CaddyChat vs Mi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
CaddyChat
Create and manage shopping lists easily on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Organize items by how you shop and collaborate with others. Enjoy a private, secure, and ad-free experience with optional premium features.
- Create shopping lists from article catalog
- Organize articles by shopping route
- Collaborative list creation
- Notifications for spontaneous wishes
- Private, secure, and ad-free
- Syncs across iPhone and Apple Watch
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Shopping lists always with you Your shopping lists on iPhone and Apple Watch. Quick and easy You create shopping lists from your article catalog. Go shopping relaxed You have everything you need in view. Better every time Your article catalog learns your articles. Shopping without detours Sort your articles the way as you shop them. Create shopping lists together For your home, traveling, events and more. Fulfill spontaneous wishes Your shopping lists notify you. Private, secure and without advertising No analysis of your shopping lists and no disclosure to third parties. Some functions require CaddyChat Premium and free space in your iCloud. CaddyChat Premium updates your shopping lists on your devices, lets you share shopping lists and chat. You can test CaddyChat Premium for 14 days free of charge. CaddyChat is available for iPhone, Apple Watch, iPod touch and iPad.
Mi
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Your smart and always available shopping list. With Mi-Papelito you create your smart, always available shopping list. You always need a shopping list! With Mi-Papelito you have your shopping list on your cell phone and your Apple Watch. What does Mi-Papelito do for you? Mi-Papelito organizes and optimizes your shopping intelligently. You plan what you need and where to get it. Mi-Papelito is intelligent and learns the items you buy regularly. With each new planning you feed Mi-Papelito with your needed items and the stores where you can buy them. In this way, you create a shopping list for you and your family that you won't want to miss, that you won't have to throw away and, above all, that you won't have to rewrite over and over again. Mi-Papelito learns at what intervals you buy certain items, and highlights items that are needed again for your future purchase decisions. If you allow it, Mi-Papelito will remind you that you still wanted to buy something as soon as you are near the store in question.β¨For each item, feel free to save several stores where you can buy that item. Assign a category to each item, for example "Fruit & Vegetables", "Cheese counter" or "Sanitary". The next time you shop, Mi-Papelito will sort your items by category. For example, if you're in the vegetable section, you'll see everything you wanted to buy in the fruit & vegetable section. You can save your own pictures to the articles. So you know which are the "right noodlesβ. Mi-Papelito offers you the possibility to create several independent lists. With Mi-Papelito you can also do the shopping of your flatmates, parents, grandparents and friends. Create a person in Mi-Papelito, which you can link with your contacts. You can then add items to this person's shopping list. Do you use multiple iOS devices? Then you can install Mi-Papelito on all your devices and synchronize the data of your shopping list via iCloud. Want to share your list with boyfriend/girlfriend, wife/husband, daughter/son to work with the list together? With Mi-Papelito you can invite people to collaborate with your list that you are used to with Apple. Mi-Papelito doesn't share any data, you don't have to register anywhere to use Mi-Papelito. Mi-Papelito also does not collect data for advertising purposes and does not display ads. Versionen Mi-Papelito This is the free basic version. All functions up to a maximum number of entries are possible. You can manage 2 shopping lists and a total of 50 articles. On a list for a purchase can be at most 5 articles. You can synchronize the Mi-Papelito data on your devices via iCloud, you can also share your lists with your family or friends. Mi-Papelito Pro With Mi-Papelito Pro you can create as many lists, items and shopping lists as you want. We offer you Mi.Papelito Pro in subscription. The subscription is renewed automatically, you can cancel it at any time in the App Store. The subscription costs: 2,99 β¬ for 6 month, 4,99 β¬ for 12 month. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CaddyChat at weekly against Mi's every 12 months. CaddyChat also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CaddyChat sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year and Mi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CaddyChat ships an update weekly, Mi every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and May 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CaddyChat | Mi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly β better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | β |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 17.6 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ralf Peters | Andreas Herzig |
In-app purchases
CaddyChat
- Premium$3.991 Year
Mi
- Mi-Papelito Pro 6M$2.996 Months
- Mi-Papelito Pro 1$3.991 Year









