Things (application)

Things

A screenshot of Things’ main window
Developer(s) Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG
Stable release 2.8 / May 3, 2016
Development status Active
Operating system OS X, iOS, watchOS
Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese
Type Task management
License Proprietary
Website culturedcode.com

Things is an award-winning task management app for OS X, iOS, and watchOS made by Cultured Code, a software startup based in Stuttgart, Germany. It was the first modern task manager available for Mac when it released to 12,000 people as an alpha in late 2007,[1] and quickly gained popularity. The following summer, when the App Store launched, it was among the first 500 apps available for iPhone.[2] It was then released alongside the iPad in April 2010,[3] and became one of the first apps available for Apple Watch in March 2015.[4]

In December 2013, Cultured Code announced that they had sold one million copies of the software to date,[5] and in December 2014 the company announced that downloads had increased by an additional three million.[6]

Awards

Things has won multiple awards over the years. It first won the MacLife Editors' Choice Award in 2008, and then in 2009 it went on to win the Apple Design Award,[7] the Macworld Editors’ Choice Award,[8] and the Macworld Best of Show Award.[9] In 2012, after the release of Things 2, Apple selected it as Editors’ Choice, named it among the App Store Best of 2012, and inducted it into the App Store Hall of Fame.

Main features

Things allows to-dos to be subdivided into several sections, which correspond to parts of the Getting Things Done methodology:

Collect

Focus

Organize

Additional features

Things Cloud

Things Cloud is a sync service that stores the user’s to-dos and automatically keeps them updated across all their Apple devices. It was developed to replace the app’s original sync technology, which only worked over a local network. The company began alpha testing the new service in 2011[10] and, after an extended beta period, launched it publicly on August 9, 2012 with the release of Things 2.[11] A user can create a free Things Cloud account from within the apps’ settings.

In 2015, the company announced "Nimbus"[12] – an update to Things Cloud’s architecture which introduced push sync through the cloud (in addition to the push sync it already had across the local network[13]). The main benefit of the new push technology is that it delivers sync to iOS devices when the app isn’t actively running, by utilizing APNs.

Latest releases

Cultured Code publishes the status of Things’ ongoing development on their Arrivals Board and details each change in their release notes.

The latest stable releases are:

See also

External links

References

  1. "The Journey Has Begun". Cultured Code. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. "Things for iPhone and iPod touch available". Cultured Code. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  3. "An Empty Canvas". Cultured Code. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  4. "Apple begins releasing the first set of third-party Apple Watch apps". 9to5Mac. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  5. "A Million Things", Cultured Code, 20 December 2013
  6. "+3 Million", Cultured Code, 1 December 2014
  7. "Apple Design Awards ceremony celebrates great iPhone, Mac apps". Macworld. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  8. "25th annual Editors' Choice Awards: the complete list". Macworld. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  9. "Macworld Best of Show 2009 awards". Ars Technica. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  10. "Cloud Sync Beta for iOS". Cultured Code. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  11. "Things 2.0 and Things Cloud Available". Cultured Code. Retrieved 2012-08-09.
  12. "Things Cloud "Nimbus" Released". Cultured Code. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  13. "Things Cloud and Local Push". Cultured Code. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
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