TickTick alternative: Superhive vs TickTick, Todoist and Structured

TickTick's pitch is simple: several apps in one, for less than many single-purpose apps cost. It earns its fans.

• •Calendar view. Tasks with dates and times show on a day, week or month calendar, so the list and the schedule live in one app.
• •Habit tracker. Daily habits with check-ins and streaks, kept apart from your tasks.
• •Pomodoro timer. A focus timer is built in, so you do not need a second app for 25-minute rounds.
• •Eisenhower matrix. A view that sorts tasks into the four urgent and important quadrants. Our Eisenhower matrix guide explains the method.
• •Fast capture. Type the task with its date and time in the same line and TickTick picks them out.
• •Everywhere. Apps for phones, the web and desktop computers, so it fits almost any setup.

• •Density. Every feature brings its own view, menu and settings. Some people end up maintaining the system more than doing the work.
• •Lists grow faster than days. The calendar helps, but the starting point is a list, and it is easy to give 15 tasks today's date when the day has room for 5.
• •Five places to look. Tasks, calendar, habits, focus and the matrix are five views of the same day. Some people want one screen that says what happens next.
• •No line to the bigger picture. TickTick organizes by lists, folders and tags. If you want each task to move a long-term goal with milestones and a date, you build that structure yourself.

Four apps, four ideas of what a planner is. Prices are approximate as of November 2026 and vary by region and billing, so check each store.

Reading across: TickTick has the most features, Todoist the best list and integrations, Structured the clearest picture of one day. Superhive starts somewhere else. It begins with a few goals, puts their tasks on today as blocks, and closes the day with a shutdown. Goals, the day view and the shutdown are all free, so the difference costs nothing to try.

Here is the same Tuesday, planned two ways.

• •As a list: 14 tasks due today across 4 lists, 5 habits to check off and a matrix with 6 tasks in urgent and important. You start with whatever is on top and end the day moving 8 of them to tomorrow.
• •As blocks: the 11:00 meeting goes in first, then Draft chapter 3 from 9:00 to 10:45 for the book goal, a run at 13:00 for the half marathon goal, one 30-minute batch of small tasks at 16:00, and the rest of the list left for another day on purpose.

The second plan is shorter and more likely to get done, because it was checked against the hours before the day began. You can build it in TickTick's calendar view with some discipline. Superhive makes it the default: tasks with a length land as blocks in the free time around your events, and the daily shutdown moves what did not happen to tomorrow. Our guide to time blocking covers the method itself.

In Superhive a task can sit under a goal. A goal can have a date, milestones on the way and a pace that tells you how fast you need to move, so when you plan tomorrow the question is not what is overdue but what moves a goal. Each goal shows its streak, its progress and the days left, and the progress screen adds a weekly momentum score compared with your own past weeks.

If you rely on TickTick's habit tracker, know this before you switch: Superhive has no separate habit tracker. Things you repeat are recurring tasks, a Pro feature, usually under a goal, so read 20 pages sits under Read 24 books this year instead of living in its own tab.

Todoist is the closest like-for-like swap: a list-based task manager with excellent natural-language input, projects, labels, filters, many integrations and very good apps everywhere. It has a free plan, and Pro is around $5 a month billed yearly. There is no habit tracker or Pomodoro timer, so it is calmer than TickTick, but it is still list first. See Todoist alternatives.

Structured is TickTick's opposite: one visual timeline for today, very simple, iPhone first with Android and web versions (the Android app has fewer features), and AI that turns a description into tasks. It does not tie tasks to long-term goals. See Structured alternatives.

If you want the computer to plan the day for you, Motion auto-schedules tasks around your meetings for roughly $19 to $29 a month billed yearly. Superhive does not do that. More in Motion alternatives.

• •You use the habit tracker every day and want habits kept apart from tasks.
• •You work in Pomodoro rounds. Superhive's focus sessions are a timer for one task, not a Pomodoro timer with configurable rounds and breaks.
• •You want native desktop apps. Superhive runs in the browser on a computer and can be installed from Chrome as an app, but there is no native Mac or Windows app.
• •You like the Eisenhower view, kanban boards and custom filters. Superhive has priorities, not a matrix.
• •You use most of it. At around $50 a year for everything, TickTick is hard to beat on value.

If you open your planner and feel behind before you start, the problem is usually the shape of the plan, not your discipline. Fewer tasks, placed in time, fix more than another view.

1. 1.
   Keep a backup: TickTick can export your data from its settings.
2. 2.
   Choose 2 or 3 goals and create them in Superhive before any task.
3. 3.
   Move only what is active, roughly the next 2 weeks. There is no import from TickTick, but quick add reads the date, time, priority and goal from plain words, in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
4. 4.
   Turn the habits you actually keep into tasks under a goal, and let the rest go.
5. 5.
   Give today's tasks a length, plan about 6 of your 8 hours, and close each day with the shutdown for a week before you decide.

Superhive is free on iPhone, Android and the web, with no ads. Pro, which adds calendar import, recurring tasks, focus sessions and replan, is $8.99 a year with a 3-day trial, $2.99 a month or $24.99 once.