Buy once instead of TickTick Premium
- TickTick Premium costs
- $50a year. US$49.99 a year, annual billing only. Their pricing
- Ways out
- 5apps that do the same jobs
- Cheapest to buy
- $24.99TaskPaper, which pays back in 6 months
- Cost nothing
- 0freeware or open source
Read the catch on each before you switch. A one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
 TaskPaperPlain-text to-do lists in a real Mac app | $24.99This version | No iPhone or iPad app — on mobile you edit the file in someone else's text editor |
 GoodTaskPower-user front end for Apple Reminders and Calendar | $39.99Perpetual | The iPhone and iPad app is a separate purchase from the Mac one |
 2DoConfigurable task manager, bought direct rather than from the App Store | $49.99Paid upgrades | Updates stop eighteen months after purchase unless you pay a discounted renewal |
 Things 3Calm, opinionated to-do app you buy once per platform | $49.99This version | Each platform is a separate purchase — the iPhone app is another $9.99 |
 OmniFocus 4Heavyweight GTD task manager that still sells a perpetual licence | $74.99This version | The next major version will be a paid upgrade, historically around half list price |