Todoist Alternative: One Planner for More of Life
Play This Life vs Todoist for everyday planning. Think things through with Ginger, organize projects and routines, record workouts, and see your progress.
Get help with the planning, a place to do the work, and a record of your progress.
Play This Life is a Todoist alternative for people who want projects, chores, habits, routines, and workouts in one planner. Ginger, Play This Life’s AI assistant, helps you talk through what needs doing and turn it into a saved plan you can use and change.
Choose Play This Life when you want the thinking, organizing, and follow-through to connect—and your completed effort to build into wins, skills, and XP.
Why choose Play This Life?
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Start with what’s on your mind
Sometimes you have a task ready to add. Sometimes you have a feeling that the week is getting away from you, a project you haven’t defined, and several responsibilities competing for attention.
You can bring that unfinished thinking to Ginger. Talk through a decision, explore options, get help drafting something, or work out the next action. When you have something to organize, Ginger can help create and edit the saved work.
For example, you could ask:
I have a client proposal to finish, a bike repair to sort out, and a personal project I keep postponing. Help me decide what needs a date and what I can start with one small step.
Clarify the proposal’s deadline. Break the repair into an action you can take. Give the personal project a first step without forcing a date onto it. The conversation helps you make those decisions, then the planner keeps the result.
You can also add and edit tasks directly. Use Ginger when explaining what you mean is the easier way to organize it. Explore planning with Ginger.
Keep projects and everyday life together
The client proposal shares a week with groceries, reading, exercise, and the things you want to make for yourself. Play This Life gives those commitments one place to belong.
Use projects for work that needs smaller steps, chores for upkeep, habits for repeated practice, routines for sequences, and workouts for exercises and measurements. You can keep the plan small and add structure where it helps.
A project can stay open while you finish a step. You can see what you’ve already done and what remains, then pick up the next piece when you return.
Open the view that helps you do it
An end-of-day routine needs a sequence you can follow. A gym session needs its exercises, sets, reps, and weights. Play This Life gives both a dedicated view within your planner.
Follow your routine’s steps, work through your workout, and record the results. The useful detail stays with the activity. When you return, you have both a plan and a history of the work.
That makes the planner part of doing your day. You can move from discussing a project with Ginger to opening its next action, or from planning a workout to recording the sets you completed.
See the effort behind the finished tasks
Finishing the proposal and handling the bike repair are different kinds of work. Practicing a skill and keeping up with home add to the picture, too.
Play This Life records wins by day, week, and month. Completed work can earn Life XP and relevant skill and trait XP through an assessment of the recorded effort and context.
Your progress has detail beyond a count of checked boxes. Look back at what you finished and see it accumulate across the different parts of your life. See how personal progress works.
Play This Life vs Todoist: the everyday workflow
Todoist offers projects, recurring tasks, AI tools, voice capture with Ramble, and Karma. It can also reset sub-tasks within recurring tasks. The comparison here focuses on how you think through work, follow a plan, and recognize progress.
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| What you want to do | Play This Life | Todoist |
|---|---|---|
| Get thoughts into a plan | Discuss ideas, decisions, and drafts with Ginger; create and change saved work in the conversation. | Natural-language task entry, Ramble voice capture, and AI tools including task breakdown through the Task Assist extension on Pro and Business. |
| Organize work into steps | Projects with smaller actions, alongside chores, habits, routines, and workouts. | Projects, sections, tasks, and sub-tasks. |
| Follow repeated work | Habits and step-by-step routine views; workout views with planned sets and recorded results. | Recurring tasks with sub-tasks that can reset for the next occurrence. |
| Recognize progress | Wins across your life, with assessed Life XP and relevant skill and trait XP. | Karma points and levels, daily and weekly task goals, and streaks. |
Choose Play This Life for a connected experience across thinking, planning, doing, and progress. It gives your projects and everyday responsibilities useful structure, with Ginger there to help you figure things out and keep the plan manageable.
Questions about this Todoist alternative
How is Ginger different from voice task capture?
Ginger supports an ongoing conversation: you can explore an idea, ask questions, draft something, and create or change saved plans. Todoist describes Ramble as a tool for capturing tasks as you speak. Todoist also offers separate AI tools, including the Task Assist extension on Pro and Business for suggestions and breakdowns.
What does Play This Life cost?
Try every feature free for three days with a card on file, then $10 USD per month plus applicable taxes. Cancel before the trial ends and you pay nothing. See current pricing.
Bring the week you need help with
Start with the unfinished thought, the project you want to move forward, or the routine you want to build. Let Ginger help you shape it, then put the plan to work.
One planner for your life, with help making it happen. Start with Ginger.
Written by the Play This Life team. Selected features reviewed 26 October 2026 using current product information and Todoist’s official feature and help pages. The proposal example is illustrative; the screen shows example product data.