Things 3 for iPad vs Flex Widgets
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!
Flex Widgets
Create custom widgets for your device's home screen with a powerful and intuitive editor. Add text, images, health data, clocks, and more, then customize their appearance and arrangement.
- Build custom widgets
- Add text, images, and health data
- Place icons, emojis, and shapes
- Create countdowns and calendars
- Design digital and analog clocks
- Share and import widget designs
- Create custom widget themes
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Build your own widgets with the first real widget editor, edit your widgets the way you want. We bring you a super intuitive, powerful widget editor. The all in one widget app. You can place: - texts, icons, emojis, shapes - images, image slideshows - health data like heart rate or steps count (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app) - drawings, buttons, shortcuts buttons - weather icons, weather text elements - date elements, countdowns, countdown visuals, calendars, week overviews - digital time elements, analog clocks - border outlines - and more elements in your widgets. (If you want your health data like heart rate, steps count, exercise time to be displayed inside of your widgets you need to grant the Flex Widgets access to your Health app.) With our widget editor you simply place elements on your widget, edit, move, resize and rotate them. Those elements can be placed on top of each other and you can edit them however you want. Everything is fully comstomisable. Change the text font, color your widgets, add outlines and place as many of the mentioned elements as you want. Share widgets The cool thing is: you don’t even need to be creative to enjoy our widget editor. You can use the widgets others have created or pick out of the widget gallery inside of Flex Widgets. Sharing widgets is super simple. Just press share and send your widget link to your friends! Widget Themes You can also give all your widgets the same look by creating widget themes. So every widget can have the same font, background color, outline border, etc. Here are some more cool features: - Add a drawing element to your widget and turn it into a sticky note. Tapping on it on your homescreen will let you draw on it! - Add buttons to your widgets to open websites or run shortcuts. - Add picture slideshows and have the pictures change every minute. - Health charts: display your heart rate, activity, walk distance and many more health data points in our fully customisable health charts to see how your body is doing. (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Flex Widgets at $2.99 against Things 3 for iPad's $19.99. Flex Widgets also leads on chart position (#94 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). Things 3 for iPad's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (79% vs 39%). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Flex Widgets $2.99 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 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things 3 for iPad has 12K ratings behind it against 98, 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 39% of Flex Widgets's.
Things 3 for iPad ships an update every 10 days, Flex Widgets every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Things 3 for iPad | Flex Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (12K ratings) — better | 3.7 (98 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews — better | 38.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 98 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #94 — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG | Yannik Schrade |
Customer experience
Things 3 for iPad
Flex Widgets
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
Flex Widgets
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Things 3 for iPad
No in-app purchases
Flex Widgets
No in-app purchases









