ShoppingList vs Basic Shopping List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShoppingList
Manage your shopping with ease on your iPhone or iPod touch. Create multiple lists, group items by category, add quantities and prices, and sync across devices. Features a barcode scanner for quick product entry.
- Create and manage multiple shopping lists
- Group products by category
- Add item quantities and prices
- Automatic sum calculation
- Dropbox synchronization
- Barcode scanner for product entry
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ShoppingList is the first and one of the most used shopping list apps for the iPhone. With ShoppingList you have your shopping list on your iPhone or iPod touch. So you can benefit of a multiplicity of advantages: • simply add, remove and rearrange the individual entries • group products by category • add amount (also nonstandard measurements) • add prices (ShoppingList automatically calculates the sum) • have as many lists as you want • comfortably choose from your recent and frequently used products • Dropbox sync: Lists are automatically synchronized between devices • Barcode scanner: products can be easily entered by scanning their barcode Have your shopping list always there, just like your iPhone or iPod, always ready when you come up with something, that you want to buy. ShoppingList is consequently designed for iPhone OS and focused on user-friendliness. So you can immediately use it, without having to study a manual. ShoppingList does not transfer any data to tracking services. Your data belongs to you!
Basic Shopping List
Easily create and manage your shopping lists. Quickly add common items with auto-complete and share your lists via SMS or email. Keep track of items already in your cart with a separate list.
- Create and manage shopping lists
- Share lists via SMS or email
- Auto-complete for common items
- Track items in shopping cart
- Reorder items
- Delete individual items
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A simple and easy to use shopping list to help on your everyday shopping. Features: - You can send the shopping list to someone else by SMS or e-mail. - Auto complete allows you to quickly add items common items. - Keeps a separate list with the items that you already have in your shopping cart. - You can delete individual items from both the shopping list and the shopping cart list. - Allows items to be reordered from both the shopping list and the shopping cart list.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Basic Shopping List at Free against ShoppingList's $0.99. Basic Shopping List also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). ShoppingList's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (32 vs 6). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Basic Shopping List is free to download; ShoppingList costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Basic Shopping List holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShoppingList has 32 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of ShoppingList's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basic Shopping List's.
ShoppingList ships an update fortnightly, Basic Shopping List every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShoppingList | Basic Shopping List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (32 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pecora GmbH | Bruno Ferreira |
Customer experience
ShoppingList
Basic Shopping List
In-app purchases
ShoppingList
No in-app purchases
Basic Shopping List
No in-app purchases
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