Things vs Toggl Track
Things and Toggl Track are both productivity options. Here's how they compare on official platforms, features, and positioning — sourced from each vendor's own site, not from ratings or reviews.
Side-by-side summary
Best for Things
Positioned for individuals on Apple devices who want a single, elegantly designed app for organizing personal tasks, projects, and life areas without a subscription.
Best for Toggl Track
Positioned for teams of any size that need to track billable hours, project profitability, and productivity, with an open API and 100+ integrations including Jira, Salesforce, and Asana.
Feature comparison
Every feature listed here comes directly from each vendor's own official site.
Things
- Projects for organizing related tasks and Areas for grouping ongoing responsibilities
- Tags for flexible, cross-project organization
- Today and Upcoming views for daily and future planning
- Reminders and calendar integration for scheduling
- Markdown support in project and task notes
- Native Shortcuts app integration
- Keyboard shortcuts for fast entry and navigation
Toggl Track
- One-click timer across web, desktop, mobile, and browser extension
- Background activity tracking that converts app and website usage into time entries
- Calendar view with the ability to import calendar events
- Customizable profitability and productivity reports
- Workload analysis dashboards
- Project- and client-specific financial tracking
- Timesheet reports with approval workflows
- 100+ integrations plus an open API
Pros and cons
Things
- Projects for organizing related tasks and Areas for grouping ongoing responsibilities
- Tags for flexible, cross-project organization
- Today and Upcoming views for daily and future planning
- Reminders and calendar integration for scheduling
- Markdown support in project and task notes
- Native Shortcuts app integration
- Keyboard shortcuts for fast entry and navigation
We don't publish a "cons" list for either product. No vendor's official site documents its own product's weaknesses, so there's no sourced basis for one — and we'd rather say that plainly than invent one.
Toggl Track
- One-click timer across web, desktop, mobile, and browser extension
- Background activity tracking that converts app and website usage into time entries
- Calendar view with the ability to import calendar events
- Customizable profitability and productivity reports
- Workload analysis dashboards
- Project- and client-specific financial tracking
- Timesheet reports with approval workflows
- 100+ integrations plus an open API
We don't publish a "cons" list for either product. No vendor's official site documents its own product's weaknesses, so there's no sourced basis for one — and we'd rather say that plainly than invent one.
Key differences
- Things lists Projects for organizing related tasks and Areas for grouping ongoing responsibilities, Tags for flexible, cross-project organization, Today and Upcoming views for daily and future planning, Reminders and calendar integration for scheduling, Markdown support in project and task notes, Native Shortcuts app integration, Keyboard shortcuts for fast entry and navigation that Toggl Track doesn't list.
- Toggl Track lists One-click timer across web, desktop, mobile, and browser extension, Background activity tracking that converts app and website usage into time entries, Calendar view with the ability to import calendar events, Customizable profitability and productivity reports, Workload analysis dashboards, Project- and client-specific financial tracking, Timesheet reports with approval workflows, 100+ integrations plus an open API that Things doesn't list.
- Things supports iPadOS, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, which Toggl Track doesn't list.
- Toggl Track supports Web, Windows, Android, Browser extension, which Things doesn't list.
Choose Things if…
Choose Things if this fits: Positioned for individuals on Apple devices who want a single, elegantly designed app for organizing personal tasks, projects, and life areas without a subscription.
Choose Toggl Track if…
Choose Toggl Track if this fits: Positioned for teams of any size that need to track billable hours, project profitability, and productivity, with an open API and 100+ integrations including Jira, Salesforce, and Asana.
Facts on this page are sourced from each vendor's official site (linked below), not from ratings or reviews. Products change — verify anything that matters to your decision directly on the vendor's own site before switching. See our Disclaimer and Sources Policy.
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