Checklists vs Task Tree
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Task Tree
This task manager allows you to organize your to-do lists using a hierarchical tree structure. It automatically updates progress based on subtasks and offers iCloud backup for your data. Create unlimited subcategories to manage complex projects.
- Tree structured tasks
- Automatic progress status updates
- iCloud backup and restore
- Unlimited subcategory depth
- Easy-to-use interface
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Task Tree — Organize anything as a tree Task Tree is a simple, powerful task manager built around tree‑structured tasks. Break any goal into projects, tasks, and subtasks — to any depth — and watch progress roll up automatically from the smallest detail to the big picture. Planning a trip, shipping a product, or just keeping a to‑do list? Task Tree keeps everything in a clear hierarchy that's easy to navigate. WHY TASK TREE • Think in trees — Nest tasks as deeply as you need. Big goals become projects; projects break down into tasks and subtasks. • Automatic progress — Check off the leaves and every parent task and project updates its progress for you. • See the whole picture — The Projects screen shows each project's progress, completion count, and due status at a glance. FEATURES • Unlimited subtask depth • Projects with live progress bars and due‑date tracking • Inline due dates with a built‑in calendar • Move a task (and its subtasks) anywhere — or promote it to its own project • Duplicate a task and its entire subtree • Drill‑down and full hierarchy views • iCloud backup & restore — keep your tree safe • Noteholic integration — send a tree to Noteholic, or import a note as a project (indentation becomes your hierarchy) Simple enough for a grocery list, structured enough for a big project. Plant your first tree today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Task Tree at 3.7 against Checklists's 2.5. Task Tree also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (63% vs 34%). Checklists's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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. Checklists sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Task Tree asks for nothing beyond the download.
Task Tree holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Checklists's written reviews are positive against 63% of Task Tree's.
Checklists ships an update every 29 months, Task Tree every 56 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checklists | Task Tree |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 3.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.1% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months — better | Every 56 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Partaheikki Technologies | NIK |
Customer experience
Checklists
Task Tree
In-app purchases
Checklists
- Checklists Full$2.99
Task Tree
No in-app purchases









