Comparison

Priorities vs Things 3 for iPad

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 for iPad

This app helps you organize your life by planning your day, managing projects, and tracking progress toward your goals. It offers a user-friendly interface to get tasks organized quickly, from daily routines to long-term aspirations.

Highlights
  • To-Do management
  • Project planning with headings
  • Area organization
  • Today and Upcoming task views
  • Reminders and repeaters
  • Calendar integration
  • Tagging and filtering
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 locate to-dos, headings, or tags. • Type Travel — jump from list to list with your keyboard; just start typing! • 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 IPAD Things is tailored to the iPad, with excellent pro features as well. Chief among them is the outstanding support for your keyboard & trackpad. You can edit your to-dos without touching the screen, utilize plenty of shortcuts, and navigate your lists at blistering speed—just start typing! “Things has the best implementation of external keyboard support I’ve ever seen in an iPad app.” —Federico Viticci, MacStories You can also enjoy a beautiful dark mode at sunset, connect your calendars, open multiple windows, add a variety of widgets, scribble with Apple Pencil, 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. 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, iPhone, Apple Watch, 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 call

The clearest difference is price: Priorities at $4.99 against Things 3 for iPad's $19.99. Priorities also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days) and review sentiment (89% vs 79%). Things 3 for iPad's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (12K vs 82). On ads and in-app purchases 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 for iPad $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Things 3 for iPad holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things 3 for iPad has 12K 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 79% of Things 3 for iPad'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 for iPad every 10 days. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Priorities versus Things 3 for iPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrioritiesThings 3 for iPad
Price$4.99 — better$19.99
Rating4.4 (82 ratings)4.9 (12K ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.7% of reviews — better79.4% of reviews
Number of ratings8212K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB65 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 for iPad

All ratings11,793 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews815 reviews
Positive79.4%
Neutral8.1%
Negative12.5%

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 for iPad

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient and intuitive
  • 👍 Clean and simple interface
  • 🔋 Helps stay organized and productive
  • 💡 Excellent for GTD workflow
  • 🚀 Seamless syncing across devices

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive for full ecosystem
  • 🔒 No end-to-end encryption for sync
  • 🔍 Limited filtering and sorting options
  • 🔍 Repeating tasks could be improved

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 for iPad

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Sync issues and data loss reported
  • Siri integration not working well in some languages

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add location-based reminders
  • Improve task prioritization and urgency indicators
  • Implement mass editing and batch actions
  • Introduce web app and Windows support

In-app purchases

None

Priorities

No in-app purchases

None

Things 3 for iPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Priorities free?
Priorities costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Things 3 for iPad free?
Things 3 for iPad costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Priorities or Things 3 for iPad?
Things 3 for iPad is rated higher. Priorities averages 4.4 out of 5 from 82 ratings, while Things 3 for iPad averages 4.9 from 12K ratings.
Do Priorities or Things 3 for iPad have ads?
Neither Priorities nor Things 3 for iPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Priorities or Things 3 for iPad?
Priorities ships an update every 5 days, and Things 3 for iPad every 10 days. Most recently, Priorities was updated on September 24, 2026 and Things 3 for iPad on September 24, 2026.

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