Meeting Planner by timeanddate vs Things 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meeting Planner by timeanddate
Easily find the optimal time for meetings across different time zones. Select participating cities, and the app visually highlights the best meeting slots based on local business hours and holidays. Schedule and share meeting details seamlessly.
- Unlimited city selection worldwide
- Color-coded timetable for best meeting times
- Business hours and holiday consideration
- 15-minute time slot selection
- Automatic DST handling
- Calendar export and sharing
- Meeting history and duplication
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Find the perfect time for people in different time zones. • Add an unlimited number of participating cities from 5000+ locations worldwide. • The traffic light color-coded timetable shows the best meeting time based on each location's local time, normal business hours, and public holidays. Plan a business meeting based on green lights, a private call on the yellow light, and avoid the red hours if you don’t want to wake someone up. • Select the time within 15-minute slots and choose the duration of your meeting. • Choose am/pm or 24-hour time format. • DST changes handled automatically. • Export meeting times to your calendar. • The app supports dates in the Gregorian calendar. • Share meeting information via email directly from your device. The email includes the local times for all participants and link to the online timetable for your meeting. The ICS calendar file is attached by default to ensure import to the correct calendar. • All meetings are automatically saved. Use the duplicating function to reschedule a new meeting with the same participants. • Meeting Planner auto-synchronizes the time, correct time zones, and Daylight Saving Time changes based on timeanddate.com’s highly accurate databases.
Things 3
This app helps you organize your life by planning your day, managing projects, and tracking progress toward your goals. It offers a clean interface to manage tasks, projects, and life areas, making it easy to focus on what matters.
- To-Do management
- Project organization
- Area categorization
- Daily planning
- Reminders and repeaters
- Calendar integration
- Share extension
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Get things done! The award-winning Things app helps you plan your day, manage your projects, and make real progress toward your goals. Best of all, it’s easy to use. Within the hour, you’ll have everything off your mind and neatly organized—from routine tasks to your biggest life goals—and you can start focusing on what matters today. “Things offers the best combination of design and functionality of any app we tested, with nearly all the features of other power user applications and a delightful interface that never gets in the way of your work.” —Wirecutter, The New York Times KEY FEATURES • Your To-Dos Your basic building block is the almighty To-Do—each a small step toward a great accomplishment. You can add notes, tag it, schedule it, and break it down into smaller steps. • Your Projects Create a Project for any big goal, then add the to-dos to reach it. Use headings to structure your list as you outline your plan. There’s also a place to jot down your notes, and a deadline to keep you on schedule. • Your Areas Create an Area for each sphere of your life, such as Work, Family, Finance, and so on. This keeps everything neatly organized, and helps you see the big picture as you set your plans in motion. • Your Plan Everything on your schedule is neatly laid out in the Today and Upcoming lists, which show your to-dos and calendar events. Each morning, see what you planned for Today and decide what you want to do. The rest is down to you :) MORE THINGS TO LOVE As you dive deeper, you’ll find Things packed with helpful features. Here are just a few: • Reminders — set a time and Things will remind you. • Repeaters — automatically repeat to-dos on a schedule you set. • This Evening — a special place for your evening plans. • Calendar integration — see your events and to-dos together. • Tags — categorize your to-dos and quickly filter lists. • Quick Find — instantly find to-dos or switch between lists. • Magic Plus — drag the + button to insert to-dos anywhere in a list. • Share extension — create to-dos with content from other apps. • Widgets — see lists on your home/lock screens. • Mail to Things — forward an email to Things; now it’s a to-do. • Markdown — structure & style your notes. • And much more! MADE FOR IPHONE Things is tailored to the iPhone with deep system integrations as well. A great example is the Share extension, which allows you to create to-dos with content from other apps, such as a link to a website you want to get back to. You can also enjoy a beautiful dark mode at sunset, connect your calendars, add a variety of widgets, create to-dos via Siri, import from Reminders—Things can do it all! There’s even Shortcuts integration if you want to automate your workflows. MADE FOR APPLE WATCH Things comes with a great app for Apple Watch. Just raise your wrist to glance at your Today list, mark to-dos complete as you go, and dictate new ones on the fly—all synced instantly with your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. AWARD-WINNING DESIGN Made in Stuttgart, with two Apple Design Awards to its name, Things is a fine example of German engineering: designed not only to look fantastic, but to be perfectly functional as well. Every detail is thoughtfully considered, then polished to perfection. “It’s like the unicorn of productivity tools: deep enough for serious work, surprisingly easy to use, and gorgeous enough to enjoy staring at.” —Apple GET THINGS TODAY Whatever it is you want to accomplish in life, Things can help you get there. Install the app today and see what you can do! • Things is also available for Mac, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro (sold separately). • Sync is provided for free via our Things Cloud service. • A free trial is available for Mac: www.things.app If you have any questions, please get in touch. We provide professional support and will be glad to help you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Things 3 at 4.8 against Meeting Planner by timeanddate's 3.9. Things 3 also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 39%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). Meeting Planner by timeanddate's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Meeting Planner by timeanddate costs $4.99 and Things 3 $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Things 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things 3 has 28K ratings behind it against 48, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Meeting Planner by timeanddate's written reviews are positive against 77% of Things 3's.
Meeting Planner by timeanddate ships an update every 5 months, Things 3 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meeting Planner by timeanddate | Things 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (48 ratings) | 4.8 (28K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.9% of reviews | 76.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 | 28K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #3 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | timeanddate.com | Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG |
Customer experience
Meeting Planner by timeanddate
Things 3
User reviews
Meeting Planner by timeanddate
From 48 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for international meetings
- 👍 Saves time planning
- 👍 Accurate time zone calculations
- 👍 Integrates with iCal/calendar
- 👍 Simple and clear design (older reviews)
Room to improve
- 🐛 UI is confusing/clumsy
- 🐛 Not intuitive to use
- 🐛 Dark mode issues (unreadable text)
- 🐛 Inconsistent functionality with website
- 🐛 Crashes frequently (older reviews)
Things 3
From 28K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth and fast
- 👍 Elegant and intuitive design
- 🔒 Secure and private
- 💡 Powerful organization features
- 🗓️ Great calendar integration
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive for multiple devices
- 🌐 Lack of web/Windows app
- 🔀 Difficulty with task reordering
- 🔔 Lacking persistent notifications
- 📁 No file attachments
Bugs and requests
Meeting Planner by timeanddate
Reported bugs
43 issues- App crashes and loses input
- Content does not populate
- Cannot add/delete cities
- Default city is always New York
- Delete button missing for cities
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- Support site broken
- App doesn't work with iOS 8
- Favorite saved cities don't all show up
- City delete button hidden on iPad landscape
- Weekend/holiday coding is restrictive
- Dark mode makes text unreadable
- Cannot see city search results in dark mode
- Dark grey print on black is unreadable
- Time zones not accurate for some countries
- Daylight savings not accounted for
- Day/Date text slides out of sight
- Weird alphabetical order of cities
- Setup wiped when navigating to settings
- App opens but content does not populate
- Day before/after reversed when scheduling between Australia and US
- Only finds major cities
- Help function does not work
- Setting meeting durations with slide bar is touchy
- App doesn't integrate Asian calendars
- No reminder settings
- Cannot email appointment due to email account setup issue
- App doesn't work in landscape mode on iPad
- Saved city favorites do not all show up
- App forces landscape mode on iPad
- Crashes on iPad
- NY appears by default and cannot be deleted
- Cannot scroll to delete unneeded city
- Display infelicities
- App doesn't work with iOS 8
- Hasn't been updated to incorporate iOS 7 features
- UI challenges at every step
- Cannot convert directly to a time zone, only locations
- Does not account for time changes (daylight savings)
- World clock look on iPad when rotated in landscape not fixed
- Minor bug with time zone display (older reviews)
- Poorly designed rows, pre-iOS7 look and feel
- Timetable shows red if ANY timezone is overnight, not per timezone
- Emailed meeting not in iCalendar format
Requested features
19 requests- Option to trial before buying
- Refund button
- Dark mode support
- Ability to choose different months for future planning
- Option to turn off weekend/holiday coding
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- Add GMT/UTC as a selectable timezone
- Ability to select locations by timezone
- Landscape mode support
- Adjustable pop-up reminders
- Normal iOS slide-and-drift for navigation
- Keep Day/Date text visible
- User-settable working hours/availability
- More intuitive UI
- Fix city search/selection visibility
- Allow editing/deleting cities
- Allow reordering cities
- Add more features like the website
- Improve usability for iPad
- Fix display of favorite listings on iPad
Things 3
Reported bugs
2 issues- Sync issues between devices
- Occasional crashes or freezes
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to collapse headings and projects
- Location-based reminders
- Two-way calendar sync
- Shared task lists
- Customizable alert sounds
In-app purchases
Meeting Planner by timeanddate
No in-app purchases
Things 3
No in-app purchases
Questions
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