Things To Do vs Upcoming
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Things To Do
Organize your life with a simple and intuitive task management application. Easily add, manage, and share your to-do lists for personal or collaborative use. Ideal for everyday errands and shopping.
- Uncluttered task-list interface
- Add multiple tasks easily
- Share tasks with others
- Ideal for grocery/shopping lists
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Things To Do is an intuitive and user friendly to-do list app. THREE KINDS OF LISTS - To-do lists - completed items drop to the bottom so what's left stays on top - Shopping & grocery - items stay in the order you want, with section headers and a one-tap "uncheck all" to reuse the list - Travel & packing - set trip dates and see how long you're away - Switch a list's type anytime if your needs change INTUITIVE & USER FRIENDLY - Star the items that matter so they rise to the top - Group items under section headers - Move tasks from one list to another with a long-press - Keep certain shopping or travel items checked even when you reset the list - Choose a custom icon for any list - A built-in guide shows you how everything works EVERYWHERE YOU ARE - Syncs automatically across your iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Mac with iCloud - No account or sign-up - just your Apple ID - Import a list from pasted text, and export, share, or print any list AD-FREE AND PRIVATE - No ads - No in-app purchases - Your data stays yours
Upcoming
Easily track and share important dates with customizable countdowns. Set reminders, import events from your calendar, and share visually appealing countdowns with anyone via universal links.
- Universal link sharing
- Customizable countdown display
- Smart calendar integration
- Powerful sharing options
- Recurring events management
- Smart reminders and notifications
- Birthday import from contacts
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Upcoming turns the things you are looking forward to into a number you can see. Pick a date — a birthday, a trip, a due date, the last day of term — and Upcoming counts the sleeps until it lands. Put the number on your Home Screen, drop it into someone else's chat, or wait for it together. On iPhone and iPad. WHAT IT DOES - Count down to anything, in whole days, with a name, a colour and a photo - Home Screen widgets in three sizes, and Lock Screen widgets - Stickers for Messages — drop the number straight into a chat - Nudges: a reminder a week out, the night before, the morning of - Three voices for those reminders — Chill, Playful, or Unhinged - Pull in birthdays from Contacts and events from your calendar - Keepsakes: when a countdown lands, keep it on the shelf with the photo, the date, and the number of sleeps you waited WAIT TOGETHER Invite someone into a countdown and you both watch the same number. Photos and reactions go in one thread as the day gets closer. Starting a shared countdown and joining one are both free. FREE FOR EVERYONE All features are included, with no subscription. - Unlimited countdowns for every birthday, trip, and day worth waiting for - Invite anyone to share a countdown, with photos, messages, and reactions in one thread - iCloud sync across your devices - Every widget, Messages sticker, and keepsake Terms of Use: https://claycircuitstudios.com/upcoming/terms EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://claycircuitstudios.com/upcoming/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Upcoming at fortnightly against Things To Do's every 2 months. Upcoming also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). Things To Do's advantage is ratings volume (62 vs 13). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Things To Do against 4.1 for Upcoming. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 13 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Things To Do's written reviews are positive against 67% of Upcoming's.
Things To Do ships an update every 2 months, Upcoming fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Things To Do | Upcoming |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (62 ratings) | 4.1 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.9% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OneMast | Benjamin Pust |
Customer experience
Things To Do
Upcoming
Bugs and requests
Things To Do
Reported bugs
6 issues- Cannot delete tasks once complete
- App shows black screen/no tasks visible
- Unable to select 'done', use trash, or add lists on iPhone X
- Cannot exit app without force closing
- App is a shell with no program
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- Messages not fully visible
Requested features
7 requests- Option to share lists with others
- Ability to set reminders/notifications
- Option to increase font size
- Separate area for completed tasks
- Time to start a task option
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- Ability to rearrange list by priority
- Add additional lists
Upcoming
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Things To Do
No in-app purchases
Upcoming
No in-app purchases
