Comparison

List Ease vs Make List

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

Head to head
About

List Ease

This app helps you create and share grocery lists with real-time syncing. It offers features like spending tracking, barcode scanning, and budget management to make shopping easier and more organized.

Highlights
  • Real-time syncing for shared lists
  • Spending tracking with receipt scanning
  • Barcode scanner for adding items
  • List reminders and push notifications
  • Organize lists by category or recipes
  • Trip budgeting and cost calculation
  • Pantry inventory management
Features
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List Ease is the ultimate free & fun grocery list app and shareable shopping list app designed to streamline your shopping experience. Whether you're a busy mom, a meticulous planner, or a spontaneous shopper, our list maker app has got you covered! A favorite of the TODAY Show's Today.com, Forbes ‘The Best Apps For Smart Black Friday Shopping’ and CNBC ‘A Stress-Free Holiday Is Only One App Away’, List Ease is the best grocery shopping list app around! Create a shopping list, grocery list, to-do list, or any other checklist and share it with family and friends! Features of List Ease, your shared grocery shopping list app: - Share your grocery list, checklist, or daily to-do list with family and friends with real time syncing - Sync your grocery list with your other devices - Track your spending by scanning & saving receipts - Receive push message alerts when others on your shared list are purchasing checklist items or groceries - Get list reminders when you walk into a grocery store - Organize your shopping list any way you want – by food category, by recipes, or by available grocery coupons - Add groceries into our shopping list app easily and instantly using our barcode scanner - Add groceries from history – bring items from your last shopping list to your new list - Trip budgeting - ensure your grocery list isn't too expensive before you shop - Pantry inventory – simplify your life and save money by keeping track of already purchased items - Manage multiple shopping lists –flip between grocery and pantry lists in seconds - Perfect for Christmas, Thanksgiving, BBQs, and all event planning and holiday grocery shopping - Add quantities, measurements, prices, and additional notes to your food list items to keep perfectly organized - Calculate your costs to stay on budget - Mr. Listo, our free grocery list app’s mascot, is your shopping list maker companion- at home or in the supermarket! For in store reminders, be aware that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. List Ease is 100% Free! Make your grocery shopping hassle-free and enjoyable with List Ease, the must-have grocery list app and shareable shopping list app. Try it today and never miss an item on your list again!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Nested folder organization
  • Uncheck All function
  • Delete Selected items
  • Offline backup via copy/paste
  • Move items between folders
  • Green line completion indicator
Features
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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.

Screenshots

List Ease4 screens
Make List4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: List Ease at 4.7 against Make List's 3.0. List Ease also leads on ratings volume (53K vs 1). Make List's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

List Ease holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: List Ease has 53K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

List Ease ships an update every 6 weeks, Make List every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
List Ease versus Make List: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterList EaseMake List
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (53K ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews83.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings53K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperinMarket Media, LLCRod Bauer

Customer experience

List Ease

All ratings51,975 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews547 reviews
Positive83.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative10.1%

Make List

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

List Ease

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Categories reappear after being deleted
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Crashes when trying to categorize items

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add ability to delete scanned items from pantry
  • Improve syncing between shared lists
  • Add option to collapse/expand category list
  • Implement Siri integration for adding items
  • Allow sorting items within categories
Show 1 more
  • Improve pantry management features

Make List

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

List Ease

No in-app purchases

None

Make List

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is List Ease free?
List Ease is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Make List free?
Make List is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, List Ease or Make List?
List Ease is rated higher. List Ease averages 4.7 out of 5 from 53K ratings, while Make List averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do List Ease or Make List have ads?
List Ease shows ads; Make List does not.
Which is updated more often, List Ease or Make List?
List Ease ships an update every 6 weeks, and Make List every 5 weeks. Most recently, List Ease was updated on September 25, 2026 and Make List on June 25, 2026.

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