TickTick Review 2026: Pricing, Pros, Cons and Alternatives

TickTick's pitch is breadth for a small price: a to-do list, calendar planning, a habit tracker, a Pomodoro timer, an Eisenhower Matrix and countdowns in one app across web, desktop and phone. The free plan includes all of those in a basic form. That makes the real buying question narrower than "is TickTick good": it is which free limit you will hit first, and whether the upgrade is worth the yearly bill.

The price went up in 2026. Archived copies of TickTick's own Premium page show the annual plan at $35.99 ("less than $3/month") from at least January 2024 through February 26, 2026. The October 1, 2026 copy shows today's price.

Toolradar data: Toolradar tracks 223 task management tools as of November 4, 2026, and the median cheapest paid plan is $9 a month across the 83 that publish a price. TickTick Premium costs less than half that on its monthly equivalent. TickTick's profile shows it listed as an alternative to 47 other tools, first of 49 habit tracking apps, as of November 2026. For a head-to-head with its closest rival, read Todoist vs TickTick.

TickTick is a personal task manager built around a calendar. Tasks take dates, priorities, tags, subtasks, recurring schedules and comments on both plans, and natural language input turns "call Sam Friday 3pm" into a dated task. Around that core sit the planner tools that set it apart from a plain list app: a habit tracker, a Pomodoro focus timer, an Eisenhower Matrix and countdowns to important dates.

It is not a team project tool. Premium lets up to 29 people share a list, but TickTick sells one personal Premium plan and no team billing. Anyone running client projects with roles and permissions should look at our project management software ranking instead.

You sign up free, and the free plan has no expiry. When you upgrade, Premium is billed through Stripe, PayPal, Google Play or the Apple App Store. TickTick's Premium page lists only the annual plan. If Premium lapses, TickTick keeps all your data and returns you to the free limits.

Where the free plan runs out. The plan comparison sets each limit side by side. Free allows 9 lists and Premium 299; tasks and notes per list go from 99 to 999; attachments from 1 to 199 a day; checklist items from 19 to 199 per task; reminders from 2 to 5 per task; members on a shared list from 2 to 29; and habits and countdowns from 5 to 299. By our arithmetic, the free plan caps you at 891 active tasks across all lists.

Which limit bites first depends on how you work. A student with one list per class hits the 9-list cap in the first semester. A habit tracker user hits the 5-habit cap within a week. Someone who sets an early and a day-of reminder on every task is already at the 2-reminder limit. A couple sharing one grocery list, on the other hand, can stay on the free plan indefinitely.

Prices were read on November 4, 2026 on TickTick's Premium page, Todoist pricing, Any.do pricing and Sunsama pricing. Premium is sold as one annual plan, and the free plan costs nothing. Eligible students, faculty and staff pay $37.99 for the first year through the education discount.

Yearly cost, compared like with like on annual billing: TickTick Premium at the price above, Any.do Premium $59.88 ($4.99 a month billed annually, our arithmetic), Todoist Pro $60 and Sunsama $204. Microsoft To Do is free with sync across web, iOS, Android and Windows. TickTick is the cheapest paid plan in this group by about $10 a year, a gap small enough that features should decide.

The 2026 increase in plain numbers. Premium rose by $14 a year, from $35.99 to today's rate, between February 26 and October 1, 2026, per archived copies of TickTick's own page. That is 39% more, our arithmetic, and it moved TickTick from far below Todoist Pro to just under it.

Refunds and renewals. TickTick refunds Google Play, PayPal and Stripe purchases within 14 days and none after; App Store purchases go through Apple Support. Cancel from the web app's Premium Account settings, or in your Apple account for an App Store subscription.

Methodology: list prices from each vendor's own pricing page read on November 4, 2026, with no promotions applied; past TickTick prices from web.archive.org copies of its Premium page. Yearly totals and percentages are our arithmetic on printed prices.

Buy Premium if you plan your day on a calendar and want habits and a focus timer in the same app. For that person, one yearly bill replaces a calendar planner and a habit app. Stay on free if your tasks fit in 9 lists and you never block time; the free plan has no expiry, so there is no clock forcing the decision.

Skip TickTick if you work in a team. Todoist Business, at $8 per user a month billed yearly, adds a shared team workspace TickTick does not sell; our Todoist review covers it. If you want software that schedules tasks for you rather than a planner you fill yourself, see the AI scheduling apps ranking and our Motion review. Techpresso covers tools like these in a short morning read; subscribe here.