Comparison

Things 3 vs Matin Daily Planner

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 from daily routines to larger life ambitions.

Highlights
  • To-Do management
  • Project organization
  • Area categorization
  • Daily planning
  • Calendar integration
  • Reminders and repeaters
  • 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

Matin Daily Planner

Build positive habits with a unique gamified approach. Track your progress daily to nurture a virtual plant, and celebrate milestones as you build consistent streaks. All core features are free, with an optional one-time purchase to remove ads.

Highlights
  • Virtual plant growth tied to habit completion
  • Daily challenges and custom habit creation
  • Streak tracking and milestone celebrations
  • Daily reminders
  • Drag-and-drop habit reordering
  • Dark mode support
Features
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Matin is the daily planner for people who do deep work. Every morning, Matin guides you through a two-minute ritual: pick your three priorities, estimate how long each takes, and place them on your timeline around your real calendar. Plan more than your day can hold, and Matin tells you before the day starts, not at 6pm. During the day, your plan becomes a live timeline: what is now, what is next, what is later. Run a focus timer on any block. Running long? Reschedule honestly instead of silently falling behind. Every evening, shut down clean: review what you finished, triage what is left (tomorrow, someday, or drop it) and set tomorrow’s first block. Then Matin goes quiet. Done is done. No auto-scheduling that fills your day without asking. No streaks. No guilt. • Morning planning ritual (2 minutes) • Time blocking with duration estimates • Overcommit warnings based on your real calendar • Focus timer for deep work • Honest rescheduling when blocks run long • Evening shutdown ritual • Weekly review • Read-only calendar awareness. Your data stays on your device. Matin (ma-tan) is French for “morning,” because the day is won before it starts. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Things 34 screens
Matin Daily Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Matin Daily Planner at Free against Things 3's $9.99. Things 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (28K vs 1). On rating, update cadence, 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

Matin Daily Planner is free to download; Things 3 costs $9.99 up front. Matin Daily Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Things 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Matin Daily Planner 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 every 11 days, Matin Daily Planner every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Things 3 versus Matin Daily Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings 3Matin Daily Planner
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (28K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings28K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#4 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCultured Code GmbH & Co. KGZeeshan Ebrahim

Customer experience

Things 3

All ratings28,060 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews1,895 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral8.4%
Negative15.1%

Matin Daily Planner

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

Matin Daily Planner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Things 3

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Matin Daily Planner

Subscriptions1
  • Matin Pro$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Matin Pro Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Things 3 free?
Things 3 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Matin Daily Planner free?
Matin Daily Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Things 3 or Matin Daily Planner?
Matin Daily Planner is rated higher. Things 3 averages 4.8 out of 5 from 28K ratings, while Matin Daily Planner averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Things 3 or Matin Daily Planner have ads?
Neither Things 3 nor Matin Daily Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Things 3 or Matin Daily Planner?
Things 3 ships an update every 11 days, and Matin Daily Planner every 2 weeks. Most recently, Things 3 was updated on November 12, 2026 and Matin Daily Planner on October 31, 2026.

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