Superhuman vs Todoist
Both are productivity tools. Here is what separates them.
| Superhuman | Todoist | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium |
| Price from | Paid | Freemium |
| Upvotes | 4 | 10 |
| What it does | Email and documents in one workspace, with an AI assistant called Go. | A task list that survives being used every day for a decade. |
What Superhuman is
Superhuman is a suite of AI work software covering email, documents and an assistant that runs across other applications. It began in 2014 as Superhuman Mail, an email client, and the founding team includes Rahul Vohra. The current line-up grew out of a group of products that originally included Coda and Grammarly, and both of those lineages are visible in what it now sells. Superhuman Docs is the document and project side. Documents hold text, tables, formulas and buttons, and AI can assemble them. Beyond static pages it runs workflows: approval processes, dashboards built and customised for data visualisation, and knowledge hubs that update themselves so the information in them stays accurate. Collaboration features include voting, reactions and charts, and templates cover common team set-ups. Anyone using it is classed as either a Doc Maker or an Editor. Docs AI, the assistant inside it, is in beta for Doc Makers. Document size is unlimited on Pro and above. There are more than 800 integrations, including Jira, Salesforce and Asana, and it works in real time alongside assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor. Go is the AI assistant, described as proactive and available in every app rather than only inside Superhuman's own. Grammarly is included with the Pro and Business plans, with a limited trial on the free plan. Elsewhere the suite connects to Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, Jira and Salesforce. Superhuman puts the scale of the whole thing at more than 40 million people and over 50,000 organisations, and says it analyses 200 billion words a day. Pricing starts with a free plan at $0. Pro is $12 a month billed annually, or $15 billed monthly. Business is $33 a month billed annually, or $40 monthly. Enterprise is quoted individually. None of it is open source. The figure the company attaches to all this is four hours saved per person per week, which is a vendor claim rather than an independent measurement. The more useful point for anyone arriving on the strength of the keyboard-driven inbox is that email is now one component of a wider set. Documents, workflows and an assistant that follows you into other applications carry a substantial share of what is being sold, and the pricing covers the suite rather than the mail client alone.
What Todoist is
Todoist is a task manager for keeping personal and shared to-do lists. Tasks go in through Quick Add, which reads natural language to set due dates, recurring dates and reminders, so a line of plain text becomes a scheduled task. Projects can be viewed as a list, a board or a calendar, and completed tasks are scored through a points system called Todoist Karma. A paid plan is tied to the account rather than to a single device, and there are more than 80 integrations with other software. The free Beginner plan allows 5 personal projects with up to 5 people in each, 3 custom filters, file uploads up to 5 MB, 4 themes and 7 days of activity history. Those limits are what a paid plan lifts. Pro raises personal projects to 300, custom filters to 150 and themes to 8, and keeps full activity history rather than seven days of it. For UK customers it costs 7 GBP a month or 60 GBP a year, with the same numbers in euros, and 7 USD a month or 60 USD a year in dollars, which works out at 5 USD a month on the annual plan. A 7-day free trial is available. Business is the team plan. It costs 10 USD per user a month billed monthly or 8 USD per user a month billed yearly, which is 96 USD per user per year; euro customers pay 10 EUR monthly or 96 EUR a year. It allows up to 500 team projects, 1,000 project folders, up to 250 people in a single team project and file uploads up to 100 MB, with room for 1,000 team members and 1,000 guests. The trial runs 14 days. Payment is by Visa, Mastercard or Amex card, through App Store or Google Play billing, or by SEPA in Europe on request. Yearly plans are refundable within 30 days of purchase or renewal, monthly subscriptions are not.
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