Race week checklist apps
A to-do app can hold the list. It cannot tell you what is due today.
Race week is not a to-do list, it is a schedule counting down to a fixed time on a fixed day. The difference sounds small and it is the whole thing: a to-do app shows you everything at once and lets you decide, and deciding is the one job a first-timer in race week does not want, because it is the week they are least able to judge what is urgent.
Knowing what is due today
Taperly
The week is laid out by day against the race date, in order.
General to-do apps
You set every due date yourself.
Starting from something
Taperly
The week arrives already written, then you edit it.
General to-do apps
An empty list, or a template from a stranger.
Race day itself
Taperly
Its own run of the morning, separate from the week.
General to-do apps
More items in the same list.
Doubt on the day before
Taperly
Shows what is already done, which is the actual answer to have I done enough.
General to-do apps
Shows what is left.
Why the empty list is the problem
Every general checklist app is excellent once you know what belongs in it. In race week, that is the thing a first-timer does not know, and it is why the honest failure mode is not a missed task but a list that was never written in the first place.
The value of a race-week list is almost entirely in the items you would not have thought of. That is not something a blank app can give you.
Have I done enough
The most repeated thing we heard in over a hundred conversations with first-time triathletes was not a missing feature. It was a question, asked the day before: have I done enough.
A list of what is left cannot answer that. A view of what is already done can, which is why race week in Taperly shows both.
When the other one is the right choice
If you already run your life out of one to-do app and it works, adding a second app for one week a year is a fair thing to say no to. The free race week checklist on this site is a browser page with no account, and you are welcome to copy it into whatever you already use.
Try it without downloading anything
Three of these run in the browser with no account, and the fourth is the race catalogue the app is built on.