The Best To Do List Managers for Android

Smartphones have now become one of our family member to give tips do your work better and also manage your tasks for the day. Whether it taking down the list of items to buy for your kitchen or your do to things at office or planning an overseas adventure, having a good task and list manager is handy. We often keep forgetting lot of stuffs to do on a daily basis and to keep track of these you need a good to do list manager.

 There are plenty of tools to help you keep up with your to-dos, stay organized. Still, there were some that rose above the rest, and here they are, in no particular order:

Google Keep is a surprising contender, but a huge number of you rallied behind it. Not only is it simple, available on the web and for Android (sorry, iOS users), but it's fast, flexible, and easy to use. At its heart, Keep is a simple syncing notepad that can keep checklists, photos and images, voice notes, and other text notes synchronized across devices and stored in the cloud. It supports time and location-based reminders, in-note photos, and color-coded notes. Everything is stored on the web, it's easy to use, and if you're an Android user, it's practically there for you already—no hassle, and it's already on your device. There's no real barrier to entry—no accounts to set up, no lists to import or categories to set up, and so on.

At the same time, all of that ease-of-use makes it a very lightweight app that doesn't carry the features that other tools bring to the table. There are no recurring tasks, no calendar view, no sub-tasks or advanced features that make it useful for planning bigger projects or handling regular tasks. Even so, a number of you had good (and critical) things to say about Google Keep—praising it for its ease of use and reminding us that the best to-do app is the one you actually use, but also noting that it has its quirks and the fact that it's not available for iOS was a turn-off for some of you.

The beauty of Wunderlist lies in its simplicity. It easily syncs across all major computing platforms, and its interface is made up mostly of Tasks and Lists, which can even be shared with other users. If you're a paying Pro subscriber, you'll love the premium features, including the ability to assign tasks to others. Finally, thanks to a friendly collaboration, Astrid users can easily import data to Wunderlist in just a few easy steps .

Once you've created and named a new list, you can start adding tasks. You can prioritize tasks with a star, create due dates, and add reminders via e-mail or Android notification as necessary. When you open up the details of a task, you can also add notes and even subtasks. The recently added subtasks feature is a welcome addition that is great for anyone who uses Wunderlist to manage more complex to-dos. While this still doesn't turn Wunderlist into a powerful project management app, it certainly improves it significantly.

With 50 million users, Evernote is the best note taking app. The app has everything you need like being able to organize information from notebooks and sharing them with others. Android users can also use an automated transcription service that will turn speech into text. Evernote’s free service offers 60MB per month, if you’re looking for more storage space, a premium version with 16GB for uploads will cost you $45 annually. You can download Evernote from the Google Play Store.

When I installed Taskos Task List I was impressed by its small size (1.26MB installed.) When I started the app I was even more impressed by its clean presentation, and ease by which you can add a task, type it in or use the microphone. You can even call a contact from within the to-do list. You can modify a task by adding a priority (high, normal, or low), placing the task in a category (you can add your own), set an alert (date and time), and add a note. You can sort your tasks by date, category, or priority. Tasko does have a tutorial attached and comes with two widgets (4x4 and 1x4 sizes.). When a task is completed it does go into a Delete list and all items in that list can be deleted at once. Taskos does not have a calendar, but you can build a today, a tomorrow, a someday and any other list you desire, only one category per task.

I did have troubles syncing with Google tasks, and could not get the "shaking the phone to delete a task" function to work. I did try to contact the Taskos team via email to see if they are in the process of fixing these items, I did not hear back from them! The "Sync" screen title does say the process is in Beta. I don't know how long it has been in Beta or when it is expected to go live. If you want a slim, easy to use To-do app Taskos could be the one, but only if you don't need to sync up with another device or with a PC to-do process.

One great thing about Astrid is that although there is a ton of functionality, the sometimes unnecessary features don’t quite jump out at you like they do in Evernote. It comes across as a very simple and clean list manager, and that’s exactly what it is. Users can swiftly switch between their lists using the top task bar, share their lists with friends, classmates, family members, and co-workers, and can even “divvy up tasks” between users to take a “divide and conquer” approach to your to-do list. This is great for family members managing household chores, or a team working on a project. It’s simple to add descriptions, set reminders and even more. Best of all, it uses Google sign-in, so you don’t have to worry about remembering more usernames and passwords. The Chrome extension is great as well, and makes the application useful across multiple platforms. If there were a text editor to make my lists more flexible and more “free-flowing,” I might have switched to Astrid a long time ago— but after writing this guide I’m definitely thinking about it again!

Any.do is an all-in-one to do list manager and saves time organizing your family tasks, work projects and personal todo’s in one place, while collaborating with others to be more productive. This task planner makes it easy to coordinate your business, home, and personal life with a single app. Key features of Any.do includes seamless cloud sync, speech recognition, customizable time and location reminders, shared tasks, multimedia notes, and gesture support.

Remember the Milk is a task management app developed by Remember the Milk. Users can manage their to-do list anywhere. Add tasks, organize lists by priority, and sync with Remember the Milk online. You can download Remember the Milk from the Google Play Store here.