Yahoo! has acquired Astrid, your favorite to-do manager, and one of the best for Android. The company didn't specifically say they're shutting down as part of the move to the Yahoo! tent, but the language from their blog post definitely sounds like it. If you're an Astrid user, it's probably time to look for alternatives.
The news just popped this afternoon, and I found out about it when I refreshed my to-do list and saw the banner notification at the top of the screen. While the announcement (linked below) doesn't expressly say that Yahoo! will shut Astrid down, this paragraph is particularly ominous:
Over the next 90 days, Astrid will continue to work as is, and we will no longer be accepting new premium subscriptions. To make future changes as easy as possible, we?ll be in touch with users shortly to share how to download data.
If Astrid does shut its doors for good, you have plenty of great, functional alternatives. We looked at several in our last Hive Five on to-do list managers. Here are some other alternatives:
- Wunderlist (Win/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS): Wunderlist is our favorite to-do app for Android (although we were planning an update and Astrid was looking like a strong contender for first place), for the Mac, for Windows and for Linux. Wunderlist recently updated and added a slew of new features, including long-awaited recurring items, notifications, and more. They even added new features for groups and to-do sharing just last week.
- Any.Do (Chrome/Android/iOS): Any.Do has syncing mobile apps and a Chrome extension that works anywhere Chrome does. The new Any.Do Moment feature helps you stay organized with a daily overview of your to-dos before you dive in, and it even hooks into Gmail to turn your emails into tasks. We're just waiting on them to build a webapp, and they'll be next to perfect.
- Orchestra (iOS): If you have an iPhone, Orchestra is our pick as the best for the platform. It's fast, flexible, and free.
- Clear (iOS/Mac) and Koalcat's Clear: (Android) Clear is pricey ($15 on the Mac?one sale now for $7?and $2 for the iPhone) but its minimalist, color-coded approach to to-do lists makes it a great alternative if you just want to focus on getting things done, not boxes and checkmarks and features. Koalcat's Clear for Android isn't affiliated at all with the developers of Clear, but since they've said they're not making an Android version, one enterprising dev did it himself. He's offering his version for free, without ad support, and we think it's worth a look.
- Google Tasks (Web/Android/iOS): Part of Google Calendar and Gmail, Google Tasks is free, probably already available to you, and ubiquitous across Google's apps. It supports to-dos, turning emails into to-dos, recurring tasks, and hooks into Google Calendar for scheduling and appointments. It's not the sexiest to-do manager, and it doesn't have the added features, notifications, and other productivity tools that makes the rest of the apps here stand out, but hey?it probably won't shut down on you.
If you have an alternative we haven't mentioned, share it in the discussions. For more tips, check out our guide on moving on when a service you love shuts down. Granted, Astrid hasn't officially said they're shutting down, so there's hope yet, but it doesn't look good. Hopefully these alternatives will help you get back up and running quickly if or when they do. If not, there's always pen and paper.
Yahoo! Acquires Astrid | Astrid Blog
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