFocus
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User Ratings
	Microsoft To Do	OmniFocus
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.4 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.6 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft To Do	OmniFocus
Likelihood to Recommend	Great to capture flagged emails for reminders later. Great for quick entry tasks. Would love it if you could set a checklist so that you could more easily assign a task to a category, that is currently a little more tedious than what it should be. The lack of integration with Google is also a little disappointing. Incentivized JK Jonathan Kolarik CEO Read full review	If someone is in the Apple ecosystem, it's the best choice. Far beyond a simple task manager, OmniFocus is the only software I've found that can reliably track every aspect of one's life. If I want anything in my life to be different than it currently is, there's a place for it in OmniFocus. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Wunderlist is what you need for your to do lists. It's really simple to use. Allows you to set due date to your lists, share them with your team and/or create a folder to divide and organize all your list set Also, Wunderlist is compatible with all platform and devices. So you can always be updated on your list or work on them from wherever you are and with all the devices you have. Incentivized Oleg Galimov Руководитель проектов Read full review	Managing projects at both a broad and a granular level. Allowing you to build customized views of your work. Helping you review projects that have not been looked at in while. Separating projects from different aspects of your life (e.g. work, home, consulting) Incentivized John Rougeux VP Marketing, North America Read full review
Cons	Viewing more than one task at a time. Email forwarding tasks - sometimes can be buggy and not always smooth. Option to show more detail on a task without clicking task - example: being able to see attachment without clicking on task to view. Incentivized Brian Spatz Staff Pastor - Students Read full review	I would really like to see graphic presentations of how I allocate my time, what categories of tasks don't get accomplished, etc. I would like to see OmniFocus include Gantt chart functionality, such as allowing me to see how long it took me to accomplish a task from start to finish. Allowing me to actually input time spent, and seeing it on a Gantt chart, would be icing on the cake. Incentivized Brad Pearce Member Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	I believe Wunderlist is the best to do management app on the planet. So far we are extremely satisfied with the performance. Incentivized Mohammed Anzil Founder and Chief Editor Read full review	Over the past 4 years of use I still haven't found any product that comes close in terms of capability Incentivized AS Ash Sharma Director Read full review
Usability	The actual user interface and the way to navigate around the app is very intuitive and easy to learn/use which would make me give it a high ranking, but the syncing issues drop down my rating because there are times where you add an item to the list and then it just disappears. Then when you add it again the sync will happen and now you have duplicates. The other negative with the usability is adding extra information to an item, such as files or comments or assignments. You can do it but it's difficult to tell which items have this information from the main screen. You have to click on them individually. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	This is a super usable tool to use. I really like the front-end user experiences, which makes using it really clear Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	I have not had an issue where I needed to reach out to Wunderlist, but I know their contact and online chat is easy to access and feel confident that they would be helpful. My only worry is Wunderlist is becoming Microsoft to-do in May 2020, and I believe the app will become worse after that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I have not had to call support for this product, so I don't really have any specific experience in that regard. I guess the good news is that the product has worked as advertised, so I haven't needed the support! Incentivized Brian Bliss Freight Agent \| Transportation Broker \| Truckload Broker Read full review
Implementation Rating	Wunderlist giving 100% work satisfaction for me and my organization Incentivized Abdul Hakkim Founder Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Wrike and monday.com are the big siblings of Microsoft To Do. Even the free versions allow you so much more customization than Microsoft To Do. Miro is an infinite whiteboard style workspace that can be used for project management if your work style is more visual. Again, the free version is still so much more customizable and usable than Microsoft To Do. On a team of people of multiple generations, Microsoft To Do might be a good option if you have to work collaboratively on a simple project. Otherwise, I would recommend any of the other three software options above Microsoft To Do. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OmniFocus is built for the user with a lot going on - consequently, it does a great job at organizing lots of things in a manageable workload. It's perfect for taking a project and breaking it down into small tasks for yourself or teams. Once you get past the learning curve, it's quick at adding new tasks. Overall, it's an excellent product. Incentivized Rob Gokee Composer Read full review
Return on Investment	It helps our team complete tasks on time, securing better ROIs. No tasks are being forgotten, leading to better client retention. The team is getting serious momentum from being able to see and finish the tasks. We even applaud every time we hear the little "ding!" when the task is completed. :) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OmniFocus keeps our tasks moving forward. Using a free script you can search all your current projects for projects that have no next step assigned to it to ensure nothing falls through the cracks. When we serve our clients, the attention to detail we are able to give them comes from accurate tracking of what we need to deliver. We complete projects 25% faster than before and we can see where the bottlenecks are immediate. We have also been forced to document tasks in a more concrete manner which allows for better execution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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