Pentastic - Minimal Todo Lists

Digital Minimalism

Key features

Why Pentastic?

Who it’s for

Permissions & privacy

Getting started

About this app

Key features

✅ Minimal interface: Clean, uncluttered screens that keep your tasks front and center. No bells, no whistles — just the things you need.
✅ Quick capture: Add tasks instantly with a single tap or keyboard shortcut. Fast entry designed for habit-friendly capture.
✅ Reminders: Set reminders to tasks and never miss a thing.
✅ Repeat tasks: Set once and be reminded on daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly basis.
✅ Simple organization: Create multiple lists, sub-lists, reorder tasks with drag & drop, and mark items done with a quick double tap.
✅ Offline first: Your lists are stored locally by default so you can view and edit tasks without an internet connection.
✅ Privacy friendly: Open source. No ads, no trackers, and no unnecessary permissions. Your tasks stay private.
✅ Accessible: Large tap targets, readable contrast, day/night theme, and keyboard support for fast, inclusive use.

Why Pentastic?

🎯 Focus — Designed to reduce distractions so you actually get things done.
🎯 Speed — Capture thoughts and tasks faster than opening bulky productivity suites.
🎯 Predictability — What you see is what you get: lists that behave like paper.
🎯 Respect for your data — We refuse advertising and tracking. Your tasks remain privately yours.
🎯 Open source — The source code is publicly available under AGPL v3.0 license.

Who it’s for

- People who want a no‑nonsense task list that doesn’t distract.
- Users who prefer privacy and apps with zero ads.
- Perfect for someone who likes the simplicity of pen and paper but wants the convenience of digital lists.

Permissions & privacy

Pentastic only requests permissions necessary for optional features. By default all data is stored locally on your device. The code is available on Github under AGPL v3.0 license. No ads, no analytics, no third‑party tracking.

Getting started

1. Create a list (e.g., Today, Shopping, Reminders).
2. Tap the + button or use the quick entry field to add tasks.
3. Reorder by dragging, mark complete with a double tap and see more options with a single tap.

Pentastic — your simple, private place for tasks & reminders. No noise. Just lists.

Ratings and reviews

a great simplistic app for to do's and reminders. I love the simplicity of the interface and the ability to move up urgent to do's. Also it pairs great with this developers olaucher. I swipe to right on home screen and bam I am in my to do's. I would like to make one edit. Feature request : custom reminder frequency as for example I would like to do a every other day reminder on repeat or maybe a reminder on specific alternating days weekly.

Really interesting app. I like the feel of it. The paper vibe is nice. Something to literally jot something down really quick without an entire system or interface that comes with other apps. I am excited to give it a try and see how I might end up using it. Giving 4/5 stars because I can already tell I would like some sort of feature where it would remove all crossed out task/notes on the page. Right now there doesn't seem to be a way to do that.

This is quite a decent minimalistic app for taking task notes, only one problem is with the intrusive popup which appears when you click a task which consists many words which is making reading the task difficult.

What’s new

* Show/hide completed tasks
* Button to add task on priority

Previously:
* Timestamped notes
* Snooze for reminder notifications
* Option to archive and unarchive pages.
* Sub-pages! Create pages inside pages.