Drag Task vs Google Tasks
Drag Task vs Google Tasks: a calendar made only of tasks
Both are free and both use your existing Google account, so the real question is how you want to see your tasks. Google Tasks is a list that lives in a Gmail or Calendar side panel; to see those tasks on a calendar you open Google Calendar, where they sit alongside your meetings — and yes, you can drag them there to reschedule. Drag Task is the other shape: a calendar built only of tasks, with no meetings competing for the space, where the list and the dates are the same screen rather than two panels you switch between.
Pick Google Tasks
Choose Google Tasks if you live in Gmail and Google Calendar all day, want your to-dos sitting next to your meetings, and value having it already there with nothing new to sign into.
Pick Drag Task
Choose Drag Task if your calendar is too crowded with meetings to also be a to-do list, and you want a separate, task-only calendar where every day's work is visible without opening a panel.
Try it, no sign-in →Drag Task vs Google Tasks, side by side
| Google Tasks | Drag Task | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Account | Your Google account | Your Google account |
| Main view | A flat list in a side panel in Gmail or Calendar | A calendar of days, each holding its own task list |
| Tasks on a calendar | Yes, inside Google Calendar, mixed in with your meetings | Yes, and only tasks — nothing else on the grid |
| Drag to reschedule | Yes, on the Google Calendar grid | Yes, drag a task straight onto another day |
| Seeing several days at once | Via Google Calendar, sharing space with events | Always — days sit side by side, today magnified |
| Subtasks | One level of nesting | None |
| Reminders and recurring tasks | Yes | Not supported at all |
| Mobile | Native apps, though tasks render inconsistently in mobile Calendar | Web app — one full-width day you swipe between |
| Sharing | No — task lists are private to you | No — personal use only |
| Try without an account | Google account required | Full demo with no sign-in, nothing saved |
Competitor features and prices checked September 2026. Tiers change — check theirs before deciding.
What Google Tasks does better
- It is already there. If you use Gmail, you have it, with nothing else to sign into.
- Your tasks and your meetings sit on one grid, which is genuinely the right model if you time-block.
- Reminders and recurring tasks, neither of which Drag Task has.
- Native iOS and Android apps, and it works offline.
- Tasks can be created straight from an email in Gmail.
What Drag Task does better
- The calendar contains only tasks, so a week of meetings cannot bury what you actually have to do.
- Every day's tasks are visible at once, instead of one list in a panel you open.
- Adding a task is clicking the empty space on the day you mean to do it — no due-date field.
- You can try the whole thing without signing into anything.
The honest verdict
Google Tasks is hard to argue with on convenience: it is free, it is already in your inbox, and it does show up on your calendar. Drag Task makes sense when that calendar is the problem — when your meetings fill it so completely that tasks disappear into the noise, and you would rather keep the work on a calendar of its own.