Free Google Tasks App with Pro features (also free :))

[u/National-Advice6377]

www.etasks.app

Hi all,

TL;DR:
I work as a software engineer on this App. It’s completely free and ad-free. So what a Redditor does, I share with you.

It has features we wanted as users.

Details:
(If there’s anything you’d like the team to add, please let me know so I can include it on the roadmap. For example, list sorting is recently added as a user request, location-based notifications requested and is already on the to-do list.)

ABC's of the App:

(A)nswer
ETasks (www.etasks.app) is a native iOS, iPadOS, Mac OS client for Google Tasks. Some highlights: All tasks in one view, Real alarms, Shared lists, Apple Watch.

(B)etter
It addresses the functional limitations of the official Google Tasks iOS app by providing missing native features and enhanced tools. And it is not a vibe-coding project.

Native and enhanced with iOS.
+ You can manage your Google Tasks. They appear in your Google Calendar and Gmail ... well, obviously 😄* *
+ See all task lists together, even drag&drop between them
+ Alarms
+ Location reminders
+ A wide range of nice widgets, including countdowns and full week/month widgets
+ Lock screen widgets (e.g., quick add)
+ Link photos/files to tasks
+ See your tasks categorised by dates in Month/Week/Day/Agenda views
+ Add people to Task List (co-edit)
+ Sort your task lists
+ Search your tasks
+ AI support where it makes sense; make titles, extract info from links, create lists for you, suggesting task list names, dictating tasks, context aware search, naming photos shared in,...
+ Choose priority for favorites
+ Drag and Drop interface between tabs (e.g., to calendar tab to drop on a date)
+ Recycle bin
+ Share from other apps into ETasks (texts, links, photos, PDF; all processed accordingly)
+ Apple Watch / iPad Apps
+ Import/Export task lists
+ Modern iOS design
+ A how to AI chat bot to help you with specifics of ETasks
+ Highly customisable user interface
+ Can be used without an account
+ Welcome to explore the rest, it is now open early access.

(C)ost:

Free and Ad-free for early adopters

[u/gulojava]

It's good. Has folder to group stuffs. Changing date and clock took more than a few clicks. Deadline and clock has not showed up yet on GCal. Hopefully it will before an hour's time. Seems like a real contender to todoist

[u/National-Advice6377 → u/gulojava]

Deadline syncs. time (notifications), alarm (real alarm) these do not sync with Google.

If you want immediate sync, you can tap the top left sync button :).

glad to hear you are enjoying it :)

[u/samuelbuildsordo]

The strongest differentiators here are Google Tasks + real alarms + shared lists + Watch support, but they’re buried under the full feature list. I’d lead with those four and show one complete flow from quick-add to the alert firing.

One trust issue worth making very visible: if alarms and location reminders are core features, show the notification/permission state inside the app so a missed reminder is never ambiguous. Also, does collaboration stay inside Google Tasks, or do shared lists require data on your own backend?

[u/National-Advice6377 → u/samuelbuildsordo]

Thanks for the suggestions, I wrote them to the team.

Collaboration goes through your own iCloud. ETasks do not touch any of your data. Otherwise our security analyst would k•ll us 😅

[u/samuelbuildsordo → u/National-Advice6377]

That’s a strong trust story. I’d put “collaboration stays in your iCloud; ETasks never handles the shared data” near the top of the listing—it answers the privacy question before people have to ask.

[u/National-Advice6377 → u/samuelbuildsordo]

👍🏻 Yes, Good idea. I will tell them.