Productivity

tasks.txt

Last updated 2026-07-09 · benchmark measured 2026-09-08 — deterministic & reproducible

Plain text task manager for macOS built around the todo.txt file format.

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Legit.Show scored tasks.txt 50/100 on 2026-09-08, measured across 5 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/taskstxt-app/2026-09-08

Is tasks.txt production-ready?

Legit.Show scores tasks.txt 50 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on tasks.txt (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 0/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 92/100
• Standards — 45/100
• Discoverability — 90/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 142 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: structured data, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

macOS users · Plain text enthusiasts · Developers who use text editors · People tired of complex task managers · Anyone using .txt files for tasks

Pricing

Free

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from taskstxt.app's own website on 2026-07-09.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-08.

Put together from public information, without tasks.txt's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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