Comparison

Life Lists vs CheckScroll Checklists

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

Head to head
About

Life Lists

This super organizer helps manage checklists, notes, habits, groceries, and budgets with an AI assistant. It offers automatic sorting for groceries, gentle habit reminders, and tools like timers and focus modes. Folders and a daily overview keep everything tidy and accessible across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • AI-powered list creation and organization
  • Automatic grocery sorting by aisle
  • Habit tracking with streaks and reminders
  • Comprehensive note-taking and journaling
  • Budget management and pro/con lists
  • Cross-device syncing with iCloud
  • Customizable folders and visual themes
Features
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Life Lists is the super organizer with a place for everything: checklists, notes, habits, groceries, budgets and more — with an assistant right under your lists that adds, answers and keeps it all tidy. EVERY KIND OF LIST • Checklists, prioritized and numbered lists, lists with sections • Groceries that sort themselves by aisle: add "apples" and it lands in Produce • Habits with streaks and gentle reminders • Reminders with due dates, repeats and subtasks • Notes, notebooks, a journal and stickies • Budgets that add themselves up, weighted pro/con lists, side-by-side comparisons • Packing lists with to-buy / have / packed statuses • People lists for birthdays and the details worth remembering • Photo albums, counters and a breathing timer • Tools beside your lists: timer, stopwatch, alarms, focus mode, voice memos and meeting notes AN AMAZING ORGANIZER • Folders for every part of your life — Home, Health, Family, Work — and folders within folders • Your day at a glance above your lists: what's due, what's late, your habits and the weather • Star an item to see it in Important; everything with a date shows in Upcoming • Search, sort, reset a checklist to do it again, archive a list to keep a record • Pin a list to open the app on it • 500+ icons and colors, unlimited lists, no ads AN ASSISTANT ON YOUR LISTS • Ask or add anything from the bar under your lists: "add milk and eggs", "what's left to pack?", "remind me Friday at 9" • Tap the mic and just say it • Ask a question and the answer becomes something you keep — a checklist, a budget, a pro/con list, habits — filed in the right folder • Snap a photo of a listing or a receipt and get the answer it implies: is it a good deal? how do we split it? • Organize automatically tidies as you go; every change is one tap to undo THE BEST GROCERY APP • Auto-section: every item lands in the right aisle • Build your own catalog to make long lists in seconds • One list per store, and reset it to shop again EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, plus home screen widgets • Sync with iCloud and share a list with family and friends — or keep everything on your device YOUR DATA IS SAFE • Your lists live on your device and, if you choose, in your iCloud, secured by Apple • AI features send what you ask to our AI providers only after you allow it. Turn AI off anytime and Life Lists works as a classic list app.

About

CheckScroll Checklists

Easily create and manage checklists for various tasks, from business projects to home chores. Track completion status at a glance and share lists via email or print. Includes several useful templates for immediate use.

Highlights
  • Create, edit, and duplicate checklists
  • Track completion status
  • Add, edit, and rearrange items
  • Share lists via email
  • Print lists
  • Includes pre-made templates
Features
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Create checklists and track activities, project tasks, standard work items, process steps, study items, home tasks and lists, or anything requiring to make sure activities are completed. Your data is stored locally so no connection to internet is needed. You can share a checklist and completion status by email or by sending it to a printer. This FREE version includes a few useful checklist templates: - Business Meetings template - Air Travel Checklist template - Project Management template - Problem Solving template - Home Cleaning template Detailed list of Features: - Create, edit, and/or duplicate checklists - Delete checklists - Completion status of checklists at a glance (showing remaining items) - Add, edit, and delete items - Check/Uncheck items - Rearrange items in a list - Clear(uncheck) lists items - Share a list by email - Send list to a printer - Five (5) useful templates - You could use and reuse checklists easily Thanks for your support! Please leave us a good review if you like this free app. If you have comments or issues, please send us feedback to support@tasknotebook.com

Screenshots

Life Lists4 screens
CheckScroll Checklists4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Life Lists at weekly against CheckScroll Checklists's every 2 months. Life Lists also leads on ratings volume (1.8K vs 4). CheckScroll Checklists's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CheckScroll Checklists holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life Lists has 1.8K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Life Lists's written reviews are positive against 100% of CheckScroll Checklists's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life Lists ships an update weekly, CheckScroll Checklists every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Life Lists versus CheckScroll Checklists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife ListsCheckScroll Checklists
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.8K ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.8K — better4
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size142 MB7 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDG Apps, Inc.CLEAN LIGHT PHOTO AND DESIGN

Customer experience

Life Lists

All ratings1,826 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.9%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews130 reviews
Positive73.8%
Neutral11.5%
Negative14.6%

CheckScroll Checklists

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Life Lists

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Lists disappearing or getting corrupted
  • Inability to paste text into list items
  • Unexpected list item reordering
  • Crash when trying to create new lists

Requested features

5 requests
  • Recurring reminders or to-do items
  • Ability to sort lists manually
  • Cross-device syncing and sharing
  • Password protection for sensitive lists
  • iPad and landscape mode support

CheckScroll Checklists

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Life Lists

No in-app purchases

None

CheckScroll Checklists

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Life Lists free?
Life Lists is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CheckScroll Checklists free?
CheckScroll Checklists is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Life Lists or CheckScroll Checklists?
CheckScroll Checklists is rated higher. Life Lists averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while CheckScroll Checklists averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Life Lists or CheckScroll Checklists have ads?
Neither Life Lists nor CheckScroll Checklists shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Life Lists or CheckScroll Checklists?
Life Lists ships an update weekly, and CheckScroll Checklists every 2 months. Most recently, Life Lists was updated on November 1, 2026 and CheckScroll Checklists on November 3, 2026.

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