Todoist vs Zenhub: which one fits your team?
Same idea, two weights. One is understood in four seconds by anybody; the other enforces a workflow and produces the reports. The step between them is usually a growth event, not a preference.
It turns on how much process your team needs enforced, and how much of it people will actually follow.
Pick Todoist if
you want the quickest personal list in existence and you mostly work alone. Where it stops: a list is not a plan, and there is no time blocking.
Pick Zenhub if
your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match. Where it stops: it is engineering shaped, and there is no calendar.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Todoist is about $480 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Todoist: Generous free tier. Pro around $5, Business around $8 per user per month. Zenhub: Paid per user, with a free tier for small teams. Check their current tiers.
Where they part company
Zenhub does more on 5 of them
- linking pull requests to the work
- dependencies and a timeline
- portfolio and agile reporting
- showing who has room
- rules that fire on their own
Todoist does more on 5 of them
- being the place the tasks actually live
- being useful before you configure it
- having a plan for today
- two way calendar sync
- turning email and chat into tasks
Side by side
| What it does | Todoist | Zenhub | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Partly. A today list, ordered by due date, not a day laid out against hours. | No | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Partly. A calendar view and limited sync, not a calendar you plan on. | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Core | Partly. The issues live in GitHub. Zenhub is the layer that runs agile on them. | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Partly | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | No | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | Core | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | No | No | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Partly | Core. Burndown, velocity and story points, which is the reason to buy it. | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | No | No | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Core | Partly | Core |
| A free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 6: time blocking on a calendar, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, docs and a wiki inside, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and having a free plan.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask is a third direction rather than a point on that line: keep the surface small, and add the calendar neither of them has.
It does more than both of them on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, two way calendar sync, showing who has room, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, docs and a wiki inside and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling.
Common questions
Todoist vs Zenhub: which should I pick?
Pick Todoist if you want the quickest personal list in existence and you mostly work alone. Pick Zenhub if your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match.
What is the biggest difference between Todoist and Zenhub?
The clearest gap is linking pull requests to the work, where Zenhub does more than Todoist. Underneath that, Todoist is a list or a board that everybody understands without being taught, and Zenhub is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Todoist or Zenhub cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Todoist is about $480 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Todoist and Zenhub have in common?
They answer the same on 6 of our 16 axes, among them time blocking on a calendar, booking links and turning meetings into tasks. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Todoist and Zenhub?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and two way calendar sync. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked June 2026.