Test 3 Syncing

Essential for any productivity tool

Clear and Taskpaper use Apple’s iCloud syncing to synchronise data between devices. Clear has an iOS version as well as its Mac client, so syncing between the two (once you’ve set them up) is as fast as Apple’s servers allow. Taskpaper has no iOS version, but its files are stored in iCloud Drive and can be read by compatible third-party apps.

The other four all have their own servers for syncing. The downside is you need to create an account to use them. The upside is that, in the case of ToDo and Wunderlist, you can log in to your account from a web browser and use it as if you were running the app – handy if you need to log in from work.

In all cases, we found syncing worked well. Wunderlist was particularly impressive for the speedy times in which it propagated additions to different devices.