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Task Management Software · Rank #3 of 10

Things 3 review and pricing

Best-in-class Apple-only task app, one-time purchase.

By Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG · Founded 2007 · Stuttgart, Germany · private

Things 3 is the design-led Apple-only task manager from Cultured Code, a small Stuttgart-based studio that has shipped a single major version since 2017 and refused subscription pricing. It wins on craft: typography, animation, the Magic Plus button, the Today/Upcoming/Anytime/Someday flow. Sold once per device family — about $50 on macOS, $20 on iPhone, $30 on iPad, $10 on Apple Watch — total roughly $80-110 if you want everything. Trade-offs: Apple-only with no plans to change, no native collaboration or shared lists, and data export is limited to plain text or a proprietary JSON-like format.

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Best for

Solo knowledge workers fully inside the Apple ecosystem who want craft over features and prefer paying once.

Worst for

Anyone using Android or Windows, teams needing collaboration, or buyers worried about platform lock-in and limited data export.

Vendor Trust Score

Is Things 3 a trustworthy vendor?

9.1/10
High trust
Pricing transparency
Published rates; no hidden fees
9.5
Contract fairness
Reasonable terms; no auto-renew traps
9.5
Incident response
How they handle outages and breaches
8.5
Post-acquisition behavior
Customer treatment after M&A or PE
9.5
Executive stability
Leadership churn over 24 months
9.5
Roadmap honesty
Public commitments held
8.0
Trust signal log
  • 2017-05-18
    Things 3 released as one-time purchase; Cultured Code reaffirmed no-subscription stance
Vendor Trust is scored independently of product quality. A great product from an unfair vendor still earns a low trust score.
Review Intelligence

What 86 reviews actually say

Synthesized from G2, Capterra, Reddit, Trustpilot. Patterns >15% prevalence shown.

Last synthesized
2026-05-15

Praise patterns

  • Best craft and design in the category
    87% →
  • One-time purchase; no subscription
    74% →
  • Reliable sync via Things Cloud
    64% →

Complaint patterns

  • Apple-only ecosystem lock-in
    58% →
  • No collaboration or shared lists
    41% →
  • Data export limited; hard to migrate off
    28% →
Sentiment trend (6 months)
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Editorial: Strengths

  • Best craft in the category: typography, motion, attention to detail
  • One-time purchase; no subscription
  • Privacy-respecting; data syncs via Things Cloud only
  • Stable, debt-free German vendor focused on one product since 2007
  • Things URL scheme and AppleScript support for power users

Editorial: Weaknesses

  • Apple-only: no Android, no Windows, no web. Hard lock-in to the Apple ecosystem
  • No native collaboration or shared lists. Single-user product by design
  • Data export limited (plain text, basic JSON); no clean migration path off

Key features & integrations

  • +Today / Upcoming / Anytime / Someday workflow
  • +Magic Plus quick-add
  • +Tags and filters
  • +Calendar event integration
  • +Things Cloud sync
  • +AppleScript and URL scheme
  • +Quick Find
  • +Native Apple Watch app
10+ integrations
Apple CalendarApple Reminders importAppleScriptShortcutsThings URL scheme
Geography supported
Global (Apple-only)
Best fit
1 employees · Solo Apple-ecosystem users
Editorial deep-dive

Read our full ranking of Task Management Software

Things 3 ranks #3 in our editorial review of 10 task management software platforms. The deep-dive covers methodology, comparison tables, decision matrix, migration scoring, and FAQs.

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