Sending it isn’t finishing it.

Waiting On

Out of your hands.
Still on your list.

A sent email isn’t always a finished task. Hand something off without losing sight of it — Thingist asks who has it, dates it the moment you say so, and then leaves you alone until you ask.

No mainstream to-do list has this. Things doesn’t. TickTick doesn’t. Motion doesn’t. Todoist makes you build it yourself out of labels and filters.

Signed change order waiting on the Hendersons

Drag the row. Swiping right gives you Today, then Waiting On — and all eight actions are yours to assign to the four slots.

Who, and since when

Dated the moment you hand it over.

So the wait is a number you can point at, not a feeling that it has been a while. Group the list by person and one phone call clears four rows.

A chase, only if you want one

Off unless you turn it on.

Turn it on and Thingist plans one reminder about a day later — never before 8am or after 9pm, and skipping the weekend if that area says so. The task leaves Today while it is with them, and comes back when the reminder fires.

It goes amber before it nags

Two weeks and the row changes color.

At a month with no chase booked, a flag appears in the sidebar. Nothing moved, nothing rescheduled, nothing pinged — the app does not act just because it could.

Privacy, by construction

There is no server
to hack.

There is nowhere for your work to be sent, because nowhere was ever built to send it. That’s not a promise I’m making. It’s a description of what exists.

Your list lives on your devices and in your iCloud, which I can’t read. Turn iCloud off and it keeps working, entirely on the device.

An account to createNone

No sign-up, no password, nothing to lose.

Analytics or crash reportingNone

Nothing measures what you open, tap or finish.

Advertising identifiersNone

I can’t track you through Thingist. Period.

Any idea who you areNone

I don’t know how many people use Thingist, or whether you do.

Read the whole policy — it’s shorter than this page.

What it will never do

AI adds complexity.
Not simplicity.

AI does not run Thingist. Nothing reads your list, nothing ranks it, and nothing quietly rearranges your day while you’re sleeping. You wrote the list. It is still the list you wrote.

Typing a task is pattern matching — it reads the words, works offline, and is the same on every device Thingist runs on.

On iOS 26 and macOS 26, with Apple Intelligence switched on, Siri and the Mac quick-entry box take a second look at anything the plain reading could not place. Dates and times stay with the plain reading either way. It all happens on your device — nothing reaches me, and without Apple Intelligence the plain reading handles everything.

Some apps will rebuild your whole day around their own opinion. One calls itself an “AI SuperApp” and makes you use it. Some sell the AI by credits you can run out of. Some have changed what they charge more than once. That is the road many of them are on. Thingist is not joining them.

SuggestionsNone

Nothing reads your tasks or offers an opinion about them.

Automatic schedulingNone

Nothing moves a task to a different day on its own.

Priority scoringNone

Important is a switch you flip, not a number something works out for you.

Rewriting what you typedNone

The words on the row are the words you put there.

Messaging anyone for youNone

Waiting On records who has it. It never contacts a soul.

A monthly fee for any of itNone

Not now, not later, not for a feature you already have.

Where Apple Intelligence comes in, exactly

Siri, and the quick-entry box on the Mac — on iOS 26 and macOS 26, with Apple Intelligence on. A second look at whatever the plain reading could not place.

Dates and times never go near it. Those are read the plain way, always.

Dictation is separate. The microphone in the box is your device’s own speech recognition and works offline.

All of it happens on your device. None of it reaches me, and with Apple Intelligence off the plain reading does the lot.

Three devices, one purchase

Each one built
like it belongs there.

Not a phone app in a window. The Mac version has a real menu bar and shortcuts you assign yourself; the iPad version uses the whole screen. One payment covers all three, and everything syncs through your own iCloud.

Mac

A real Mac app

A menu bar, and keyboard shortcuts you assign yourself
Drag a task straight into Calendar
A Dock badge counting whichever list you choose
As many windows as you want open at once
⌘N opens the box inside Thingist
Record a key of your own with Control or Option in it, and capture from any app without Thingist coming to the front
Select text anywhere and right-click → Services → New Task in Thingist

iPad

The whole screen

The full sidebar — every area and project at once
Split View beside whatever you are reading
Full external keyboard support
Two windows of Thingist side by side

iPhone

In your hand, on site

Widgets for any list, and a Control Center button that can sit on the Lock Screen (iOS 18)
The Action Button opens the box, or files whatever you last copied
Send anything in from the share sheet
Swipe right to hand a job over

iOS 17 · macOS 14 · watchOS 10, and later And staying that way as long as I can. Dropping an old version is usually convenience, not necessity.

One payment

Pay once.
Then never again.

$24.95 once · iPhone, iPad and Mac · after a 14-day trial

Free to download, and 14 days with everything switched on. When the trial ends, adding and changing tasks stops. Your lists stay readable, searchable, backed up and exportable whether you buy or not — your work is never held hostage. Then $24.95, paid once. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel.

No tiers. Nothing held back for an upgrade. Everything added later is included, and there’s no version of Thingist that costs more than the one you already have.

Almost everyone else bills you every year, and the number is theirs to change. Todoist raised its Pro price in December 2025. Sunsama raised its in early 2026. Motion has repriced more than once and now meters its AI by credits.

What comparable task apps cost over five years
App	How it bills	Per year	Five years
Thingist	Once. All three platforms.	—	$24.95
Things 3	Once, but per platform — Mac $49.99, iPad $19.99, iPhone $9.99. Apple Watch included with iPhone	—	$79.97
TickTick Premium	Subscription	$35.99	$179.95
Todoist Pro	Subscription — raised December 2025	$60	$300
Sunsama Pro	Subscription — raised early 2026	$204	$1,020

US list prices, checked against each vendor’s own pages on 7 September 2026. Five-year totals assume today’s price holds — which for a subscription it has not. Thingist is billed once.

A trash, not a void

Thirty days to change your mind. Set it to 15, 60 or 90 if you would rather.

One widget, two lists

Split a single Home Screen widget between Today and Waiting On — then check things off right there. The app never has to open.

Projects show their progress

A ring beside the name fills as the steps get checked off. You can see where a job stands without opening it.

It backs itself up

Complete copies, on their own, into your own iCloud Drive — every task, area, template and setting. Restore the lot or only what is missing.

Views you build yourself

Any mix of areas, tags, timing and state, saved into the sidebar with its own name, symbol and color.

Family Sharing is on

One purchase covers your household, not just your devices. Nothing extra to buy for anyone else at home.

There is no account. I don’t know who you are, and I have no way to reach you. Once you have bought it there is no license check, no account, and no server that could take it away.

Not a policy. A fact about how it was built. Once you have it, it’s yours.

Out of your hands.Still on your list.