Make a List! vs Pon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Make a List!
Create and share unlimited lists with friends and family. Automatically syncs across all your iOS devices and Mac. Supports audio notes, pictures, and due dates for enhanced organization.
- Unlimited list creation
- List sharing
- Push notifications
- Audio and picture attachments
- Due dates
- Cross-device synchronization
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Fast and easy way to create FREE unlimited lists to share with your friends and family! "Make a List!" automatically synchronises all your lists with all your iOS devices and Mac (app on Mac App Store). Key features: • Push Notifications • List sharing • Audio notes attachment • Picture attachment • Highlighted text • Marked item • Export list • Print list • Comments • Due dates Data synchronisation requires iCloud Drive enabled. For feedback or suggestions write to info@makealist.net
Pon
Easily track member attendance for various activities like meetings, classes, or events. Record presence or absence with simple one-tap operations and customize status categories. Supports 15 languages for global usability.
- Group and member registration
- One-tap attendance recording
- Customizable attendance status categories
- Event-based attendance management
- Multilingual support (15 languages)
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This is an app to manage the members' attendance. You can record and keep track of your members' attendance status ("present" or "absent") with simple operations. This app can be used for a wide range of purposes, including attendance management for meetings, classes, events, money collection, duty assignment, etc. *** Group *** You can register a name and members for the group. You can see the attendance of the members registered for each event in a tabular format. *** Event *** You can manage each event related to the group. By touching a member's name on the screen, the attendance status of that member changes. You can take attendance with just one tap on a member. *** Category *** You can set the category of the member's attendance status. In addition to ”present" and "absent", you can add your own categories such as "late", "remote", and "planned". *** Language *** This app supports 15 languages: English, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Thai and Vietnamese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Make a List! at 4.6 against Pon's 2.5. Make a List! also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 2). Pon's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (76% vs 66%). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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
Both are free to download. Make a List! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pon asks for nothing beyond the download.
Make a List! holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Make a List! has 1.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Make a List!'s written reviews are positive against 76% of Pon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Make a List! ships an update every 2 weeks, Pon every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Make a List! | Pon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.7K ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.2% of reviews | 76.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filippo Maguolo | Sohta Itoh |
Customer experience
Make a List!
Pon
Bugs and requests
Make a List!
Reported bugs
6 issues- Items randomly disappearing from lists
- Duplicate lists being created
- Inability to view new list entries
- Reordering lists not working as expected
- Syncing issues between devices
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- Compatibility problems with Apple Watch
Requested features
7 requests- Add alarm functionality
- Allow sub-tasks within lists
- Improve list sorting and reordering
- Provide a way to delete entire lists
- Remember previously added items to avoid retyping
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- Add more color and icon options
- Improve Apple Watch integration and complications
Pon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Make a List!
- Remove Ads$3.99
Pon
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Make a List! free?
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