Comparison

Priorities vs Things 3

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Priorities

This app offers intuitive task management with a focus on organization and ease of use. It features customizable pages, attractive themes, and quick task addition. Syncing capabilities allow for data backup and sharing with others.

Highlights
  • Customizable pages and themes
  • Quick task addition
  • Due dates, times, and notes
  • Repeating tasks
  • Syncing for backup and sharing
  • Templates for recurring lists
  • Calendar integration
Features
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Enjoy effortless and intuitive task management with Priorities™, and you’ll never dread your to-do list again! The innovative use of pages takes the “task” out of task management, and the attractive themes add a little fun while you’re at it. Throw out your pen and paper, because with Priorities, everything you need is literally at your fingertips. Quickly scan through your pages of to-dos with the touch of a finger and add new to-dos with the ease of a single button. Add alerts, due dates, due times, and notes right from the Add screen. Create and save templates to use again and again. Use the syncing feature to backup your data and to share pages with a family member, a friend or a coworker. Go to the my-priorities.com website to edit your pages and tasks on the web. Priorities is a must-have for anyone who wants to stay organized! Priorities is fully equipped to do the work for you. Just take a look at the great features it offers: • Universal App – One app optimized for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. • Priorities Online – Manage your tasks online at https://my-priorities.com. • Fast Add – Quickly add tasks or lists of items with a touch of a finger. • Due Dates, Due Times & Notes – Assign a due date, a due time, and record notes for a task or item. • Priorities – Star everything that is high-priority and view them at-a-glance in your Priorities page. • Repeating Tasks – Schedule tasks to repeat every day, every 3 days, every Tuesday, every 3rd Sunday of the month, 2 weeks after you've completed the current task… or whenever you want! Flexible recurrence options make customization a snap. • Reminders – See a badge count of your starred items on the Priorities home screen icon, and set a reminder time for a popup and/or sound alert for important items. • Multi-tiered task management – Create pages, lists with sub-items, and tasks with sub-tasks to make organizing easier. • Calendar Integration – View all your items with due dates in your calendar. • Templates – Save a page as a template if you want to use it again later. This is a great feature for grocery shopping and travel! • Multiple Pages – Create custom, color-coded pages to keep track of all areas of your busy life. Tap or swipe to review them at-a-glance. • Sync - Use our secure server to sync for backup and to sync between multiple devices. • Page Sharing – Create a sync account and assign pages to be shared with others. This is a great feature for sharing a shopping list with a spouse or sharing to-dos with colleagues! • Other features – Search, Sort, Passcode Lock, built-in Hot Links for phone numbers, email addresses and websites, and more. Visit our web site to find out more. We strive to create the highest-quality software possible so that our customers have a positive and enjoyable experience. If you would like to tell us about a problem, offer a suggestion, or send us feedback, we would love to hear from you and will make every effort to respond promptly. Email us at support@handcarvedcode.com. Thank you and enjoy!

About

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.

Highlights
  • To-Do management
  • Project organization
  • Area categorization
  • Daily planning
  • Reminders and repeaters
  • Calendar integration
  • Share extension
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Priorities4 screens
Things 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Things 3 at 4.8 against Priorities's 4.4. Things 3 also leads on ratings volume (28K vs 82) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). Priorities's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Priorities costs $4.99 and Things 3 $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Things 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things 3 has 28K ratings behind it against 82, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Priorities's written reviews are positive against 76% of Things 3's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Priorities ships an update every 5 days, Things 3 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Priorities versus Things 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrioritiesThings 3
Price$4.99 — better$9.99
Rating4.4 (82 ratings)4.8 (28K ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.7% of reviews — better76.3% of reviews
Number of ratings8228K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#3 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHand Carved Code, LLCCultured Code GmbH & Co. KG

Customer experience

Priorities

All ratings82 ratings
Positive85.4%
Neutral4.9%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews373 reviews
Positive88.7%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.0%

Things 3

All ratings27,942 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews1,877 reviews
Positive76.3%
Neutral8.5%
Negative15.2%

User reviews

Priorities

From 82 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
  • 🚀 Efficient task management
  • 📅 Seamless calendar integration
  • 💡 Flexible organization with pages and sub-tasks
  • 🌟 Ability to prioritize and star important tasks

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional sync issues
  • 📂 Limited options for organizing completed tasks
  • 🔍 Lack of search functionality
  • 🎨 Outdated visual design

Things 3

From 28K App Store ratings

What 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

Priorities

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Bugs introduced with recent updates
  • Calendar view issues with day of the week settings
  • Editing tasks can be unreliable

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to add sub-tasks within sub-tasks
  • Custom alert options and snooze functionality
  • Dark mode support
  • Apple Watch integration
  • More color customization options

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

None

Priorities

No in-app purchases

None

Things 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Priorities free?
Priorities costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Things 3 free?
Things 3 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Priorities or Things 3?
Things 3 is rated higher. Priorities averages 4.4 out of 5 from 82 ratings, while Things 3 averages 4.8 from 28K ratings.
Do Priorities or Things 3 have ads?
Neither Priorities nor Things 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Priorities or Things 3?
Priorities ships an update every 5 days, and Things 3 fortnightly. Most recently, Priorities was updated on October 1, 2026 and Things 3 on October 2, 2026.

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