Lists Manager vs Surely
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lists Manager
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With Lists Manager, you can create a list for whatever you want, from a shopping list to a to-do list, with a simple and beautiful UI. Just add a new list, add everything you need, and you're ready to go!
Surely
This app offers a streamlined approach to task management, focusing on completion rather than complex organization. It provides essential actions like completing, deleting, or deferring tasks, intentionally omitting features that might encourage procrastination.
- Complete tasks
- Delete tasks
- Defer tasks
- Minimalist interface
- Focus on task completion
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Most todo apps give you lots of features to organize your todos. But you don't want to be spending time organizing your todos: you want to be completing them. Surely is a focused todo app giving you just the features you need to get your todos done. There are only three things you can do with a todo: * Complete it * Delete it * Defer it Here are all the features Surely doesn't have because they encourage you to keep more todos instead of completing them: * Separate defer dates and due dates * Complex ways of searching for todos * Separate lists of todos so you aren't looking at all of them at once * Bulk defer features. It should not be painless to defer many todos to the future; it should be painful to work with multiple todos so that you complete or delete them Surely is available for free on both iOS and the web.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Surely at none against Lists Manager's 3. Surely also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Lists Manager sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Surely asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lists Manager ships an update every 2 months, Surely every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lists Manager | Surely |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shahar Melamed | Josh Justice |
In-app purchases
Lists Manager
- A Cup of Coffee$0.99
- A Sandwich$1.99
- A Meal$2.99
Surely
No in-app purchases









