Criticks vs The Later List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Criticks
This app consolidates your entertainment tracking, allowing you to review and share what you're watching, reading, and enjoying with friends. Discover new content through your social circle and create personalized lists of your favorites.
- Social feed of friends' activity
- Track movies, TV shows, and books
- Create and share custom lists
- Leave reviews and ratings
- Discover trending content
- Personalized recommendations
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Criticks is the social hub for everything you’re watching, reading, and loving. Tired of using multiple apps to track movies, shows, and books—and getting recommendations from strangers? Criticks brings it all together, with a home feed built around your friends and what they’re into. Create and share lists. Leave reviews. See what’s trending in your circle. Whether it’s a hidden gem or your next binge, Criticks helps you discover through people you trust. Track it. Rate it. Share it. All in one place. Movies, TV, books, and more to come. Criticks is for what makes you tick.
The Later List
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The Later List is a calm, private home for everything you mean to watch or read. Recommendations arrive all the time. A film a friend loved, a show a coworker swears by, a book from a podcast, and then they slip away. The Later List catches each one in seconds and keeps it somewhere you'll actually look. CAPTURE IN SECONDS Search movies, TV, and books and add with a tap. Covers, year, runtime, seasons, page count, and a synopsis are filled in for you. Note who recommended it, so you remember why it's there. DECIDE WHAT'S NEXT Some evenings the hardest part is choosing. "Pick something for me" asks how much time you have and what you're in the mood for, then suggests the right thing to start tonight. A GENTLE SENSE OF PROGRESS Mark things Want, Watching or Reading, and Watched or Read. Browse everything you've finished, and see at a glance what's left to clear. MADE TO FEEL GOOD Choose your look: a warm, handwritten paper notebook, or a wall of cover art. No feed, no likes, no social, no ads. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your list stays on your device and in your own private iCloud, so it's safe if you reinstall or switch phones. Nothing is collected, nothing is tracked. Free to use. Movie & TV data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Book data from Google Books.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Criticks at none against The Later List's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. The Later List sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Criticks asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Criticks | The Later List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (48 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | criticks LLC | Defcon-App |
Bugs and requests
Criticks
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to randomly choose a movie based on interests
- More features to roll out
- Add books, video games, and podcasts
The Later List
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Criticks
No in-app purchases
The Later List
- One coffee$3.99
- Two coffees$7.99
- Three coffees$12.99









