Microsoft Planner: Unreliable Task List for Mobile Use
Users experience significant reliability issues with Microsoft Planner, making it nearly unusable for managing tasks on mobile devices. This poor performance leads to frustration and limits users' ability to effectively utilize the app for their task management needs.
6 different people have complained about this since 21 Nov 2025, most recently on 02 Mar 2026.
- “Then if I actually want to use it as my task list on the go, it’s too unreliable for the same reason.”
- “Like most things Microsoft makes it’s horrible.”
- “Good luck actually using it (every time I click on a tasks I'm booted to the hub so it is literally completely not useable) and planner sucks on 365 mobile too so I can't work on my lists unless I open my laptop.”
6 people in 6 posts across 2 sources · demand low, pain low, competition low
The pain
shares of 6 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 people using Microsoft Planner
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 67% of posts are complaints
- Since
- 21 Nov 2025 → 02 Mar 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
- Microsoft Planner
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 33% 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
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint467%
- Request233%
Sources
6 signals · 2 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…l what it is. It takes forever to load - just to receive information. Then if I actually want to use it as my task list on the go, it’s too unreliable for the same reason. Loading and updating takes too long and you’re never clear when you’re looking at updated data.
Microsoft Planner — Sucks Like most things Microsoft makes it’s horrible. The UI on mobile is disconnected from the desktop version I can’t even find the tasks I am looking for
Microsoft Planner The app barely functions. Good luck actually using it (every time I click on a tasks I'm booted to the hub so it is literally completely not useable) and planner sucks on 365 mobile too so I can't work on my lists unless I open my laptop. When I first installed it did work but the app is not so…
Microsoft Planner — Barely Functional This app hardly ever works correctly. Most often my plans all show blank and I can’t use the app to check tasks or create new ones.
Microsoft Planner — Poor Performance — I really like task planner but the app experience is very poor loading
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Questions about this idea
- Is Unreliable Task List for Mobile Use 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?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 21 Nov 2025 and the most recent from 02 Mar 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 43/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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