Comparison

Pack The Bag vs Packing_List

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pack The Bag

Never forget essential items for your trip again. This app helps you create, manage, and share detailed packing lists. Prepare for your journey efficiently and avoid last-minute stress or unexpected costs.

Highlights
  • Pre-defined item library
  • Customizable lists and categories
  • Item weight tracking
  • List sharing via email and Airdrop
  • Packing reminders
  • Apple Watch support
Features
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Have you ever forgotten something really important for your trip? This will never happen again with Pack The Bag! No more incomplete hand-written packlists for your upcoming journey, no more bad feelings or expensive surprises at the airport. Make your next trip the best trip ever. Pack The Bag for iOS helps you managing your packlists. You and your bag will be well-prepared, you will save the trouble of thinking about all the items that you want to carry along on your journey. Pro version: no ads, all features! Import your lists from Pack The Bag Free with only 2 clicks! - Choose from more than 700 items in 27 categories - Easily create, edit and delete items and categories - Maintain your items in the inventory list without the need to create a packlist - Assign a weight to your items to prevent expensive surprises at the airport - Create new packlists by copying from existing lists - Pack your items without running around by optionally sorting by storage locations - Send and share packlists by email - they can be imported on any other iOS device - Airdrop support: Exchange lists with devices in your surrounding - Packing reminder push notification: Define a date when your device should remind you to start packing - Define an icon for your packlist - Sort lists by name or date or reoder them manually - Duplicate a category with all included items (e.g. child 1, child2, …) - Add a filter to display how many items are not yet packed in a list - Color schemes: Choose from different colors - or define your own color - Support for Apple Watch - pack your items on the watch - Supported Languages: English, German, Turkish You have ideas how to improve the app? You found issues? Send feedback to the Pack The Bag team directly from inside the app - your support is highly appreciated!

About

Packing_List

Organize your travel packing and unpacking with customizable lists. Associate trips with dates and destinations, and even check weather conditions. Features include item notes, quantities, locations, luggage assignment, and weight tracking.

Highlights
  • Customizable packing lists
  • Trip association with dates and destinations
  • Destination weather checks
  • Item notes, quantity, location, luggage, and weight fields
  • List composition from master lists
  • Search and mass item editing/deletion
  • List sharing
Features
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This application helps you to maintain packing lists and organize packing/unpacking process. You can associate your trips’ departure/return dates and destination cities with lists and check destinations’ weather conditions. Each item in lists has a note, a quantity, a location,a luggage and a weight fields. List Composition lets you select items from existing lists to generate new lists. To take advantage of this feature, you need maintain a master list containing all your travel items. Before each trip, select items from the master list to generate a new list specifically for the trip. Searching enables you to locate items quickly in large lists. Mass Changing allows you to select and then edit or delete a group of items together. You can manipulate lists in views grouped by locations or luggage. Packing is to take items from location by location and distribute them to luggage. Grouping by location helps to organize your packing process. Unpacking is to bring items from luggage by luggage back to where they come from. Grouping by luggage helps you to track your unpacking process. List Sharing enables you to share your list through email, Facebook or other social media types. “Packing List Cloud Connector” is an optional paid feature. With the feature, you can edit lists in web browsers on desktops or laptops; upload, download, synchronize and operate on the same lists from multiple devices; backup lists to our cloud server.

Screenshots

Pack The Bag4 screens
Packing_List4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pack The Bag at 3.6 against Packing_List's 3.0. Pack The Bag also leads on ratings volume (36 vs 2) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Packing_List's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pack The Bag sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Packing_List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pack The Bag holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pack The Bag has 36 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Pack The Bag's written reviews are positive against 67% of Packing_List's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pack The Bag ships an update monthly, Packing_List every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pack The Bag versus Packing_List: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPack The BagPacking_List
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (36 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings36 — better2
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas KrawczykDotNetIdeas LLC

Customer experience

Pack The Bag

All ratings36 ratings
Positive61.1%
Neutral11.1%
Negative27.8%
Written reviews224 reviews
Positive78.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.7%

Packing_List

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Pack The Bag

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to add new items or categories
  • Packing mode not displaying items correctly
  • List data lost after updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add notes and descriptions for items
  • Ability to permanently delete unwanted items/categories
  • One-tap reset to unpacked state
  • Improved packing list layout for printing
  • Integration with other travel apps

Packing_List

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pack The Bag

One-time2
  • Donate$0.99
  • Upgrade to Ad-free version$1.99
1 purchases

Packing_List

One-time1
  • Packing List Remove Advertisements$1.99

Questions

Is Pack The Bag free?
Pack The Bag is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Packing_List free?
Packing_List is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pack The Bag or Packing_List?
Pack The Bag is rated higher. Pack The Bag averages 3.6 out of 5 from 36 ratings, while Packing_List averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Pack The Bag or Packing_List have ads?
Pack The Bag shows ads; Packing_List does not.
Which is updated more often, Pack The Bag or Packing_List?
Pack The Bag ships an update monthly, and Packing_List every 2 months. Most recently, Pack The Bag was updated on September 22, 2026 and Packing_List on June 3, 2026.

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