Checklists XL vs Retain Archive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Checklists XL
Organize your life with customizable checklists for travel, sports, and daily tasks. Easily create, manage, and share your lists, with options to hide completed items and reorder content.
- Multiple checklist creation
- Check and uncheck items
- Reset lists
- Hide checked items option
- Email list items
- Bulk add items
- Edit, sort, and reorder items
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Create and manage all sorts of checklists. E.g. for travel, sports and things to do or to remember. Features: - Multiple checklists - check and uncheck the items on each list - reset the list to all unchecked state - optionally hide checked items - e-mail items - bulk add multiple items - edit, sort and reorder items - rename and reorder checklists
Retain Archive
Access and manage archived business communications, including emails, social media, and mobile messages. Browse, search, and preview attachments from various platforms for case assessment and eDiscovery.
- Unified archiving of business communications
- Access archived email, social media, and mobile data
- Browse and search archived messages
- Preview message attachments
- View social media archives (WhatsApp, WeChat, LinkedIn, etc.)
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Micro Focus Retain Unified Archiving provides unified archiving of all business communication including email, social media, and mobile communication data for case assessment, search, and eDiscovery. The Retain App provides users and administrators direct access to view, browse, search, and these business communications. • Access all the archived accounts you manage • Browse messages in the archived accounts • Preview message attachments • View archive social media messages from WhatsApp, WeChat, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, SharePoint, and Instagram For more information about Retain Unified Archiving, see https://www.microfocus.com/products/retain-unified-archiving/.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Retain Archive at Free against Checklists XL's $0.99. Retain Archive also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 11 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Retain Archive is free to download; Checklists XL costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Checklists XL against 5.0 for Retain Archive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Checklists XL's written reviews are positive against 100% of Retain Archive's.
Checklists XL ships an update every 11 months, Retain Archive every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Checklists XL | Retain Archive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | OpenText |
Customer experience
Checklists XL
Retain Archive
In-app purchases
Checklists XL
No in-app purchases
Retain Archive
No in-app purchases
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