Amazing Marvin
A highly customisable personal productivity app where you switch on only the features you want.
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About Amazing Marvin
Amazing Marvin takes an unusual approach: it ships with more than a hundred optional features, called strategies, and you turn on the ones that suit how you work. That can mean daily and weekly planning, time estimates and tracking, a Pomodoro timer, task attributes such as energy and urgency, habit tracking, gamification with points and streaks, or tools aimed at procrastination and overwhelm. Many users with ADHD credit that flexibility, and the company openly designs for people who struggle with conventional to-do apps. The flip side is setup time; a fresh account is simple, but building your ideal system takes experimentation. There is one paid plan with everything included and a 14-day free trial with no card required; there is no free plan, though students get a discount and the team offers reduced pricing on request. It runs in the browser, on Windows and Mac, and on iOS and Android, with integrations for calendars and other tools.
Best for: People, including many with ADHD, who want to tailor a to-do system to how their brain works.
Pros and cons
What works
- Turn individual features on or off to fit your method
- Built-in time estimates, tracking and day planning
- One plan with every feature included
Why people leave
- No free plan after the 14-day trial
- Taking time to configure can become its own distraction
- Mobile apps are less polished than desktop
Top Amazing Marvin alternatives
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Lunatask66.5Also designed with ADHD in mind, with tasks, habits and journaling plus a free plan and encryption.
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TickTick62.6Many of the same tools (timer, habits, calendar) in a simpler package for less money.
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Super Productivity59.6Free, open-source mix of task planning, time estimates, timeboxing and tracking.
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Todoist57.2Less customisable but quicker to set up and available everywhere.
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Toodledo55.3Similarly detailed task fields and a habit tracker, with a free tier.
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Amazing Marvin: common questions
Is Amazing Marvin free?
No, Amazing Marvin is a paid product. Price: $8/month, billed $96/year (checked on Amazing Marvin's own site).
Is Amazing Marvin open source?
No, Amazing Marvin is not open source. Open-source alternatives include Super Productivity.
What platforms does Amazing Marvin run on?
Amazing Marvin is available for Web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
What are the best alternatives to Amazing Marvin?
The highest-ranked Amazing Marvin alternatives right now are Lunatask, TickTick and Super Productivity. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.