Superlist Review: Features, Pricing, Pros & Cons

Who is Superlist For?

We'll be honest, when we first got a chance to check out and use Superlist, we were a bit thrown off—while it was one of the most beautiful productivity apps we've seen, we didn't quite know what it was trying to be, to that's where we reviewed it to compete in the best project management software space.

After reviewing it longer, seeing their feature roadmap a bit, and talking with the team, we realize now that Superlist is not trying to compete with Motion, Asana, Monday, or ClickUp, but rather, they're looking to compete in the more personal and small team task and note taking space.

So for those of you who are using Notion, Obsidian, Google Keep, Apple Notes, or even Bear, as your personal note taking tool, and a personal task management tool like Todoist, TickTick, Google Tasks, Superlist might be able to consolidate all of those tools for you in one place. Now that is something I can connect on the pain-point with.

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Who Shouldn't Use Superlist?

If you're looking for a full-fledged team project management tool like Motion or Asana, you won't get what you're looking for here with Superlist.

The same goes if you're looking for one of the best daily planner apps or best calendar app like that of Motion, Amie, Sunsama, Akiflow, Vimcal, and others, you're going to left a bit disappointed using Superlist for those things.

Superlist Background

I have been extremely excited to check this tool out. I've been on the waitlist for 2–3 years, checking in with them monthly about getting access and it's finally available to the public.

The largest appeal is that it was created by the team behind Wunderlist (which is a task manager that was sold to Microsoft in 2015 for between $100–200m). So if there's a team that understands task management deeply, it's this team.

They've even teased Superlist at Google I/O 2022 on stage, as an example of a tool built in Flutter (an open source framework by Google for building beautiful, natively compiled, multi-platform applications from a single codebase). This is important because this means everyone gets a native app—imagine having native MacOS + iOS + Android + Windows apps all generated from the same codebase.

This was the largest appeal, alongside the sheer beauty of their marketing site and in-app teaser screenshots:

How We Use Superlist

We started using Superlist personally and as a couple when we started apartment hunting recently.

While we have a ton of tools that allow us to collaborate professionally, but personally there has been a gap in the market for something that really brought our personal tasks together. A hacky solution that we created (that's been working quite well) is spinning up different Telegram channels to manage different parts of our life. For example, we created a channel called "Condo Ideas" where any messages we send to each other about a new place would go in there and not get lost among our personal messages to each other. We have another one called "Health" where we discuss things like doctors appointments.

That said, we both managed our personal to-dos and notes separately and never really thought too much about using something shared. Andra used Bear and the native Notes app, while I also used Bear and a bit of TickTick.

It wasn't until Superlist came around that we noticed the friction we had been previously experiencing. We quickly spun up new lists for finances related to our apartment hunt, including notes from discussions with lenders, an offer we were considering on a condo, furniture measurements and to-dos related to each note. It suddenly made so much sense. 🤯

One area that has been slightly buggy (thinking this will be smoothed out soon), is that if two people are collaborating on one list, the app jumps around a bit and isn't as smooth as something like Slite or Notion, but we think the team will get there shortly.

What's cool is that with Superlist, you can assign to-dos to one another and due dates, which let's be honest, there are endless personal tasks any married couple needs to collaborate on. 

How Superlist Compares

Superlist is probably one the of most thoughtful/beautiful personal task managers out there. It has amazing UI/UX interactions. Heck, even marking a task as "complete" and "incomplete" plays the most relaxing noise (and it changes each time!). I was using TickTick for years and I'm seeing Superlist as a great alternative.

I think we're seeing what happens when you get tens of millions of dollars in venture backing and some of the best designers in the world to focus in the UI/UX. I mean heck, just go visit their website, it's incredibly beautiful.

Being able to also take notes and assign tasks to different individuals is also super cool as there aren't really a ton of good personal collaboration tools out there.

Superlist Limitations

While Superlist is marketing itself for both personal and professional, we're more open to recommending it for personal use. Perhaps Soloprenuers and super small teams may be able to collaborate in a barebones way with Superlist, but we're still apt to recommend professional project management tools instead like Motion (what we use).

Keeping this in mind, we do want to point out that the Superlist team is has built the tool in a way that encourages you to use it for both work and personal. So much so that you can toggle on/off your "work" or "personal" notes/to-dos so that you can disconnect from work for example on the weekend.

Integrations

Superlist currently integrates in with Gmail, Google Calendar, Microsoft To Do and on the Pro tier Slack, GitHub, Linear and Figma. With that, if we were to recommend a tool that consolidates tasks, we'd recommend Akiflow or Sunsama instead as you also have the time blocking capabilities.

Pricing

• Free Personal
• Personal Pro: $8/month
• Free Team
• Pro Team: $10/month per user

Final Verdict

Should you use Superlist? We'd say it's definitely worth it for personal use. Married? Or have someone that you collaborate with often? Use it with them also to really get the most power out of the tool.