No, Things 3 does not work on Windows. There is no Windows app, no web version, and no official plan for either. Things 3 runs only on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. Windows users need either Cultured Code's email workaround, Mail to Things, or a Things 3 alternative built for Windows.

Why there is no Windows version

This is not an oversight or a "coming soon" situation. Cultured Code, the company behind Things, builds exclusively for Apple platforms and has said so consistently for years. The app is written with Apple's native frameworks, which is a big part of why it feels so polished on a Mac and also why it cannot simply be ported to Windows.

That position has not changed since Things launched in 2008. If your setup includes a Windows PC, waiting for an official port is not a strategy.

The official workaround: Mail to Things

Cultured Code does offer one sanctioned way to interact with Things from a Windows machine: Mail to Things, introduced in Things 3.3 back in 2017. Here is how it works:

  • You enable Mail to Things in your Things Cloud settings.
  • Things Cloud assigns you a private email address.
  • Any email sent to that address becomes a to-do in your Things Inbox, with the subject line as the task title and the email body as a note.

So from your Windows PC at work, you can send an email and the task will be waiting in your Inbox the next time you open Things on your iPhone or Mac. Anything that can send email can create a task, which is genuinely clever.

Why Mail to Things is not enough

Mail to Things solves exactly one of GTD's five steps: capture. Everything else still requires an Apple device in your hands.

On your Windows PC you cannot:

  • See your task list. There is no way to view Today, Upcoming, or any project. You are sending tasks into a box you cannot open.
  • Check anything off. Finished a task at your desk? You will need to pick up your phone to mark it done.
  • Process your Inbox. Clarifying and organizing, the heart of GTD, stay locked to your Apple devices.
  • Plan your day. The Today list, the whole point of the system during work hours, is invisible on the machine you work on.

If you spend eight hours a day at a Windows machine, this means your task manager is effectively offline during the exact hours you do your tasks. Most people end up keeping a text file or sticky notes on the PC, which quietly becomes a second, untrusted system. That is the failure mode GTD explicitly warns about: the moment you stop trusting one system to hold everything, the whole method degrades.

Workarounds people try, and why they disappoint

Keeping an iPhone or iPad on the desk

Workable, but you are managing your day on a 6-inch screen while a 27-inch monitor sits in front of you. Fine for checking tasks off, painful for planning a project or doing a weekly review.

Remote access to a Mac at home

Some people remote into a Mac just to use Things. It works in the same way that mailing yourself a letter works: technically, slowly, and with enough friction that you eventually stop.

Waiting for a web version

Cultured Code has never announced one. Given the company's Apple-only philosophy and its track record of long, deliberate release cycles, planning your workflow around a hypothetical web app is a bet with no odds published.

Should you switch, or is the workaround enough?

Be honest about how much of your day happens on the PC, because that answers the question for you.

Stay with Things 3 and Mail to Things if the Windows machine is genuinely secondary: a locked-down work laptop you use a few hours a week, while your real planning happens on a Mac at home. Capture-by-email covers the gap, and you keep an app you already paid for and like. There is no prize for switching tools you did not need to switch.

Switch if the Windows PC is where you work. The test is simple: count how many times per day you would need to see your Today list on the PC. If the answer is "constantly", no capture-only bridge will save the system. GTD's payoff comes from consulting your lists at the moment of choosing what to do next, and that moment happens at your desk, on Windows, dozens of times a day.

There is also a quieter cost to the hybrid setup: every glance at your phone to check a task is an invitation to check everything else on your phone. Keeping the task list on the work machine keeps the work machine in charge.

What to do instead

The honest answer is that Windows users who want the Things 3 experience need an app that implements the same workflow natively on Windows. The parts of Things 3 worth wanting are not Apple exclusives; they are a design philosophy:

  • An Inbox where everything lands before you decide what it is
  • Today and Upcoming views that separate "now" from "scheduled"
  • A Someday list for ideas you are not ready to commit to
  • Projects that break big outcomes into next actions
  • A Logbook that archives what you finished

That structure is what Organized3 implements, as a free native app on Windows, with sync to Android and iOS. Your Today list lives on the machine where your workday happens, and capture on your phone still works when you are away from the desk.

Comparing options? See the full feature-by-feature comparison on our Things 3 alternative for Windows page, or the Android version if you left the iPhone behind too.

And if you already have years of tasks in Things 3, moving is less work than it sounds. We wrote a separate step-by-step guide: How to migrate from Things 3 to a cross-platform task manager.

The bottom line

Things 3 does not work on Windows, will not work on Windows, and the official workaround only covers capture. If Windows is a minor character in your day, Mail to Things papers over the gap well enough. If Windows is where your work happens, the fix is not a bridge to an Apple app; it is a task manager that treats your PC as a first-class citizen. The workflow that made Things 3 famous is portable even though the app is not.

FAQ

Is Things 3 available for Windows?

No. Things 3 runs only on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. There is no Windows app and Cultured Code, which develops exclusively for Apple platforms, has announced no plans for one.

Is there a web version of Things 3?

No. Things Cloud syncs data between Apple devices, but there is no browser interface for viewing or managing your tasks, so a PC cannot access your Things library at all.

What is Mail to Things?

Mail to Things is an official Things Cloud feature that gives you a private email address; emails sent to it become to-dos in your Things Inbox. It lets a Windows PC capture tasks, but not view, complete, or organize them.

What is the best Things 3 alternative for Windows?

Organized3 is built specifically as a Things 3 alternative for Windows: the same Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Someday, Projects, and Logbook structure as a free native Windows app, with sync to Android and iOS.