Plannie vs TickTick: the full comparison.
TickTick is a very good personal to-do app with real calendar views and two-way Google sync. Plannie is built for the household: one colour-per-member calendar, chores with rewards, a meal grid and a kitchen-tablet mode, at one flat price for everyone.
Feature by feature
| Plannie | TickTick | |
|---|---|---|
| Shared colour-coded family calendar | ✓ | ● Real day, week, month and agenda views (most on Premium) show your own tasks and subscribed calendars. No per-member colours or family-level calendar are documented. |
| Two-way Google & Outlook sync | Google & Outlook | ● Google Subscribing to Google Calendar syncs both ways. TickTick's help pages on other calendar subscriptions couldn't be read, so Outlook and iCloud inbound support isn't listed here. |
| Chores, tickets & rewards for kids | Premium | ● Habits Habit tracker (5 free, 299 on Premium) and recurring tasks, but habits are personal to one account. No rewards, points or kid mode. |
| Weekly meal planning | ✓ | ✗ |
| Shared + private lists | Household lists and private per-member lists | 2 shared members per list free Premium raises it to 29 shared members per list and 299 lists. Whether a Premium owner can share beyond 2 with free members isn't documented. |
| Sub-tasks & nesting | Items nest with sub-tasks, headers and paragraphs | 19 checklist items per task free, 199 on Premium |
| AI import of emails, photos & PDFs | Premium | ✗ Premium AI does voice capture with date and priority extraction and audio transcription. Photo, email and PDF import are not documented. |
| Wall display | Kiosk mode on any tablet | ✗ Widgets and desktop sticky notes only; no always-on display mode is documented. |
| Kids' accounts & per-member personal mode | Personal mode per device, kids included | One account per person, no family grouping |
| Open API & MCP for your own agents | Premium + MCP | ✓ Open API + MCP The Open API covers lists, tasks, tags, habits and focus records. TickTick also advertises an MCP server and a CLI. |
| Hardware to buy | None | None |
| Subscription | $99/yr whole household | $49.99/yr per account |
| 3-year cost, family of four | $297 (Premium) | $599.88 $49.99 × 4 accounts × 3 years. Paid monthly through the App Store it is $4.99 × 4 × 36 = $718.56. |
TickTick prices and plan limits from ticktick.com and its App Store listing, checked 18 September 2026. TickTick's help centre couldn't be read without JavaScript, so its other calendar subscriptions and MCP server are described only as far as its own pages state. In fairness, TickTick has a Pomodoro timer and native apps for Android, Windows and Linux; Plannie is a web app on those platforms.
Sources: ticktick.com/about/upgrade, developer.ticktick.com, TickTick App Store listing
Where the two part ways
TickTick is a personal system: one account with its own lists, habits and calendar. Sharing means inviting people into a list, and the free plan stops at 2 shared members. Plannie starts with the household: every member has a colour, every view puts their days side by side, and a six-year-old with a chore chart has as much of a place in it as a parent with a work calendar.
Both sync with Google Calendar in both directions. Plannie adds Outlook two-way, Apple and ICS feeds in, and a default sync-back so an event created on the kitchen tablet lands in your own Google calendar too. TickTick's calendar view shows your tasks and your subscribed calendars; it has no idea which member of the family an event belongs to.
The household layer is where the gap is widest. TickTick has habits; Plannie has chores with tickets and rewards a child can spend. TickTick has no meal planning; Plannie has a weekly grid that turns a recipe link into ingredients on the grocery list. Forward a school PDF to your Family Inbox and it becomes events under the right child. The tablet on the fridge runs kiosk mode and shows everyone's day at once.
Choose TickTick if…
You want the best personal to-do app you can get for $49.99/year, with habits, a Pomodoro timer and native apps on Windows, Linux and Android. Your family shares a couple of lists and nobody needs a kid account, a meal plan or a wall display.
Choose Plannie if…
You want one shared calendar where every member has a colour and every phone gets its own view. You want chores with rewards, a meal grid and an inbox that reads school paperwork, and you'd rather pay $99/year for the whole household than $49.99 per person.
Frequently asked
Is TickTick good for a family?+
It is good for the parent who runs it. TickTick has proper day, week and month views, habits, a Pomodoro timer and apps for every platform down to Linux. The family part is thin: the free plan shares a list with only 2 people, Premium is $49.99/year per account with no family plan, there is no kid account or per-member colour, and nothing for meals or rewards. Plannie starts from the household: one calendar with everyone's colour, chores with tickets, a meal grid, all under a single $99/year plan.
Does TickTick have a family plan?+
No. TickTick Premium is $49.99/year per account, and no family or team plan is documented. Two parents and two teenagers on Premium is $199.96/year, $599.88 over three years. Plannie Premium is $99/year for unlimited members, $297 over three years.
Does TickTick sync with Google Calendar both ways?+
Yes. Subscribe to Google Calendar inside TickTick and events you add, edit or delete sync in both directions; a separate integration shows TickTick tasks in Google. Plannie does the same two-way sync with Google and with Outlook, and each member's calendar takes their own colour in the family view. TickTick's help pages on other calendar subscriptions couldn't be read, so we don't list Outlook or iCloud for it either way.
Can TickTick handle chores and rewards for kids?+
Partly. You can share a list and assign tasks, set them to repeat, and each person can track up to 5 habits free or 299 on Premium. But habits belong to one account, and there are no tickets, points or rewards. In Plannie a chore is assigned to a child, they tick it off on the kitchen tablet or their own phone, tickets land in their balance and they spend them on rewards you set.
Can I keep TickTick and still use Plannie?+
Yes. TickTick publishes a 'Subscribe to TickTick' calendar URL, and Plannie takes any ICS feed as a subscribed calendar, so your dated tasks appear on the family calendar in your colour. The feed is one way; chores, meals, the Family Inbox and the wall display live in Plannie.