Things 3 vs Sisyphus
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!
Sisyphus
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The dishes come back. The inbox refills. The laundry basket is never done being a laundry basket. Most apps treat that as failure. Sisyphus — the recurring-chores app built on Albert Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus" — treats it as the whole point. Name your boulders: the pieces of your work that always return. Push them up the mountain each day. Reach the summit by evening, lose everything by midnight, and come back gladly. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. A MOUNTAIN THAT LIVES The scene is drawn by code, not stock art. The sky follows your real clock — dawn breaks, dusk burns, stars wheel past a crescent moon. The seasons follow your calendar: snow in January, wildflowers in April, amber leaves in October. And the man with the rock is your day, exactly as far up the slope as your labor has gone. PUSHING TAKES EFFORT You don't tap a checkbox — you hold the stone. A ring fills, a rumble builds under your finger, stone grinds on stone until the push lands with a satisfying thud. Finish the day's labor and Sisyphus stands at the summit, arms raised. THE MOUNTAIN REMEMBERS Every forty pushes raises a cairn beside the trail. The path itself wears deeper over your first two months. A year in, your mountain looks lived-on — and nobody else's looks like yours. REST IS PART OF THE PRACTICE No streak-shaming. Declare a rest day and the mountain rests with you — Sisyphus sits down beside his rock, nothing is due, and your rhythm holds. The day rhythm counts summits gently: quiet days and rest days hold it. Only abandoned work breaks it. PHILOSOPHY, EARNED Sixteen short musings — the myth, Camus, the Stoics, Nietzsche — unlock one per three pushes, the honest way. Each one shares as a postcard of the mountain at dusk. And The Year on the Mountain sums your year in stone: pushes, summits, rests taken, cairns raised. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK • Interactive widgets — push boulders right from the home screen • Lock-screen widgets, StandBy, and Siri: "Push the dishes in Sisyphus" • iPhone and iPad, syncing privately through your own iCloud FREE, HONESTLY Every feature is free, forever. No subscriptions, no ads, no account, no AI, no tracking — your data never leaves your devices and your own iCloud. The Agora sells three optional cosmetics as thank-yous (a traveler's hat, a wine-dark cape, a boulder of Parian marble), worn where you can see them. Gratitude, never features. The gods thought endless labor was the worst punishment they could invent. They forgot to check whether the laborer might come to love the work. Shoulder the boulder.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Sisyphus at Free against Things 3's $9.99. Things 3's advantage is chart position (#4 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Sisyphus 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 | Sisyphus |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | #4 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG | Hessam Zahedi |
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
Sisyphus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Things 3
No in-app purchases
Sisyphus
No in-app purchases









