Google Tasks vs IronWorker

Google Tasks is a free task-list tool for capturing and organizing to-dos across Google apps. Users can turn Gmail messages into tasks and return to the original email from the task. Tasks with a date and time appear in Google Calendar, where reminders are available; repeating schedules can be daily, weekly, monthly, or annual. Separate lists and starred tasks help organize work, and subtasks, due dates, and notifications are included. Tasks and lists sync across computers, phones, and tablets when signed in to the same Google Account. Access is available on the web at tasks.google.com and in side panels for Gmail, Calendar, Chat, and Drive. In Google Chat spaces, users can assign tasks to teammates, set deadlines, and track progress. Tasks assigned in shared Google documents appear in the assignee’s task list, but that feature is available on some Business and Enterprise plans. Google lists mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android. The plan costs nothing.

IronWorker is a container-based platform for running custom code as queued, asynchronous background tasks. It supports parallel processing, and jobs can run once, a set number of times or on a recurring schedule. Workers run in Docker containers and support Ruby, Python, PHP, Java,.NET, Node.js and Go. Tasks can be triggered by HTTP POST webhooks, other workers or IronMQ queues; the Iron.io dashboard displays task status and performance. The platform describes SSL connections, isolated Docker sandboxes and OAuth2 for task execution. Deployment choices include shared, dedicated, hybrid and on-premise environments. Listed uses include image and video processing, push notifications, ETL, email delivery and cron replacement. Basic costs nothing and includes five hours per month, one concurrency, 512 MB RAM and a 30-minute runtime. Standard costs $169 a month and includes unlimited hours with ten concurrency. Premium costs $699 a month. A 14-day trial is available only for non-dedicated clusters.