Microsoft To Do vs. Smartsheet

Microsoft To Do

Smartsheet

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft To Do	Score 9.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft To Do replaces the former Wunderlist task management tool.	N/A
Smartsheet	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Smartsheet is an online project management and collaboration tool. It includes automated alerts, instantaneous updating and sharing across team members, resource management, nested tasks organized in a hierarchy, a Gantt chart view, exportable and automated reports, and integration with email.	$12 per month per user (up to 10 users)

Pricing

Microsoft To Do

Smartsheet

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Pro: $12
per month per user (up to 10 users)
Business: $24
per month per user (3 user minimum)
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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft To Do	Smartsheet
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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A discount is offered for annual billing.

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft To Do	Smartsheet
Considered Both Products	Microsoft To Do Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I choose Microsoft to do because is easier and is on the job email, but Clickup is more handful and Google Tasks its in my personal email, so its more convenient. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Microsoft To-Do simply put just does to-do lists very well. I don't want the visual components of software like Trello or ClickUp, and I had used Asana in previous roles and just found it to have too much going on. I also didn't like the notification system of Asana, constantly … Incentivized Helpful? Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Chose Microsoft To Do I am a fan of to-do lists. Previously they were all pen and paper though, which is fine for chores but not so much when you consistently receive emails and chat messages with various tasks mentioned in there. To Do helps keeping track of them. Incentivized Helpful? TK Thomas Knight Product Manager Chose Microsoft To Do The main alternative that I've used is Todoist. Todoist is better at auto-detecting dates and tags, and I found it easier to assign items to other people using Todoist. I think the big benefit that Microsoft To Do has is that it is more integrated into existing Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do The biggest selling point of Microsoft To Do is that it's free. We were able to jump in and start learning it without having to worry about making up for the cost of the software. We liked the idea of using all Microsoft products in hopes of some of our older employees being … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Its the only tool I use to manage my to dos and daily tasks Incentivized Helpful? AM Alejandro Montes Team Lead Chose Microsoft To Do I selected MS To-Do because is easy to use, has a pretty UI and in my organization is free to use. Amazing to schedule your work, meetings, to-do list, prioritize task, etc, but is not like other software like Evernote that have more functionalities like a diagram, … Incentivized Helpful? YL Yuen Liang Enrollment and Marketing Consultant Chose Microsoft To Do To be honest, I loved Wunderlist, and so just moved over to Microsoft To Do out of inertia. Also Trello is more Kanban than a to-do list, so not exactly what we needed. Todoist might be more what we need, but we were already using Wunderlist, so we didn't want to take the time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I prefer Microsoft To Do because of it's amazing app. It seamlessly integrates with mobile so if you're on the go or need to set a reminder, you can very easily take care of it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Trello Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Compared to in-built apps from Microsoft or Apple, Wunderlist is far better. It is incredibly hard to collaborate on both Outlook, Gmail, or Apple calendar/reminders. I wouldn't suggest any of those for team projects. Additionally, Wunderlist allows me to separate your work and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Wunderlist is overly simplistic and a bit outdated compared to competing tools. Trello and Microsoft To-Dos and Planner accomplish the same things better. Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas De Salvo Chief Executive Officer Chose Microsoft To Do I started using Wunderlist purely to keep track of my to-dos and organize my time around the general tasks I have to complete. Attempts I have made to extend Wunderlist into project management or other broader tasks have been largely unsuccessful because it feels like there … Incentivized Helpful? Joel Tanzi Business Owner Chose Microsoft To Do Both Trello and Remember the Milk offer their own value in managing tasks and projects. Wunderlist is the best simple task manager I've come across in that it focuses on the critical features you'd want in a task manager - great interface, ease of use, and accessible anywhere. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Tried Google Tasks, and Microsoft To-Do (before its integration with Wunderlist) and they didn't quite serve the purpose we were looking for. Incentivized Helpful? Paul Weber Manager, Digital Media Services Chose Microsoft To Do Wunderlist was a good starting point, but we now use Todoist, and I definitely wouldn't look back. It is more complicated, but with that comes much more control than you get in Wunderlist - rather than simple search tags you have filters that can run across projects, human … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do I have tried numerous programs in the past, this one, in particular, has an easy interface and almost anyone can use it. One of the most recent programs we have tried is Microsoft To-Do and it does not even compare. We have created access databases specific to do this type of … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Cohen President Chose Microsoft To Do Any.do had a nicer interface but was not as easy to use as Wunderlist. Incentivized Helpful? Anna Jacobs Project Coordinator Chose Microsoft To Do It is more simple, direct, and easy to manage. Also, the price point is much less than most, if not all CRM's on the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do While I have tried a number of other to-do lists, Wunderlist is easy to use and free. Most other to-do lists that I have tried I have used for a day or two and the have deleted and returned to Wunderlist. Part of it is that I am used to this tool, but I think it is also just … Incentivized Helpful? Tish Cator Office Manager Chose Microsoft To Do I think they merged or something—I don’t remember—but it was not as easy as this one was. We love that it is simple and easy. Incentivized Helpful? BW Ben Westby Educator Chose Microsoft To Do Not available, this is the first task management app we have tried so far. Slack is the closest thing we have. Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Lightman Singer/Songwriter Chose Microsoft To Do Google drive is another helpful way to share to-do's with other parties and help share ideas. It can help share goal lists. I also use notes on my iPhone and it's been great too, but I really like Wunderlist because if I'm making a list and sharing it, it's pretty … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft To Do Both products are pretty comparable. I prefer the Wunderlist app because it was just a bit easier for me to use. Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Zurica Owner Chose Microsoft To Do Wunderlist has a much simpler layout than the other software we have tried. Others are too complex when reminders and note-taking should not be this complex. Their homepage layouts are even more convoluting and unnecessary. Simpler is normally better for something like this. … Incentivized Helpful?	Smartsheet DR Dustin Roberts Marketing Associate Chose Smartsheet I use both. Excel for more data/spreadsheet focused tasks and Smartsheet for our event planning and project management. Smartsheet allows for collaboration, has project management features like task tracking and the Gantt chart, and even has some handy automation features … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet I tried Miro for a while and it just didn't have the features Smartsheet does. If I'm going to pay for a "supercharged Excel," I expect to really do a ton more than Excel! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet It allows team collaboration. Project monitoring is very easy. Dashboards are very good for the project reporting. Incentivized Helpful? TK Tomasz Kowalski Senior Program Manager Chose Smartsheet Asana and monday.com are typical project management tools where resources can be tracked based on the tasks, etc. Smartsheet does exactly the same but additionally allows people outside of PM to automate their data collaboration with other employees. The solutions that … Incentivized Helpful? Syed Ghufran Hassan Project associate Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet is user friendly with easy to use templates as compared to Microsoft project. Other thing is collaboration which cannot be achieved in Microsoft project. Smartsheet has different types of pricing for different types of users but Microsoft project only offers … Incentivized Helpful? Ehud Lehavi Quality Assurance Analyst Chose Smartsheet Jira is better on user interface and task tracking. However the dashboard isn't as versatile as on Smartsheet. That being said, it takes maintenance to keep the Smartsheet dashboard updated regularly (not automated). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet Definitely a lot more intuitive and a lot less clunky and confusing. When I have to introduce Smartsheet to other team members who have experience with MS project they are overwhelmed with how easy it is and feel a lot more engaged when developing their own workbooks Incentivized Helpful? Angelo Liriano Cepeda Business Developer & Key Account Manager Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet enable users to build the more custom solutions that can include workflows, reports, dashboards, sheet data, reminders, etc. It allows to create the most complete reports and have available thousand of already built solutions on the Solution Center. Also, has the … Incentivized Helpful? Abigail Selebe Freelance Consultant Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet is a dedicated project management tool that is built on spread sheet principles. When compared to Microsoft's own offering, Smartsheet came out on top in some areas like dedicated project management features vs having to build custom features to Microsoft 365. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet Jira and Redmine are much more robust and technologically advanced project management solutions. I enjoy using either when managing a very large project. However, I prefer to use Smartsheet for my smaller to medium sized projects. As for Google Drive - I would say that Google … Incentivized Helpful? David Chamberlain Executive Creative Director Chose Smartsheet It has been my favorite alternative; I can control Smartsheet from my mobile device since, as a manager, it allows me to visualize the files made through it, with the convenience of any time and space. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet Price and ease of collaboration was the deciding factor and since we made this decision quite awhile ago, Microsoft Project's collaboration features were not there yet, making Smartsheet the clear winner. Many of our Project Manager were comfortable working with Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Duane Thompson Product Development Lead Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet makes it simple to plan and budget on projects, streamline business workflows and improve overall customer service. The pricing plans are affordable and businesses that implement Smartsheet enjoy tremendous long-term value. Employee work performance is boosted and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet I believe Smartsheet is much easier to use than Asana. There is a better way to collaborate with colleagues and track your progress on projects. There is a better structure on how to set up your system. It has better filters to see what you have accomplished vs what is open and … Incentivized Helpful? Brad Estes Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President Chose Smartsheet Functionality is far superior and very easy to use. Incentivized Helpful? GM Gloria Musuli Human Resources Assistant Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet is an exceptionally robust and ,offer unique hybrid solution to manage projects and automate workflows that is based on accurate data. It offers better time-saving functions that speeds up delivery of projects on schedule and using the allocated resources. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Pincus Sales Executive Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet has been a positive success; it has been easy to use and quite intuitive. It allowed us to foster collaboration between colleagues. Incentivized Helpful? EC Emily Caplin Senior Project Manager Chose Smartsheet Works more efficiently than MPP as updates can happen in real time in the cloud and be collaborated on with other team members. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet Before utilizing Smartsheet we utilized a combination of Quip and an in-house developed task management tool. Even though we did not utilize Smartsheet for all of our project management needs it did provide a useful structure for planning a schedule for routine tasks and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet Other software's are more geared towards the construction process while Smartsheet is more geared to generic Project Management, no specific to the construction industry. We are using Smartsheet to communicate with our client and not to manage construction so from that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet I prefer the more traditional usability of Smartsheet. It's like Microsoft Project or Excel, but far easier for my organization to access. We don't currently have it set up as our resource manager or integrate it with our timesheets (our problem, not Smartsheet), and I think … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet is much easier to collaborate on than Microsoft or Primavera in terms of scheduling software, but lacks the customizability of its competitors. You can also much easier link projects together when master scheduling which is a huge advantage compared to Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet We use Basecamp for our day-to-day in-house operations, but need a more "rigid" structure (spreadsheet) for managing projects with clients. Everything is in one place in Smartsheet and clients are able to find and use it easily. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Smartsheet All the products seemed to perform the project and task management function adequately. The following factors were the keys to our selection: Ease of use - so similar to Excel everyone can figure it out. Flexible architecture lends itself to many different use cases beyond … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Rastall, MBA IT Project Manager Chose Smartsheet Smartsheet is a must to companies that are in need of automating key business processes that will save them time and eliminate productivity killers. This software enables teams identify bottlenecks early on tasks and projects that are due so that they are able plan on a course … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft To Do

Smartsheet

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft To Do 7.0 Ratings 9% below category average	Smartsheet 9.0 Ratings 16% above category average
Task Management	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Resource Management	7.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Gantt Charts	4.50 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Scheduling	5.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	6.40 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Team Collaboration	7.80 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology	5.10 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology	6.30 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Document Management	6.90 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Email integration	6.00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Mobile Access	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking	6.60 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management	9.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management	9.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Professional Services Automation

Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft To Do 6.5 Ratings 15% below category average	Smartsheet 9.1 Ratings 19% above category average
Quotes/estimates	5.00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Invoicing	7.00 Ratings	9.80 Ratings
Project & financial reporting	7.90 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Integration with accounting software	6.00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Microsoft To Do	Smartsheet
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.6 (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft To Do	Smartsheet
Likelihood to Recommend	Wunderlist is a fantastic task management system, not the best project management system. For a long time, I tried to use Wunderlist to plan large events with multiple users and it wasn't as effective. But, once we simplified our desired outcome to accomplishing tasks that repeat or are unique to a given work-week, we had much more success. Now my assistant can manage her weekly tasks and give feedback through this app. I can also add tasks, assign them and see what is being accomplished Incentivized Brian Spatz Staff Pastor - Students Read full review	The Smartsheet platform is extremely similar to Microsoft Excel, so if you are familiar with Excel, you will pick Smartsheet up quickly. Even if you aren't Smartsheet has a relatively simple user interface, meaning just about anyone can learn it. One thing to note is that the interface is that some may consider the interface so simple that they feel the need to look for more robust platforms. If you have a small to medium project that needs to be manages in a central hub, Smartsheet would be a great fit. If you have a very large project, I might consider looking into more advanced platforms. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Smart due dates are the greatest thing about Wunderlist. I can tell it to "print past due reports on Monday" and then set that up as a repeating event. It's clutter free. When I'm creating or assigning tasks I like to have a distraction free area to think, and the simplicity of Wunderlist gives me that. The fact that I can look at it on my phone, on the web, and on my PC and it always looks the same is great. I can always tell what I'm doing b/c of their consistent design choices. Incentivized Jeremiah Alexander Systems Manager Read full review	The easy to use dashboard has enabled us get comprehensive view of projects across the entire business. It has streamlined internal communication with ease of sharing information across different teams. Smartsheet automates our workflows, enhances collaboration and ensures there are no data silos. I like that it saves time for us and ensures we spend less time switching between apps. Incentivized GM Gloria Musuli Human Resources Assistant Read full review
Cons	Sub-tasks should have their own separate due dates The main list needs some more intuitive tools to sort the list in any way I choose Hovering over links should show a description of how to use it. For example, it would have been nice to know right away that double-clicking on a task is the way to open the details list. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Smartsheet set up is similar to Excel, yet when you upload an Excel file, things like conditional formatting are lost. Smartsheet has its own conditional formatting, and you have to reinstate the rules. It would be great if those would apply automatically once a file is uploaded Some Smartsheet management and access rules can take some tweaking to work properly. This may be a case of offering more info to admins so they can apply these better and with more efficiency Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	I believe Wunderlist is the best to do management app on the planet. So far we are extremely satisfied with the performance. Incentivized Mohammed Anzil Founder and Chief Editor Read full review	Smartsheet has made my work life easier. Reduced my email *significantly*. Smartsheet and SaneBox have got me leaving the office with 0... Yes 0 emails in my inbox. My inbox would reach 150-250 email per day. Smartsheet brought that number down significantly and SaneBox took it the rest of the way. Do yourself a favor and check out SaneBox, too. Kris Walsh Senior Marketing Manager Read full review
Usability	The actual user interface and the way to navigate around the app is very intuitive and easy to learn/use which would make me give it a high ranking, but the syncing issues drop down my rating because there are times where you add an item to the list and then it just disappears. Then when you add it again the sync will happen and now you have duplicates. The other negative with the usability is adding extra information to an item, such as files or comments or assignments. You can do it but it's difficult to tell which items have this information from the main screen. You have to click on them individually. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Smartsheet is very easy to learn. However, while I have been able to pick it easily, Microsoft Excel and Project super users that I have trained on Smartsheet get bogged down in the differences and can find it frustrating. Explaining the differences ahead of time and why Smartsheet is being chosen instead of a different software seems to counteract those reactions Incentivized Meghan M. Prentiss Program Assistant, Epidemiology Planning and Communications Division Read full review
Support Rating	I have not had an issue where I needed to reach out to Wunderlist, but I know their contact and online chat is easy to access and feel confident that they would be helpful. My only worry is Wunderlist is becoming Microsoft to-do in May 2020, and I believe the app will become worse after that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	They're a smaller company but they've always given great service when we rarely need to reach out. Pretty good online content but a bigger user base would help to produce more content in a self-sufficient community much as we see with Salesforce. To be fair we haven't needed their direct customer support very often. The sales guys are nice and not too pushy! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Wunderlist giving 100% work satisfaction for me and my organization Incentivized Abdul Hakkim Founder Read full review	Work with the Smartsheet support team to get the best overall. If no one in your organization has used Smartsheet before, the support team will get things started. We had a couple of people who had used this product before and it was a great help in getting our framework together how we wanted to use it. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	It's a small tool compared to bigger project management software, but we found that they work perfectly together. It helps you declutter the larger PM tools, keep your smaller tasks in-line and make sure they get completed. When you're working in a creative agency, ideas and tasks are flying around, so having a tool like this that keeps you accountable and reminds you of your tasks is a must! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Smartsheet is a dedicated project management tool that is built on spread sheet principles. When compared to Microsoft's own offering, Smartsheet came out on top in some areas like dedicated project management features vs having to build custom features to Microsoft 365. However when you compare them on price, Microsoft 365 definitely has more value than Smartsheet. Incentivized Abigail Selebe Freelance Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	We reduced the number of meetings of teams and companies by 5 times because now all participants have access to comments and know at what stage the project is located. Simple to use common to-do lists allow you to manage the projects of the group and give all its participants a clear idea of who is responsible for each task. There is no need to waste time explaining the business processes and responsibilities of team members Wunderlist for business stores all group correspondence together with tasks. This is convenient for all participants and for management because sometimes important moments are lost in other messengers or chats. Now you can do everything in one application. The number of problems with this Incentivized Oleg Galimov Руководитель проектов Read full review	Our positive ROI has decreased the overall cost in project management as it reduced the amount of MS project licenses we needed. We have also seen a positive ROI on using the cloud storage and it automatically supports proper version control. Incentivized JB Jesse Bickel Sr. Project Manager Read full review
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