iOS App of the Day: any.DO

While visiting my mom recently, I sent her to the grocery store to buy a few essentials for our infamous taco night. Four phone calls, six text messages later,  and one pounding headache for me…she still managed to forget the sour cream. How can you have a taco night sans the sour cream? Disaster. Sadly, all of the frustration could have been easily avoided had my mom downloaded the oh-so pretty any.DO app for iOS. Not only is any.DO extremely sexy to look at, it just makes life a whole lot simpler. This app takes the pain out of looking for that list you wrote on the back of a Pizza Hut receipt, and in my experience has transformed how I share tasks with people in my life.

Pros:

• Fresh, well-designed UI
• Sleek looking font and design
• Extremely iOS 5 intuitive gestures with drag and drop to add tasks, swipe right to mark as completed, and shake to remove tasks
• Syncs with all of your iOS devices
• Share tasks with friends and family
• Fancy tutorial, helpful for first time users
• Speak or type tasks
• Accurate task predictions for efficiency and less typing, more doing
• Choose the theme you prefer

Cons:

• Doesn’t sync with other to-do apps yet (but the developers are working on it)
• Sometimes when attempting to move a task to a certain folder, it places the task in the folder above the one I’m trying to use. After several attempts the task finally goes into the right folder

How it works:

• Download the app
• Take the snazzy tutorial
• Sign in either with Facebook, or create a new account
• Pull down to create a new task
• Pull down and hold to start talking
• Tap to add a reminder or share
• Tap and hold to drag app around
• Swipe to the right to complete a task
• Shake to remove a task
• Tap on task to add a priority, put it in a folder, add a reminder, add notes, or share it
• Drag up to view tasks by date, priority, folder, or completed tasks

Conclusion:

It’s no surprise that there are hundreds of to-do list apps out there all aiming at accomplishing the same goal. They all want to help you organize your life. Where any.DO stands apart from the crowd lies within its ultra-fresh UI and how the app functions. Additionally, the slick auto-prediction and iOS intuitive gestures make this app my go-to life organizer now. Overall, the app carries a light and minimalist feel to it making it super easy to navigate through. I can get in manage my tasks, see what I need to do, and feel good about what I have completed so far. Thankfully, the app allows me to share tasks with family, friends, and colleagues. At least now the next time taco night rolls around you can bet Mom won’t be forgetting the sour cream.

any.DO is available for free in the iTunes Store.Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later. iTunes Link

This is part of our iOS App of the Day series. We take our favorite app for iOS for each day and post it here for you to check out. Feel free to check out all of our App of the Day posts here.