Comparison

Things 3 vs SmartScanner

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

SmartScanner

Features
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Your important papers, found again in three seconds. SmartScanner scans your documents, names them, files them and warns you before they expire. No folders to create, no names to type. JUST SCAN Take a photo of a document. The app detects the edges, straightens the page and chains together the pages of the same document. The result is sharp, readable and ready to send. THEY NAME THEMSELVES "Electricity bill February 2026" instead of "IMG_4821". The AI reads the document, understands what it is and gives it a name you'll still understand six months from now. THEY FILE THEMSELVES ID, housing, health, car, work: every document lands in the right folder without you having to decide. And you stay in control: everything can be edited, renamed and moved. YOU'RE WARNED IN TIME ID card, passport, vehicle inspection, insurance: the app spots expiry dates and alerts you before it's too late. FIND ANY DOCUMENT Search doesn't stop at file names: it reads the text INSIDE your documents. An amount, a reference number, the name of an insurer, and the document comes right up. ASK YOUR QUESTIONS "When does my ID card expire?", "How much was my August bill?" The assistant reads your documents and answers. It can also sort, rename and create folders for you. YOUR DOCUMENTS STAY WITH YOU Everything is stored on your iPhone. No account to create, no cloud, no password. Your papers go nowhere, and you can protect your most sensitive folders with Face ID. FREE, FOREVER Scanning, importing, filing by hand, searching, creating folders, backing up: no limit on the number of documents, no ads. WHAT PREMIUM ADDS Automatic naming and filing, summaries, the assistant and expiry date detection. 7-day free trial, then a monthly or yearly subscription. Cancel anytime from your account settings. A full backup can be exported at any time to Files or iCloud, so you never lose anything when you change phones. SUBSCRIPTIONS Premium Monthly (1 month) and Premium Annual (1 year), with a 7-day free trial on your first subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smartscanner.fr/politique-confidentialite/

Screenshots

Things 34 screens
SmartScanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SmartScanner at Free against Things 3's $9.99. Things 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). 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

SmartScanner is free to download; Things 3 costs $9.99 up front. SmartScanner sells 5 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, SmartScanner every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Things 3 versus SmartScanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThings 3SmartScanner
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (28K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings28K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#4 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCultured Code GmbH & Co. KGEnzo Uter-Hidalgo

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

SmartScanner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Things 3

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

SmartScanner

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$44.991 Year
One-time3
  • Small top-up$1.99
  • Medium top-up$3.99
  • Large top-up$8.99

Questions

Is Things 3 free?
Things 3 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmartScanner free?
SmartScanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Things 3 or SmartScanner have ads?
Neither Things 3 nor SmartScanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Things 3 or SmartScanner?
Things 3 ships an update fortnightly, and SmartScanner every 6 weeks. Most recently, Things 3 was updated on October 30, 2026 and SmartScanner on October 29, 2026.

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