Top 50 Personal Productivity Tools — May 2026

For May 2026, this Personal Productivity list reflects tools that cover todo tracking, notes, calendars, forms, journaling, availability sharing, and related workflow work. The data below comes from ToolVitals and uses each product’s health score, shipping score, GitHub stars, and status to show where the category is strongest right now.

The ranking puts ToolVitals score first, then uses GitHub stars as a secondary popularity signal when scores are tied. That means a tool can rank highly because it is both strong on the ToolVitals measure and broadly adopted, but stars only break ties after the ToolVitals score decides the order.

Rankings

Rank	Tool	Health	Shipping	GitHub Stars	Score	Status
1	Super Productivity	95	100	19020	94	🟢 Excellent
2	Vest	90	100	2662	94	🟢 Excellent
3	SurveyJS Creator	91	100	1252	94	🟢 Excellent
4	Traewelling	94	100	360	94	🟢 Excellent
5	eGroupware	95	100	290	94	🟢 Excellent
6	Basic Memory	89	91	2975	90	🟢 Excellent
7	Butterfly	91	100	1838	90	🟢 Excellent
8	Wavebox	91	100	1370	90	🟢 Excellent
9	ClawWork	94	100	496	90	🟢 Excellent
10	Glyph	81	100	68	90	🟢 Excellent
11	AITasks	82	100	3	90	🟢 Excellent
12	DevGlobe	86	88	106	87	🟢 Excellent
13	SiYuan	95	100	43536	86	🟢 Excellent
14	La Suite Docs	91	88	16469	86	🟢 Excellent
15	Job Ops	91	100	2950	86	🟢 Excellent
16	NoteDiscovery	86	100	2475	86	🟢 Excellent
17	Appointment	90	80	532	86	🟢 Excellent
18	Foqos	83	100	475	86	🟢 Excellent
19	cctop	86	100	89	86	🟢 Excellent
20	OpenQuarterMaster	86	100	63	86	🟢 Excellent
21	TideMind	84	100	6	86	🟢 Excellent
22	Trilium	93	72	35860	84	🟢 Excellent
23	Wanderbound	80	88	0	84	🟢 Excellent
24	Journiv	82	80	1035	81	🟢 Excellent
25	Planify	85	72	5258	79	🟢 Good
26	DoBase	85	80	166	78	🟢 Good
27	AHE ICS	67	100	1	78	🟢 Good
28	OpenBoxes	86	55	840	72	🟢 Good
29	Survey CLI	71	56	1	64	🟢 Good
30	Personal Management System	66	56	3981	62	🟢 Good
31	Eclaire	70	47	855	60	🟢 Good
32	Orbeon Forms	63	56	542	60	🟢 Good
33	EUSurvey	69	47	221	59	🟡 Fair
34	AdventureLog	74	38	3150	58	🟡 Fair
35	GridStart	55	56	1	55	🟡 Fair
36	ActivityWatch	76	0	17445	42	🟡 Fair
37	Hackatime	76	0	124	42	🟡 Fair
38	Open Web Calendar	74	0	319	41	🟡 Fair
39	Final Form	73	0	3046	40	🟡 Fair
40	BetterBahn	71	0	2507	39	🔴 Needs Attention
41	OpenForis Collect	67	0	60	37	🔴 Needs Attention
42	Lydie	67	0	39	37	🔴 Needs Attention
43	feedlog	67	0	13	37	🔴 Needs Attention
44	Forecast Fit	68	0	0	37	🔴 Needs Attention
45	ClipChronicle	65	0	18	36	🔴 Needs Attention
46	Exponential	64	0	2	35	🔴 Needs Attention
47	JSON Forms	61	0	2680	34	🔴 Needs Attention
48	Zero Calendar	58	0	344	32	🔴 Needs Attention
49	Someday	55	0	1044	30	🔴 Needs Attention
50	Calagator	48	0	446	26	🔴 Needs Attention

Top 3 Highlights

Super Productivity ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 94, a health score of 95, and 19,020 GitHub stars. It stands out because it combines todo lists, timeboxing, time tracking, and integrations with Jira, GitLab, GitHub, and Open Project.

Vest is tied on ToolVitals score at 94 and has a perfect shipping score of 100. It is a narrower tool than the top entry, but its high health score of 90 and 2,662 GitHub stars make it a strong, well-supported project in the category.

SurveyJS Creator also lands at a ToolVitals score of 94 with a shipping score of 100. It is built as open source survey software and a form builder for JavaScript apps, which makes it more specialized than a general productivity suite but still clearly relevant to personal workflows.

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