TaskWarrior is a powerful CLI task manager. Urgency scoring, dependencies, custom reports, contexts. It does a lot, and it does it well.

But syncing it across devices has always been the hard part. Here's where things stand in March 2026.

What died

inthe.am shut down in January 2024. The developer maintained it for years with never more than 150 active users. The time commitment outweighed the impact. Tasks were always local, so nobody lost data, but the easiest hosted sync option disappeared.

FreeCinc shut down in early 2023, announced late 2022. Another hosted taskd service gone.

taskd sync isn't supported in TaskWarrior 3. TW3 replaced the old taskd protocol with TaskChampion-based sync. If you were running your own taskd server, TW3 can't talk to it. The new sync protocol is a fundamentally different architecture.

What's still alive

taskchampion-sync-server is the official replacement. It works. You self-host it, point your .taskrc at it, run task sync. Task data is encrypted client-side before transmission — the server never sees your tasks in plaintext. That's a strong security model.

The catch is access control. The server auto-creates a new user for any client ID it hasn't seen before. Anyone who knows your server URL can register and start syncing their own tasks to it. There's an allowClientIds config to restrict this, but it's off by default. You still need a reverse proxy for TLS. The official docs include a Docker+Caddy example, so deployment is easier than it used to be — but you're assembling the access control yourself. Not hard if you're a sysadmin. A barrier if you're not.

WingTask was a popular hosted option for TW2. WingTask 2.0 Legacy is frozen for TW2 compatibility. WingTask 3.0 "Triforce" was announced for TW3 support, but as of early 2026 there's no release date. If you upgraded to TW3, WingTask doesn't work.

TaskChamp is a native iOS app that's actively maintained. Version 3.2 shipped in late March 2026. Supports TaskChampion sync, AWS S3, GCP, and iCloud as sync backends. Obsidian integration. Custom filters. It's a solid app that fills a real gap. Worth trying if you're on iOS.

TaskWarrior Mobile (CCExtractor) is an open-source Flutter app on Android. Actively developed, last updated March 2026. Currently only supports TW2 sync. TW3 support is planned via a GSoC project but isn't shipped yet.

taskwarriorsync.com is a new hosted sync service in beta. Client-side encryption, TW 3.4.1+ required. The unusual part: payment is Bitcoin Lightning only (20 satoshis per sync). No credit card, no PayPal. This limits the audience significantly.

The gap

If you use TaskWarrior 3 today and want your tasks on your phone, the common options include:

  • Self-host taskchampion-sync-server + put it behind a reverse proxy + install TaskChamp on iOS. Works, but requires sysadmin skills and an always-on server.
  • Use cloud storage (S3 or GCP) as a sync backend via TaskChamp. No server to run, but limited to iOS.
  • taskwarriorsync.com — hosted sync with Bitcoin Lightning payments. If you're in the Bitcoin ecosystem, it works. If you want to pay with a credit card, it doesn't.
  • SSH into your server from your phone. Several people in r/taskwarrior actually do this via Termux.
  • Switch to something else entirely. Todoist, Things 3, Amazing Marvin. A pattern you see in community threads more often than you'd expect.

As of March 2026, there's no widely available hosted TW3 sync with conventional payment, no widely adopted Android app with TW3 sync, and no self-host option with built-in user auth out of the box.

The CLI is still excellent. The ecosystem around it hasn't kept up.

What would fix this

A sync server with authentication built in. Docker deployment that handles TLS automatically. A native mobile app on both platforms. Self-host for free, or pay someone to host it for you.

That's what we're building at cmdock. More on that soon.