Recently a new startup in Germany released a task manager, called wunderlist. As I already did some reviews about GTD applications for the iPhone and because wunderlist is free I checked it out on day one. Not so impressive in my opinion. Good application, but requires some work to be really useful.
Today the iPad application called wunderlist HD has been released, again with great buzz around it. Downloaded it. Again not so impressive. Decided to write about it.
Don’t get me wrong, wunderlist and wunderlist HD look beautiful. They are developed using the Appcelerator platform which makes development for multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android….) relatively easy. Wunderlist offers cloud syncing. And it is actually a real, released product.
But in the end I think there are other alternatives (ToDo, 2Do, Toodledo to name a few) that are around way longer, offer more features and work faster (wunderlist sometimes reacts slowly). Also faster in terms of task entry and efficiency for me, the user. Furthermore others have proven over years to work and sync reliable and they improved their features over time…
So I really wonder what’s so wunderbar about wunderlist? To me it solves an already solved problem with more buzz, that’s it…
2 comments
Steve · 24.02.2011 at 15:49
Servus!
Full ACK, i´ve, also because no Android and GNU/Linuxversion was available, given Toodledo a chance and use it in connection with “Got To Do Pro” und “Agenda Widget Plus” on Android including the Firefoxaddon on my laptops and have to say it´s an extraordinary combination.
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I then even proceeded and got me a PRO-account (for subtasks and longer data retention) and i´m very content with it
Liebe Grüße,
Steve
Vlad · 25.02.2011 at 21:28
Hi,
cannot really speak for iPhone version, but Windows desktop version I’ve been using for couple of months now is very decent. I search for such minimalist app for quite some time. Guess the difference is caused by platforms themselves. While for iPhone there are better alternatives, for Windows not so much. At least I didn’t find any that wouldn’t be too massive, offline, paid or anything other than useless.
Vlad