Frequently asked questions

tasks is a task manager for people with several areas of life. Work, family and private life sit in separate workspaces, and Today and Upcoming still show you on one page what is due in the next days.

You add new tasks wherever you are: in the browser, in the terminal with tsk, with Claude and other MCP clients, with the iPhone shortcut or by email. Due tasks can also show up in your calendar.

For anyone juggling tasks from several contexts: several companies or clients, plus family and private life. For family members who share tasks and only need their phone for it. And for developers who want to capture tasks in the terminal or in Claude without switching apps.

tasks is not a project management tool for teams. Plans for organisations come later.

tasks is made by Squibble GmbH in Kemptthal, Switzerland. We built tasks for our own daily use and use it every day. The company details are in the imprint.

The app, the emails and the push notifications are available in German and English. You pick the language in the settings. You write your tasks in any language you like; quick add understands dates such as “tomorrow” or «morgen».

Write to hello@squibble.ch or use the contact form on this website. The people who build tasks read that address. We answer in German or English.

Yes. The account costs nothing, with no trial period and no credit card. Every feature is included: workspaces and sharing, tsk, MCP, the iPhone shortcut, calendar feeds, email to task, push and the daily digest. There are no ads, and we do not sell data.

To keep the free service fair, limits per account are planned: for owned workspaces, tasks per workspace, personal access tokens, calendar feeds and links per task. The exact numbers are in the table on the pricing page and in the terms of use. They are set so that you do not notice them in daily use. We also limit how many requests a token may make per minute, so a faulty script slows nobody down.

Pro plans, organisations and SSO are coming. When and at what price is not decided yet. What you use for free today stays free to use, and we tell you by email at least 30 days before any change to the terms.

We built tasks for our own daily use and run it anyway. More accounts cost us little. We will earn money later with plans for organisations, not with ads and not with your data.

In the EU, on servers in Germany. The website, the application and the database run on servers that Squibble GmbH rents from Hetzner Online GmbH and operates itself. The database is backed up every six hours, and an encrypted copy goes to another Squibble backup system every day.

All connections are encrypted with TLS. Access tokens and calendar feed addresses are stored only as digests. The details are in the privacy policy.

Squibble GmbH in Switzerland is responsible. The Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) applies; the EU’s GDPR applies where its conditions are met. Hosting is in the EU, in Germany. In short: Swiss provider, EU hosting.

Sign-in is provided by WorkOS, Inc. (USA). You sign in with your email address or with Google, Apple or Microsoft; tasks itself stores no password. WorkOS processes your email address, your name and the details the chosen service passes on. WorkOS never sees your tasks. The transfer to the USA is safeguarded by standard contractual clauses.

This website sets no cookies, and there are no ad trackers. We measure page views and a few clicks with Umami, which we run ourselves: without cookies, without storing IP addresses and without passing anything to third parties. After sign-in the app sets a session cookie that keeps you signed in; it is technically necessary.

If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we measure nothing.

On this website, turn it off for your browser in the privacy policy. In the app, Settings › Preferences has the switch “Anonymous usage statistics”; it applies to your account on every device. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, measurement is off anyway.

Only the members of that workspace. Every workspace is its own privacy boundary, enforced in the database itself. Whoever belongs to your family workspace sees nothing of your work workspaces, and the other way round. Your Inbox is yours alone and cannot be shared.

You can also restrict access tokens and calendar feeds to single workspaces.

No, neither for Jira nor for GitLab. tsk sync jira and tsk sync gitlab fetch issues on your own computer, with jira-cli’s stored login and your logged-in glab, and send only the list of issues to tasks. The corporate token goes only to your company’s Jira or GitLab server, never to ours, and our server never calls Jira or GitLab. So no admin has to approve a third-party app, and it works behind a VPN too.

For a timer, tsk login --scope sync creates a separate token that can do nothing but sync. tsk never sends descriptions, comments or attachments of external issues. If needed, a workspace shows only the issue keys instead of the titles; the titles then never leave your laptop.

With the “New task” shortcut. Dictate the task with Siri, start the shortcut with the Action Button or take text from the share sheet. The shortcut sends the text through quick add and answers with the number of the new task, for example #128. It needs an access token that may only create tasks.

The web app also runs on the iPhone and can be added to your Home Screen.

tsk is a single program for Linux, macOS and Windows, with no dependencies. Download it, check the checksum and sign in with tsk login and an access token. After that, tsk add 'Send quote $client-a tomorrow !p1' adds a task in one line.

ls, show, edit, mv, done, reopen, rm and restore list, edit, move and complete tasks. tsk add -p '#34' --item 'A' --item 'B' adds several subtasks under #34, tsk mv re-parents them. Every command gives machine-readable output with --json for scripts.

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and any other client that speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP). tasks is an MCP server itself: the assistant lists workspaces and tasks, reads single tasks, adds new ones through quick add, updates them and sets their status. You connect it with an access token or through sign-in (OAuth).

A read-only token hides the write tools. There is no delete tool, and every token can be restricted to single workspaces.

You create a personal address for a workspace and forward mails to it. The subject becomes the task and understands the same quick add as the app, such as tomorrow or !p1. The mail’s text goes into the description; you choose how much of it per address. A confirmation with the task number and a link comes back.

Only mails from senders you allowed, and whose sender passes the DMARC check, create tasks. Everything else goes to quarantine. You can renew or revoke an address at any time.

Through a calendar feed. In the settings you create one or more feeds, each for the workspaces you choose, and subscribe to the address in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. The feed holds overdue tasks and everything due in the next 90 days, without descriptions.

With “Show task numbers only” the calendar shows just the number, such as #1234, instead of the title, for a calendar others can see. When you renew the address, the old one stops working at once. How often the calendar reloads the feed is up to the calendar app.

Issues assigned to you appear next to your own tasks, with their key, their source and a link to the original. tsk sync gitlab and tsk sync jira read them on your laptop, GitLab through your logged-in glab, Jira with jira-cli’s stored login, and send them to tasks. From GitLab you also get the merge requests waiting for your review. They are as fresh as your last sync: run once, with --watch 10m or on a timer.

Which project lands in which workspace you set once with tsk sync gitlab setup or tsk sync jira setup. Projects without a mapping are not sent, and tsk names them after each sync.

Title, due date and status stay read-only and follow the original. Priority, tags, category, start date and a note are yours to set in tasks; they survive every sync. Recently closed issues show as done or cancelled and then move to the archive.

tasks is a web app for computer and phone that you install like an app on your Home Screen, on the iPhone through “Add to Home Screen”. You do not need an app from the App Store.

Without a connection the installed app still opens, and views you have already loaded stay readable. Changes you make offline are kept and sent as soon as you are back online. If that causes a conflict, the app shows it to you to decide.

If a task has a time, you get a push notification at that time. When a task is assigned to you, you get a push as well. On top of that comes the daily digest: once a day, at 07:30 by default, with what is overdue, due today, due in the next days and up for grabs. It arrives by email, by push or both, and not at all on days with nothing due.

On the iPhone, push needs the installed app on your Home Screen. You can remove each device again in the settings.

Yes. For the family a phone is enough: accept the invitation, sign in with their own email address, add the app to the Home Screen. Nobody needs a terminal, tokens or settings. Members of the family workspace see its tasks, take what is up for grabs and get a push notification when something is assigned to them. Your other workspaces stay invisible.

In the workspace settings under Members, enter the email address and the role: member, admin or owner. The invited person gets an email with a link and signs in with exactly that address. They do not need an account first; it is created at the first sign-in, for free.

Your Inbox cannot be shared; it stays personal.

In a workspace with several members, a task with nobody assigned is “Up for grabs”. Every member sees it, and whoever has time takes it. Today can include such tasks, the daily digest counts them, and calendar feeds can carry them. Nothing is left lying around just because nobody was asked.

Yes. You can ask for a copy of your data in a common format at any time. Export directly in the settings is coming; until then an email to hello@squibble.ch is enough. More in the privacy policy.

You can ask for your account to be deleted at any time. Deletion directly in the settings is coming; until then an email to hello@squibble.ch is enough. Your account and content then disappear from the application.

Backups keep data until their retention period ends. More in the privacy policy.