I wanted to know what people actually get when they search to do list app with photos, so I checked Google’s autocomplete first. The phrase itself comes back as a suggestion under several different starting points: typing “todo app with photo” completes to “todo list with photos,” and typing “to do list with pictures” completes to “to do list with pictures app.” That is enough repetition across different seed phrases to treat it as a real, recurring query, not a one-off.
I then searched the exact phrase and opened the five apps that came up: PhoToDo, TapList, Looksee Solo, New ToDo List & Tasks & Photo, and TodoCamera. All five are iPhone apps, which was the first surprise, since the app I built was Android only at the time (its iPhone version came out on October 23, 2026). The second, more useful surprise was that all five do the same thing with the photo, and it is not what I expected.
A to do list app with photos almost always means the photo creates the task
Every app I could find that matches the search to do list app with photos puts the camera at the start of the task, not the end of it. PhoToDo’s own description says you “create new tasks by taking a photo of what needs to be done,” or by picking one from your camera roll. TapList attaches a photo to a list item so you can recognize it later, for a grocery item, a medication, or something in a packing list, and you check it off with a plain swipe, no photo involved in that step. TodoCamera runs text recognition on a photo of a handwritten note or shopping list and turns it into digital to-do items. New ToDo List & Tasks & Photo offers a photo as one of three ways to register a task, alongside a title or a calendar entry. Looksee Solo is the most literal about it: you frame the task and press the shutter button to create it.
In every one of these five, the photo comes before the task exists. It is the input. It tells the app, or tells you later, what the task is. None of the five descriptions mention attaching a photo after you finish a task, as a record of what you actually did.
None of them keep a photo of what you did
Looksee Solo comes closest to something more, since it doubles as a habit tracker with what its listing calls a “detailed history view.” But the listing does not say that history holds photos, and the mechanic behind it is streak counting, not a log of finished days. TapList lists water tracking and workouts as use cases, but its page describes no logging or history feature for either, just the same swipe-to-complete as any other item.
So across five apps that match this exact search, checking off a task leaves nothing visual behind. The photo that got you into the app is still sitting on the item you just finished, pointing at what you were supposed to do, not at what you did.
The order is the actual difference
A photo attached before a task is a memory aid. It answers “what was I supposed to buy, cook, or fix,” which is useful when the task itself is hard to put into words, like a page of handwritten notes or a specific product on a shelf.
A photo attached after a task is a different kind of thing. It answers “what did this day actually look like,” and it only exists because you did something, not because you were planning to. One is about remembering an intention. The other is closer to a diary entry that a to-do list produced as a side effect of being used. I did not find an app in this search that does the second one.
DreamStore attaches the photo when the todo is finished, not before
I built DreamStore, so I will say that plainly before describing it.
The todo list itself is ordinary: say one sentence like “bank call tomorrow at two, run at seven, twenty pages of the book” and three todos appear with their times attached, or type them in one at a time. Keep it to about three a day, repeat the ones that come back on a schedule, and run morning or evening routines through a step timer.
The photo comes in at the other end. When you finish a todo, you can attach a photo or video of what you made, where you went, or how the workout went, write a short line about the day, and look back on the week later. The diary shows you that day instead of a line of text in a list. It is the direct opposite of the five apps above: the photo is not what creates the task, it is what the task leaves behind once it is done.
The other feature I built the app around is that it does not count streaks. Missing a day does not reset anything and does not cost you a number. Whatever you completed stays completed, and a small planet on the main screen grows with each todo or routine you finish, with growth that does not move backward. I wrote more about why I dropped streaks specifically, and what I shipped in their place, in an earlier post. I have not measured whether removing them changes how long people keep using the app. I only know why I built it that way: habit trackers that reset to zero on a missed day are the ones I kept deleting myself.
What is not here matters too, so I will list it plainly.
- No photo-to-task creation. You cannot photograph a handwritten note or a product and have it become a todo, the way TodoCamera or PhoToDo do. The camera only comes in once a todo already exists.
- No streaks, no penalty for a missed day, and no comparison with other people’s numbers.
- Android and iPhone. When I ran the search above it was Android only (the iPhone version shipped on October 23, 2026), which is also why it could not appear there, since every one of those five apps was iOS.
- Free to use, supported by ads. An optional Pro subscription removes ads and adds more planet decoration slots, a full year of stats, extra widget colors, and higher video and AI limits.
- As of this writing the Play Store listing shows 100+ downloads, so this is not an app with years of reviews behind it.
What I checked, and what I did not
As of October 2026, I opened and read five app listings that surfaced for the search to do list app with photos: PhoToDo, TapList, Looksee Solo, New ToDo List & Tasks & Photo, and TodoCamera. The full notes, including which parts of each listing I quoted, are saved separately for this search. I read the DreamStore Play Store listing itself the same day.
I did not test any of the five apps myself, only their public store descriptions, so a feature that exists in the app but is missing from the listing would not show up in what I wrote here. I have not found research comparing a before-task photo to an after-task photo on whether either one changes follow-through. The claim in this post is about what the search results currently show, not about which kind of photo works better.