Compare
Mento vs Todoist
As a pure task manager, Todoist is probably the best ever made — twenty years of polish, natural-language input, filters for everything. If tasks are their own discipline for you, keep it. Mento's bet is that for students, tasks aren't a separate discipline: the reading is due before the lecture, the review before the exam, and it all belongs next to the notes and the calendar it refers to — not in another app.
Updated September 2026
The short answer
Which one is right for you?
Choose Mento if…
- ✓Your tasks are mostly school and study — and they belong next to the material
- ✓You want one calendar with your deadlines, exams and daily review on it
- ✓You want to-dos inside your notes that are real tasks, not checkboxes lost in a page
- ✓You'd rather not maintain a task system as a second hobby
Choose Todoist if…
- ✓You run your whole life on GTD — filters, labels and priorities are the appeal
- ✓You share projects with a team, family or business
- ✓Natural-language capture ('pay rent every 1st') is your favorite feature anywhere
- ✓You need integrations with everything from Gmail to Slack
Side by side
What's built in
Todoist at its best against Mento today.
TodoistBuilt-in features as of September 2026. Todoist Pro is $5/mo billed yearly, $7 month-to-month.
Where Mento pulls ahead
Tasks with their context attached
The task and the material are one thing
'Finish chapter 7 notes' in a task app is a string; in Mento it's a to-do sitting inside the chapter 7 notes. Check it off where the work happens — no app-switching, no copying task names, no silo drift between what you planned and what you did.
Tasks in Mento →One calendar tells the truth
A task app's calendar shows your deadlines; it can't show the reviews spaced repetition scheduled or the exam those reviews aim at. Mento's calendar holds all of it — assignments, daily practice and exam dates — so a week's real load is visible in one place.
The calendar →Deadlines that study with you
In Todoist, 'Biology final — May 12' is a date with a bell on it. In Mento, a dated exam topic works backward from May 12: reviews intensify as it approaches, practice tests slot into the final stretch, and the plan adjusts as you rate your own recall.
Study scheduling →Cost
Compare the cost
TodoistUS prices as of September 2026. Todoist is cheaper — it also does one job. The comparison that matters is against your whole stack.
Fair is fair
When Todoist is the better choice
Todoist has earned two decades of loyalty for a reason, and Mento's tasks don't try to replace it for everyone.
- →You're a GTD person — filters, labels, priorities and karma are features you actually use
- →Work and team projects: shared lists, assignments and integrations are Todoist territory, and Mento is a personal app
- →Natural-language capture is genuinely the best in the business
- →If your tasks are mostly life logistics rather than study, a dedicated task app with a $5 Pro tier is hard to argue with
Making the move
Bringing your tasks home
For students the move is usually consolidation: school tasks come to Mento, and many people keep a slim Todoist for everything else.
01
Move the school projects
Recreate your course projects as spaces and topics — the tasks land next to the actual material they refer to.
02
Put the term on the calendar
Deadlines, recurring commitments and dated exam topics — one calendar with the whole term on it.
03
Let studying schedule itself
Daily practice fills the gaps between deadlines automatically — the part no task app was ever going to do.
Honestly: there's no Todoist importer, and for heavy non-study task systems Todoist remains the sharper tool. The claim here is narrower: your school stack doesn't need a separate task app.
FAQ
Mento vs Todoist, asked directly
Is Mento a real task manager?
For personal and study use, yes — tasks with due dates, recurrence and reminders, inside notes and on a built-in calendar; tasks are part of Mento Pro. It deliberately skips the power layer (filters, labels, team features) that makes Todoist Todoist.
Isn't Todoist cheaper?
Yes — Pro is $5/mo billed yearly against Mento Pro's $14.99/mo. But Mento's price covers notes, flashcards, spaced repetition, practice tests, the calendar and AI actions too; the fair comparison is against everything a study stack costs together.
Can Mento do recurring tasks and reminders?
Yes — recurring tasks with push reminders are included. In Todoist, reminders are a Pro feature.
Does Mento integrate with Google Calendar or Slack?
No — Mento's calendar is self-contained today. If deep integrations are core to your workflow, that's a genuine Todoist advantage.
Can I use both?
Plenty of people do: life admin and shared projects in Todoist, everything school in Mento. The apps overlap on tasks, not on anything else.
What does Mento cost?
Free to start. Pro is $14.99 a month or $95.99 a year; verified students pay $8.99 a month or $59.99 a year.
Keep comparing
More comparisons
The plan and the material, together
Tasks, calendar, notes and scheduled review — free to start, no credit card.