Comparison

Things 3 vs HunnyDewBee

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
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!

About

HunnyDewBee

Manage household tasks with a shared family to-do list app. Assign tasks, track progress, and organize chores by category. Features end-to-end encryption for privacy and a single subscription for your entire Apple Family.

Highlights
  • Shared family to-do lists
  • Task assignment and live sync
  • Customizable todo categories
  • Sub-tasks and due dates
  • Location-based chores (Hive Map)
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Single subscription for Apple Family
Features
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HunnyDewBee is the shared family todo app built on Apple Family Sharing. One subscription covers your whole group, lists sync in real time, and your todos stay unreadable to us. Built for the household actually doing the chores: partners, parents, kids old enough to claim their own list, and anyone tired of scrolling back through the family chat to find that one thing they forgot. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Share a todo list with everyone in your Apple Family • Assign todos to family members and watch progress sync live • Sort todos by category: Shopping, Chores, Recipes, Errands, or any you create • Set due dates, recurring schedules, and notes on each todo • Break big todos into subdos and check them off one at a time • Drop pins on the Hive Map so chores tie to the places they happen • Ask the Hive Mind AI assistant to draft, organize, and prioritize your todos • Earn badges for staying consistent PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your phone encrypts your todos and subdos before they sync. Only the devices in your family group hold the keys, so we can't read them. Your hive's name and the content of shared notifications work the same way. Profile details and app settings are encrypted on our servers, but not yet end-to-end. We're moving them to the same device-held keys. List names save as ordinary app data. The Hive Mind AI assistant is different. To answer you it may send any of your hive's todos to our AI provider, not just the ones you mention, along with titles, due dates, priorities, and who they're assigned to. Your device answers many requests on its own if it supports Apple Intelligence. Otherwise our AI provider writes the reply, and it doesn't use your data to train its models. We store your chat history with your account like regular app data. It isn't end-to-end encrypted, so your conversations stay available. A Recovery Code keeps you in control if you switch devices or lose iCloud Keychain. Sign in with Apple works too, including Hide My Email. ONE SUBSCRIPTION, YOUR WHOLE APPLE FAMILY Subscribe once and everyone in your Apple Family Sharing group gets the app. No invite codes. No separate accounts. No extra payments. Every member keeps their own login and their own private todos. They just share what's in the family hive. CHOOSE YOUR TIER • Lone-Bee. Free. Personal todos for solo use. • Hive. Shared family todos, categories, recurring schedules, and full Apple Family Sharing. • Hive Mind. Everything in Hive, plus an AI assistant that helps you draft, organize, and prioritize todos. Some requests run on your device, others use our AI provider. https://hunnydewbee.com/privacy-policy https://hunnydewbee.com/tos

Screenshots

Things 34 screens
HunnyDewBee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HunnyDewBee at Free against Things 3's $9.99. HunnyDewBee also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Things 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (28K vs 1). On ads and device support 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

HunnyDewBee is free to download; Things 3 costs $9.99 up front. HunnyDewBee sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Things 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HunnyDewBee 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Things 3 ships an update fortnightly, HunnyDewBee weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Things 3 versus HunnyDewBee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings 3HunnyDewBee
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (28K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings28K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#3 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCultured Code GmbH & Co. KGWesley Franks

Customer experience

Things 3

All ratings27,942 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews1,889 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral8.4%
Negative15.1%

HunnyDewBee

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

HunnyDewBee

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Things 3

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

HunnyDewBee

Subscriptions4
  • Hive Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Hive Mind$9.991 Month
  • Hive$49.991 Year
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  • Hive Mind Annual$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Things 3 free?
Things 3 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is HunnyDewBee free?
HunnyDewBee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Things 3 or HunnyDewBee?
HunnyDewBee is rated higher. Things 3 averages 4.8 out of 5 from 28K ratings, while HunnyDewBee averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Things 3 or HunnyDewBee have ads?
Neither Things 3 nor HunnyDewBee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Things 3 or HunnyDewBee?
Things 3 ships an update fortnightly, and HunnyDewBee weekly. Most recently, Things 3 was updated on October 18, 2026 and HunnyDewBee on September 24, 2026.

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