Import / Export
Exports and backups
Keeping your data vendor-locked wouldn’t align with our vision for Lunatask. You can export your data for backup or migration elsewhere in Settings → Export in our desktop app.
The current data export format is somewhat limited, as it was added early on – at a time when not having any export option essentially resulted in unintentional vendor lock.
Besides not exporting all entities with all their properties, it tried to find a compromise that would be both human-friendly and machine-friendly – but ultimately fell short of both.
We’re currently working on a fully redesigned data export that will include two folders – one for machines, containing a complete account/database dump (therefore also making it backward-importable), and another tailored for use cases humans have.
The redesigned data export should arrive soon – keep an eye on the roadmap 👈
The data export format may change in future updates without prior notice – please keep this in mind when building tools or scripts on top of it.
Imports
We understand that without easy, one-click importers, migrating to Lunatask may feel tedious – but you still don’t have to do it all by hand.
As a small team of two with just one developer, it takes time to bring every idea to life. Building custom native importers or integrations one by one is costly, and our current other priorities don’t allow us to focus on that right now.
That’s why we rather focus on building reusable tools that can serve many different use cases at once – whether it’s Zapier integration, Shortcuts, API, or community-built tools like CLIs, MCP servers, and more – if something can be achieved using these, that’s the way to go.
Since we already provide APIs for importing tasks, notes, journal entries, and people, there are already many alternative ways to bring in your existing data.
You can export your data from your previous app and ask ChatGPT to generate an import script and guide you step by step on how to use it – it will build a near one-click importer for you in almost no time 💁♀️
You may also set up our Zapier integration to create a task for each row in a Google Sheet, or connect it with your previous app directly 👈
Although not one-click solutions, they may well be much easier to use than they seem! 🌟