Comparison

Manageable vs Lists

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Manageable

Break down large goals into manageable steps with this hierarchical task manager. Organize projects into subtasks and view a flat, prioritized action list. Features include gesture-driven navigation, due dates, reminders, and cloud sync.

Highlights
  • Hierarchical task breakdown
  • Gesture-driven interface
  • Prioritization and reordering
  • Due dates and reminders
  • Cloud sync (IAP)
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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• Have a goal. Make it manageable. • Manageable helps you focus on the next task no matter how many projects you have to juggle at the same time. Start with your projects, goals or even dreams and split each one into steps required to complete it. Split each step further into lists of subtasks until you end up with simple actionable items. Manageable presents all your leaf items across your selected project as a flat prioritised action list, hiding complexity when you don't need it. Clutter-free hierarchical lists, a breeze to build and navigate with these features: • Clean gesture-driven interface • Reorder and prioritize in one gesture • Set due dates with reminders • Set reschedule interval for recurrent tasks • Efficient color-coding of your items • Two-tap navigation between your active projects • Search by multiple words or substrings • Sync application data across different devices via Cloud Sync (available as an IAP) • Import or share your project outlines • Export your ordered action lists • Backup data to file system or cloud • Home screen and Control Center widgets • Unlimited undo/redo Manageable offers three widgets: 1. Favorite Projects widget lists your most active projects, i.e. those you recently opened in Action view, exactly as you see in the Navigation view. 2. Actions widget is a list of next tasks in the project of your choice. You can have several Actions lists on your home-screen for different projects. 3. Tasks Due widget shows only the tasks with the nearest due dates before they actually become due. Gestures: ● In Task View • Pull down/up to add item • Hold and drag to reorder/prioritize • Swipe the title left for Action list • Swipe the title right to go to the top • Pull down with 2 fingers for import menu • Pull up with 2 fingers for export menu ● In Action view • Pull down to filter by priority ● Anywhere • Swipe item for menu • Tap and hold item to edit • Tap title for Navigation view, tap again to dismiss • Pinch out/in to switch wrapping of long task names on/off • Shake/3-finger tap to undo/redo

About

Lists

Organize thoughts, plan projects, and write notes with an intuitive outliner. Features multi-level outlining, rich text formatting, and an optional AI assistant for content generation and translation. Seamlessly syncs across devices and offers export options.

Highlights
  • Multi-level outlining
  • Rich-text formatting
  • Optional AI assistant
  • Seamless cross-device sync
  • Export to PDF, Word, HTML
  • Password protection for folders
Features
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Lists is a user-friendly app designed for everyone who enjoys simplicity when it comes to organizing thoughts, planning projects, making lists, and writing notes. Whether you're a writer, student, project manager, or anyone who consistently works on intricate tasks, our app will help boost your productivity and streamline your ideas. Main Key Features: - User-friendly Interface: Designed for easy use, Lists comes with an intuitive interface where you can navigate, make entries, and review your created outline with ease. - Multi-level Outlining: Lists allows creating notes with multiple levels of detail; you can drill down to as many sub-levels as you want. - Optional AI Assistant to generate content for lists, summaries, essays, translations, blog posts, poems, emails, songs, quizzes, tests, memos, recipes, and so much more. - Rich-text formatting: Bold, italic, underline, highlight, subscript/superscript, alignment, line and paragraph spacing, first-line indent, page breaks, footnotes, comments, text and paper color, etc. - Create unlimited notebooks, folders and nested subfolders. - Protect individually your folders/notebooks with a password, very useful for iPads with more than one user in office, classroom or home. - Seamless Sync: Syncs effortlessly across all your iOS devices, making your outlines available anytime, anywhere. - Customizable Themes: Personalize your experience with a variety of themes and make the space truly yours. - Integrated Search: Find specific information quickly and easily using our state-of-the-art search and filter feature. - Export & Import Options: Need your outlines in other formats? Export to PDF, Word, HTML, and more. You can also import data from other formats. Lists presents you with a canvas for your thoughts, providing the perfect platform to plot your narrative, plan your project, or just jot down your thoughts in a clear and concise way. If you so choose, the included AI Assistant can perform tasks for you: • Easily generate automatically lists, summaries, essays, blog posts, poems, emails, songs, quizzes, tests, memos, recipes, and so much more. • Ask anything to our smart AI assistant, it's got your answers. • Nail perfect writing with built-in spell checking and grammar fixes. • Boost your vocab with a killer dictionary full of definitions, synonyms, and antonyms. • Make your writing better by analyzing sentence structures with no sweat. • Use the handy translation feature which supports heaps of languages, solving any language issues. • Talk and write in over 50 languages with our handy assistant. • Spin up travel plans, recipes, step-by-step guides, quizzes, tests, memos, essays, histories, poems, you name it. • Speech Recognition: Talk or type, either way we have smooth conversations. Try Lists today to bring clarity to your thoughts and productivity to your day! Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ This app requires users to have a subscription to unlock all the features after a 3-day risk-free trial.

Screenshots

Manageable4 screens
Lists4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Manageable at 4.4 against Lists's 2.5. Manageable also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 2). Lists's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Manageable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lists sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Manageable holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Manageable has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Manageable's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lists's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Manageable ships an update every 6 months, Lists every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Manageable versus Lists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterManageableLists
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (11 ratings) — better2.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB248 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMu-sonicKairoos Solutions SL

Customer experience

Manageable

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral5.9%
Negative29.4%

Lists

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Manageable

One-time1
  • Cloud Sync$2.99
2 purchases

Lists

Subscriptions1
  • Unlock All including AI3 Days trial$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Outliner Lifetime Pro Upgrade$3.99

Questions

Is Manageable free?
Manageable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lists free?
Lists is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Manageable or Lists?
Manageable is rated higher. Manageable averages 4.4 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Lists averages 2.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Manageable or Lists have ads?
Neither Manageable nor Lists shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Manageable or Lists?
Manageable ships an update every 6 months, and Lists every 3 weeks. Most recently, Manageable was updated on September 9, 2026 and Lists on September 8, 2026.

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