Investors include Atomico, Earlybird, Sequoia Capital, and T-Venture. In 2013, the startup announced a $30 million funding round. The acquisition of this market-leading to-do list app known for its simplicity, ease of use and innovative design fits squarely with our ambition to reinvent productivity and help people achieve more across all major platforms and devices - particularly on mobile.Ħwunderkinder started in 2010. Microsoft’s OneNote team heaps words of praise on Wunderlist in a blog post on the deal: The Wunderlist app could come in handy for Microsoft, particularly for taking notes on a mobile device. The Sunrise acquisition proved that there’s room for task lists inside of a calendar - and presumably other Microsoft apps for both consumers and businesspeople. It’s unclear how many people pay to use Wunderlist instead of just using it for free - although you can say the same thing about some of Wunderlist’s competitors. And there are paid options like Wunderlist Pro and Wunderlist for Business.

It has a nifty speech-recognition feature and a cute thumb piano sound that plays whenever you complete a task. Wunderlist has received praise over the years for its simplicity.

The world is rich with task management apps, including Any.do, Asana, Todoist, Trello, and Wrike. A few weeks ago 6Wunderkinder announced an integration of Wunderlist inside of Sunrise. The deal follows Microsoft’s acquisitions of hip, mobile-friendly startups like Acompli, which had an email and calendar app that has since been turned into the new Microsoft Outlook, and Sunrise, a calendar app.

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