Coordinator vs TickTick
TickTick bundles tasks, calendar and habits for individuals. Coordinator bundles tasks, calendar, clients and money for people whose to-dos pay the rent — free.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
TickTick, side by side
The tasks-plus-calendar-plus-habits app — cheap, capable, personal-scale.
| What you're paying for | Coordinator | TickTick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 — everything | Free (limited); ~$36/yr |
| Calendar view | Included — and it's a real calendar engine | Premium feature |
| Teams & clients | Full — roles, sharing, client views | |
| Habits & pomodoro | — | Included — its charm |
| The business around the list | Invoices, booking, contacts, books |
TickTick pricing and plan limits are approximate, from their published plans as of August 2026 — check their site for current figures. Coordinator's column doesn't change: $0.
The TickTick line on your P&L
TickTick Premium runs ~$35.99/yr against a $49.99 list price — cheap, though the marquee calendar view sits behind it, and there's no meaningful team tier at all.
Users: Personal app; no real team offering.
What you get that TickTick doesn't give you
TickTick shows your tasks on a calendar. Coordinator's calendar holds meetings, bookings, shifts and equipment — and refuses double-bookings.
Clients, teammates, approvals, shared projects — the whole dimension TickTick doesn't have.
The feature everyone buys TickTick for is included here.
What TickTick users complain about — answered
Recurring themes from public reviews and forums (G2, Capterra, Reddit), paired with what changes here. We only list complaints Coordinator actually solves.
“The calendar view is the whole point and it's paywalled”
Included — and it's a genuine scheduling engine, not a task overlay.
“Renewal charges arrived without notice”
Nothing renews. Nothing bills.
“It became another system to maintain”
The system here maintains itself — work, money and schedule stay linked because they're one thing.
What they love about TickTick — kept
The only price lower than cheap: free.
One-keystroke capture, tasks from messages, forms that file themselves.
Where TickTick may still fit
No tool wins everything, and we'd rather you pick with open eyes.
For personal-productivity ritual — streaks, focus timers, an Eisenhower matrix — TickTick is delightful and Coordinator doesn't compete.
TickTick's widgets and offline apps beat a web app for pocket capture.
Keep TickTick for habits if you love it; move the work — client tasks, deadlines and the money attached to them — into your free Coordinator space.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
The free TickTick alternative, summarized
If you're searching for a TickTick alternative, the short version: Coordinator is free for unlimited users — no tiers, no usage meters, no renewal-day surprises — and it covers what TickTick does for project management alongside the rest of a small business's operations: real accounting, projects with job costing, booking pages and staff scheduling, client records and forms, team chat, and a cross-company network where your invoice lands in your client's books. TickTick still fits some buyers — see the fair print above — but if the complaints on this page sound familiar, switching is usually an afternoon.
Explore the project management side of Coordinator on free-project-management-software, see everything it does, or read why it's free.
Keep the TickTick money
Set up free in minutes, import what you have, and put the subscription line to better use.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.