Comparison

Do! Premium 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

Do! Premium

This app helps you manage your tasks with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. It allows for quick task addition and completion, automated recurring tasks, and secure data storage. Personalize your experience with themes and fonts.

Highlights
  • Quick task addition and completion
  • Automated recurring tasks
  • Widgets for at-a-glance task viewing
  • Passcode/Face ID security
  • Dropbox/Email backup and restore
  • Customizable themes and fonts
Features
Read full description

Jot it down. Enjoy checking it off. Groceries on the way home. A deadline you don't want to miss. A habit you'd like to keep. Do! Premium gives your everyday to-dos a simple, ad-free home: add a task, then double-tap when it's done. ■ A thought, a note, a satisfying checkoff Catch a task while it's on your mind. Finished? Double-tap to mark it done. Even a small task deserves that little moment of satisfaction. ■ Make it a list you like coming back to Choose your themes and fonts, with sounds inspired by pen and paper. Like picking a favorite notebook, make your daily list feel like yours. ■ A place for every part of your day Keep work, study and shopping in their own groups. Add color to tell things apart, and pin the tasks you want to keep in sight. ■ Less to remember, every time around Set tasks to repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. Add reminders for the things you don't want to miss. ■ A quick look from your home screen Keep your to-dos close with home screen widgets. Check your list during a busy morning without opening the app. ■ Put your keyboard to work Use an external keyboard to add tasks and give longer notes room to breathe. • Add a task: Command(⌘) + N • Insert a line break: Option(⌥/Alt) + Enter ■ Your list, on your other devices Use the same app and sign in with the same account to sync your tasks across devices. Pick up your familiar list when you switch devices. ■ App lock and backups Lock access to the app with a passcode or Face ID on supported devices. Back up your data through Dropbox or email and restore it when needed. It doesn't have to be a big plan. Start with one thing you'd like to do today. ■ No ads This is a paid version with no ads. Questions and suggestions: do@simplerion.com

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

Do! Premium4 screens
Things 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Things 3 at $9.99 against Do! Premium's $20.00. Things 3 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (28K vs 238). Do! Premium's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

Do! Premium costs $20.00 and Things 3 $9.99 up front. Do! Premium sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Things 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Do! Premium against 4.8 for Things 3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things 3 has 28K ratings behind it against 238, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Do! Premium's written reviews are positive against 76% of Things 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Do! Premium ships an update every 10 days, Things 3 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Do! Premium versus Things 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDo! PremiumThings 3
Price$20.00$9.99 — better
Rating4.7 (238 ratings)4.8 (28K ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.1% of reviews76.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23828K — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#3 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSIMPLERION Co., LtdCultured Code GmbH & Co. KG

Customer experience

Do! Premium

All ratings238 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews209 reviews
Positive75.1%
Neutral11.5%
Negative13.4%

Things 3

All ratings27,942 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews1,888 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral8.4%
Negative15.1%

User reviews

Do! Premium

From 238 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
  • 🎨 Customizable fonts and color-coded prioritization
  • ⚡ Quick and easy task entry
  • 📱 Widget functionality for home screen access
  • 🎯 Clean, elegant design with notepad aesthetic

Room to improve

  • 🔄 No cross-device synchronization
  • 💔 Separate free and premium versions don't share data
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes on newer iOS versions
  • 💸 Multiple purchases required for full features
  • ⚠️ Limited customer support responsiveness

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

Do! Premium

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App crashes on iPhone XS Max and newer devices
  • Force closes on iOS 13 and later
  • Crashes when opening app after backup restore
  • Alarm not working on iPhone 11 Pro
  • Widget not appearing after installation
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  • Task sorting issues with auto-sort enabled
  • Calendar day won't process multiple task additions
  • Premium version crashes or doesn't recognize purchases
  • Tasks revert to top of list after editing
  • Pound sterling symbol (£) not displaying correctly
  • App becomes unusable after certain updates

Requested features

18 requests
  • Cross-device synchronization (iCloud/cloud backup)
  • Apple Watch complication support
  • Desktop/Mac version with sync capability
  • Multiple lists or categories/folders for organization
  • Recurring task ordering control
Show 13 more
  • Current date display in task list
  • Task editing capability after creation
  • Bulk delete completed tasks feature
  • Calendar app integration with reminders
  • Time-based alarms and notifications
  • Text-to-speech alert options
  • Ability to manually reorder tasks via drag-and-drop
  • Print functionality for notes
  • Task export options
  • Headings/categories to sort different task types
  • One-hour auto-delete option for completed tasks
  • Improved help/documentation
  • Add tasks directly from notification center

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

1 purchases

Do! Premium

One-time1
  • Tip$0.99
None

Things 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Do! Premium free?
Do! Premium costs $20.00, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Things 3 free?
Things 3 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Do! Premium or Things 3?
Things 3 is rated higher. Do! Premium averages 4.7 out of 5 from 238 ratings, while Things 3 averages 4.8 from 28K ratings.
Do Do! Premium or Things 3 have ads?
Neither Do! Premium nor Things 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Do! Premium or Things 3?
Do! Premium ships an update every 10 days, and Things 3 fortnightly. Most recently, Do! Premium was updated on October 14, 2026 and Things 3 on October 15, 2026.

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