Comparison

Trip Kitlist vs Trip Mate

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

Head to head
About

Trip Kitlist

Create and manage comprehensive lists for various activities like travel, work, or shopping. This app uniquely allows items to belong to multiple categories, ensuring changes are reflected everywhere. It synchronizes lists across your Apple devices via iCloud and offers Apple Watch integration.

Highlights
  • Multi-category item management
  • Item changes reflected across all categories
  • iCloud synchronization across Apple devices
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Customizable lists for any purpose
Features
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Kitlist allows you to maintain lists of kit that you may require for various activities, such as a vacation or a business trip. Kitlist can also be used for other lists, such as a TODO or shopping list. Kitlist differs from many other list handlers in that it supports a many-to-many relationship between items and categories, i.e. an item may be in many categories and a category can contain many items. The concept is that you maintain a full list of all items you may require for any activity. Items can optionally be grouped into categories, which may relate to specific trips, or simply be used to group items, e.g. items for hiking, cycling or horse-riding. Each item may be in multiple categories, so any changes to an item are immediately reflected in all categories that it belongs to. Items can be individually selected and copied to other categories. If you are signed into iCloud, lists are synchronized between your other iOS devices that are also signed into the same iCloud account. Lists on an iPhone are synchronized with any paired Apple Watch. If you are not signed into iCloud, the app will work on the single device and also synchronize with an Apple Watch. It cannot synchronize with other devices without being signed into iCloud. Tha app is available on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and macOS. The app is free and without ads.

About

Trip Mate

Features
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Second Innings built the Trip Mate for those who loves to travel and those who need to organise and showcase trip memories. A simple and powerful tool to organise, track and manage your trips. Easily plan your journey with this trip planner application. Additionally there are lots of features available for managing your trips. - Add new trips on the mytrip tab - Manage your expense with the help of built in trip expense calculator tool - Manage or update trips using trip calculator or road trip planner tool - Split expense equally or unequally among friends - Graphical representation of expense for user convenience - Add goals in trip - Share trip details as pdf - Add friends to your trips or follow other friends - Add trip mate or non trip mate friends - Watch friends or followers trips ( if they allowed ) - Get trip alerts of friends or your own trips - Add image/thumbnails to keep your trip memories - Allow permissions to your trip friend's to edit trip data - Best quality customer support - Feed back/ suggestion portal Let's plan your vacation journey with this awesome journey planning app. Besides these there are lots of upcoming features too. Also you can suggest feature, our users are always first priority! Go ahead and lets begin your trip with trip mate!

Screenshots

Trip Kitlist4 screens
Trip Mate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Trip Kitlist at none against Trip Mate's shown. Trip Mate's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trip Kitlist ships an update every 6 weeks, Trip Mate monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Trip Kitlist versus Trip Mate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrip KitlistTrip Mate
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrank DeanAlbin V J

In-app purchases

None

Trip Kitlist

No in-app purchases

None

Trip Mate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Trip Kitlist free?
Trip Kitlist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trip Mate free?
Trip Mate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Trip Kitlist or Trip Mate have ads?
Trip Mate shows ads; Trip Kitlist does not.
Which is updated more often, Trip Kitlist or Trip Mate?
Trip Kitlist ships an update every 6 weeks, and Trip Mate monthly. Most recently, Trip Kitlist was updated on October 26, 2026 and Trip Mate on October 27, 2026.

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