Super Productivity vs Taskwarrior

Super Productivity

• Developers who plan their day from Jira, GitHub or GitLab issues
• Freelancers who need time sheets from the tasks they tracked
• People who want a free app that keeps data on their own device

Taskwarrior

• People who work in a terminal and want to manage tasks by typing
• Keeping task data in a local database, with sync as an option
• Scripting a personal workflow with hooks and custom fields

Super Productivity

• The web app is more limited than the desktop app: calendar integration and WebDAV sync are likely to fail in a browser because of CORS.
• SuperSync is labeled beta, and the project's wiki suggests Nextcloud, WebDAV or Dropbox for production use until it is stable.
• Fetching issues and sending work logs needs a network connection, and a failed issue update is not retried automatically.
• The project is maintained by volunteers and funded by donations; help comes from the community on GitHub and Reddit.

Taskwarrior

• The project ships only a command-line program. Graphical, web and mobile front ends are separate community tools.
• On Windows it runs through the Windows Subsystem for Linux or MSYS2; Cygwin is no longer supported.
• No hosted sync service is included: you run a TaskChampion sync server or configure a cloud storage bucket yourself.
• Since version 3.0 the docs warn that file-sync tools such as Syncthing or rsync can corrupt task data and are unsupported.

Super Productivity

Tasks, projects and boards

Tasks take subtasks, notes, tags, projects and repeat rules, and can be viewed as lists, on a Kanban board, in an Eisenhower Matrix or on boards you build yourself.

Time tracking and time sheets

Starting a task tracks time against it. Tracked time can be turned into time sheets and work summaries for export to a company's time-tracking system.

Focus mode and break reminders

Focus mode offers Pomodoro, Flowtime and countdown sessions, and a break reminder tells you when it is time to step away.

Planner and schedule

The planner lays the day out on a schedule timeline next to calendar events, which come in through Google Calendar or any CalDAV calendar.

Issue tracker imports

Issues assigned to you can be imported from Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and other trackers, with time tracked per issue and work logs sent back.

Local data and optional sync

Data is stored on the device and no account is needed. Devices can sync through Dropbox, WebDAV or SuperSync, the project's end-to-end encrypted service that can be self-hosted.

Taskwarrior

Task commands in the terminal

Tasks are added, modified and completed with short task commands, and carry attributes such as project, tags, priority and due date out of more than 20 standard ones.

Filters, reports and contexts

Reports list tasks through filters you combine on the command line. A context is a named filter that stays active, for example to show only work tasks.

Urgency score

Each task gets a numeric urgency score summed from a dozen or more factors such as priority, and the next report sorts tasks by it.

Sync between replicas

The task sync command exchanges changes with a TaskChampion sync server, an AWS or Google Cloud storage bucket, a local file or a git repository.

Hooks and user defined attributes

Hook scripts in any language run at set events in the program, and user defined attributes add your own fields that can be stored, sorted and shown in reports.

JSON import and export

Task data moves in and out through a documented JSON format, which the community tools listed on the project's Tools page build on.

Super Productivity

• Free$0

  All features on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and the web, released as open source under the MIT license.

Taskwarrior

• Free$0

  The full command-line program under the MIT license. Sync needs your own server or a cloud storage bucket, which the docs say carries a small cost.