Todoist Put Pro Up to 7 Dollars in December 2025
Todoist has survived two decades by refusing to become a project management suite, and that discipline is still its strongest feature. It became more expensive to enjoy at the end of 2025. The vendor’s own help documentation records that monthly Pro moved from 5 to 7 US dollars and annual Pro from 4 to $5 a month, applied automatically at each subscriber’s next renewal on or after 10 December 2025. Todoist attributed the increase to long-term product sustainability and to work on voice capture and calendar planning.
Todoist plan facts, USD, checked August 2026
- Beginner is free with five personal projects, three filter views and a 5 MB upload limit
- Pro is $7 monthly or $60 per year, equivalent to $5 a month
- Business is $10 per user monthly or $96 per user per year
- Business supports up to 1,000 members and 500 team projects
- App Store subscribers were moved to a Pro Legacy plan at their existing rate
The December 2025 increase, precisely
Todoist’s help centre sets the change out without euphemism. Monthly Pro rose from 5 to $7, a 40% increase, while annual Pro moved from 4 to $5 a month, taking the yearly total from 48 to $60. Both took effect at renewal from 10 December 2025.
The gap between the monthly and annual rates widened considerably as a result, which is a deliberate push towards annual commitment. At $7 monthly against $5 annually, a subscriber pays a 40% premium for the flexibility of paying month to month, and that is a steeper penalty than most comparable tools apply.
Five projects is the constraint that converts free users
The Beginner tier’s limits are chosen with some care. Five personal projects sounds workable until you realise that Todoist’s own methodology encourages splitting areas of life into separate projects, at which point work, home, finances, a side venture and a reading list have consumed the entire allowance.
Three filter views is the second squeeze, and arguably the more effective one. Filters are how a power user actually reads their list, and three is enough to demonstrate the value without being enough to live on. Add a one-week activity history and a 5 MB attachment limit, and the free tier functions as a well-designed demonstration rather than a permanent home.
Todoist has resisted the temptation to bloat, and the free tier reflects that restraint rather than contradicting it. There is no artificial cap on the number of tasks, no advertising and no degradation of the core experience, which distinguishes it from free tiers that are deliberately unpleasant. The limits sit on organisation and history rather than on use, which is the more honest way to build a free plan even if the outcome is the same.
Quick Add is still the reason people stay
This is unglamorous and it is the whole product. Capture friction is what kills task systems, and Todoist’s parser has been refined for long enough that it handles ambiguity better than newer competitors. Nothing in the AI additions of recent years has improved on it.
- Type the task text and the date in ordinary language, for example next Tuesday at 9
- Prefix a project with a hash symbol and Todoist routes it without a menu
- Prefix an assignee with a plus sign to hand the task to a colleague
- Use an at sign for labels, which is how filters later find the task
- Add a repeating pattern such as every other Friday and the recurrence is parsed inline
Task Assist and Ramble: the newer layer
The paid tiers now include Task Assist, an AI helper for breaking down and rewording tasks, and Ramble, a voice capture feature that is limited to a small number of sessions on the free plan and unlimited on Pro. Ramble is the more convincing of the two, because dictating a messy stream of thought and having it become discrete tasks addresses a real capture problem.
Task Assist is harder to defend. Breaking a task into subtasks is not a job most people need help with, and the suggestions tend towards the generic. Neither feature is a reason to upgrade on its own, which is worth saying plainly given how prominently they now appear in the plan comparison.
Business at $8 a seat and where it stops
Business, at $96 per user per year, adds a team workspace, up to 500 team projects, roles and permissions, and SOC 2 Type II certification. For a small team that wants shared lists rather than a project management system, it is competently priced against the alternatives.
The honest limitation is that Todoist is not trying to be Asana, and teams that need dependencies, workload views or portfolio reporting will outgrow it quickly. It has no Gantt view and no resource management, by design. Buying Business in the hope that those arrive later is a mistake; buying it because you specifically want a fast shared list with permissions is exactly right.
The grandfathering wrinkle worth checking
Because of platform billing rules, subscribers who bought through the App Store were kept on what Todoist calls a Pro Legacy plan at their original price. That is a genuine saving for anyone in that position, and it creates an odd incentive not to move a subscription to direct billing.
It also creates a support asymmetry that is worth being aware of. If you are on a legacy rate and change plan, cancel, or migrate to a different billing route, you will not get the old price back. Anyone still paying 4 or $5 should check which billing relationship they actually have before touching their subscription settings.
Sources: Todoist help, plans, pricing and billing FAQ · Todoist help, 2025 pricing and plans update · Todoist pricing · The Digital Project Manager, Todoist pricing tiers
