Comparison

Things 3 vs Signal Twelve

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

Signal Twelve

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Signal Twelve is your AI tool concierge. Every week, Claude scans dozens of sources — Hacker News, ProductHunt, YouTube, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI — and surfaces the 1–3 new AI tools that actually fit how you work. No more endless scrolling. No more 47-tab Twitter binges trying to keep up. One Sunday email. One opened app. Three tools worth knowing. HOW IT WORKS • Take a 90-second onboarding quiz — your role, your tools, what you'd like to automate • Every Sunday at 6pm, get 1–3 personalized picks waiting for you • Each pick explains: why it's for you specifically, what it costs, how long setup takes, and exactly how it differs from what you do today • A weekly 30-second check-in sharpens next week's picks WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT We don't generate tool recommendations from a model's training data and hope they're real (that's how you get hallucinated products that don't exist). Every pick is grounded in actual articles, ProductHunt listings, and YouTube demos that our system fetched this week. Real tools. Real sources. No invented products. PRO SUBSCRIPTION Signal Twelve Pro unlocks weekly personalized picks, full history of past picks, and weekly check-ins. • Monthly: $4.99/month after 7-day free trial • Annual: $39.99/year after 7-day free trial (save 33%) Cancel anytime in Settings → Subscription. Apple handles all billing — we never see your card. PRIVACY We don't sell your data. We don't track you across other apps or websites. We collect only what's needed to give you good picks. Delete your account and everything we have on you any time from Settings. Full policy: https://signaltwelve.ai/privacy-policy/ Terms: https://signaltwelve.ai/terms/ Made by Signal Twelve LLC in Boston, Massachusetts.

Screenshots

Things 34 screens
Signal Twelve3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Signal Twelve at Free against Things 3's $9.99. Signal Twelve also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Things 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#2 vs unranked). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Signal Twelve is free to download; Things 3 costs $9.99 up front. Signal Twelve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Things 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Things 3 ships an update fortnightly, Signal Twelve every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Things 3 versus Signal Twelve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings 3Signal Twelve
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (28K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings28K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#2 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCultured Code GmbH & Co. KGSignal Twelve LLC

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

Signal Twelve

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Things 3

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Signal Twelve

Subscriptions2
  • Signal Twelve Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Signal Twelve Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Things 3 free?
Things 3 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Signal Twelve free?
Signal Twelve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Things 3 or Signal Twelve have ads?
Neither Things 3 nor Signal Twelve shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Things 3 or Signal Twelve?
Things 3 ships an update fortnightly, and Signal Twelve every 2 days. Most recently, Things 3 was updated on October 27, 2026 and Signal Twelve on October 15, 2026.

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