SimpleLists vs Simple To Do List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleLists
Organize your daily tasks and to-do items with a clean and intuitive interface. Create unlimited custom lists and manage individual items with simple touch interactions and drag-and-drop reordering. All your data is automatically saved for efficient task management.
- Create unlimited custom lists
- Simple item management
- Drag & drop reordering
- Persistent data storage
- Clean, minimalist design
- Quick item entry
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SimpleLists is a clean, intuitive task management app for iOS that helps users organize daily tasks and to-do items with simplicity and efficiency. Create multiple lists and manage individual items with a straightforward interface. Key Features: - Multiple Lists: Create unlimited custom lists for different purposes - Simple Item Management: Add, edit, and delete items with intuitive touch interactions - Drag & Drop Reordering: Easily reorder items within lists by dragging - Persistent Storage: All data automatically saved using Core Data - Clean Interface: Minimalist design focused on functionality - Quick Entry: Fast item addition with optimized text input
Simple To Do List
Efficiently manage your daily tasks with this app. Create multiple lists, add items continuously, and set reminders for important deadlines. Organize and prioritize your to-dos with color-coding and easy completion marking.
- Multi-list support
- Continuous to-do item addition
- Task reminders (daily, weekly, monthly)
- Color-coded task highlighting
- Mark tasks as complete/incomplete
- Sub-list task limit of 50
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This application is created to support managing to-do lists, multi-tasks efficiently with below main features: - Support multi list. Go to detail content in each list by touching the list - In each list: + Add to-do item continually by "next" button (first touch "ADD" button, then after finish fist to-do, touch "next" to input next to-do without keyboard escaping) + Support reminder which helps listing up reminder tasks: today/overdue, tasks in the week, in the month, in the year ... by swipe from right to left and choose alarm clock icon. All reminder to-do is saved in "All Reminder tasks" list. Overdue to-do is automatically moved from "All Reminder tasks" list to "Today/overdue task" list. + Support highlighted tasks by color: swipe from right to left (automatically colored) or swipe from left to right then choose paint pad icon. + Easily mark tasks as completed/in-complete by touching tick box. + Number of tasks in sub-list is limited to 50. The app is designed to give simplest usage with high efficiency in managing daily tasks. All your feedbacks for app improvements are highly welcomed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Simple To Do List at Free against SimpleLists's $0.99. Simple To Do List also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 23 months). SimpleLists's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On in-app purchases 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
Simple To Do List is free to download; SimpleLists costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SimpleLists holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple To Do List has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of SimpleLists's written reviews are positive against 100% of Simple To Do List's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SimpleLists ships an update every 23 months, Simple To Do List every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleLists | Simple To Do List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | David O'Hara | giang pham |
Customer experience
SimpleLists
Simple To Do List
In-app purchases
SimpleLists
No in-app purchases
Simple To Do List
No in-app purchases
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