MyGlyde vs Todoist: keeping the list, or starting the thing
Todoist is, genuinely, the best pure task manager there is — years of refinement, projects, filters, labels, integrations with almost everything. The difference isn’t features. It’s that a perfectly organised list is still a list, and at nine on a Monday morning it stares back at you with forty items and no opinion about which one you can actually begin. MyGlyde has fewer ways to organise, on purpose, and spends the difference on the part where you start.
| Feature | MyGlyde | Todoist |
|---|---|---|
| What it optimises for | Starting — one next thing, chosen for you, sized to what you have in you today | Organising — projects, labels, filters and views that scale to thousands of tasks |
| The overwhelming task | Magic Breakdown turns one vague sentence into concrete first moves with time estimates | Sub-tasks and checklists you write yourself; Todoist Assist can help draft and filter tasks |
| Deciding what to do now | The Now engine picks one task and shows it alone, with Not right now and Swap beside it | Today and Upcoming views, plus priorities and custom filters you design |
| Focus timer | Built-in sprints with a visible shrinking ring and credit for every minute | None built in — commonly paired with a separate pomodoro app |
| Missing a day | A banked Freeze Shield is spent; the streak and the history survive. No guilt screens | Overdue tasks accumulate on Today; the karma score can drop |
| Free plan limit | The full daily loop, forever — capture, one-thing-at-a-time, sprints, streaks and rewards | 5 personal projects — as of Aug 2026 |
| Price | Free core loop; Plus £7.99/mo or £59/yr (founding price, 14-day trial) — as of Aug 2026 | Free tier; Pro $5/user/mo billed annually, $7 billed monthly — as of Aug 2026 |
Todoist might suit you better if…
- You already have a system that works and your problem is capacity, not starting — Todoist scales to thousands of tasks in a way MyGlyde deliberately does not.
- You need real collaboration: shared projects, assignees, comments, a team workspace.
- Integrations matter more than anything else. Todoist connects to almost everything, and has for over a decade.
- You want native apps on every platform, offline, with that much polish behind them.
MyGlyde is built for you if…
- Your list is not the problem. You have a beautiful, well-groomed list and you have been looking at it for three days without touching it.
- You want the first move handed to you at a size you can actually take — two minutes, not “write the report”.
- Time is slippery, and a visible shrinking ring works where a number on a clock doesn’t. (See focus sprints.)
- You need the app to survive your bad week without punishing you for it — Freeze Shields exist for exactly this.
The part a list doesn’t do
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Keep the list. Add the starting.
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