Things 3 for iPad vs DarkPDF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Things 3 for iPad
This app helps you organize your life by planning your day, managing projects, and tracking progress toward your goals. It offers a user-friendly interface to get tasks organized quickly, from daily routines to long-term aspirations.
- To-Do management
- Project planning with headings
- Area organization
- Today and Upcoming task views
- Reminders and repeaters
- Calendar integration
- Tagging and filtering
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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 locate to-dos, headings, or tags. • Type Travel — jump from list to list with your keyboard; just start typing! • 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 IPAD Things is tailored to the iPad, with excellent pro features as well. Chief among them is the outstanding support for your keyboard & trackpad. You can edit your to-dos without touching the screen, utilize plenty of shortcuts, and navigate your lists at blistering speed—just start typing! “Things has the best implementation of external keyboard support I’ve ever seen in an iPad app.” —Federico Viticci, MacStories You can also enjoy a beautiful dark mode at sunset, connect your calendars, open multiple windows, add a variety of widgets, scribble with Apple Pencil, 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. 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, iPhone, Apple Watch, 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!
DarkPDF
This app allows you to read PDF documents in dark mode, inverting text and background colors to reduce eye strain. It also offers the ability to compress margins and blank spaces for a larger text display.
- Dark mode PDF reading
- Invert text and background
- Larger text display
- Margin compression
- Cross-platform compatibility (macOS & iOS)
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macOS and iOS 13 bring us this marvellous Dark Mode. Dark Mode has many benefits. But there is a problem for PDF readers. Most PDF files are black text on a white background, resembling a printed form of documents. For eyes that get used to Dark Mode, such pages put a strain on them. DarkPDF can help. It is available on both macOS (Catalina) and iOS. Buy it once, and use it on both platforms. By altering the background from white to black, text from black to white, you can read PDFs in Dark Mode. Even better, DarkPDF can also compress margins around the page, as well as blank spaces in the page so that more space can be used to render meaningful text.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DarkPDF at $0.99 against Things 3 for iPad's $19.99. DarkPDF also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days) and device support (4 vs 1). Things 3 for iPad's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (79% vs 47%). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Things 3 for iPad costs $19.99 and DarkPDF $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Things 3 for iPad holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things 3 for iPad has 12K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Things 3 for iPad's written reviews are positive against 47% of DarkPDF's.
Things 3 for iPad ships an update every 10 days, DarkPDF every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Things 3 for iPad | DarkPDF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (12K ratings) — better | 4.3 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews — better | 47.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG | Numathic |
Customer experience
Things 3 for iPad
DarkPDF
Bugs and requests
Things 3 for iPad
Reported bugs
2 issues- Sync issues and data loss reported
- Siri integration not working well in some languages
Requested features
4 requests- Add location-based reminders
- Improve task prioritization and urgency indicators
- Implement mass editing and batch actions
- Introduce web app and Windows support
DarkPDF
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Things 3 for iPad
No in-app purchases
DarkPDF
No in-app purchases









