Tasks and calendar for GNOME and Android, kept in your hands.
Todav is a task list and calendar app for the GNOME desktop and Android. Your tasks and events stay in your own Nextcloud as plain CalDAV, so the Nextcloud Tasks and Calendar web apps, DAVx⁵, Thunderbird and other CalDAV clients keep seeing the same data. Todav adds fast apps on top: they work from a local copy, sync in the background and pick up changes from other devices within seconds.
Nextcloud is what Todav is made for, and it gets the most: instant updates, settings synced between devices, categories kept with the account. Other CalDAV servers work too (iCloud, Fastmail, Yahoo, mailbox.org, Posteo, Radicale, Baïkal…): pick your service or enter its address and sign in with a login name and password. Their task lists and calendars sync, checked on a timer you set per account; settings and the order of categories stay on the device. See FEATURES.
Todav is developed in my free time. If it keeps your days in order, you can support its development:
| Tasks, grouped by category | The month, an event's details |
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| The week, a time-blocked task | Editing an event |
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The GNOME Shell extension: its own menu, or in GNOME's clock menu
Android
| Tasks, grouped by category | The week |
|---|---|
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| On an unfolded foldable or a tablet | The calendar beside its sidebar |
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Home-screen widgets
- Task lists from your Nextcloud calendars, with categories, subtasks, priorities, due and start dates, and reminders as notifications with "Mark as Done".
- A calendar with Month, Week and Agenda views; plan a task by dropping it on an hour or a day.
- Works offline from a local copy; with WebDAV Push and ntfy, changes from other devices show up within seconds.
- Several accounts side by side: Nextcloud, Google (its calendars and Google Tasks) and lists kept on this device only, with no server at all.
- Sign-in through GNOME Online Accounts, the browser, or a login name and app password.
- A GNOME Shell extension: your tasks, the month and the agenda by the clock, or in GNOME's clock menu.
- An Android app with home-screen widgets and push through UnifiedPush, without Google services.
- Preferences synced between your devices.
All of what Todav does, and what it will, is listed in FEATURES.md.
Todav needs GNOME 49 or newer, or Android 10 or newer. The GNOME Shell extension is optional; it runs on GNOME 48 too (Debian 13, for instance), with the app installed as a Flatpak.
Android: download todav-<version>.apk from the
latest release and open it on your phone
(allow your browser or file manager to install apps when asked). Later versions install over it.
Coming from 2.0.1 or earlier, which were test builds signed differently each release, uninstall
that one first (lists on the device only are lost; your Nextcloud's sync back). Todav syncs with
your Nextcloud itself; you don't need DAVx⁵ for it. With Obtainium
it updates itself from the releases.
Arch Linux and derivatives (Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS…): install from the AUR with an AUR helper:
yay -S todav gnome-shell-extension-todavThese build the latest release from source; todav-bin and gnome-shell-extension-todav-bin
install the prebuilt release instead, and todav-git and gnome-shell-extension-todav-git build
the latest commit.
Fedora 43 and newer: install from COPR:
sudo dnf copr enable selfref/todav
sudo dnf install todav gnome-shell-extension-todavOther distributions: download a package from the latest release:
# Flatpak, on any distribution (the GNOME runtime comes from Flathub), plus the extension
flatpak install --user dev.aperte.Todav.flatpak
gnome-extensions install todav@aperte.dev.shell-extension.zip
# Ubuntu 26.04 and newer: the app with the extension
sudo apt install ./todav_<version>_amd64.deb
# Other distributions: the same files to unpack into /
sudo tar -xzf todav-<version>-x86_64.tar.gz -C /
The extension is also on extensions.gnome.org, a second way to get it. It suits the Flatpak app, which doesn't include it; the packages above install it with the app. It still needs the Todav app.
Log out and back in, then turn the extension on in Extensions (or
gnome-extensions enable todav@aperte.dev). Or build and install
Todav from source. Then:
- Open Todav and sign in to your Nextcloud: pick a GNOME Online Accounts account, sign in in the browser, or use a login name and app password. Or choose "On This Device Only" to start without a server.
- Your task lists and calendars appear, and new ones can be created from the sidebar. More accounts can be added in Preferences → Accounts.
- For instant updates, install the DAV Push app on your Nextcloud and enter your ntfy server in Preferences → Accounts → Push. Each account's page there shows whether its server has DAV Push and whether it works. On Android, install a UnifiedPush distributor such as the ntfy app instead.
Todav is under active development: what is planned is listed in FEATURES.md, with the details in ROADMAP.md.
Ideas, questions and bug reports are welcome: open an issue. See CONTRIBUTING.md before working on a pull request.
Todav speaks English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese, and follows your GNOME or Android language. English and Polish are reviewed; the others are first drafts, so corrections from native speakers are very welcome. Missing your language? Ask for it in an issue, or translate it yourself (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
Todav is developed and tested mainly on this setup:
- Nextcloud with its built-in CalDAV server (the Tasks and Calendar apps are optional, but handy as web fallbacks).
- GNOME 49 to 51, with the app (GTK 4 + libadwaita) and the optional GNOME Shell extension (which runs on 48 too).
- Android 15 to 17 on phones and foldables (the emulator), with the ntfy app as the UnifiedPush distributor.
- Optionally, for instant updates: the DAV Push
Nextcloud app (
dav_push) and an ntfy server.
Todav speaks standard CalDAV and signs in to other CalDAV servers with a login name and password, but those, and other desktops, are untested for now.
Dependencies: Rust (stable), GTK 4.14+, libadwaita 1.8+, libsecret, SQLite, blueprint-compiler,
glib-compile-resources (GLib) and gettext's msgfmt.
# The app: binary, desktop file, icons, D-Bus activation and autostart in ~/.local
make -C todav/linux install
# The GNOME Shell extension (log out and back in, then enable it in Extensions)
make -C todav/gnome-extension installA Flatpak manifest is included too: make -C todav/linux flatpak (needs flatpak-builder).
For Fedora, todav/linux/rpm/todav.spec builds the app and the extension as RPMs; COPR builds
it with .copr/Makefile, which also works locally:
make -f .copr/Makefile srpm outdir=$PWD/target/rpm spec=$PWD/todav/linux/rpm/todav.specAndroid: the Gradle project in todav/android builds the Rust core with cargo-ndk. It needs
rustup, cargo-ndk, JDK 21, gettext and unzip; sdk.sh sets up the Android SDK and an
emulator in ~/Android/Sdk with the versions in gradle.properties:
make -C todav/android setup # the SDK, the NDK and the emulator
make -C todav/android build # debug APKs in todav/android/app/build/outputs/apk/debug/
make -C todav/android run # built for the emulator, installed and startedEvery push is checked and packaged by CI; releases are made by the manual Release workflow and listed in the changelog.