Stay on Things 3 if
Every device you own is Apple, the app is fast and quiet, and your Areas already keep the studio, the house and your health apart without splitting them into two apps. Of these tools, that is the closest thing to a life domain.
Comparison
Equilibrition vs Things 3
Things 3 is probably the best-drawn task list in existence, and its Areas already hold work and personal life side by side. Equilibrition shares that taste for calm, then goes on to project context and a read on your time.
Straight answer
Things 3 or Equilibrition?
Things 3 stays the right call if you live on a Mac and an iPhone, and if the craft of the app is part of why you actually use it. Equilibrition becomes the right call when your client projects need more than a well-kept list.
Look at Equilibrition if
You sometimes work on a machine that is not yours, your client projects drag decisions and call write-ups behind them, and you want to know what your week actually gave to each domain.
What breaks
Where Things 3 stops when you work alone
None of this is a flaw in Things 3. These are three places where an independent — someone with no border between work and personal life — ends up doing the joining by hand.
Areas sort, they do not measure
You can keep Business, House and Health cleanly apart. Nothing then tells you which one ate your evenings, or what the family really got.
A client project does not fit in a list
Decisions, call notes, resources, versions: in Things the note on a task is a text field, and everything else lives elsewhere.
Today knows nothing about your hours
Today shows what you decided to do, not what fits between two meetings. There is no duration, so there is no trade-off either.
Table
Criterion by criterion
The four criteria that come up most often when someone compares Things 3 and Equilibrition.
Work and personal life in one place
Things 3 — Areas: a real grouping, and the closest of these tools to a life domain.
Equilibrition — Life domains, plus a report on the time each one took.
Context of a client project
Things 3 — A project, its tasks, and short notes.
Equilibrition — Project, notes, decisions and resources linked to every task.
Which devices
Things 3 — Mac, iPhone and iPad only.
Equilibrition — A web app, including on a machine that is not yours.
Context for AI
Things 3 — Retyped by hand in every conversation.
Equilibrition — Structured project context, ready to hand to Claude or ChatGPT.
| Criterion | Things 3 | Equilibrition |
|---|---|---|
| Work and personal life in one place | Areas: a real grouping, and the closest of these tools to a life domain. | Life domains, plus a report on the time each one took. |
| Context of a client project | A project, its tasks, and short notes. | Project, notes, decisions and resources linked to every task. |
| Which devices | Mac, iPhone and iPad only. | A web app, including on a machine that is not yours. |
| Context for AI | Retyped by hand in every conversation. | Structured project context, ready to hand to Claude or ChatGPT. |