Skip to content

Productivity mobile app templates

A productivity app has two jobs that pull against each other. Capturing a task has to be fast, and the list people return to has to stay short. Home should answer what is next, with a handful of items, and a single add button where the thumb lands. Everything else can fall into an inbox the user clears later.

The useful set is today, a list or project, an item in detail, and a calendar when time is the point. An item holds a title, a due date, and one note. Extra fields can wait until someone asks for them. A calendar fails when every hour is the same gray block. Give the current day a visible edge, and let a timed item show how long it runs.

Habits, tasks, notes, hiring, and calendars share this category and should split once you edit. A check for today, a blank note, and a meeting are different primary objects. Delete the modules that belong to the other products. A to-do home that also shows a habit grid and a sales pipeline is three apps on one screen.

The add flow is where these products feel slow. One field for the title, a save that returns to the list, and the new item visible at the top. Date and project can sit under the title on that same screen. Avoid a five-step wizard for capturing a single task.

Questions, answered. Everything to know before you start.

What should the home screen list?
The next few items, not the whole backlog. A today section and an add button are enough. Overdue can be a short row above today. The full project list belongs on its own screen, linked from home.
How should adding a task work?
One field for the title, then save, then back to the list with the new item visible. Date, project, and a note can be optional on that same screen, under the title. A multi-step wizard for a to-do is slower than typing the line into a note.
When does a calendar need its own screen?
When the product is about time: meetings, shifts, or bookings. The day needs a visible edge, and an event needs a length. If the product is a checklist, a due date on the item is enough, and a month grid is clutter.
How is a habit tracker different from a task list?
The home object is the habit and today's check, usually a row or a small grid of days. A task list's home object is titles that change every day. Start from the habit template for repeated actions, and from the to-do template when the items are new each morning.

Something else? Write to support@sleek.design.

Your app, designed by tonight.

Start with one sentence. Sleek designs every screen in one style.

Free to start. No credit card. Used by 60,000+ app makers.