Todoist alternative: reminders in WhatsApp

Updated October 2026. Prices and features checked against each product's own website.

If you're looking for a Todoist alternative because the list keeps growing and you've stopped opening the app, a reminder assistant inside WhatsApp may suit you better. Mindie keeps reminders, notes and short lists in a WhatsApp chat, so they reach you in the app you already check all day.

Todoist is a strong product, and for many people it's the right one.

Mindie

on WhatsApp

• Plain words

  Remind me Friday at 3pm to send the proposal

• Recurring

  Every Monday at 9am remind me to plan the week

• Before a deadline

  The tax form is due on 15 April. Remind me a week before

The short answer

• Stay with Todoist if you manage projects: sections, priorities, labels, filters, subtasks, boards, shared projects with a team.
• Try Mindie if you mostly used Todoist for "remind me to..." and short lists, and the reminders get lost among app notifications.

At a glance

Where Todoist is better

Todoist is built to organise a lot of work. You can break a project into sections and subtasks, sort by priority, filter by label and share projects with a team. Its repeat rules are still more flexible overall. Mindie covers the common ones, like "every weekday", "every other week" or "every 3 months", but Todoist handles more patterns. If those are why you use it, Mindie is not a like-for-like swap.

Where Mindie fits

Mindie is a contact in your WhatsApp. You text it the way you'd text a friend ("pay rent on the 5th at 10am"), or send a voice note or a screenshot, and it replies with the time it understood. If you leave out a time, it asks. At the right moment it messages you in the same chat, and you reply to move or cancel the reminder.

The difference is where the reminder arrives. A to-do app notification is one of dozens on your lock screen. A WhatsApp message from Mindie sits between your chats, where you look anyway. There's also no list to maintain: ask "what's on this week?" and Mindie tells you, and every Sunday it sends a recap of the week ahead.

Using both

Many people keep Todoist for projects and use Mindie for the time-bound things that have to happen: bills, appointments, follow-ups, renewals. Mindie doesn't sync with Todoist, so pick one home for each kind of task and keep it there.

Price

Mindie is free for 7 days with every feature. A card is saved at checkout, nothing is charged during the trial, and Mindie texts you two days before it ends. After that it's $9 a month or $90 a year, with a 7-day money-back guarantee on the first payment. Cancel any time by texting "cancel". See pricing or start your trial.

Questions

Mindie isn't affiliated with the products named here. What's said about them is general and can change, so check their own sites for current features and prices. Checked on 31 October 2026.