What’s new

• Themes. Pick Classic, Mono or Paper in Settings, then choose your own fonts for headings and body text. Each theme works in light and dark. Mono, Paper and custom fonts come with Tasks Plus. Pick a theme.
• Paper. Handwritten headings, a paper grain, checkboxes and buttons drawn by hand, and an ink tick when you finish something.
• A new start. New users answer a few quick questions: what brings you to Tasks, what you want to keep on top of, who you work with and which app you’re coming from. Tasks sets up a project around the answers, then a short tour lets you type a date, a priority and a tag and move a card on a real board. It’s in every language Tasks speaks.

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• @mentions in comments. Type @ in a comment to pick someone from the project. Work together.
• Repeat every few minutes or hours. Type “every 2 hours” or pick it in Custom. When you finish a repeating task, Tasks tells you when it’s next due. Repeating tasks.

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• Drop things onto tasks. Drag emails, images and PDFs straight onto a card on your board or into a task.
• Take a photo and attach it to a task.
• Voice input waits for you. In Accessibility settings, choose how long Tasks keeps listening through a pause, or have it listen until you tap.
• Reminders that keep up. Tasks shares out the reminders iOS keeps scheduled, so repeating ones never run out.
• Tag colours tuned for light and dark mode, with tag text that stays readable on both.
• Clearer boards. A board with no columns says why, one with every column hidden can show them again, and a drop that can’t happen tells you why.
• Apple Watch welcomes you with Sign in with Apple, shows your projects as they load and shows iCloud projects without signing in.
• A smaller download. The iPhone app went from 41 to 32 MB.

Fixes

• Quick add on Apple Watch works again.
• A moved task’s attachments keep loading after the original is deleted, and attachment names survive sync.
• Pulling down a column in a filter such as Scheduled adds the task to the last project you opened.
• Moved tasks keep their tags.
• Task titles keep their line breaks on cards.
• Task rows show at most three faces, with a count for the rest.
• The time tracking Live Activity no longer clips.
• Apple Reminders lists with an unnamed location alarm sync.
• Syncing no longer brings the Mac app to the front.
• Escape finishes editing first, then closes the screen.

• Made for iPhone Duo. Folded, Tasks shows one column at a time. Unfolded, the sidebar sits beside your board and columns line up side by side, with the + button and toolbar buttons where your thumbs are. See it.
• AI Assistants. Connect ChatGPT, Claude or another assistant, then add it to a project like a teammate. It can take tasks and leave comments. Set it up.

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• Say a task. Tap the waveform in Create Task, speak, and Apple Intelligence fills in the title, date, tags, priority and more. See how.
• Type it in plain words. Dates, repeats, priorities, places and tags are recognised as you type, in English, French, German and Spanish. Type / to pick a project.

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• Task settings. Choose how many lines each task shows, show dates as a countdown, and pick plain or rich link previews, with a live preview. Make it yours.

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• Easier sharing. Invite links with roles, a join limit and an expiry, Quick add for people you already work with, re-invites and leaving a project. Share a project.
• Simpler project setup. Name it, choose statuses from a template or an existing project, then pick fields. Edit any of them later from one Edit menu. Set up a project.
• Timers everywhere. A cleaner Lock Screen and Dynamic Island timer, the timer in your Apple Watch Smart Stack, and a live timer in the Mac menu bar.
• A new Settings. Preferences, Data & Integrations, Help & About, and Privacy & Legal, with a switch to turn analytics off.
• Open .tasks files from anywhere. Tap one in Files, Mail or AirDrop and Tasks asks before importing it.
• Sturdier sync. A brief sign-in hiccup no longer signs you out or drops unsynced changes, and one rejected change no longer holds up the rest.
• Paste images and PDFs into any text field in a task.
• Smaller touches. Clone a task with its comments, see when a task was created in View Activity, reorder subtasks, and richer Markdown with headings and inline code.

Fixes

• Weeks now start on the day your device uses.
• Moving several selected tasks on Mac works in one step.
• Links from Shortcuts and widgets open reliably, even when Tasks was closed.
• Images are no longer blurry.
• Timers start on tasks created before a project had a Time Tracking field.
• Logging out asks first.

• Time tracking. Start a timer on any task, or add a session by hand afterwards. The timer shows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and a Time Tracking field shows each task’s total. Track your time.
• Focus view. One task, a big timer and nothing else. On iPhone and iPad it can block the apps and websites you pick until you stop the timer. On Mac there’s a flip-clock timer.

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• Siri on iOS 27 and macOS 27. Ask Siri about the tasks and projects on your screen. Quick Create turns one sentence into tasks you review before they’re added, and every action is in Shortcuts. See what Siri can do.
• Apple Reminders, both ways. Pick the Reminders lists you want in Tasks and changes sync in both directions, on your device. Connect Reminders.

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• Location reminders. Get reminded when you arrive at or leave a place. Timed tasks can also ring as an alarm with Stop and Snooze. Set a reminder.
• Plain words. Type “team meeting every Monday at 4pm” and Tasks offers the repeat. On Mac, pick the project, tags, priority and assignee from the keyboard. Type a task.
• Keyboard shortcuts for changing the tags, assignee, priority and status of the selected task. All shortcuts.
• Markdown in titles, notes and comments: headings, lists, links and code blocks.
• Simpler project setup. Name it, pick statuses, often from a template, and choose only the fields you need, including the new Location and Time Tracking fields. Set up a project.
• Clearer boards. Subtasks are easier to follow, tasks can be marked canceled, and a filtered board can be saved as a Smart List. Views and Smart Lists.
• Mac menu bar. Add a task, open a project or Smart List, and check or stop your timer from any app.
• Extra-large portrait widgets on iOS 27, better PDF exports, better VoiceOver and Reduce Motion support, and fixes for search, ordering, reminders, sync, Siri, drag and drop and comments.

What’s new in 5.1

• Task Settings. Show a date or a live countdown on task cards, with a preview.
• Activity. See when a task was created and when it last changed.
• Duplicate a task with or without its comments.
• Subtasks. Add the first one in one tap and drag to reorder them inside the task.
• Voice input shows your words as you speak.
• Widgets. Changes from widgets and extensions show up in Tasks right away.
• Speed. Links and attachments load in the background, and busy lists scroll more smoothly.
• Notifications. Clearer notification and badge settings, and tidier titles in Live Activities.
• The Mac menu bar app can be hidden in Settings.

The launch post has the story behind each of these, with screenshots.

What’s new in 4.4.1

• Siri and Shortcuts. Create, find and update tasks, projects and more by asking Siri. Talk to Siri.
• More keyboard shortcuts for getting around and managing tasks. The shortcuts worth learning.

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• Clearer task creation. Options that fit the project you’re in, and a status picker.
• Simpler controls. Fewer, clearer add buttons and tidier context menus.
• Friendlier empty screens that help you get started.
• Faster and steadier. Performance, sync and translation improvements, plus bug fixes throughout.

What’s new

• Shortcuts for everything. Create, edit and delete tasks, comments, tags, statuses, priorities, types and collaborators from Shortcuts, set repeats when you create or edit a task, and search tasks, with IDs for advanced workflows. Every action is translated. Siri and Shortcuts guide.
• Clone tasks, subtasks and projects. Cloned subtasks keep their structure.
• Liquid Glass polish, and one Settings layout on Mac and iOS.
• Your projects first. The template picker shows your own projects before the built-in templates.
• Clearer drag to reorder. When a list can’t be reordered, Tasks tells you why.

Fixes

• PDF and image downloads and previews work again.
• Priority sorts in the right order.
• Restore Purchases works.
• Folder sync and the sidebar filter are fixed, along with an iOS crash.

Also in 4.3.1 to 4.3.3

• 4.3.1 (March 17, 2026) fixed Sign in with Apple getting stuck before the next step, and the order of tasks in columns.
• 4.3.2 (July 14, 2026) brought Bulk Add: type several tasks, or paste a plain text or Markdown list, then review them before saving. It also added backing up and restoring with .tasks files, a keyboard shortcut list on iPad and Mac with a customizable Add Anywhere shortcut on Mac, more reliable filters, sorting, Smart Lists, boards, search, widgets, Shortcuts and Apple Watch, a PDF export fix on Mac and a fix for tasks that took a long time to sync. Paste a whole list or save a backup.

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• 4.3.3 (July 15, 2026) fixed the pending count on the Home Screen, made the app smaller, stopped tasks with subtasks from disappearing and fixed a hang on monthly repeating tasks.

What’s new

• Repeat from completion. A task can repeat a set time after you finish it, instead of on fixed dates. Repeating tasks.
• A simpler status editor. Customizing a project’s statuses is cleaner and easier to follow. How statuses work.

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• Clearer sorting. Tasks sort by date, then priority, then your own order.
• A smoother start. Onboarding is simpler for new users.
• Faster. The app loads quicker and sync performs better.
• Better translations in Italian, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and 7 more languages.

Fixes

• Creating subtasks behaves properly again.
• The project list scrolls all the way to the bottom.

Also in 4.2.1 and 4.2.2

• 4.2.1 (February 21, 2026) made deletions reach your other devices, showed items inside folders again, improved how project pieces sync, and fixed the purchase status at launch.
• 4.2.2 (February 24, 2026) fixed folder sync, which I broke in 4.2.1. Folders that were out of sync needed correcting by hand once. I’m sorry about that, and thank you to everyone who emailed to tell me.

What’s new

• Smarter task creation. A new task understands where you’re adding it and fills in the right details for you. Add a task.
• Near-instant sync. Changes to the sync infrastructure make edits show up across your devices in close to real time. How sync works.
• Tappable links in the task detail screen.
• Easier attachments. Pick several images and PDFs at once, and they keep the order you added them in.
• A cleaner look. Small design improvements across the app.

Fixes

• Your purchase stays unlocked after closing the app.
• Images delete properly.
• Deleting a project works, without ghost notifications afterwards.
• The This Weekend and Next Weekend Smart List filters pick the right days.
• Text edits no longer revert if the app closes quickly.
• Fixes for collaboration, and a better German translation.

Also in 4.1.1 and 4.1.2

• 4.1.1 (January 26, 2026) made repeating tasks repeat when checked off from the detail screen, cleared leftover traces of deleted tags, made assignments and the long-press menu clearer, and closed the invite screen once you’re done.
• 4.1.2 (February 3, 2026) added Share and Action extensions so you can add tasks from other apps, pasting images and PDFs into the new task field, a smoother way to accept project invites, and sign in with email for when Sign in with Apple isn’t available. It also fixed an iPad crash, copied task links, tasks saving as “Unnamed Task” and the app name missing from Settings and notifications. Capture from other apps.

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