Comparison

Things 3 vs Boris

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

Boris

Effortlessly split restaurant bills by scanning receipts and assigning items. Avoid awkward math and ensure everyone pays their exact share, including tax and tip.

Highlights
  • Scans restaurant receipts
  • Assigns ordered items
  • Splits shared dishes
  • Calculates exact share of tax and tip
  • Shows individual totals for easy settlement
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Stop doing math at the table. You just had a great dinner with friends. Then the bill arrives — and suddenly everyone's doing mental math, arguing over who got what, and just rounding up, or even worse, splitting the bill evenly, to "make it easy" (even though you only had the salad). Let Boris help you. Snap a photo of your receipt and Boris instantly reads it. Tap the items you ordered, and Boris calculates your exact share — including your proportional cut of tax, tip, and any fees. Splitting a dish? Boris handles that too. No more overpaying. No more awkward moments. What Boris does: - Scans any restaurant receipt in seconds - Lets you tap exactly what you ordered - Splits shared dishes fairly between people - Calculates your precise share of tax, tip, and fees - Shows everyone's total so settling up is instant Whether you're splitting a $400 omakase with three add-ons and four drinks or a $30 pizza, Boris makes sure everyone pays what they actually owe — down to the cent. Dinner with friends should be fun. Let Boris handle the bill.

Screenshots

Things 34 screens
Boris4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Boris at Free against Things 3's $9.99. Boris also leads on update cadence (daily vs fortnightly) and review sentiment (100% vs 77%). Things 3's advantage is ratings volume (28K vs 4) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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

Boris is free to download; Things 3 costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boris 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: 77% of Things 3's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boris's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Things 3 ships an update fortnightly, Boris daily. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Things 3 versus Boris: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings 3Boris
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (28K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28K — better4
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#3 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCultured Code GmbH & Co. KGCHESTER CHOY-HO LEUNG

Customer experience

Things 3

All ratings28,031 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews1,890 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral8.4%
Negative15.1%

Boris

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
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

Boris

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Things 3

No in-app purchases

None

Boris

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Things 3 free?
Things 3 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boris free?
Boris is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Things 3 or Boris?
Boris is rated higher. Things 3 averages 4.8 out of 5 from 28K ratings, while Boris averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Things 3 or Boris have ads?
Neither Things 3 nor Boris shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Things 3 or Boris?
Things 3 ships an update fortnightly, and Boris daily. Most recently, Things 3 was updated on October 28, 2026 and Boris on October 24, 2026.

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