Does Todoist have a lifetime deal? The tracked answer

TL;DR

• No. Todoist has no lifetime deal on any of the 7 marketplaces LemDeals tracks, verified 2026-09-20.
• Todoist currently starts at $5.00/month on its Pro (monthly) plan — about $60 a year.
• Todoist has run promotional discounts but no marketplace lifetime deal on the platforms we track.
• 4 one-time-payment alternatives are tracked right now in the same category (productivity), cheapest at $9.97.

The short answer

No. Todoist has no lifetime deal on any of the 7 marketplaces LemDeals tracks, verified 2026-09-20. We check this automatically every day against the public catalogs of AppSumo, PitchGround, DealFuel, Dealify, SaaSMantra, StackSocial, RocketHub, and the date in the table below is the last cycle that ran — not the date this page was written. Todoist has run promotional discounts but no marketplace lifetime deal on the platforms we track.

Todoist is a personal and small-team task manager known for natural-language capture and a generous free tier.

What we checked, and when

Marketplace tracked	Refund window	Todoist listing found	Checked
AppSumo	60 days	No	2026-09-20
PitchGround	60 days	No	2026-09-20
DealFuel	30 days	No	2026-09-20
Dealify	30 days	No	2026-09-20
SaaSMantra	60 days	No	2026-09-20
StackSocial	15 days	No	2026-09-20
RocketHub	60 days	No	2026-09-20

A "No" above means our crawler saw no Todoist listing in that marketplace's public catalog on the date shown. Historical deals, private offers and regional promotions are outside what a catalog crawl can see; what the row does tell you is that nothing is purchasable there today. The moment that changes, the next cycle rewrites this page.

Be careful what you buy instead

Search "todoist lifetime deal" and most of what comes back is not a licence at all: seats carved out of a shared team account, education or non-profit accounts resold against their terms, or a monthly subscription somebody else keeps paying. Each of those dies the moment the vendor notices, and none carries a refund window you could enforce. The refund column above is the quick test — a real marketplace deal publishes a policy; a resold seat cannot.

What Todoist actually costs

Todoist lists its Pro (monthly) plan at $5.00 per month. Todoist charges less per month when the Pro plan is billed annually. There is a free tier, so the honest comparison for a lot of buyers is free-tier versus a one-time payment, not paid subscription versus a one-time payment. The table below shows what that adds up to, which is the number to hold a one-time-payment alternative against.

Time on Todoist	Cumulative subscription cost	Break-even lifetime price
1 year	$60	Any one-time price under $60 wins over 1 year
2 years	$120	Any one-time price under $120 wins over 2 years
3 years	$180	Any one-time price under $180 wins over 3 years
5 years	$300	Any one-time price under $300 wins over 5 years

The break-even column is deliberately blunt: lifetime deals are only good value if the tool survives long enough to pass the break-even line, and if you would genuinely have paid the subscription for that whole period. A $69 one-time deal that you stop using in month three cost more per use than a month of Todoist.

What Todoist costs as the team grows

Per-seat pricing means the number that matters is not the sticker price but the sticker price multiplied by headcount, compounded over however long you stay. At $5.00 a seat, a five-person team on Todoist spends $300 in year one and $900 across three years, assuming the free tier stopped being enough.

Seats on Todoist	Per month	Year one	Three years
1 seat	$5.00	$60	$180
3 seats	$15.00	$180	$540
5 seats	$25.00	$300	$900
10 seats	$50.00	$600	$1,800
25 seats	$125.00	$1,500	$4,500

Where Todoist sits on price against everything we watch

Todoist's $5.00 entry price ranks 2 out of 32 priced subscriptions in our watch list, which runs from Elementor at $4.92 to Semrush at $139.00. Inside productivity the median entry price is $8.50, putting Todoist $3.50 below the category midpoint — $42 a year per seat either way. Across every category we watch the median is $14.00. 2 of the 2 productivity tools we watch run a free tier, so for a small team the realistic comparison is often free plan versus one-time payment.

The table below is the price neighbourhood around Todoist — the six watched subscriptions closest to it on entry price, regardless of what they do. It is a sanity check on whether the money you are about to spend is normal for software of this size.

Priced near Todoist	Category	Entry plan, per month	Year one	Versus Todoist
Elementor	website-builder	$4.92	$59	−$0.08/mo (−$1 a year)
Trello	project-management	$5.00	$60	same price
Buffer	social-media	$6.00	$72	+$1.00/mo (+$12 a year)
ClickUp	project-management	$7.00	$84	+$2.00/mo (+$24 a year)
Miro	whiteboard	$8.00	$96	+$3.00/mo (+$36 a year)
Slack	communication	$8.75	$105	+$3.75/mo (+$45 a year)

Price rank is not quality rank. What it does tell you is how much room a one-time-payment alternative has to be worth buying: the wider the gap between Todoist's annual cost and a lifetime price, the shorter the period you have to stay for the deal to pay for itself.

One-time-payment alternatives that are live now

If a one-time payment is what you are actually after, these are the productivity lifetime deals our tracker currently observes across the marketplaces above, cheapest first. Prices are the lowest observed tier on the most recent cycle. LemDeals is not the seller — every link resolves to the marketplace of origin.

Tracked lifetime deal	Category	Marketplace	Lowest observed price	Status
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro	Productivity	StackSocial	$9.97	live
Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional: Lifetime License for Windows	Productivity	StackSocial	$12.97	live
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro	Productivity	StackSocial	$14.99	live
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro	Productivity	StackSocial	$29.99	live

Two things to check before buying any of them: the refund window on the source marketplace (shown per marketplace in the first table), and whether the tool covers the specific workflow you were using Todoist for. Category matches are directionally useful, not feature-equivalent.

What each of those prices is worth in Todoist months

Priced against Todoist's own $5.00/month entry plan, each one-time price below converts into a number of subscription months. If you would not have stayed on Todoist for at least that many months, the one-time deal is not a saving — it is a smaller purchase you did not need.

One-time alternative	Its price	Months of Todoist it equals	Share of one year on Todoist
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro	$9.97	2 months	17%
Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional: Lifetime License for Windows	$12.97	3 months	22%
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro	$14.99	3 months	25%
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro	$29.99	6 months	50%

For the full subscription-versus-one-time-payment breakdown on this tool — team-size scaling, break-even horizon, and how Todoist prices against the rest of its category — see our Todoist cost of ownership analysis.

The same question, asked the other ways

People ask this in several phrasings that mean slightly different things. Answered separately, because the answers are not identical.

Does Todoist have a lifetime discount?

A lifetime discount is a permanently reduced recurring price, not a one-time payment — you still pay every month or year. Todoist charges less per month when the Pro plan is billed annually. On Todoist's $5.00/month Pro (monthly) plan, even a permanent 30% cut would still cost roughly $42 a year, or about $210 across five years. We observe no one-time Todoist listing on the tracked marketplaces as of 2026-09-20. Recurring discounts, where they exist, come from Todoist itself at checkout, not resold by a deal marketplace.

Is there a Todoist one-time payment option?

Todoist publishes recurring pricing only, starting at $5.00 per month on its Pro (monthly) plan — $60 in year one. The closest thing to a one-time payment in this space right now is a tracked Productivity listing — Microsoft Windows 11 Pro on StackSocial at $9.97 — which is a different product, not a Todoist licence. Treat any "one-time Todoist" offer outside its own checkout as a resold or shared account.

Is there Todoist lifetime pricing or a perpetual licence?

Perpetual licensing means you keep using the version you bought, forever, with updates usually time-boxed. Todoist is cloud-hosted productivity software, so a perpetual licence in the classic desktop sense does not apply: what a marketplace calls a "lifetime deal" is one payment for access as long as the vendor keeps operating. In productivity specifically, the one-time listings we currently observe are Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional: Lifetime License for Windows, Microsoft Windows 11 Pro — useful context for how common the model is in this category.

Is a Todoist LTD coming?

We do not predict launches, and neither should anyone else selling you a waitlist. What we can tell you is factual: Todoist has run promotional discounts but no marketplace lifetime deal on the platforms we track. Todoist is a personal and small-team task manager known for natural-language capture and a generous free tier. We have run 48 checks against 7 marketplaces without seeing one, and this page re-runs every day, so if that changes the answer at the top changes with it.

How this page is maintained

The figures on this page have one source each: the tracker for what is listed, Todoist's own pricing page for what it costs. Both are re-read on our review cycle and the page is rebuilt from them, so a change in either shows up here rather than in a changelog nobody reads. Corrections are welcome and handled in public.