Things 3 vs Scanner
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!
Scanner
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Scanner turns your iPhone into a powerful, pocket-sized scanner. Capture documents, ID cards, receipts, whiteboards, and photos in seconds — then save them as clean, high-quality PDFs or images you can share anywhere. Whether you're going paperless, filing an expense report, or digitizing important paperwork, Scanner makes it effortless. WHY YOU'LL LOVE SCANNER Fast, automatic scanning Point your camera and Scanner instantly detects the edges of your document, straightens the perspective, and captures a crisp, glare-free result. No tripod, no fuss. Professional-quality PDFs Every scan is enhanced for sharp, readable output. Combine multiple pages into a single PDF, reorder them, and export in the exact format you need. Smart OCR text recognition Extract text from any scan with built-in OCR. Copy, search, and reuse the words on your documents — turn a photo of a page into editable text in one tap. Scan more than documents ID cards, receipts, business cards, handwritten notes, book pages, and photos — if you can see it, you can scan it. Stay organized Sort your scans into folders, rename them, and find any file fast with search. Your scans are always neatly arranged and ready when you need them. Share in one tap Send scans by email or message, save to Files, or export to your favorite cloud storage. Sharing a polished PDF has never been easier. KEY FEATURES - Automatic edge detection and perspective correction - High-quality PDF and JPG export - Multi-page document scanning - Smart OCR text extraction - Scan IDs, receipts, cards, photos, and more - Color, grayscale, and black-and-white filters - Folders, renaming, and fast search - One-tap sharing to Mail, Messages, Files, and cloud services Download Scanner today and keep everything important with you — organized, digital, and always a tap away.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Scanner at Free against Things 3's $9.99. Things 3's advantage is chart position (#3 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On 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
Scanner is free to download; Things 3 costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Things 3 | Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (28K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG | Roman Degtyarev |
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
Scanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Things 3
No in-app purchases
Scanner
No in-app purchases









