Should you build your own Any.do?
Manage personal tasks, lists, reminders, recurring items, and a daily planning flow
The core loop is small enough for a capable coding agent to produce a useful local version in one sitting. For Any.do, manage personal tasks, lists, reminders, recurring items, and a daily planning flow. The hard boundary is mobile capture, widgets, family features, calendar integration, and sync, plus cross-device reliability and workflow polish.
ENOriginal research content in English. Original prompt preserved in English.
Build a personal replacement for Any.do in an empty repository.
Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, SQLite, and desktop notifications; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: capture tasks, lists, and reminders, schedule or repeat them, work from a focused daily planning view, and keep history locally.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Create inbox, today, upcoming, someday, and completed views with fast keyboard capture.
Support projects, tags, due dates, start dates, priorities, notes, subtasks, and attachments.
Implement robust daily, weekly, monthly, and custom recurring rules with tests.
Add a focus view with one active task, timer, and optional desktop notification.
Provide search, saved filters, undo, and a completed-task archive.
Export and import a documented JSON format and make automatic local backups.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs.
Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out team assignment and comments.
Deliberately leave out two-way calendar or email synchronization.
Deliberately leave out native mobile apps and cloud accounts.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.The prompt opens pre-filled in your agent. Review it before running. · this prompt is generated from the build plan · improve it via PR
What would building your own look like?
Capture tasks, lists, and reminders, schedule or repeat them, work from a focused daily planning view, and keep history locally.
What you will need
- macOS, Windows, or Linux
- notification permission
- local SQLite database
People still pay for Any.do because task software is sticky because trust, speed, and ubiquitous capture matter more than the database schema. The recurring cost buys recurrence edge cases, notifications, sync conflicts, calendar APIs, mobile capture, and backups, not just the visible interface.
xmobile capture, widgets, family features, calendar integration, and sync
xperfect mobile sync
xcalendar and email integrations
xshared workspaces
xbehavioral coaching polish
Prefer something ready-made?
TTasks.orgA serious Android task list with recurrence and reminders; desktop and CalDAV sync are paidOpen source↗View all 4 alternatives to Any.do →· Licença, instalação e limitações em cada alternativa.
How much does Any.do cost?
- Monthly billing
- $7.99/mo$7.99/mo
- Per year
- $95.88/yr$95.88/yr
- Annual billing
- $59.88/yr38% cheaper than paying monthly
- On a Brazilian card, with 3.5% IOF
- R$41.75/moR$313/yr
Saved to My list. You will see a notice on this site when the price changes.
You complete the purchase on Any.do’s site. Vibe Radar does not handle payments.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | What is included |
|---|---|---|---|
| personal | $0/user | $0/user | 1.5 MB attachment limit; 1 priority tag; 5 Any.do Moment sessions/month; no numeric task/list cap published. |
| premium | $7.99/user≈ $7.99 | $4.99/user≈ $4.99 | Unlimited recurring tasks, reminders, color tags, and Moment sessions; larger attachments. |
| family | $9.99≈ $9.99 | $8.33≈ $8.33 | Up to 4 family members; up to 4 shared family boards. |
| workspace | $7.99/user≈ $7.99 | $4.99/user≈ $4.99 | 1 to unlimited members; unlimited boards; 100+ workflow templates. |
Free tier1.5 MB attachment limit; 1 priority tag; 5 Any.do Moment sessions/month; no numeric task/list cap published.
Billing termsmonthly + annual; Family is flat for up to 4 members; Workspace is per member
Additional costsWorkspace bills each member; Family is capped at 4 members and 4 shared boards.
verified 2026-10-20 · source ↗
Is it cheaper to build or buy Any.do?
Adjust the numbers: hours to build, your hourly rate, running costs and the subscription price.
Over 24 months, subscribing is cheaper.
Starting hours estimated from the analysis (one sitting). Does not price what you give up (support, integrations, security).
Can I rebuild Any.do?
Yes. A competent AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) can build a usable personal Any.do replacement in one session with the prompt on this page. It runs on your own machine or server with no subscription.
How much does Any.do cost?
Any.do costs about $7.99/mo (Premium, checked 10/20/2026), which is $59.88 per year. That’s what you save by replacing it with one prompt.
What do I lose by replacing Any.do?
Honestly: mobile capture, widgets, family features, calendar integration, and sync; perfect mobile sync; calendar and email integrations; shared workspaces; behavioral coaching polish. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Any.do?
Yes: Tasks.org (A serious Android task list with recurrence and reminders; desktop and CalDAV sync are paid) Vikunja (A capable Todoist replacement once you accept becoming its hosting department) Microsoft To Do (A polished free task manager, paid for with a Microsoft account rather than money) All 4 curated free alternatives are at https://viberadar.si/anydo/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.