List! Lite vs Be
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
List! Lite
Manage your tasks and ideas with an advanced list application. Create nested lists with notes, priorities, and due dates. Export and import lists via email or text.
- Multiple nested lists
- Notes, priorities, and due dates
- Copy/delete/move multiple items
- Dynamic sorting
- In-app email and export
- List item alert notifications
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An advanced list management app. As this is the most commonly requested feature, please note that List! Lite does not yet have iCloud/synchronization support. The lite version is limited to a total of 5 nested lists containing up to 50 items among them. The main list can contain any number of list items. The paid version of List! has no limitations on the number of lists that can be created or the number of items that they can contain. The paid version of List! also contains 140 additional list icons. Features: • Multiple nested lists • Landscape support • Multiline list item titles • Notes, priorities, and due dates/times • Help screens and ‘How To’ tip balloons • Icon badge number • Delete Checked/Check All/Uncheck All actions • Copy/Delete/Move multiple items at a time • Dynamic sorting on multiple attributes • In-app email of list and list items • In-app settings • Export/import list and list items via HTML email • Import list items via text • Badge background updates • List item alert notifications • Search Features not currently supported: • Synchronization • Passwords • Repeating due dates (available in List!)
Be
Organize your life and tasks with a flexible system that aligns your actions with your priorities. This multidimensional tool functions as a planner, organizer, note-taker, and habit tracker with a clean, intuitive interface.
- Multidimensional to-do list
- Life organizer and planner
- Goal and habit tracking
- Self-management tool
- Clean and intuitive UI
- Data structuring and navigation
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«Be-Do App» is a unique, flexible and very effective system to organise your life and get things done while staying focused on your true priorities. It’s a great way to always keep your being and doing attuned – so that your actions lead to results that are true to yourself. Be-Do is a multidimensional to do list, a planner, an organiser, an outliner, a note book, a tool for your self management, work life balance and habit forming. The user interface is clean and carefully designed. A set of simple and powerful techniques like indenting-outdenting, expanding-collapsing sections, in-place editing and sliding rows allow you to enter, structure and navigate your data with ease and power. Privacy policy: https://www.app-artisan.com/privacy-policy Terms of use: https://www.app-artisan.com/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: List! Lite at Free against Be's $2.99. List! Lite also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (57 vs 1). Be's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On 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
List! Lite is free to download; Be costs $2.99 up front. Be sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. List! Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Be holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: List! Lite has 57 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
List! Lite ships an update every 3 months, Be every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | List! Lite | Be |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (57 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Secret Society Software | Alessandro Luethi |
Customer experience
List! Lite
Be
Bugs and requests
List! Lite
Reported bugs
7 issues- App crashes when adding new items
- Data deletion after updates
- App freezes during list creation
- Random app shutdowns causing data loss
- Text import feature not working
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- Badge number not updating without opening app
- Poor transition between lite and paid versions
Requested features
16 requests- Nested lists within lists (sub-lists within sub-lists)
- Text search/find functionality
- Password or lock protection for lists
- Cross-device synchronization (iPhone/iPad)
- Drag-and-drop item reordering
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- Custom icons/images for lists
- Quantity field for shopping lists
- Barcode scanner integration
- Due time in addition to due date
- Recurring tasks support
- Calendar synchronization
- Ability to keep checked items in place
- More than 5 lists in free version
- Import from Notes app
- Better tutorial/onboarding guide
- Account-based syncing like Instapaper
Be
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
List! Lite
No in-app purchases
Be
- Monthly subscription3 Days trial$0.491 Month
- Yearly subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Year









