There are already hundreds of task manager apps on the App Store. I built another one anyway.
Not because I thought the world needed todo app #1,001. But because after trying dozens of them, none of them felt right to me. I'm a developer who actually thinks about this stuff.
The Problem With Existing Task Apps
Most task apps fail in one of two directions.
On one end, you have the bare-minimum apps: just a list. Type a task, check it off. Simple, yes. But after a few days, you end up with a wall of tasks with no structure, no priority, no sense of when anything is happening. You're staring at 47 unchecked items and feeling worse than before you opened the app.
On the other end, you have the powerful ones: Notion, ClickUp, Monday.com. These are incredible pieces of software. But using them for personal task management is like renting a warehouse to store your groceries. You spend your first evening building a "productivity system," creating templates, learning keyboard shortcuts, watching YouTube tutorials. Somewhere in there, you forget you still have actual work to do.
I wanted something in between. Structure without complexity. Features that serve you, not the other way around.
What I Was Actually Looking For
When I sat down to design Taskaro, I had a specific list in my head. Nothing fancy. Just the things I kept wishing other apps had:
- Kanban board: I think in columns. Todo / In Progress / Done. Not flat lists where everything looks equally important.
- Notes: Quick capture that doesn't need folders, workspaces, or a naming convention. Just a place to write things down.
- Calendar view: I need to see when things are due, not just what's due. A week view that shows me what's ahead.
- Contribution graph: The GitHub grid of daily activity. I wanted one for tasks. A visual record of whether I actually showed up today, this week, this month.
- Web + Android, synced: I switch between my laptop and phone constantly. Both should see the same data, always.
- Google Sign-In: I'm not creating and remembering another password.
That's the list. No more, no less.
What We Shipped
Taskaro ships with exactly that.
A kanban board where you move tasks through status columns. A notes section for quick capture: no nesting, no folders, just notes. A calendar week view so you can see your week at a glance, not just a pile of deadlines. A contribution graph that shows your daily task activity for the past 90 days. You can tell, at a single glance, whether you've been consistent or coasting.
Available on Android and on the web. Sign in once with Google and everything syncs automatically.
Nothing extra. No "workspaces." No integrations marketplace. No AI copilot that summarizes your tasks back to you in a different font.
The Business Model (Being Honest About It)
Taskaro is not free. But it's not expensive either. You can try it before spending anything.
Start with the free tier: 3 tasks per day, 3 notes. That's genuinely enough to see if this way of working actually fits you. Most people can tell within a week whether kanban-style task management works for their brain.
If it clicks, Pro is $2.49/month. That removes all limits and funds continued development. No $20/month "professional" tier. No annual-only lock-in. No "contact sales." Just a number you can make a decision about in about 5 seconds.
Why I'm Building This in Public
This is my first app. Not a side project to pad a portfolio. An actual product I use every single day.
I don't have a team. What I do have is a clear opinion about what a task manager should feel like, and a commitment to building toward that. Competing in a saturated market of hundreds of todo apps isn't the goal. The goal is to build something that real people actually want to use. People like me.
The roadmap is simple: add what makes sense and what real users ask for. If something doesn't make the app better in a way you can actually feel, it doesn't ship. No features for the sake of a feature list.
I'll be posting updates here: what shipped, what I learned, what users are saying. If you try Taskaro and have thoughts, I want to hear them. This is the kind of app that gets better when the people using it are paying attention.
One More Thing
I built Taskaro because I wanted it. I'm sharing it because maybe you wanted it too.
If anything here resonated, try it. Start with the free tier and see if the workflow fits. If it does, I'd love to have you along for the rest of the ride.