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Things
Things is the award-winning personal task manager that helps you plan your day, manage your projects, and make real progress toward your goals.
Where it stands
3.9 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.6 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.7 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Things yet. How tests work
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Measured signals
4.6 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Things's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 400 ms.
- Security3.5 / 52 of 5 protective headers set (content-security-policy, x-frame-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
3.7 / 5 · 12 commenters92% of the 12 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Things; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“I loved the original release of Things on the desktop, but wish I had never bothered with the iOS app. It took far too many taps to do anything and syncing was clunky to the point of uselessness. It was the wait for…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I too tried to love Things, but just couldn't get into it. The to-list needs to be simple enough to use without thinking, yet powerful enough to offer a specific set of features. I use Fantastical in my menu bar to add…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Things was one of the first Mac apps I ever bought. For some reason, though, the last few years I've settled into a mix of Apple Reminders for personal things and Redmine for Work. I hate todo list fiddling, but this…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Things 2 is out (Mac/iOS app) (2012, 48 comments) · “Things 3” Released (2017, 11 comments) · ☑ Things 2 (2012, 9 comments) · Things: The State of Sync Part 2 (2011, 8 comments)
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