Walling vs Check Mate EX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Walling
Capture and organize all your daily ideas, notes, and discoveries in one visual space. Save anything from text and links to images and files, and easily find them later with powerful search and pinning features.
- Capture notes, links, images, files
- Organize with visual boards
- Pin important ideas
- Instant search functionality
- Dark mode support
- Save online and offline discoveries
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Walling is your to-go app to to capture ideas on a daily basis. It’s your visual space to spill over your daily notes, bookmarks, inspiration images, highlights from a book or any online and offline discoveries you want to save. - Capture everything: Notes, links, images, files, checklists, bulleted lists and more! - Time travel: View all the ideas you saved in the past or add a note for the future. - Pin: Pin important notes and ideas to quickly access them. - Search: Find anything you saved to Walling, instantly. - Dark mode: Reduce eye strain, extend battery life or just because dark mode looks cool! Ideas can strike at any time! Whether you're at your desk or on the go, Walling is here to help you jot down and organize ideas. Terms & Privacy: https://walling.app/terms-and-privacy
Check Mate EX
Create and reuse custom checklists for recurring tasks like camping trips. Organize items alphabetically or manually. Data syncs across devices, even offline.
- Create reusable checklists
- Manual item arrangement
- Alphabetical sorting
- Offline data sync
- Cross-device synchronization
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There are a lot of todo apps available to help you remember to “Buy a new tent”. But what do you use when you need a checklist to reuse for every time you go camping? Check Mate EX was designed to make this easy and even fun. It allows you to define a checklist and reuse it as many times as you wish. It also puts you in control of how you use your list. Want to sort your items alphabetically, no problem. Want to manually arrange your list, Check Mate EX has got you covered. Check Mate EX syncs your data across all of your devices - even after you have been offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Walling at 4.7 against Check Mate EX's 3.7. Walling also leads on ratings volume (323 vs 3) and update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). Check Mate EX's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 63%). 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
Both are free to download. Walling sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $59.99 per year and Check Mate EX sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Walling holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walling has 323 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Walling's written reviews are positive against 100% of Check Mate EX's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Walling ships an update every 6 days, Check Mate EX monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 4, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Walling | Check Mate EX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (323 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 323 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Walling Software Inc. | Logical Software Solutions LLC |
Customer experience
Walling
Check Mate EX
Bugs and requests
Walling
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login and authentication problems
- Disappearing or jumbled list items
- Slow loading and crashes on certain devices
- Inability to edit folder/section titles
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to copy/move content in bulk
- Support for Apple Pencil and handwriting
- Improved search and filtering capabilities
- Integration with calendars and task management
- Expanded template and customization options
Check Mate EX
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Walling
- Walling Yearly Premium$59.991 Year
Check Mate EX
- Check Mate EX$1.99
