SimpleLists vs 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
List!
Manage your tasks and projects with an advanced list application. Organize items with notes, priorities, and due dates, and utilize powerful sorting and export options. A free lite version is available for trial.
- Multiple nested lists
- Notes, priorities, and due dates
- Repeating due dates
- Dynamic sorting
- Export/import via HTML email
- Search functionality
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An advanced list management app. Check out “List! Lite” for free before purchasing. As this is the most commonly requested feature, please note that List! does not have iCloud/synchronization support. Features: • Multiple nested lists • Landscape support • Multiline list item titles • Notes, priorities, and due dates/times • Repeating due dates • 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: List! at every 3 months against SimpleLists's every 23 months. List! also leads on ratings volume (244 vs 1) and chart position (#197 vs unranked). SimpleLists's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
SimpleLists costs $0.99 and List! $1.99 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: List! has 244 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 78% of 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, List! every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleLists | List! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (244 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 78.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 244 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #197 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David O'Hara | Secret Society Software |
Customer experience
SimpleLists
List!
Bugs and requests
SimpleLists
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
List!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes when importing/exporting large lists
- Inconsistent behavior when deleting or rearranging list items
Requested features
5 requests- Add syncing capabilities across devices
- Implement password protection or encryption for sensitive lists
- Improve user interface for better navigation and management of nested lists
- Introduce a calendar or due date view to see all tasks at a glance
- Allow importing and exporting of lists in various formats
In-app purchases
SimpleLists
No in-app purchases
List!
No in-app purchases
