TickTick packs a task list, calendar view, habits and a Pomodoro timer into one tidy app. Pidgy reads your Outlook and Gmail and writes the tasks for you, then plans them into your week and scores how on top of things you are.
TickTick is a deservedly popular all-in-one: tasks, a built-in calendar view, habit tracking, an Eisenhower matrix and an achievement score, on every platform, for about $36 a year. You still feed it by hand, by typing or by forwarding an email so it splits the lines into tasks. Pidgy starts a step earlier. It reads every email in Outlook and Gmail and the to-dos write themselves, including the commitments you made in a reply, then groups them into projects, drops them into calendar blocks with Plan mode, drafts the reply, and chases what stalls. You can still add tasks by hand. Pick TickTick for a cheap, mature personal productivity suite. Pick Pidgy if the work that gets lost is hiding in your inbox.
How Pidgy and TickTick compare on the things task-driven professionals actually ask about.
| Capability | Pidgy | TickTick |
|---|---|---|
| Where tasks come from | Auto-extracted from every email |
Type, or forward an email to split into tasks |
| Captures commitments you made in replies | Promises become to-dos |
Not detected |
| Natural-language quick add | Via Ask Pidgy and email |
Smart date parsing built in |
| Plan tasks into your calendar | Plan mode: drag into time blocks |
Calendar view + Google Calendar sync (Premium) |
| Project overview with live progress | Built from your inbox, with % |
Lists and folders, no auto progress |
| Motivation score | Inbox Health score, daily |
Achievement score and levels |
| Habits, Pomodoro, Eisenhower matrix | Not offered |
All built in |
| Drafts the reply, not just the task | In your voice, you hit send |
Out of scope |
| Chases stalled follow-ups | Queues the chase for you |
Reminders only |
| Mobile apps and offline | Early access, web-first |
All platforms, offline |
| Pricing | Early access |
Free; Premium about $36/yr |
TickTick is one of the best-value task apps going. The gap is everything that happens before you type.
TickTick can turn a forwarded email into tasks, neatly splitting each line, and it connects to Gmail and Outlook for capture. But you still forward the message, and it never reads the rest of your inbox.
Pidgy reads your inbox as mail arrives and drops the action items straight into a ranked list, including the commitments you made in your own replies. You start the day with the list already written, and can still add your own tasks by hand.
In TickTick you organise with lists, folders and tags that you maintain, with no rollup of progress.
Pidgy groups every email, document and task about one piece of work into a single view with a live progress percentage, without you sorting a thing.
TickTick Premium adds a genuinely useful calendar view and Google Calendar sync, so you can see tasks against your week.
Pidgy's Plan mode goes one step further for inbox work: it lays the tasks from your email into calendar blocks in one move. Drag where they fit, pick a duration, set a reminder, and Add to calendar.
Habit tracking, a Pomodoro timer, the Eisenhower matrix and a gamified achievement score are all built in, on every platform, for around $36 a year. Pidgy does not do habits or Pomodoro.
If you want one inexpensive app for all of personal productivity, TickTick is hard to beat. Pidgy is the better fit when the tasks that slip are the ones buried in email.
Four things happen on their own, from the moment an email lands. This is the part TickTick leaves to you.
Both are good tools. They start from different ends of the same problem.
The to-dos that write themselves, from the inbox you already live in.
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