Things 3 vs a)plan coaching 2.0
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- To-Do management
- Project organization
- Area categorization
- Daily planning
- Reminders and repeaters
- Calendar integration
- Share extension
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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!
a)plan coaching 2.0
This app enhances one-on-one coaching with technology, offering real-time feedback and encouragement through notifications and text chat. It serves as a central hub for tracking accomplishments and progress towards personal goals.
- Real-time feedback from coaches
- Progress tracking for goals
- Capture general accomplishments
- Track areas of growth
- Gratitude journaling
- Short and long-term goal setting
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Better coaching, optimized by technology. The a)plan process was designed by the coaching industry’s best and brightest, with behavioral psychology and neuroscience at the core of our approach. Supporting this approach is the a)plan app, a unique and proprietary communication platform designed to extend the one-on-one coaching experience. Through the use of notifications and text chat, users receive real-time feedback and positive encouragement from their coaches, which deepens engagement and supports positive change. The app is also a central hub for tracking micro accomplishments and progress towards specific, predefined goals. Users of the a)plan app enjoy the ability to capture and track: General accomplishments Gratitude Progress towards goals Areas of growth Short terms goals Longer term goals for the year and beyond Significant progress starts on a)plan’s app-based coaching platform.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: a)plan coaching 2.0 at Free against Things 3's $9.99. a)plan coaching 2.0 also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Things 3's advantage is ratings volume (28K vs 4) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
a)plan coaching 2.0 is free to download; Things 3 costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
a)plan coaching 2.0 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 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Things 3's written reviews are positive against 100% of a)plan coaching 2.0's.
Things 3 ships an update fortnightly, a)plan coaching 2.0 every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Things 3 | a)plan coaching 2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (28K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG | A-Plan |
Customer experience
Things 3
a)plan coaching 2.0
Bugs and 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
a)plan coaching 2.0
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Things 3
No in-app purchases
a)plan coaching 2.0
No in-app purchases









