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Any.do

Score8 out of 10

21 Reviews and Ratings

What is Any.do?

Any.do is a project management solution built around list and taskmanagement capabilities.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9

  • Mobile Access

    Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Budget and Expense Management

    Budget and expense management provides the capability to track all expenses by employee or department and link them back to department. It also enables hourly rates to be set.

    Category average: 7.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Change request and Case Management

    Change request and change management enables tracking of all customer requests including priority and timeframe.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Support for Waterfall Methodology

    Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.

    Category average: 8

  • Email integration

    Email integration allows work requests to be made directly from email.

    Category average: 7.6

The perfect reminder application

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Any.do was used mainly for Task Management, specifically within the Marketing team because of it's great mobile application. The marketing used it because they were external facing i.e. they had to call customers as well as email customers.

Any.do was used mainly to when and by what medium to reach out to customers, even sending customers greetings like Christmas etc.

Pros

  • Reminders
  • Sync between mobile and desktop app
  • Great mobile application

Cons

  • Better use of AI, fetching information from emails etc.
  • Summary view of the day
  • Additional feature of time tracking would be great

Return on Investment

  • Maximum no. of tasks created was 227 out of which Any.do I closed 134, without reminder from Any.do, that number would have be less than 80
  • The monthly cost is very high compared to other apps, $9.99 per month

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Asana and Todoist

Other Software Used

Perplexity, Superhuman

Simple Task Management App

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Any.do is a simple task management app with extensive features. I use it for my office as well as for my personal tasks. You can easily organise your tasks and set reminders so that no task can be missed. This app allowed me to organise my schedule and get reminded of meetings. I can now easily track my productivity and occupancy using this app.

Pros

  • Task management
  • Time management
  • Meeting reminder

Cons

  • Customise view option can be added.
  • Add some features of project management.
  • Integration with more related apps.

Return on Investment

  • Made me more productive & organised
  • Helped me in events or meetings management
  • Provided me extra space for personal tasks

Alternatives Considered

Trello, Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager and Google Tasks

Other Software Used

Trello, Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager, Google Tasks

Any.do Does Anything You Need and Some Things You Didn't Know You Needed

Pros

  • Intuitive
  • Fast

Cons

  • It could be a bit better at subtasks.

Return on Investment

  • The better organized I am, the more projects I can take on.
  • By helping to keep me on track, Any.do enables me to keeps clients happy.

Alternatives Considered

OmniFocus, Google Keep, Asana and Trello

Other Software Used

Trello, Logic Pro X, Calibre, Facebook Pages Manager

Any.do has been upscaling its features to match the workplace of today

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

There are a lot of apps to track to-do's and stay on top of things, Any.do is a great tool to navigate through a busy life. Tracking specific tasks for different projects can be easily done with color coding and tags, also integrating with my calendar helps keep all in one place.

Pros

  • Visualization on tasks
  • Integration with calendar
  • Focus time!

Cons

  • Communication with users. I stopped using the app for a while due to the lack of a desktop app, and I didn't know there was a desktop app!

Return on Investment

  • Productivity boost
  • Free version offers a lot solutions so it makes it very affordable

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft To Do, Evernote and Todoist: To-Do List & Task Manager

Other Software Used

Dropbox, Evernote, DocuSign

Amazing software to keep your life on track!

Pros

  • Capability of creating tasks and to write down subtasks and insert notes and attachments.
  • Notification alarms that keep you on track of your to-do list, avoiding forgetfulness.
  • Any.do allows you to share tasks with other people and can also contribute with notes and attachments.
  • Recurrings reminders feature can help you build habits that you improve your life quality by making everything more organized.
  • Compatibility with Amazon Alexa.
  • Helpful community that can support users.
  • There is an app for Android and IOS and a web version of Any.do

Cons

  • I currently use Any.do in Portuguese and there are some texts/labels that are not translated.
  • There is not an app for Windows Phone.

Return on Investment

  • There are not negative impacts.
  • The monthly and annual costs are fair.
  • The return on investment is in terms of time savings. When using Any.do teams and individuals will save considerable time by keeping things organized and by improving collaboration among users.

Alternatives Considered

Evernote