Super Productivity is not just quietly maintained. ToolVitals sees 11 release events in 30 days, 20 GitHub releases in 90 days, a shipping score of 100, and a health score of 95. For a personal productivity app, that is a lot of motion.

The positioning is clear on the official site: tasks, time tracking, focus tools, offline use, privacy, optional sync, and developer integrations in one app. The GitHub repo says the same thing in plainer engineering terms: an advanced todo list app with Timeboxing, time tracking, and integrations for Jira, GitLab, GitHub, and OpenProject.

The interesting signal is not only the release cadence. It is the content cadence around the release cadence.

Recent first-party posts frame Super Productivity against Sunsama, local-first to-do apps, open-source time trackers, private alternatives to Todoist and Notion, self-hosted productivity, and GTD versus timeboxing. That is a coherent bet. The project is not trying to be a prettier checklist. It is pushing a privacy-first, local-first execution system for people who care where task data lives.

The website backs that up with specific claims: local work by default, no account requirement for basic use, no tracking, export options, WebDAV and Dropbox sync, calendar integration, Pomodoro, timeboxing, work logs, reports, a plugin system, and GitHub/Jira/GitLab style integrations. ToolVitals can verify that these are first-party claims. It cannot verify from those pages alone that every workflow is pleasant or bug-free.

The release notes are more conservative than the marketing pages. v18.2.7 mostly points users to download and install documentation plus a full changelog. v18.2.5 shows concrete maintenance work: design token cleanup, dependency updates, and a nav counter overlap fix. That smells like a mature app doing polish and platform upkeep, not a toy repo chasing stars.

What ToolVitals cannot infer

ToolVitals sees public signals: stars, releases, uptime-related checks, release events, and scoring inputs. It does not see user retention, revenue, crash rates, private roadmap quality, support response times, or whether the app fits your brain.

The current data confidence is 87. That is good enough to say the project looks active and well-maintained from public evidence. It is not enough to claim that Super Productivity is the best task manager for every team or that its sync model beats every SaaS competitor.

The metrics also do not include 30-day commit count or active contributor count in this payload. So the safest read is release-heavy activity, strong public GitHub interest, and consistent first-party positioning around local-first work.

How it compares

Among related productivity tools in this payload, SiYuan has more GitHub stars at 43,868, but fewer recent release events at 3 in 30 days and a lower shipping score of 95. Super Productivity has 19,339 stars, 11 release events in 30 days, and a shipping score of 100.

OpenLoaf is the opposite shape: only 58 GitHub stars, but 17 release events in 30 days and a shipping score of 93. That makes Super Productivity feel less like a tiny fast-moving experiment and more like an established project that is still pushing frequent updates.

License posture matters here. Super Productivity is OSI-approved open source under MIT according to the payload. SiYuan is also OSI-approved open source in the payload, under AGPL-3.0. n8n is related in the broader open-tools set, but it is fair-code, not OSI-approved open source, so it belongs in a different bucket.

Recommendation

If your team or solo workflow needs local-first task planning, task-based time tracking, Pomodoro, timeboxing, and issue tracker integration without making a SaaS account the center of gravity, evaluate Super Productivity.

Do the evaluation like an engineer. Import a real week of tasks, connect one issue tracker, run timers for a few days, test export, and test sync if you need more than one device. The public signals say the project is alive and shipping. Your trial should answer the part ToolVitals cannot: whether the workflow actually makes you faster.

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