Comparison

List Ease vs Strich

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

Strich

Features
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Strich is an app for keeping lists. Nothing else. No reminders, no due dates, no priorities, no tags, no statistics. The restraint is the product. A list in Strich is a permanent catalog, not a throwaway note: strike things off as you go, then reset the list with one gesture and use it again. Packing lists, grocery runs, routines, rituals: anything you do more than once. And if you like, Strichbot lends a hand: with Apple Intelligence, no account and no key. WHY STRICH • Strike, don't check. Done items get a single clean stroke, the app's namesake ("Strich" is German for stroke). • Reusable by design. Reset a finished list and it's ready for next time. The list is permanent, the checkmark is temporary. • Topics hold what belongs together: the vacation with its packing list, kids' gear and paperwork, each topic with as many lists as you need. • A bench instead of a trash can. Whatever you take off the list waits on the bench below it and comes back with a tap. Nothing is lost, nothing gets added twice. • Sections keep long lists readable. Type a chip or a colon prefix to file new items where they belong, or turn any line into a heading. • Ruled paper, not another sterile productivity app. STRICHBOT WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE Every topic and every list has a chat. Strichbot reads your lists and proposes changes: add the usual suspects to a grocery list, group a long list into sensible sections, tidy things up. From the topics overview it creates whole topics, or merges two into one without duplicates. • No account, no key. From iOS 27, on devices with Apple Intelligence, Strichbot runs on Apple Private Cloud Compute, with a daily quota. • A photo of the note. Snap a shopping list on paper or a recipe, and Strichbot turns it into items. • An empty chat suggests what fits the list. • Stop it at any time, and right after applying, undo the whole proposal with one tap. It only ever proposes. You see your real list in its future state, tap away the changes you don't want, and apply the rest. Nothing happens automatically. Prefer another model? Use your own API key, from Anthropic for example, stored securely in your device's Keychain. Strichbot is entirely optional. Strich has no servers of its own, no account, no tracking. WIDGETS, SIRI AND THE LOCK SCREEN • Widgets in two sizes, for one list or two. Tap an item to strike it. • Siri and Shortcuts: “Add to Groceries in Strich”, strike, reset, hear what is still open. • The next open items on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, struck without unlocking. • A “New Item” button in Control Center, on the Lock Screen or on the Action button. • Open any list from Search on the Home Screen. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES, AND WITH THE PEOPLE YOU SHARE WITH Your lists follow you across iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account. Switch phones and everything is simply there. And when a list is not only yours: share a single list or a whole topic by link. The other person opens it in their Strich, and from then on you write the same list: they strike an item, it is struck for you. The shopping list for two, without a group chat. If you like, Strich lets you know when someone adds or crosses off something. Or share it view-only, so others can read but not write. What others share with you gathers under "Shared with me", and you can leave a share whenever you want. Your chat with Strichbot stays on your own device. EVERYTHING ELSE • iPhone and iPad, every orientation on the pad • Import from any app via the iOS share sheet • Export and share your lists as text • Search within any list • Duplicate topics and lists: a good list becomes a template • Send all done items to the bench at once, reset a whole topic at once • English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Portuguese (the system language or the one you pick), light and dark • No account, no sign-up, no ads • Your data lives on your device and in your own iCloud, never on servers of ours

Screenshots

List Ease4 screens
Strich4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Strich at none against List Ease's shown. Strich also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). List Ease's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

List Ease ships an update every 6 weeks, Strich weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
List Ease versus Strich: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterList EaseStrich
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (54K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings54K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperinMarket Media, LLCDominik Meierhofer

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
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  • Improve pantry management features

Strich

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

List Ease

No in-app purchases

None

Strich

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is List Ease free?
List Ease is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strich free?
Strich is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do List Ease or Strich have ads?
List Ease shows ads; Strich does not.
Which is updated more often, List Ease or Strich?
List Ease ships an update every 6 weeks, and Strich weekly. Most recently, List Ease was updated on November 3, 2026 and Strich on October 31, 2026.

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