TUAW's Daily Mac App: Wunderlist

Matthew,

I applaud your providing this software for free, but if it's to introduce your company to potential users, letting a bug like Push Notifications not working go on for three months isn't a really good recommendation for your company.

If you can't get the feature to work, pull it until you can. I downloaded your app in my iPhone due to TUAW's recommendation and I missed a very important deadline because I trusted your app to work.

And to Samuel Gibbs, well I certainly will be less trusting of your recommendation here at TUAW in the future.

push notifcations still dont work- not been since april.. and dont tell me yur working on it

We'll talk when Wunderlist can do something as simple as reoccurring tasks.

Hello everyone. My name is Matthew - I am the quality assurance technician here at 6Wunderkinder.
I thought I'd clear up this talk on our business model.
Firstly, we're normal guys. We don't like ads, or secret data selling stuff - we just want to make simple software that works. The program doesn't call out to any ad servers, the calls are to our cloud - allowing synchronisation to occur.

So, what's in it for us? All this stuff for free? What gives? Wunderlist is simply a product that gets all of you guys interested in 6Wunderkinder - and, considering we began last year, the 750,000 strong userbase speaks volumes. We're releasing our next product, Wunderkit, later this year. Because we have a large, strong following it means many people will know about, and possibly be interested in adopting, Wunderkit.

There's nothing fishy with Wunderlist. We want as many people interested in it as possible, so that means everything we do right now is for you. No ads, no data selling, no fishy stuff. If any of you have further questions, please drop us a line at support@6wunderkinder. Have a great day!

Now I love free stuff, but when people wave a sharp looking platform like that at me and tell me it's all free, I just briefly wonder what's in it for them. Anyone know what their business model is?

You failed to mention what I think is the best thing about Wunderlist: how easy it is to share lists with other people. My husband and I were looking for ages for a to-do app that lets us share lists, and Wunderlist does it quite well.

FWIW, the Mac app is basically a site-specific browser, and a pretty large download at that. I can't see any particular reason to use it over the web interface. The iPhone app feels more like a native app.

The underlying list concept is nice enough. Definitely simple—no hierarchical lists. Does allow notes on list items, which I like. Does allow lists to be shared, which is very nice. iCloud is hanging over the sharing and syncing features in this, though. There are so many list apps out there (and there will be reminders in iOS5, of course), and it makes me wonder how syncing and sharing is going to shake out among all of them.

I used Wunderlist for a few months, and while it is fairly attractive and the syncing is great, I got tired of the really limited feature set (no tags, no recurring tasks, no smart folders/saved searches, no priorities, can't copy/paste text in tasks, etc. etc.) and the flickery web-appy nature of it. It has convinced me that no matter how good a web app is, I will probably always prefer a truly native app if one is available that does the same stuff.

I would love to use Wunderlist. The UI is beautiful and it seems easy to use. BUT. Until there is a way to set up repeating tasks, I just can't use it. Until then I have to stay with Toodledo, which works great, even though the UI makes my eyes bleed.