AgenToDo vs Apple Reminders

AgenToDo

• Mac users who follow Getting Things Done and want a guided weekly review
• People who would rather describe a change in a sentence than click through menus
• People moving from OmniFocus, whose keyboard model the app borrows
• Anyone who wants tasks kept in their own iCloud and off the vendor's servers

Apple Reminders

• People who use only Apple devices
• Shared grocery and household lists among iCloud users
• Location-based reminders and adding tasks by voice with Siri

AgenToDo

• Mac only: the site requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple silicon and says there is no Windows, Android or web version.
• The AI features spend Setapp AI credits. Setapp plans include a monthly allowance, and extra credits are a monthly add-on from $17.99 for 15,000.
• The site's only download route is Setapp, MacPaw's own app store, and the AI features need a Setapp account.
• No iPhone or iPad app is listed on the vendor's site; in an August 2026 reply on its Setapp listing the developer said one was in testing.

Apple Reminders

• Apps are listed only for Apple devices; on anything else, reminders are reached in a web browser at iCloud.com.
• On iCloud.com a reminder's title, notes, day or location alert and flag can be edited; Apple directs you to the app for other details.
• Sync and shared lists depend on iCloud, and collaborators need to use iCloud as well.
• Apple notes that certain features are available only in select languages and regions.

AgenToDo

AI command bar

A request typed or spoken in plain language becomes a set of proposed changes shown as a preview. Nothing is applied until it is approved, and one sentence can carry several changes.

GTD structure and eleven views

Inbox, Today, Forecast, Flagged, Waiting On, Review and five more built-in views, with sequential, parallel and single-action projects, folders and nested tags.

Calendar and time blocking

Events from the Mac's calendars appear beside tasks in day, week and month views. Tasks can be dragged onto time slots, and a commitment meter shows when a day is overbooked.

Quick Entry and smart parsing

A global shortcut opens a capture window from any app. The title field picks out flags, tags, projects, people, estimates, dates and repeats, in English and Ukrainian.

iCloud sync and shared projects

Data sits in a local database and syncs through the user's own iCloud. A project can be shared with edit or view-only access, with an activity feed and task assignment.

Automation and command line

Siri, Apple Shortcuts, Spotlight indexing, interactive desktop widgets and a bundled command-line tool are included. Read.ai can pass meeting action items in for review.

Apple Reminders

Smart Lists

Built-in lists such as Today, Scheduled, Flagged and Assigned to Me fill themselves. Custom Smart Lists gather reminders by tag, date, time, location, flag and priority.

Tags, subtasks and sections

Reminders can carry tags and subtasks. A list can be divided into sections and shown in a column view, which Apple suggests for simple kanban boards.

Time, location and Messages alerts

A reminder can repeat daily, weekly or at a custom interval, fire on arriving at a place or getting in the car, or appear the next time you message a tagged person.

Shared lists and assignments

Everyone on a shared list can add and complete reminders, changes show up for all collaborators in real time, and reminders can be assigned to people on the list.

Grocery lists and templates

Grocery lists group items into sections such as dairy and produce on their own. Any list can be saved as a template and shared with others through a link.

Natural language and Apple Intelligence

A typed phrase such as "Jog every other morning" sets the schedule. Apple Intelligence can sort a list into categories and suggest tasks from shared text or web pages.

AgenToDo

• Free$0

  The full task manager without AI: all eleven views, the calendar, widgets, the command-line tool, iCloud sync and shared projects.

• Setapp Mac$14.99

  per month, billed monthly; $107.88 billed yearly

  Setapp membership for 1 Mac. It supplies 1,000 AI credits a month for AgenToDo's AI features, or 300 a month when billed yearly.

• Setapp AI Enthusiast$22.99

  per month, billed monthly; $161.88 billed yearly

  Setapp AI+ plan for 1 Mac with 6,000 AI credits a month, or 3,750 a month when billed yearly.

• Setapp AI Expert$35.99

  per month, billed monthly; $259.08 billed yearly

  Setapp AI+ plan for 4 Macs and 4 iOS devices with 9,000 AI credits a month, or 7,500 a month when billed yearly.

Apple Reminders

• Free$0

  Every feature of the app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro, plus browser access at iCloud.com.

AgenToDo

• Annual discount

  Up to 40% off Setapp plans billed yearly

  Setapp's pricing page advertises savings of up to 40% with yearly billing. Yearly plans carry fewer AI credits a month: 300 against 1,000 on the Mac plan.

• Education

  20% off Setapp's annual Mac + iOS plan

  Students, researchers and educators who are new to Setapp get 20% off the annual Mac + iOS plan, listed at $107.88 a year with 300 AI credits a month.

Apple Reminders

No public discounts listed.