Google Tasks: Improved Features for Google Tasks
Google Tasks: Get Things Done is hindered by a lack of essential features, including sharing capabilities and the ability to edit or reorder tasks. Users find the app restricted and clunky, leading to a poor overall experience due to its inadequate UI/UX.
9 different people have complained about this since 15 Dec 2025, most recently on 06 Sept 2026.
- “Google Tasks: Get Things Done — 2 major missing features.”
- “Google Tasks: Get Things Done — Missing many basic features.”
- “Overall a pretty good task/list app BUT lacks sharing capabilities.”
9 people in 9 posts across 2 sources · demand low, pain low, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 9 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 9 people using Google Tasks: Get Things Done
- What goes wrong
- Missing feature56% of posts
- How bad
- 56% of posts are complaints
- Since
- 15 Dec 2025 → 06 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Google Tasks: Get Things Done
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 44% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
People are asking for
In their own words — asks pulled from the evidence, most-repeated first
“I wish there was as option to delete or edit a single task.”
“Overall a pretty good task/list app BUT lacks sharing capabilities.”
“This seems like a fundamental feature this app is lacking.”
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint556%
- Request444%
Sources
9 signals · 2 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
Google Tasks: Get Things Done — 2 major missing features goTasks app ( it did all 3 of these so I know its possible) was discontinued so have been on the hunt for a google tasks app for ios. The app is missing 2 major features: 1) only allows 1 level of hierarchy - had to use web browser to redo 2) does not support…
Missing featureGoogle Tasks: Get Things Done — Missing many basic features Works ok but is missing many very basic features, that I am sure google could easily add, like ability to hide sub tasks and why can’t a sub task have recurring date set and ability to colour code tasks
Missing featureGoogle Tasks: Get Things Done Overall a pretty good task/list app BUT lacks sharing capabilities. I find this is a major negative point since so many people just need to be able to share lists with other people for organisational purposes. I would definitely use it if not for this point until that happens I'll stick…
Missing feature…do not want to rename my list then move all the tasks to a new list. This seems like a fundamental feature this app is lacking.
Missing featureGoogle Tasks: Get Things Done — would be handy, if weren't so restricted & clunky in managing would be handy, if weren't so restricted & clunky in managing. Can't rearrange task order. Items have to be managed individually where it would be more useful as batch; or, contrarily, only as a batch where it would be more…
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Why did it move?
Score unchanged at 23.7 · 08 Oct 2026, 16:00 → 17:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Improved Features for Google Tasks a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 9 different people described it independently, in 9 mentions, the earliest from 15 Dec 2025 and the most recent from 06 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: stable — mentioned at a steady rate. Momentum is 41/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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