Todo List (PFA)

SECUSO Research Group

About this app

The Privacy Friendly To-Do List can be used to keep outstanding tasks in mind and organize a personal schedule. This application allows to create lists of tasks which can be individually managed. Each list contains a set of tasks. Each task can have a deadline, a reminder time and a list of subtasks. By setting a reminder time the user will be informed by a notification. It is possible to display all tasks in a calendar, to protect the app with a secret pin and to sort and prioritize tasks within a list. Colors indicate the urgency of a task (taking the deadline into account).

Features of Privacy Friendly To-Do List

1. PIN protection
Open the Settings menu to setup a PIN protection for your application. The PIN needs to be a number with 4 digits. You are asked for it every time you start the application / start the main view.

2. Reminder
You can set a reminder to your tasks that will notify you if a deadline is approaching. Settings provide you the possibility to enable a notification sound.

3. Widget
In addition, this app provides a widget that you can add to your device’s home screen. The widget presents you tasks that belong to a chosen list. Clicking on a task or its checkbox leads to the main view of Privacy Friendly To-Do List. The synchronize button can update the displayed tasks inside the widget.

4. Progress by subtasks
By default, progress can be chosen freely by the user when creating or editing a task. To-Do List gives the opportunity to automatically compute and show the progress of a task dependent on its done subtasks. Therefore go to Settings and enable Progress by subtasks.

Our Privacy Friendly App differs from other applications with respect to two aspects:

1) No permissions
Privacy Friendly To-Do List does not use any permissions.

2) No advertisement
Privacy Friendly To-Do List completely relinquishes advertisement.
Many other free apps in the Google Play Store dazzle annoying advertising which also shortens battery life.

Privacy Friendly Checkers is part of the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More information at: https://secuso.org/pfa

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Ratings and reviews

Good app, love the privacy. Has the basic features I need for a to-do list app. A few things are a bit wonky, like how clicking the + puts your list in side-bar limbo (that took me a while to find). I have to uninstall because the app keeps crashing (43x in 2 days), but I will probably try again. The privacy policy is what we all should be expecting from our apps.

This app did the one most terrible thing that it could do. I spent several days building up a comprehensive short and long-term list of tasks. And it just deleted all of it. Yesterday I started sending some of my completed tasks to the recycler. Today I woke up to find all of my tasks permanently deleted except for the ones in the recycler. This has really set me back, do not install this app.

This is an excellent app, please add google sync option so that we don't loose data if we reset our phone or change device.

What's new

Added Backup App integration
Added Pomodoro integration
Increased maximum pin length to 32
Stability improvements and fixes