Things 3 for iPad vs Timelith
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!
Timelith
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The app for your most important moments. Some events are more than just entries in a calendar. Your next holiday. The birth of a child. Your own wedding. Your first marathon. Completing a further education course. The start of a new chapter in life. These are the moments we work towards, look forward to and remember for a lifetime. That’s exactly what Timelith is for. Timelith is more than just a traditional countdown app. The app makes time visible: as a countdown, a retrospective, a timeline, a project journey or a personal chapter in your life. Experiencing time Look forward to upcoming events or reflect on how long ago special moments took place. As well as traditional countdowns and count-ups, you can also view the time remaining in different ways – for example, in heartbeats, breaths, steps, hours of sleep or meals. Because sometimes a different perspective can change the way we perceive time. Putting time into context Our lives aren’t made up of individual appointments. With the personal timeline, Timelith weaves past memories, current events and future milestones into a single story. This reveals which moments have shaped you – and which still lie ahead. Seeing time as a journey Some things aren’t a countdown, but a journey. With ‘chapters of life’, you can group related events into a personal timeline: for example, your karate journey, a degree, building a house or a new phase in your life. You choose a tag such as ‘karate’, and Timelith constructs a journey through your life from all the relevant events. You decide for yourself whether an event was a milestone or a highlight – the journey will reflect this accordingly. Shaping time Big goals are achieved step by step. Plan projects with your own milestones and see at any time whether your progress is still on track with the remaining schedule. Whether it’s building a house, further education, a marathon, setting up a business or your next big idea – Timelith supports you all the way to your goal. Preserving time Not every memory is meant for today. With time capsules, you can attach messages and photos to events or milestones and seal them until a date of your choosing. Some messages are at their best when they resurface at exactly the right time. What Timelith offers * Countdowns and count-ups * Personal timeline * Life chapters as a journey through related events * Projects with milestones * Progress analysis tracking time and project progress * Time capsules for messages and photos * Reminders and widgets * Markers, colours, emojis and notes * JSON export and import * Android & iOS Privacy by Design Time is personal. That’s why your data stays personal too. * No adverts * No tracking * No data collection * No user account * No cloud requirement All information stays locally on your device. Timelith Premium The free version is perfect for getting started. With Timelith Premium, a one-off purchase unlocks higher limits – including unlimited active events, projects, widgets, milestones, time capsules and further life chapters. Timelith tracks your time. Not your data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Timelith at Free against Things 3 for iPad's $19.99. Timelith also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). Things 3 for iPad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). 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
Timelith is free to download; Things 3 for iPad costs $19.99 up front. Timelith sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Things 3 for iPad asks for nothing beyond the download.
Things 3 for iPad ships an update every 10 days, Timelith every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Things 3 for iPad | Timelith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (12K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG | Ulrich Cech |
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
Timelith
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Things 3 for iPad
No in-app purchases
Timelith
- Timelith Premium$5.99









