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What people complain about in Productivity
WaveSeek read 7,251 public posts about Productivity over 30 days and found 580 genuine complaints in them. Below are the ones that came up most, each linking to the post it was read from.
Measured 13 October 2026 · 13 distinct sources in the last 7 days · this page is rebuilt on every deploy
Daily mentions, 2026-09-29 → 2026-10-13. Peak 298 in a day.
Week over week, mentions moved -5%. A growth figure only appears here when it survives a baseline floor, a source-change check and a credibility ceiling — most channels most weeks show nothing, and that is the honest answer.
The evidence chain
Every complaint below came out of this. Nothing is estimated; each step is a count.
- 7,251posts ingested about Productivity30-day window
- 995read by the classifier14% of them
- 580were genuine complaints58% of what was read
Mentions here exclude news wires and video titles: somebody reporting on Productivity is not somebody having a problem with it. The Trends screen inside the app counts those too, because it measures attention rather than frustration — which is why the two numbers differ and why this page says which one it is using.
What people actually complain about
The 8 most frequent complaint clusters of 30 found, phrased by the classifier from the posts themselves. The links go to the original post — not to a summary of it.
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Previously free feature moved behind paywall
It's a shame that we have to go back to version 9.x.x to keep using a feature that has always…
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Opaque pricing after steep price increase
It is fair to charge for your software, it is not fair to be intentionally obtuse about chargi…
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Forced paid subscription for previously free basic features
Yeah, paypaypay even if you only need the basic spell checking which was free and perfectly fi…
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4
Previously free functionality locked behind expensive subscription
Since their newest update, the addon only works with a premium subscription, which is awfully…
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CI checks that pass without actually validating anything
[gHashTag/t27] The required check named `check` is an echo, and the test suite is not required at all — *Re-filed from #2455.* An attempt cl…
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6
Lack of visible photo counts when organizing large photo libraries
[Feature] Show photo count in People overview — I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is no…
Read it yourselfgithub.com ↗ -
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Free grammar tool paywalled at high price
Funciona muy bien, se adapta al idioma con el que escribes, te sugiere hasta los signos de pun…
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8
LaTeX rendering corrupts first character in arrays
First char of Latex array loss in render view — Steps to reproduce input the following: $$ \begin{array} a=0 \end{array} $$ Did you read and…
The count is over every post in the cluster. The links are a sample of them, capped at three, and never imply the list is complete.
Who is already there
6 apps measured in this channel from their own recent store reviews. Ratings are computed from the reviews WaveSeek ingested in the window, not read off a store listing.
| App | Rating | Reviews read | 4★ and up |
|---|---|---|---|
| TickTick:To-Do List & Calendar | 4.4★ | 17 | 88% |
| Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI | 2★ | 13 | 23% |
| Obsidian - Connected Notes | 4★ | 9 | 67% |
| Todoist: To Do List & Calendar | 5★ | 4 | 100% |
| Craft: Notes, Documents, AI | 3.7★ | 3 | 67% |
| Things 3 | 4.5★ | 2 | 100% |
Search demand
34,342 Google searches a month on average, from Google Ads keyword volume — the one number on this page you can check against a source that is not us.
Twelve months of monthly volume, ending 2026-08 for the keywords productivity app, note taking app.
Searches peak in October and bottom out in August, a 125% swing across the year.
What this page does not tell you
Four competitors in this category print a market size on a page like this one. We do not, because we cannot measure one: mention counts, complaint counts and search volume are not a market size, and a dollar figure built from them would be a guess wearing a decimal point. The same goes for revenue projections, customer demographics and funding comparables.
Everything above is a count of public posts and reviews over a stated window. It is evidence of what people said, not a prediction of what will sell.
See Productivity change
This page is a snapshot. Inside WaveSeek the same channel is live: the complaint list is re-clustered every six hours, competitor ratings are tracked week over week, and saved ideas report what moved since you saved them.
Open WaveSeekFree covers the measured numbers you just read. The paid tiers cover the interpretation.