Genius Shopping Lists vs Make List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Genius Shopping Lists
This app learns your shopping habits to automatically generate and organize your shopping lists. It remembers previous orders and can reorder items based on store visits, making shopping more efficient. Lists can be shared via email.
- Automatic list generation
- Smart item sorting by store
- Learns previous shopping order
- Email list sharing
- Create lists by copying
- Import lists from email
- Undo functionality
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You can teach Genius Lists to make shopping lists for you! Making shopping lists is very boring. You need to remember everything you need or keep tracking what you have at home… Just make several shopping lists manually. Go shopping. In shopping day click Genius button, select shop and you are ready! Genius Lists is constantly tracking what you added or removed to lists so it will create new lists smarter and smarter. You can send your lists to other people. Other great feature – automatic order for lists. Automatic order works in the following way: Day 1: - Create a new list; - Add items; - Reorder Items (optional); - Go shopping and check off items as you put them in the basket; Day 2: - You need to go shopping to same store again; - Create new list; - Add items (now items will appear in list in same order you checked them out in Day 1); Features: - generate lists automatically; - automatically sorting items for different stores; - remember the order from previous visits; - email list; - if you change stores -- it will change the order; - create new lists by copying; - import lists from email to your application; - undo.
Make List
Organize daily tasks, shopping lists, or any to-do with this fast checklist app. Create nested folders for deep organization and easily back up or share lists via text. A green line indicator confirms when all items are checked.
- Nested folder organization
- Uncheck All function
- Delete Selected items
- Offline backup via copy/paste
- Move items between folders
- Green line completion indicator
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Make List App is a great tool ranging from organizing every day 'take to work' list, using the 'Uncheck All' to clear the list for another use, to food shopping or todo list, and finally using the 'Delete Selected' to delete checked items. Since every item in every list in Make List App can be a folder, Make List let's you organize your lists without limiting the number of folders and subfolders you can use. The 'Options' menu can be customize to hide/show some of the options in the Settings screen. Other power features include: • Simple offline backup via copy paste. - Using the 'Copy Selected to Pasteboard' from the Options menu, you can copy all selected items of a list to the device's pasteboard. You can paste it anywhere from an email to any other text App on the device. The Paste List from pasteboard completes the cycle by letting you import from the device's pasteboard. This means you can either backup or share by any text app (such as Messages or Mail). • Move items between folders - Similar to 'Copy/Paste from pasteboard' but done internally without the device's pasteboard. Simple function to move items between folders. • Green line indicator when all items are checked. - Very handy on longer lists. You can make sure all items are selected without inspecting them all visually. When the last selectable items is selected, a green line will light up, indicating that all items are selected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Genius Shopping Lists at 5.0 against Make List's 3.0. Genius Shopping Lists also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Genius Shopping Lists holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Genius Shopping Lists ships an update fortnightly, Make List every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Genius Shopping Lists | Make List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olga Lyevi | Rod Bauer |
Customer experience
Genius Shopping Lists
Make List
In-app purchases
Genius Shopping Lists
No in-app purchases
Make List
No in-app purchases
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