Comparison

Statcounter 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

Statcounter

Track and analyze your website's visitors in real-time. Gain insights into user behavior and traffic patterns to improve your online presence.

Highlights
  • Real-time visitor monitoring
  • Website traffic analysis
  • User behavior insights
  • Performance tracking
Features
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Monitor and analyse the visitors to your website in real-time.

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!

Screenshots

Statcounter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Statcounter at Free against Things 3 for iPad's $19.99. Statcounter also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). Things 3 for iPad's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and review sentiment (79% vs 43%). 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

Statcounter is free to download; Things 3 for iPad costs $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 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things 3 for iPad has 12K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Statcounter's written reviews are positive against 79% of Things 3 for iPad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Statcounter ships an update every 2 months, Things 3 for iPad every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Statcounter versus Things 3 for iPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStatcounterThings 3 for iPad
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating3.0 (27 ratings)4.9 (12K ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.2% of reviews79.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2712K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStatCounterCultured Code GmbH & Co. KG

Customer experience

Statcounter

All ratings27 ratings
Positive48.1%
Neutral7.4%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews74 reviews
Positive43.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative54.1%

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

Statcounter

From 27 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 📊 Great data/stats
  • 💻 Desktop version comparison
  • 📱 Convenient mobile access
  • 🚀 Works well

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Login issues
  • 🐛 App crashes
  • 📉 Limited data/features
  • ❌ Outdated interface
  • 👎 Ad banners

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

Statcounter

Reported bugs

65 issues
  • App doesn't recognize login details
  • App crashes upon opening
  • Login button obscured by keyboard
  • Keyboard issues on login screen
  • App logs out randomly
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  • App shuts down
  • Wrong password problem after update
  • App won't open after update
  • App crashes after opening
  • App crashes on startup
  • App crashes when trying to log in
  • App crashes after logging in
  • App crashes on fetching project data
  • App won't open anymore
  • Visitor alerts not working
  • Layout broken
  • App keeps logging out
  • App crashes every time I open it
  • App doesn't show current activity/views
  • Menu doesn't work
  • App quits when trying to log in
  • New version keeps crashing
  • Crashing at login
  • App not functioning on phone
  • App crashes on iPhone 5c iOS 8.1.1
  • App crashes on iPhone 4s / iOS 7.1.2
  • App crashes on iPhone 4
  • App crashes on startup
  • App crashes after update
  • App doesn't show international visits
  • 7 days activity should be optional
  • App doesn't navigate to main menu
  • Can't see half the things accessible before
  • App doesn't recognize login details
  • App is unable to contact login details on server
  • Login button is obscured by the keyboard
  • Clicking 'Go' adds to the password
  • Keyboard covers login button and cannot be dismissed
  • Keyboard 'Go' button registers as a keypress
  • Summary is current, visitor activity specifics are days behind
  • App updated and can't log in
  • Can't find recent pageload activity
  • App is almost unusable
  • Randomly logs you out
  • Gives errors and shuts down
  • Wrong pass problem with last update
  • Unable to open the app and continued to crash
  • Keep crashing on apr 1 2016
  • Crashes upon opening
  • Software unable to cope with 29 Feb - Leap Year
  • Annoying ad banner on paid account
  • Can't login using this app
  • Prompts to change password which doesn't fix issue
  • Problem for months
  • Continually logs you out
  • Crashes every time I login
  • Doesn't accept login credentials
  • Update gone wrong, can't log in
  • Says to 'check login information' despite correct input
  • Can't create/delete projects
  • App is not able to authenticate credentials
  • New version keeps crashing
  • Crashing at login
  • New UI upgrade includes massive, distracting ad banner
  • App quits as soon as I try to log in

Requested features

9 requests
  • All time visitor numbers
  • Specific visitor numbers (not k)
  • Same information as website
  • Hourly stats
  • Search by label
Show 4 more
  • See all page views from Path
  • Customization for default timeframe
  • Track mobile version visits
  • See local time of visits

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

Statcounter

No in-app purchases

None

Things 3 for iPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Statcounter free?
Statcounter is free to download, 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, Statcounter or Things 3 for iPad?
Things 3 for iPad is rated higher. Statcounter averages 3.0 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Things 3 for iPad averages 4.9 from 12K ratings.
Do Statcounter or Things 3 for iPad have ads?
Neither Statcounter nor Things 3 for iPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Statcounter or Things 3 for iPad?
Statcounter ships an update every 2 months, and Things 3 for iPad every 10 days. Most recently, Statcounter was updated on October 5, 2026 and Things 3 for iPad on October 12, 2026.

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