It’s good, but obvious features are still missing

The app is good, but it is unnecessarily labor intensive and over-engineered to accomplish simple time-management tasks. If you have complex todos (e.g. running a small business, or you are a hardcore task-oriented person), this app could be for you. If you want simple todo lists, I’d definitely suggest you consider other options.

The developers also took a turn trying to make it into a quasi-enterprise tool so there are a bunch of features (e.g. comments which couldn’t be deleted until several releases later) that just seem poorly thought out. The developers should be spending their time in perfecting the comsumer product.

However, many obvious features common to these types of apps are still missing:
- Easily dragging tasks from one day or list to another, regardles of the view.
- Easily moving items ahead 3 days or a week.
- Calendars don’t list the days of the week, only the dates. So for example: You’ve got a task you want to move from today to next Thursday. If you open the calendar you can’t see Thursday, you see dates, so you need to calculate in your head or look on a separate calendar what day that is. Why? Is it a German thing?
- If the system sync’s while you’re typing, you lose what you’re typing.
- When editing subtasks, you can’t see the cursor so you will often make mistaken edits or deletes. Which is especially annoying because...
- No undo function. I see it grayed out in the bar, so I presume it works at some point, but it’s always grayed out when I’ve lost content. Why?
- Group edits is a surprisingly weak and under-implemented feature, especially on the mobile version. For exmaple: Let’s say you have a list with 10 items and you want to move all to 3 days from now. On mobile changing the day ahead 3 days requires 5 steps (select, open date window, select new date, click done, close drawer). But then I want to move the whole list. Because there is no batch edit, that means it will take FIFTY steps simply to move a list from today to three days from now. Why?
- Staring an object sometimes moves it to the top of the list like the app says it will. Sometimes it doesn’t. Why?
- The desktop version of this app crashes about 3x per week. Why?

I do like this app, and I’ve been using it for years because it’s certainly one of the best and most powerful task apps on the market. Which just makes the fact that some of the most basic, easy and common features and stability present in nearly every task app have been missing from Wunderlist for years all the most frustrating.

jallenv about Wunderlist: To-Do List & Tasks