Comparison

LogBooklet vs SimpleList

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

Head to head
About

LogBooklet

This app allows you to journal your thoughts, ideas, and events with automatic timestamps and location data. Organize entries into topic-based booklets and easily search your history to recall when and where your thoughts originated. Entries can be edited and exported as plain text files.

Highlights
  • Time and location stamping for entries
  • Organize entries into topic-based booklets
  • Searchable entry history
  • Editable entry data
  • Export entries as Markdown text files
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
Read full description

LogBooklet is a journal that notes the time and the place for you. Open a booklet, type a line, and send it. The entry keeps its date, its time, and where you were. Keep as many booklets as you like. One for work, one for meals, one for the trip, one for the thing you keep meaning to track. The list shows each booklet's latest entry and how many entries it holds. WRITE IT DOWN FAST - Type in the field at the bottom of a booklet and send with one tap. - Save what you log often as a snippet. A tap logs it, or inserts it into what you are typing if you prefer. A snippet can belong to one booklet or be offered in all of them. - Text you typed but did not send stays in that booklet as a draft and syncs to your other devices. SEE WHEN AND WHERE - Each entry records the date, the time, and your coordinates if you allow location access. - A booklet can show how long ago each entry was and how much time passed between two entries. - Search the entries of a booklet. - Change an entry later. Edit its text, its time, or its place on a map, or move it to another booklet. APPLE WATCH - Create a booklet, write an entry, or log a snippet from your wrist. - The watch app works without your iPhone. It saves offline and syncs through iCloud. - Put Quick Entry, Booklet Summary, or Log Snippet on your watch face or in the Smart Stack. - Double Tap sends an entry or logs a snippet on supported models, and a control fits the Action button on Apple Watch Ultra. - Start on the watch and finish on iPhone or iPad with Handoff. WIDGETS AND CONTROLS - Five widgets for iPhone and iPad. Quick Entry, Booklet Summary, Log Snippet, Booklets, and Recent Entries. Several come in Lock Screen sizes. - New Entry, Open Booklet, and Log Snippet for Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the iPhone Action button. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS - Say "Log in Food with LogBooklet" or "What is my last entry in Food in LogBooklet". - The Shortcuts app has an action for everything the app does. Log and edit entries, manage booklets and snippets, read and write drafts, export a booklet. Actions run without opening the app, so they work in automations. - Give a booklet a Siri name when its title is an emoji. SHARE SHEET - Save text and web links from other apps into a booklet without leaving the app you are in. YOUR DATA - Entries are stored on your device and sync between your devices through your private iCloud account. - No account, no purchases, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. The app uses Apple frameworks only and never connects to a server run by the developer. - Export any booklet as a Markdown file.

About

SimpleList

Read full description

In a world filled with list apps—ToDo lists, shopping lists, and more—there's no shortage of wonderful features that make these apps incredibly useful. But do you really use all those features? This app keeps it simple, both in functionality and design. ・Add items and display them in a list. ・You can tag each item with up to three tags. ・Swipe right to archive and keep a history. ・Swipe left to delete items you no longer need. I・tems in the history are automatically deleted after about a month. Need a reminder feature? Isn't setting a timer every time cumbersome? Want more types of tags? Isn't deciding and managing what each tag means too much hassle? There's freedom in limitations. While this app may have limited features, it doesn't limit how you use it. Feel free to give it a try.

Screenshots

LogBooklet4 screens
SimpleList4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: LogBooklet at 3 against SimpleList's —. SimpleList's advantage is iOS requirement (16.1 vs 27.0). On price 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LogBooklet versus SimpleList: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLogBookletSimpleList
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better—
Requires iOS27.016.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeon EckShuta Uto

In-app purchases

None

LogBooklet

No in-app purchases

None

SimpleList

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LogBooklet free?
LogBooklet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SimpleList free?
SimpleList is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Other comparisons