What it does
Hoq Todo is a to-do list for you, the people you share lists with, and the AI agents that work for you. Each task is someone's move: yours, someone else's, or an agent's. A task handed off leaves your Today and comes back when it is your move again.
Each task has a soft day and, when it matters, a hard deadline. Planned tasks roll forward quietly and nothing turns red. Quick add reads phrases like "rent every 15th" and "call the vet tomorrow at 3pm". Reminders arrive by push with the app closed.
An agent such as Claude or ChatGPT keeps its own list beside yours and never writes on yours. When it wants to email someone for you, you see the message and say yes or no. After three yeses you can let it go ahead for people you already approved, up to ten times a day.
Your list is one file in your own Hoq Storage. It syncs to Reminders on iPhone and Mac, Thunderbird and Android task apps over CalDAV, and imports from Things, Todoist, TickTick or any CSV.
In numbers
25 MBper attached file
10emails a day an agent may send for you without asking, once you allow it
5looks, each with a light and dark side
1 weekbefore an agent's unused suggestion expires
Specifications
| Where your list lives | One file in your own Hoq Storage. |
|---|---|
| Phone and computer sync | CalDAV: Reminders on iPhone and Mac (with Siri), Thunderbird and Android task apps, both ways, a password per device. |
| Import | Things (its own database file), Todoist or TickTick exports, or any CSV, with a preview first. |
| Export | Download a readable copy of everything at any time. |
| Offline | Changes made offline are kept on the device and saved when you reconnect, even if you were signed out. |
| Agents | Eleven MCP tools; an agent writes only to its own list and asks before it emails anyone. |
| Email in | Forward anything to your list's private address. |
| Attachments | Up to 25 MB per file, kept in your own Hoq Storage. |
| Backups | Every changed list is copied nightly into its owner's Hoq Storage, kept two weeks, and test-restored weekly. |
| Sign-in | Hoq ID. |
Features
89 features, all in beta. Listed from the product's feature ledger; each row shows the day it was last checked.
| Your own list on first visit | Signing in makes your personal list as one file in the Todo folder of your Hoq Storage and opens it. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Today, This Evening, Upcoming, Anytime, Someday, Logbook | Every task lands in one of these by its soft date, with no setup. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Quick add | One line understands days, "tonight", "by" deadlines, times, repeats, estimates and #tags, and shows what it understood before you press Enter. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Soft dates and hard deadlines | A planned day rolls forward quietly; only a real deadline turns amber, never red. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Repeats | Fixed repeats (every 15th, last Friday) and repeats counted from when you finish ("every! 3 days"). | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Steps, notes, tags and lists | Break a task into steps, write notes, tag it and file it in a list. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Shopping lists | A list can be a shopping list: checked items clear, and past items come back as one-tap suggestions. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Completion that feels like it | The task gets lighter as the strike draws through it, with an optional rising chime and Undo. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Undo anything | Every change is in the task's history with who made it, and can be undone unless it changed since. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Keyboard and command palette | One key per action, J/K to move, and ⌘K to search or jump anywhere. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Phone layout | Bottom bar, a thumb-reach add button and a drawer for everything else. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Works offline | Changes made offline are kept on the device and saved when you reconnect. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Phone and computer sync | Your lists appear in Reminders on iPhone and Mac (with Siri and the widget), Thunderbird and Android task apps over CalDAV, with changes both ways and a password per device. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Attachments | Attach files to a task (up to 25 MB each, or drop them on it); they live in your own Hoq Storage, and pictures show a preview. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
1 more in Your list
| Search | Finds every word in any order, ignores accents, and looks in notes, steps, comments, tags and attachment names too. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Agents keep their own lists | An agent adds to its own list, which you can see and add to; it never adds to yours directly. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Asks | When an agent needs you, its question appears in your Today as "needs you", and your answer hands it back. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Handing work to an agent | Hand a task with what "done" looks like and a budget; the agent reports progress and returns it ready for review with proof. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Suggestions that expire | Agents and Hoq suggest tasks into a tray; nothing joins your list until you add it, and suggestions expire after a week. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Letting go | After a task has moved forward several days, Hoq offers once to let it go, shrink it or keep it. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Brain dump | Write what is on your mind; Hoq sorts it into suggested tasks you look over and add, one at a time or all at once. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Make it smaller | Hoq proposes small steps for a task you keep putting off, the first one tiny; you pick which to keep. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Your week | A one-screen letter on Sundays: what you finished, what keeps slipping, deadlines coming, and what is worth deciding. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Weekly review | Go through what has gone stale one card at a time: today, later, someday or let it go, by key or by swipe. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Assistant on or off | Turn the Hoq assistant off in Settings; everything else keeps working. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| MCP for agents | Eleven tools at /mcp/todo, with each agent's writes labelled from its own key. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Agents ask before todo acts | An agent asks to send an email for you; you see the message and say Send it or Not this one, and replies come to you. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Trust you give an agent | After you have said yes three times, you can let an agent email people you already approved without asking (up to 10 a day), and take that back on its page. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Checks on handed work | When you hand a task to an agent, Todo can check the proof (a confirmation number, every step ticked, a page showing certain words) and close it when it passes. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
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| Agent spending | Each agent's page shows this month's spend; a monthly limit stops work that would go past it. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| What agents did | One feed of every step your agents took, newest first, with costs. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Agents hold calendar time | An agent can ask to hold time on your Hoq Mail calendar; it goes on after your yes. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Agents send links | An agent can ask to email someone a link to one of your tasks; it goes after your yes. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Connect your own agent | Give Claude, ChatGPT or your own agent a key from the sidebar; it gets a list of its own beside yours, and you can disconnect it from its page. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Agents invited to a shared list | Give an agent a key to one shared list; it works there as itself, sees none of your other lists, and you can turn it off. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| A first step for a stuck task | When a task has sat untouched for over a week, Hoq offers once a two-minute first step you can accept or ignore. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Waiting on | Tasks handed to someone, or waiting on something with a check-back date, gather in one view. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Comments | Talk on a task; choose whether the person you sent it to can see each message. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Reminders | Reminders arrive as notifications, or by email when notifications are off, even while the list is put away. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Import | Bring your list from Things (its own database file), a Todoist or TickTick export or any CSV, see a preview, then add. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Export | Download a readable copy of everything; the list itself is your own file. | Checked 2026-10-03 |
| Shared lists | Make a list with other people by email, kept by you or by an organization you run; everyone sees every task in it and changes appear as they happen. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Move to a shared list | Move a task from your own list into a shared one (or into a new one made on the spot); it arrives with its steps, comments and history. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Shared work in your Today | Tasks handed to you in any shared list show up in your own Today and Waiting on, marked with the list they live in. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Notifications from shared lists | Being handed a task, @mentioned, commented on or seeing a task finished tells you, bundled for five minutes and held to daytime in your time zone. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Email to your list | Each person gets a private address; what you send or forward there lands in your Inbox, the subject as the task. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Your Hoq Mail calendar | Connect it with your Hoq ID; Todo gets a calendar-only key for the mailbox you pick and shows its events beside your tasks. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Add to Todo from Hoq Mail | A message's menu in Hoq Mail opens Todo with the subject, sender and a link back already filled in. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Calendar beside your tasks | Add a calendar by its secret address and see its events, read-only, on Today and Upcoming. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| How much fits today | Today compares your time estimates with the free time left on your calendar before evening. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
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| Links for people without an account | Send one task to someone by link, no account, nothing else from your list; they tick steps, message you and mark it done, and you are told. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Welcome | A new person's Today shows four first steps that tick themselves off and hide for good. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Landing page | Visitors without an account see what Todo is, on a page that opens on today's date. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Help | Eighteen short help pages at /help, checked against what the app does. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Terms and privacy | Plain-language terms and a privacy page that says what is kept, where, and who sees it. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Status page | /status and /status.json show whether lists, reminders, notices, email in, the assistant, live updates, backups and capacity are working. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Leave Todo | Removes what the service keeps about you outside your files and takes you off shared lists you did not make; your files stay. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Accessibility | Every page passes the WCAG 2 A/AA checks in light and dark. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Big lists | Lists of ten thousand tasks open quickly; long views show two hundred tasks and load more as you scroll. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Keyboard and screen readers | Skip to tasks, every task opens from the keyboard, panels hold and return focus, ? lists every shortcut. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Offline | Changes made offline show as not synced yet and save when you reconnect, even if you were signed out meanwhile. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Phone gestures | Swipe right to finish a task, left for Later; pull down to refresh in the installed app. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Areas | Group lists and projects under areas like Home and Work; removing an area keeps its lists. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Projects | Lists you finish, with a start, a due date, a progress ring, and Finish project that closes what is left. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Headings | Split a list into parts, add straight under a heading, and move a heading to another list with its tasks. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
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| Assign | Give a task on a shared list to another member; it counts on their load and they are told. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Team | See what each member has open, today, this week and past its deadline, and filter a shared list to one person or to yours. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| What happened | Everything people and agents did on a shared list, newest first. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Mentions | Type @ in a comment for the names on the list; the person is told. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Morning email | Optional email at 7 with what is yours today across your shared lists. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Templates | Save a list, project or task as a template and start a fresh copy with dates moved and blanks like {{person}} filled in. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Repeating projects | A template can start itself every week, month, quarter or year; a missed stretch makes one copy. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Plan the day | Today by the hour beside your calendar; drag tasks onto times or let Fill my day place them in the free gaps. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Focus | One task with its steps and a 25-minute timer; the time you focus is kept on the task. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Week | Seven days with how full each one is; drag a task to another day or use [ and ]. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| What got done | The last week or month: done by day and by list, time focused, added and let go. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Tasks from other apps | Add a Hoq Service job, CRM deal, Chat message, email, Repos change, Crew task or Shop order to your Todo; the task links back and closes itself when that thing is finished there. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Habits | Things you want to do often (every day, on chosen days, or a few times a week), kept with a tap on the Habits page or at the top of Today. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Counted habits | A habit can be kept several times a day, like 8 glasses of water; each tap adds one and the ring fills. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Kind runs | A run of kept days lets off one missed day a week, and days marked away are never due and never count against it. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Twelve weeks at a glance | Each habit shows its last twelve weeks, and you can fill in or take back any of the last seven days. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Routines | Group habits you do together, like a morning start, with one reminder for the group. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Habit reminders | A reminder time sends a notification, never an email, and skips days you have already kept it. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Nightly backups | Every list that changed is copied into its owner's Hoq Storage each night, kept two weeks, and the copies are test-restored every week. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Looks | Five looks, each with a light and dark side: Paper, Ledger, Harbor, Moss and Dusk; they follow you to every list and device. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Spacing and text size | Compact, comfortable or roomy rows, and normal, large or larger text. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| List colours and icons | Give a list a colour and an icon; its tasks show a matching dot on Today. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Focus backdrops | A dawn, sea, forest or night backdrop behind the focus timer. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
| Today on the wall | A full-screen Today with the day, time, next event, tasks and habits, tap to finish, screen kept awake. | Checked 2026-10-04 |
Works with
- Hoq CRMAdd a deal to your list; winning or losing it closes the task.
- Hoq ServiceAdd a job to your list; finishing it closes the task.
- Hoq MailAdd an email to Todo from Hoq Mail, and see your Hoq Mail calendar beside your day.
- Hoq StorageYour list and its attachments live in your drive.
Your data
| Where it is kept | One file per list in your own Hoq Storage; shared lists are their own files. |
|---|---|
| Getting it out | Download a readable copy of everything at any time. |
| If you leave | Leave Todo removes what the service keeps about you outside your files and takes you off shared lists you did not make. Your files stay. |
APIs and standards
- CalDAV at /dav
- MCP server at /mcp/todo, 11 tools
- Email in to a private address per person
- Machine-readable status at /status.json
- Standard: CalDAV
- Standard: iCalendar VTODO (RFC 5545)
- Standard: Web Push
- Standard: CSV
Pricing
Free while Todo is new.
As published at https://todo.hoq.app/.
Compared
| Checked 2026-11-01 | Hoq Todo | Things 3 | Todoist Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free while Todo is new | One-time: Mac $49.99, iPhone $9.99, iPad $19.991 | $5 per month billed yearly, $7 monthly2 |
| Platforms | Any browser; Apple, Android and Thunderbird task apps over CalDAV | Apple only3 | Web, Windows, Android and Apple2 |
| CalDAV sync | Yes, both ways | not published3 | No; read-only calendar feed4 |
| Shared lists | Yes, plus links for people without an account | No3 | Yes; 5 collaborators per project on the free plan2 |
| AI agents | Agents keep their own lists and ask before acting; 11 MCP tools | not published1 | not published2 |
| API | MCP and CalDAV | not published1 | Developer API5 |
| Offline | Yes, saved on reconnect | Yes, local by design3 | Not published2 |
| Where data lives | A file in your own Hoq Storage | On your devices, synced by Things Cloud3 | Vendor cloud2 |