We review topological properties of Kähler and symplectic manifolds, and of their odd-dimensional counterparts, coKähler and cosymplectic manifolds. We focus on formality, Lefschetz property and parity of Betti numbers, also distinguishing the simply-connected case (in the Kähler/symplectic situation) and the b 1 = 1 case (in the coKähler/cosymplectic situation). MSC: 53C15, 55S30, 53D35, 55P62, 57R17.