Learn more about DropTask.
The Basics
- DropTask has no accounts, sign-in, or servers of its own. Todoist, if you choose it, is your Todoist account; OmniFocus, if you choose it, is the OmniFocus app on the same device.
- No analytics, crash reporting, advertising, or third-party SDKs.
- It never asks for your location.
- It sells, shares, or transfers no data to anyone.
Stored on Your Device
- Your settings, including the home and work addresses you type or pick.
- Today’s remaining count, so the widgets and the watch complication work without opening the app.
- Your Todoist token, in your Keychain. With iCloud Keychain on, Apple carries it to your other devices as it does your passwords, end-to-end encrypted. Your project names and colors, your label names, and your plan and name (shown in Settings) are kept until you disconnect.
- Your OmniFocus project and tag names, when you fetch them.
- Your list or project names, and which task manager you use, so the Quick Add widget can offer your lists and the widgets can show its color.
- Nothing else. Tasks are saved straight into Reminders, Todoist, or OmniFocus. DropTask keeps no copy.
Permissions
- Reminders. To read your lists, add reminders, and count what’s due today. With Todoist or OmniFocus as the destination, the Mac app doesn’t ask; the iPhone app still does, for the widget and the watch. The watch app asks as well, to count on its own.
- Contacts. Optional, and asked for on the Mac only. DropTask reads only the home and work addresses and your first name (for the address titles) from one card: on the Mac, your own card; on iPhone and iPad, the one you pick. It keeps a reference to the card. On the Mac it follows your edits; on iPhone and iPad, unless DropTask has Contacts access, choose the card again after changing it. You can type the addresses instead.
Locations
When you attach a place, DropTask sends the place name to Apple’s Maps service for coordinates, along with your home or work address as the search center, under Apple’s privacy policy. Beyond that, the place goes only to the app you’re sending the task to, and the results aren’t kept.
Todoist (Optional)
Only with Todoist as the destination and a token pasted in. Otherwise nothing is sent to Todoist or asked of it.
- Sent, with each task you add: its name, notes, project, labels, priority, due date, repeat, and for a place its name, coordinates, arriving or leaving, and radius. Your token goes with every request.
- Read, when you connect and when you open DropTask: your project names and colors, label names, plan features, and your name, which Settings shows beside the connection.
- All of it goes to Todoist alone, under Todoist’s privacy policy.
OmniFocus (Optional)
Everything happens on your device, between the two apps. DropTask makes no network request for it.
- Handed over, with each task you add: its name, notes, project, due date, repeat, a flag for the highest priority, and tags. OmniFocus tells DropTask the task was made, nothing more.
- Read: the names of your active and on-hold projects and tags, by a short script OmniFocus shows you to approve. It runs when you tap Refresh Projects and Tags, when you open DropTask on the Mac while OmniFocus is running, and with each task you send on the iPhone. Nothing else is read, and nothing is changed.
- What OmniFocus does with your tasks from there is under The Omni Group’s privacy policy.
Other Apple Services
- Reminders sync. Once saved, a reminder syncs through iCloud like any other. That is Apple’s system.
- Apple Watch. Today’s and tomorrow’s counts pass from your iPhone to your watch over Apple’s device-to-device connection, not the internet.
DropTask makes no other network requests.
Children
DropTask does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13.
Contact
Questions about privacy in DropTask can go to [email protected].
Last updated: November 8, 2026
