Use case · cross-platform
Apple Reminders is genuinely good — but it's Apple-only. If your life isn't 100% Apple, here's a free task manager that runs on iPhone, Android, and the web, with one synced list.
iPhone · Android · Web · one synced list, free
Let's be fair to Apple Reminders first, because it deserves it: it's free, it's already on your iPhone, Siri can add to it hands-free, Smart Lists are genuinely useful, and since the iOS 17-era overhaul it's a properly good task app. For someone fully inside Apple's world, Reminders is often all they need, and there's no shame in that. This is not a “we beat Reminders” page.
The reason you're looking for a cross-platform Apple Reminders alternative is almost always one specific thing: Reminders is Apple-only. No Android app. No real Windows app. The web version is limited and tied to iCloud. So the moment your life isn't 100% Apple — an Android phone, a Windows work laptop, a partner who isn't on iPhone, a shared list someone on Android needs to see — Reminders quietly stops being the answer.
Todoing.ly is a task manager built cross-platform from the start:
iPhone
A native app, with a Today widget and an Apple Watch complication — so the Apple side still feels at home.
Android
A native Android app — the platform Reminders has never reached.
Web
A full app in any browser, on any computer — Windows, Mac, Linux.
The same list, synced in real time across all three, free. If you're switching specifically because Reminders won't follow you off Apple devices, that's the gap this closes.
Unlimited tasks and projects, recurring tasks, reminders and notifications, natural-language dates (“tomorrow 4pm”), Inbox / Today / Calendar views, and cross-device sync — all free, no cap. There's an optional Pro tier (shared projects, premium themes and icons), but cross-platform sync and the core task manager are free.
We're not going to oversell this. Apple Reminders has things Todoing.ly does not: deep Siri integration, system-level tagging and Smart Lists, location-based reminders wired into iOS, and the simple fact that it's already installed and costs nothing. If you are all-Apple and happy, the honest advice is to stay with Reminders. Todoing.ly's case is specifically the cross-platform one: you have non-Apple devices in your life and you need one list that works on all of them.
iPhone, Android, and the web — synced in real time, free to start. Stay on Reminders if you're all-Apple; switch if you're not.
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