Amazing Marvin vs Microsoft To Do

Amazing Marvin is a personal productivity app for organizing tasks and planning work. It supports recurring tasks, time estimates, color coding, focus sessions, time blocking, workload planning, and review reports. Users can choose Day Planning, List-Based, Spontaneous, or GTD workflows, and adjust more than 300 settings, layouts, themes, colors, and feature controls. Calendar sync is available, and imports are supported from Todoist, TickTick, Asana, ClickUp, and Google Calendar. The app runs on the web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Marvin Pro starts at $8 per month; annual billing costs $96 per year and saves 33%. The 14-day trial provides full access without a credit card, but after the trial users cannot add or complete tasks until subscribing. Support includes personal email contact, and community channels include Facebook Group, Discord, and Reddit. Users can cancel through settings at any time.

Microsoft To Do is a free personal task-management app for organizing daily work and focusing attention. Its My Day view shows a daily task list with suggestions, while unfinished items remain available for later. Tasks can include due dates, reminders, repeat schedules, steps, and notes. Separate lists help organize work, shopping, travel, or other activities. Lists can be shared through invitation links, although collaborators need Microsoft accounts. With the same account, tasks are stored in Exchange Online and appear automatically in To Do and Outlook; flagged email can also become tasks when enabled. Microsoft says synchronization and storage use encryption at rest and in transit, and the web app has undergone audits including SOC 2 Type 1. The app runs on web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Work or school accounts require an enabled To Do license and an Exchange Online mailbox. To Do does not display several Outlook Tasks fields, including dates, status, completion percentage, work hours, colors, and categories.