Todoist is built for you. Helg is built for your household.
Todoist is an excellent to-do app for individuals and teams, with projects, labels and filters you can shape into almost any system. Helg is narrower on purpose: it’s a to-do list for a household, where everyone captures, one person decides the week once, and an hours budget stops the week from being over-promised. If you want a flexible personal system, choose Todoist. If you want your family’s week decided in one sitting, choose Helg.
| What | Helg | Todoist |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | A household: one person decides, everyone feeds it | Individuals and teams |
| Planning rhythm | One weekly pass, on a day you choose | Whatever system you build |
| Capacity | A weekly hours budget | Not the focus |
| Family roles | Head, members who send things up, a co-pilot; each sees only their slice | Shared projects |
| Grocery list | Built in, by store | A list you set up yourself |
| Learning curve | Small: one way of working | Flexible, which takes setting up |
Why a general to-do app strains in a household
A shared Todoist project works until the family uses it differently from you. Partners add things without context, kids don’t open it, and everything lands with the same weight. Nothing in a general to-do app decides whether this week can actually hold it.
Helg makes one decision structure the whole product: capture freely, decide once a week, keep the week within its hours.
What you give up with Helg
Helg has no projects, labels, filters or natural-language parsing, and no integrations beyond its calendar feed. If your to-do app is also your work system, keep it — Helg is for the household side.
Questions
Can I use Todoist for my family?
You can share a project with your family, and many people do. It works best when everyone uses it the same way. Helg is designed for households where they won’t: everyone sends things to one place, and one person decides the week.
How much does Helg cost?
Helg is free for one person. For a household it’s US$14 a month for 4 people including you, plus US$3.50 a month for each extra person, with a 14-day free trial and no card needed.
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Last reviewed October 2026.