The Todoist alternative
Don't track the follow-up. Approve it.
Todoist is the best place to keep a list, and the list is still yours to write and yours to do. Demi notices what your day committed you to across email, Slack, calendar and meetings, prepares the work itself, and waits for your approval. Work done, before it slips.
- Context from across your work
- Prepared before you ask
- You approve the next step
The same moment
10:50am, Monday
Your call ended with three promises. Todoist can hold them, once you write them down.
With Todoist, you keep the list
- Add each promise as a task
- Give each one a date and a priority
- Then do every one of them yourself
With Demi, the list got done
Picked upThree promises, straight from the call
DraftedThe pricing follow-up to Nadia
UpdatedThe deal, with the new close date
Nothing to write down. Approve and send
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Demi vs Todoist, side by side
Getting work in
Getting work done
Where it works
What it costs
Getting work in
Notices what you committed to, without you adding it
Demi
Todoist
Every task added by youReads your CRM, meetings and Slack for context
Demi
Todoist
Slack and calendar, no CRM
Getting work done
Does the work, not just tracks it
Demi
Todoist
AI organises tasks, not the workLearns how you work
Demi
Todoist
Not describedNothing happens without your say-so
Demi
Todoist
Where it works
Apps on Windows, Android, the web and watches
Demi
Mac onlyTodoist
Built for personal and recurring life tasks
Demi
Built for workTodoist
What it costs
A free plan to start
Demi
Todoist
AI that does real work, on the free plan
Demi
Up to $50 in creditsTodoist
A little AI, for adding and sorting tasks
Compiled from publicly available information. Last reviewed October 2026.
Which one is right for you
Choose Demi if
- You want the follow-up done, not another task about it.
- Your commitments come from calls, email and Slack, not a list.
- You work on a Mac and want the assistant there too.
- You want something that learns how you work.
Choose Todoist if
- You want a list you fully control, task by task.
- You need it on Windows, Android or your watch.
- Groceries, errands and habits are most of what you track.
One promise. One of them is still on a list.
On a call this morning you said you would send Nadia the revised pricing by the end of the day.
What's in Todoist
BY 5PM
Task: Send Nadia revised pricing.
Due today, priority 1, in [the project you remembered to file it in].
The email itself: [still to write, from the deal record].
Tracked, and still to do The reminder works. The work is yours.
What's in Demi
BY 5PM
The reply to Nadia is drafted with the revised pricing.
The deal in HubSpot is updated to match.
Done, waiting on your approval Noticed from the call, not typed into a list.
The steps between a promise and a sent email
A to-do list keeps the promise from slipping. Everything after that is still on you.
4 of 5
steps between a promise on a call and a sent follow-up that Demi removes.
- 1Write the promise down as a task
- 2Give it a date and a priority
- 3Find the pricing in the deal record
- 4Write the email
- 5Read it and approveStill yours
Counted from the process above, not from a benchmark.
Nothing to write down
It notices what you promised
The follow-up you agreed on a call, the question someone asked in Slack, the meeting that needs a brief: Demi picks them up from where they happened, so nothing depends on you remembering to make a task.
- No capture
- No typing, forwarding or dictating.
- Where it happened
- Calls, email, Slack and your calendar.
Context it already had
- Nadia Brandt at Northwind
- Three open items from the transcript
- Security pack promised by Friday
- Tiered pricing from the deal record
Done, not tracked
It prepares the work itself
A task tells you what to do. Demi drafts the reply, updates the deal and writes up the meeting, the way you would, and waits for your approval before anything goes out.
- Staged, not sent
- Every action waits on you.
- Your voice
- Learned from how you already write.
From your 40-minute call
To Nadia Brandt
Confirming the tiered pricing, the security pack by Friday, and the SSO timeline they asked about.
Your way
It learns how you work
Todoist keeps what you put in it. Demi learns which threads you chase, how you follow up after a call and what a good update looks like for each account, with no prompts or rules to write.
- No prompts
- Nothing to describe or configure.
- Free plan
- Up to $50 in credits, no card to start.
Personal memory
- Tone
- Keep emails to Northwind casual
- Format
- Summarize threads as short bullets
- Sign-off
- Close with “– Alex”
- Schedule
- No meetings on Friday afternoons
Where your promises actually live
Todoist connects to calendars, Slack, email and automation tools, and the tasks still start with you. Demi reads across your inbox, calendar, meetings and CRM, which is where the commitments are made.
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Teams that run on Demi
Founders, sellers, recruiters, and the people who live in their inbox.
“As a founder, my inbox is a constant firehose. Demi shows me what needs attention, drafts responses in my voice, and keeps follow-ups moving.”
Samir DuttaFounder, Farsight AI
“Demi keeps every recruiting conversation organized, helps me prep faster, and makes follow-up feel thoughtful.”
Dana Schafer-SmithDirector, Technical Recruiting, Kleiner Perkins
“Demi preps me for every meeting, updates the CRM, and streamlines my sales motion without extra admin.”
Chase MacaioneHead of Global Sales, Valdera
“The best CEOs stay in touch, follow through, and show up prepared. Demi makes those habits feel effortless.”
Bing GordonDirector, Duolingo
“Demi sounds like me!”
Abby TorgglerProject Manager, Nen Creative
“Demi lets me respond to customers instantly while keeping every reply thoughtful, concise, and personal, adapting to exactly what I need and giving me hours back every week.”
Matthew DumonCustomer Success Manager, Avoca
“Demi is the sales-tuned drafting assistant I could never quite get another tool to be. Takes the drudgery out of replies, recaps, and follow-ups so I can sell faster and more tailored.”
Michael ChapmanEnterprise Account Executive, Spellbook
“Demi’s drafts are so good I can often just hit send. It feels like it already knows what I was going to say.”
Kush AgarwalDirector, AI Deployment, Further AI
“I am absolutely OBSESSED with Demi. I am always so shocked with the drafts it creates for email replies - it's always so spot on with my voice.”
Emma SturtevantFounder, Emma Sturtevant Career Coaching
“As a founder, my inbox is a constant firehose. Demi shows me what needs attention, drafts responses in my voice, and keeps follow-ups moving.”
Samir DuttaFounder, Farsight AI
“I am absolutely OBSESSED with Demi. I am always so shocked with the drafts it creates for email replies - it's always so spot on with my voice.”
Emma SturtevantFounder, Emma Sturtevant Career Coaching
“Demi lets me respond to customers instantly while keeping every reply thoughtful, concise, and personal, adapting to exactly what I need and giving me hours back every week.”
Matthew DumonCustomer Success Manager, Avoca
“Demi preps me for every meeting, updates the CRM, and streamlines my sales motion without extra admin.”
Chase MacaioneHead of Global Sales, Valdera
“Demi is the sales-tuned drafting assistant I could never quite get another tool to be. Takes the drudgery out of replies, recaps, and follow-ups so I can sell faster and more tailored.”
Michael ChapmanEnterprise Account Executive, Spellbook
“Demi keeps every recruiting conversation organized, helps me prep faster, and makes follow-up feel thoughtful.”
Dana Schafer-SmithDirector, Technical Recruiting, Kleiner Perkins
“The best CEOs stay in touch, follow through, and show up prepared. Demi makes those habits feel effortless.”
Bing GordonDirector, Duolingo
“Demi sounds like me!”
Abby TorgglerProject Manager, Nen Creative
“Demi’s drafts are so good I can often just hit send. It feels like it already knows what I was going to say.”
Kush AgarwalDirector, AI Deployment, Further AI
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Why do people use Demi instead of Todoist for work?
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Demi vs Todoist
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For work, yes, though they do different jobs. Todoist is a to-do list you fill and then work through. Demi is an AI assistant that notices what you committed to across your email, calls and Slack, and prepares the work for you to approve. If you want a better list, Todoist is excellent. If you want the list to get done, that is Demi.
No. Demi does not ask you to keep a list. It picks up commitments from your calls, email, Slack and calendar, and prepares the follow-up, the CRM update or the meeting brief for your approval.
Yes, and plenty of people will. Keep Todoist for groceries, errands and habits, and let Demi handle the commitments that come out of your working day.
Yes. Todoist's AI can turn your voice or a forwarded email into tasks, break a task into steps and sort your list. You start each one, and it organises the work rather than doing it. Demi drafts the reply and updates the deal itself, then waits for your approval.
No. Every task begins with you adding, forwarding, dictating or capturing it, and calendar events stay read-only. Demi notices the commitments your day created without you writing them down.
Both start free, and the free plans do very different things. Demi's includes up to $50 in credits for the work itself, the drafts, the CRM updates and the meeting notes, with every integration included. Todoist's free plan gives you a list with a little AI for adding and sorting tasks, and even its paid plans leave the work itself to you.
Yes. If you want a list you control task by task, need it on Windows, Android or a watch, or mostly track personal errands and habits, Todoist has nearly twenty years and more than 50 million users behind it. If you want the work behind the tasks done, that is Demi.
No. Demi is a Mac app, and your team can also reach it in Slack. Todoist runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, the web and watches.
Demi is SOC 2 Type II certified, CASA Tier II assessed and Google-verified for restricted Gmail scopes. Your data is never used to train models, and every action is staged for your approval before it happens.
Demi has a free plan rather than a trial. Download it for Mac with no card required, and new accounts get up to $50 in credits. Paid individual plans start at $25 a month with credits included, and you can add more any time.
Where Todoist slows you down
Every task starts with you
Typing it, saying it out loud, forwarding an email or using a Slack command: every way into Todoist begins with you noticing the task and putting it there. Calendar events show up read-only and, in Todoist's own words, won't become tasks.
It holds the work, it doesn't do it
Todoist's AI breaks a task into steps, rewrites it or turns a forwarded email into a task. None of it drafts the reply, updates the deal or writes up the meeting. Ticking the box is the easy part.
It doesn't learn how you work
Todoist describes no memory of your habits or priorities, and says preferences may come later. It also has no native CRM integration, so the deal the task is about lives somewhere else.
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