# Todoist vs YouTrack (slim)

> Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Todoist scores 66.9 (B) on agent readiness against YouTrack's 49.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. YouTrack leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do tasks create.

- Todoist: B 66.9, rank #224 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/todoist.min.md
- YouTrack: D 49.9, rank #601 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/youtrack.min.md
- Todoist, good for Individuals and small teams who already keep tasks in Todoist and want an agent to add, reschedule, comment and report through MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 55; Maintenance & community, 88 against 64. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where YouTrack loses 5 points for them.
- YouTrack, good for Software teams that already run YouTrack and want an agent to search, file and update issues, comment, log time and maintain knowledge base articles under each user's permissions. Ahead on Security & auth, 67 against 61; Transparency & trust, 82 against 77.

| Category | Todoist | YouTrack |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 30 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 77 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 88 | 64 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 82 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Todoist | YouTrack |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Doist | JetBrains s.r.o. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.todoist.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Todoist's terms of service. The MCP server, the Python and TypeScript SDKs and the CLI on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under the JetBrains YouTrack Cloud Terms of Service. YouTrack Server is licensed separately for self-hosting |
| Tools exposed | 47 | 23 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `net.todoist/mcp` | not listed |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-27 | 2024-08-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-27 | 2026-06-12 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 554 stars, 5.4k npm/wk, 26k PyPI/wk | none |