Your own version
Your own Todoist-style to-do app on your iPhone
If you use a handful of Todoist's features and would pay for the rest, you can make a to-do app that has exactly those. Describe your projects, how you jot tasks down and when you want reminding, and Borel writes a native iPhone app in Swift. You can try it on a live iPhone in your browser before it goes on your own phone.
Updated . Borel isn’t connected to Todoist.
“A to-do app for me: projects with a colour, tasks with an optional date, time and priority. A quick-add bar at the top understands words like "tomorrow 9am" or "every Monday". A Today screen shows overdue tasks, today and the next three days. Remind me at each task's time. Swipe right to complete, left to snooze until tomorrow.”
About Todoist
What people like about Todoist
In our words, from what Todoist says about itself.
- Quick Add, which turns one typed line into a task with its date.
- Projects and filter views that cut a long list down to what matters today.
- Reminders and both list and board layouts, even on the free plan.
Todoist lists its Beginner plan at $0 with 5 personal projects, and Pro at $5 a month billed yearly ($60) or $7 billed monthly, which adds 300 projects, a calendar layout and custom reminders.
Made for you
What your own to-do app can do
What the prompt above builds, and what you can change by asking Borel in plain words.
As many projects as you like
Nothing in an app of your own counts projects or filter views, because there's no higher plan to move to.
A quick-add bar that reads dates
Type "call the bank friday 10am" and the task lands on Friday at ten, with the words you used as its title.
A Today screen in your order
Overdue first, then today, then a short look ahead, sorted the way you actually plan a morning.
Gestures you choose
Swipe right to finish, left to move a task to tomorrow, long-press to change its project.
Said plainly
How it's different
- There are no shared projects, comments or team inbox: it's one person's list on one iPhone unless you add accounts.
- There's no desktop or web app to type into; it's built for your phone.
- Email-to-task and calendar feeds aren't included, though tasks can be added to the iPhone's own Calendar if you ask.
- Your app isn't Todoist and won't look or work like it: it has only what you ask Borel to build, and none of Todoist's own content.
- Your data stays in your own app: on your iPhone by default, or in your app's own database in Borel's cloud if you add accounts.
How to get yours
From the prompt to your home screen
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Start from the prompt
Change anything in it first: names, rules, screens. Borel asks what it needs to know, then writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI.
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Use it in your browser
It opens in a live iPhone simulator streamed from Borel's Mac, at no cost. Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month.
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Keep it on your iPhone
With Pro, from $20 a month, Borel Companion installs it with a free Apple ID, up to 3 apps at a time, and renews each one every 7 days while it runs.
Frequently asked questions
Not by itself. If you have your tasks in a CSV or text file, ask Borel for an import screen that reads it, or paste the few that matter by hand.
Yes. Describe the rule in words, such as every weekday or the first of each month, and Borel writes the repeat and works out the next due date.
No. Borel builds iPhone apps, so the list lives on your phone. With accounts, tasks are kept in your app's cloud database and appear on any iPhone or iPad signed in to it.
Building it and using it in your browser starts free on daily credits. Putting it on your iPhone with Borel Companion needs Pro, which covers every app you make rather than one.
Make your own to-do app
Start from the prompt on this page and change it until it's yours. Borel builds it while you watch.