Comparison

Checklists vs PriorityWise

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

Head to head
About

Checklists

Create and manage various types of lists, from shopping to to-do, with a focus on simplicity and speed. This app offers an intuitive interface for everyday tasks, with features like quick item addition, search, and customizable themes. Share or archive your lists easily.

Highlights
  • Tap to mark items complete
  • Quickly add items from history
  • Search for items in lists
  • Customizable themes and text size
  • Share or archive lists
  • Shake to delete completed items
  • Organize items into categories
Features
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Create lists for all kinds of purposes with this simple but versatile application. You can use it for creating shopping lists, to do lists, gift lists etc. The application focuses on simplicity, speed, and ease of use minimizing the number of taps needed to perform the most common tasks. The user interface is clean and intuitive without unnecessary clutter on the screen. The application is not intended for complex project and task management purposes, which makes it the right tool for managing everyday tasks. Features: • Just tap on an item to mark it completed, no need to hit small buttons. • Quickly add items to the current list from a database of previously used items by checking them from a list. • Use search to quickly find items in long lists or add them to the current list from the database of previously used items. • Select one of the three included themes and adjust the text size to suit your needs. • Share or archive lists via email. • Simply shake the device to delete completed items with vibration feedback. • Supports two lists of ten active items each in the free version, unlock unlimited lists with a one-time in-app purchase. Per-list features: • Create and arrange categories freely to suit your needs, e.g. to arrange items by aisles in a supermarket. • Sort the items automatically or manually within categories. • Completed items can be automatically moved to the bottom of the list or left where they are. • Show or hide the category titles to see as many items as possible at a glance. • View the list in landscape or portrait mode depending on the orientation of the device, or lock the list to portrait mode. • Select whether the incomplete items in the list are included in the application icon badge or not. • Enable or disable the shaking gesture.

About

PriorityWise

This app helps you focus on what truly matters by tracking your progress on important life areas and long-term goals. It visualizes your efforts, highlighting neglected areas and ensuring your actions align with your priorities.

Highlights
  • Define and track important life areas
  • Progress tracking for long-term goals
  • Record work on items, not just completion
  • Visualize effort distribution
  • Identify neglected areas
  • Set and monitor priorities
  • Hierarchical task lists
Features
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Time is precious, spend it working on the most important things... There are a million to-do lists and task managers in the App Store. PriorityWise is unique and better than others in many ways. Read on to find out how. • PriorityWise is designed to allow you to define areas of your life that are important to you and then track how often you are working on improving those areas. • In addition to simple to-do lists, PriorityWise also tracks your progress on the kinds of goals that are longer-term, such as "Raising good kids" or "Advancing your career". • You can record when you complete an item, but you can also record whenever you work on an item. Using this information, PriorityWise shows you what areas or projects you are working on the most, which ones you may be neglecting, and how long it has been since you have worked on items in any category. • You can easily set priorities and then continually see how your efforts are stacking up to those priorities. • You can create a simple to-do list, or you can create a hierarchy of items that contain sub-items which can themselves contain sub-items, etc. Make your lists as simple or as detailed as you choose. ________________________________ People often have a tendency to spend the most effort working on things that are the least important. PriorityWise is designed to help reverse that tendency and get your life moving in the right direction "priority wise". ________________________________

Screenshots

Checklists4 screens
PriorityWise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PriorityWise at 4.0 against Checklists's 2.5. PriorityWise also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (50% vs 34%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Checklists sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PriorityWise asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PriorityWise holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Checklists's written reviews are positive against 50% of PriorityWise's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checklists ships an update every 29 months, PriorityWise every 37 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Checklists versus PriorityWise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChecklistsPriorityWise
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews34.1% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 29 months — betterEvery 37 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPartaheikki TechnologiesCory Smith

Customer experience

Checklists

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive34.1%
Neutral9.8%
Negative56.1%

PriorityWise

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Checklists

One-time1
  • Checklists Full$2.99
None

PriorityWise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Checklists free?
Checklists is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PriorityWise free?
PriorityWise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Checklists or PriorityWise?
PriorityWise is rated higher. Checklists averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while PriorityWise averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Checklists or PriorityWise have ads?
Neither Checklists nor PriorityWise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Checklists or PriorityWise?
Checklists ships an update every 29 months, and PriorityWise every 37 months. Most recently, Checklists was updated on November 1, 2026 and PriorityWise on November 1, 2026.

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