Zavala User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience87.7% of reviews
Neutral3.1% of reviews
Negative experience9.2% of reviews

~ Based on 65 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Zavala Safe?

Zavala appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Zavala is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 66 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

97.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 66 App Store ratings for Zavala.

Is Zavala Legit?

Zavala appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Zavala is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Awesome outliner

Everyone should have a good outliner. I’d been looking for a while, but hadn’t quite found the right option. This one is excellent.

I really enjoy this outliner

I really enjoy this app. A lot of care has gone into it, and it shows. Thank you!

Broken sync

The software itself is really great. Unfortunately, the app on my iPhone is at version 4.2.2 (169) whilst my Intel Mac is running MacOS Seqoia (15.7.1) and can only run Zavala version 3.3.10 (150). This throws an error that the iCloud database is incompatible. There are various installed software issues that mean I can’t readily upgrade this MacOS version right now without breaking a bunch of stuff.

It would be insanely great if you could continue releasing MacOS builds for older MacOS versions. Or, failing that, some sort of “legacy database version” option for the iOS apps to allow sync to continue to operate.
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simple yet FEATURE PACKED

this is the text app everyone needed from the start and only needed.
simple lightweight fast intuitive. everything you could want that nearly all the other apps out there overthought
THIS IS ALL ANYONE NEEDS for jotting down sortable thoughts❤️ 0 % BS🐮💚

Simply the best outlining app out there

Checks every box for me, 10-fold, on steroids. I know it may sound over-the-top to describe an outlining app this way, but in addition to the ADD mitigation features of the design of the app… the app is free forever. Even if the dev charged, it would be a one-time fee vs subscription model. Kudos and bravo to Mr. Parker for this labor of love. I’m so grateful I discovered this.
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Perfect!

Does exactly what I needed, was free, great UI, and no personal data collected. Only minor thing was naming the list. I kept trying to edit the file name by clicking on the name in the main list menu, but eventually figured out I needed to enter the name above the tags within the list itself. Absolutely perfect app!
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simple yet FEATURE PACKED

this is the text app everyone needed from the start and only needed.
simple lightweight fast intuitive. everything you could want that nearly all the other apps out there overthought
THIS IS ALL ANYONE NEEDS for jotting down sortable thoughts❤️

很好用,秒开、流畅且稳定

要是跨平台就更棒了

The first app I’ve written a review for in years

It’s deceptively simple, and perfectly elegant. Got me into outlining for the first time, and I’m surprised how much it resonates with me.

I love the app but am scared the developers abandoned us

Where is Liquid Glass update? It’s been a minute

Free and focused

May seem limited compared to payed for outliners, but it’s free, focused and efficient.
Will get you through everyday outlining needs easily. Still trying to figure out some things, but that’s more about me than the good effort delivered by the developer.

Wonderful app!

Thank you, developer, for creating this fantastic gem.

Simply Wonderful!

This is app is wonderful! I’m very happy I found it. Thank you, developer!

Great

Love it

Great Outliner

I won't bother repeating what everyone else has written here. It's a fantastic program. My old copy of Omni outliner won't run on modern OSes, and this was a perfect replacement for me. For my fairly simple needs, I can't think of a single thing I'd improve.

Solid

A very solid outliner that keeps improving thanks to the skill and commitment of the developer.

Outliner

Learning to appreciate the simplicity of using OPML file format. This app seems to work flawlessly.

Sehr schöne App, bisher allerdings noch einige Fehler

Teilweise noch etwas buggy (Abgleich über iCloud, Abstürze), aber sonst sehr schöne App!

Used to be great, but now it's too glitchy

Basic features just don't work anymore. When typing an outline you're unable to format anything using the toolbar unless you exit that outline and re open it.

Just lost an outline with 565 entries

I opened my outline after the update and it was empty. Seems there is no way to rollback the change.