My Busy Day vs Things 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Busy Day
Visualize your schedule with a unique, abstract art-inspired interface. See upcoming events at a glance, with time displayed relative to the present moment. Easily manage and mark important events for a clearer overview of your day.
- Abstract art-inspired event visualization
- Upcoming events at a glance
- Time relative to current time
- Duplicate recurring events
- Hide individual events
- View associated URLs
- Swipe to mark events
Read full descriptionHide full description
Could your life be seen as a work of art? My Busy Day is designed to answer that question by allowing you to view your scheduled events from Calendar and Reminders in a visual style inspired by Piet Mondrian. Watch the forms change in size and color as their time passes from the future to the past. **Full Screen and Full of Abstract Minimalism** * Allows you see all upcoming events at a glance. * No space wasted showing you large blocks of time where nothing is happening. * Allows you hide your schedule from shoulder surfers. * Instantly makes you more interesting than other people. ** Unique Features ** * Time is displayed relative to the current time. * Easily duplicate events that don't occur regularly. * Individual events can be hidden. * View associated URLs without leaving the app. * Swipe to mark important events (e.g., highlight a birthday). * Marked events also show in Reminders (e.g., remember to buy a gift *for* that birthday). Everything that is important is simply laid out in front of you so that you can take one quick glance at it and get on with your busy day.
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 from daily routines to larger life ambitions.
- To-Do management
- Project organization
- Area categorization
- Daily planning
- Calendar integration
- Reminders and repeaters
- Share extension
Read full descriptionHide full description
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
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: My Busy Day at $1.99 against Things 3's $9.99. My Busy Day also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%). Things 3's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (28K vs 1). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
My Busy Day costs $1.99 and Things 3 $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
My Busy Day holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things 3 has 28K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of My Busy Day's written reviews are positive against 77% of Things 3's.
My Busy Day ships an update every 10 months, Things 3 every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Busy Day | Things 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (28K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 76.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 28K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #4 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Subsume Technologies, Inc. | Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG |
Customer experience
My Busy Day
Things 3
Bugs and requests
My Busy Day
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
My Busy Day
No in-app purchases
Things 3
No in-app purchases









