Firetask 5 Is Finally Here: GTD®-Inspired Task Management, Reimagined for Mac and iOS
After years of development, we finally launched the 5th major version of Firetask yesterday. Since Firetask is a side project, progress has always depended on when we could find the time. That made the journey longer — but also makes us extra proud of what we’ve achieved. With Firetask 5 we hit our design goals: the app feels more intuitive, natural, and enjoyable to use than ever before. If it’s been quiet here on ApplePi for a while, now you know why :-).
Firetask has always been about personal task management. It’s not built for large business teams, but rather designed with entrepreneurs, freelancers, and individuals in mind. Our goal has been to strike the perfect balance between the power of high-end task managers like OmniFocus and the simplicity of to-do apps like Things. With Firetask 5, we believe we’ve finally nailed that balance.
As a side project, we don’t have a huge launch budget, so we leaned on free resources such as Product Hunt. We ended up with 103 upvotes and #23 of the day, which felt like a strong start given how busy Tuesdays can be. We also had to stay focused on the essentials: that meant holding back features like Apple Watch and Vision Pro support for now.
"Firetask 5 is all about balance. We wanted to bring more power to our users without losing the clarity and simplicity that make Firetask unique." [Wolfgang Bartelme, Designer of Firetask on Sep 30, 2025]
From a developer’s perspective, Firetask 5 is also exciting because it’s the first app we built entirely with SwiftUI. Yes, there were moments when we nearly lost our minds over how tricky some seemingly simple things were to implement, but overall we’re glad we went all in. The only real place we had to drop back to native components was text editing — and even there, the latest iOS and macOS releases are making things easier (though we couldn’t take advantage of those changes in time for launch).
Along the way, we learned a lot about SwiftUI — and its quirks. We stumbled upon some interesting insights that we’ll be sharing here over the next few months.
So stay tuned (especially if you’re into SwiftUI), and if you have a moment, check out Firetask 5 on the Mac and iOS App Store. You can use it free with up to 10 open tasks and 3 active projects, plus we’re offering a free month of the full version so you can test everything with unlimited tasks.