I just recently found out that Astrid has been acquired by Yahoo! and from what I can tell, it looks like it is going the route of Gizmo 5. Remember Gizmo 5? Yeah, so anyway, maybe they will let Astrid coexist, but from what I can tell they already have a Get It Done application (supporting Get Things Done, which is so popular it is called GTD by smexy people in the know).
I looked into Get It Done, and well… Astrid was free, and this was $39/year, and I wasn’t hip on it. So then I reviewed some other apps like Any.Do, Nozbe and ToodleDo. There was also this interesting LifeHacker post which adds Wunderlist and a few others to the list.
I didn’t do any serious comparison – I just kinda poked around and compared stuff to Astrid, including the price points… I moved my search into “collaborative tools” and looked at Citrix Podio, MindManager, SmartSheet and ZoHo as well. What I settled on, for now, is a product called TeamBox. It seems to fill the Astrid niche, at least for my purposes and the free version supports up to 5 users, it integrates to Google Docs, DropBox and Box. Give it a go: www.TeamBox.com
Now, in honesty, does the TeamBox mobile app shake a stick at the fluidity of Astrid’s task management GUI? Nope – not even a little bit – so if you find something close, be sure to leave a comment (people nag me because my comments are moderated, but just be patient…they will show up!)