Comparison

Checklist+ vs Pocket Lists

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

Head to head
About

Checklist+

Manage shared tasks and daily routines with a simple, minimalist interface. Collaborate on projects, sync lists in real-time, and stay organized across all your Apple devices. Perfect for everything from grocery lists to major life events.

Highlights
  • Collaborative syncing
  • Daily to-do lists
  • iCloud integration
  • Minimalist UI
  • Smart reminders
  • Custom themes
  • Efficient organization
Features
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Organization shouldn’t be a chore. Checklist+ is the simple, minimalist way to manage shared tasks, daily routines, and life's biggest projects together. Whether you’re planning a wedding, coordinating a move, or just syncing a grocery list with your partner, Checklist+ keeps everyone on the same page with seamless real-time syncing. ===== WHY CHOOSE CHECKLIST+? ===== COLLABORATIVE SYNCING: Make list management a team effort. Share and sync lists with friends, family, or colleagues instantly. DAILY UTILITY: Perfect for shared grocery shopping, daily to-dos, and recurring reminders. ICLOUD INTEGRATION: Your lists stay safe and accessible across all your Apple devices effortlessly. CLEAN & SIMPLE: Enjoy a stunning, minimalist UI designed for efficiency without unnecessary bloat. ===== POWERFUL LIST SETTINGS ===== SMART REMINDERS: Set single or repeating alerts for any list. CUSTOM THEMES: Personalize your experience with unique colors for every list. EFFICIENT ORGANIZATION: Automatically move completed items to the bottom or use alphabetical ordering. LIFE EVENT READY: Built-in flexibility for travel packing, moving house, or wedding registries. Get Checklist+ today and experience the simplest way to stay productive together! Terms of Service: http://dynamicappdesign.com/tos

About

Pocket Lists

Organize your life with a beautifully designed to-do list app. Create checklists, set sophisticated reminders, and collaborate on tasks with others. It's powerful yet easy to use for personal organization and shared projects.

Highlights
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Collaborative list sharing
  • Customizable list appearance
  • Prioritized to-do stream
  • Advanced location-based reminders
  • Natural language reminder input
  • Calendar view for tasks
Features
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Pocket Lists is a beautifully designed to-do list app for making checklists, focusing on important tasks, sharing & collaborating on to-do lists and tasks with friends and family. The app excels as both an everyday personal to-do list organizer with sophisticated reminder functionality, and as a family collaboration app for groceries, travel packing, Christmas lists, gift ideas, vacation planning, and more. You’ll love Pocket Lists for being powerful yet surprisingly easy to use. The app’s feature set makes it a superb replacement for most checklist and to-do list apps, including the stock Reminders app: • Sync your to-do lists across all your devices for free. • Share to-do lists and collaborate on tasks with friends, family, and teammates. Sharing a list is as easy as sending a link. • Personalize your to-do lists with a variety of beautiful icons and cover images for all sorts of things. 400+ awesome colorful icons included! • To-do Stream: a dynamic to-do list (filter) that collects to-dos among all your checklists, and displays them in the priority & due order, allowing you to focus on what’s important right now. • All types of to-do reminders: due date, due time, repeating, and location-based — drop pin anywhere on a map, select either “arrive to” or “leave from”, and even define a location radius. • Set due reminders by typing naturally: “Meeting tomorrow morning”, “Car service Saturday 7pm”, “Prepare Christmas gift list on dec 20 every year”, “Cinema Friday night” and so on. The app automatically understands due date from your input, and sets a reminder. • Calendar view: rotate your iPhone into landscape mode to see all your scheduled to-dos in a monthly calendar layout. • Import to-dos and events from stock Reminders and Calendar apps. • And a lot more: — Priorities & Notes for to-do items, — To-do item search, — Quick inline to-do add, — Support for #hashtags, — Dark Mode, — Archiving feature for hiding certain checklists, — Copy & Paste add of multiple to-dos at a time, — Send checklists via email, — Duplicate and re-use checklists when needed, — Use dividers to visually group to-dos within big checklists. Plus an awesome bundle of premium features available as an optional auto-renewable in-app subscription or a one-time purchase: + Web App that allows you to work with your checklists using any desktop computer, + Subtasks: easily divide big tasks into smaller to-dos, + Superpriorities (+3 priority levels): mark particular to-dos as urgent, critical, or not important, + Private lists: lock particular to-do lists with passcodes and unlock with Touch ID or Face ID, + Custom repeat controls: set to-do repeat intervals and frequencies flexibly, + Apple Watch app: use Pocket Lists on your wrist without even taking an iPhone out of a pocket, + Custom icons for to-do lists, + File attachments: attach files and photos to any to-do items, + Per-list and per-priority sound alert customization. The premium feature set is available as either monthly and yearly subscription or as a one-time purchase. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://pocketlists.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://pocketlists.com/terms/

Screenshots

Checklist+3 screens
Pocket Lists4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pocket Lists at none against Checklist+'s shown. Pocket Lists also leads on device support (5 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Checklist+'s advantage is ratings volume (7.9K vs 1.4K) and review sentiment (50% vs 42%). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Checklist+ sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Pocket Lists sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pocket Lists holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Checklist+ has 7.9K ratings behind it against 1.4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Checklist+'s written reviews are positive against 42% of Pocket Lists's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checklist+ ships an update every 5 weeks, Pocket Lists every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Checklist+ versus Pocket Lists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChecklist+Pocket Lists
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7.9K ratings)4.6 (1.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.5% of reviews — better42.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7.9K — better1.4K
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB184 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDynamic App Design LLC1312

Customer experience

Checklist+

All ratings7,859 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews422 reviews
Positive50.5%
Neutral10.7%
Negative38.9%

Pocket Lists

All ratings1,346 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral4.3%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews431 reviews
Positive42.0%
Neutral17.9%
Negative40.1%

User reviews

Checklist+

From 7.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Really good, simple and easy to use
  • ✨ Great for planning and organizing
  • 💻 Syncs well across devices
  • 📝 Helpful for checklists and to-do lists
  • 🎨 Customizable with color-coding

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs, especially after updates
  • 💸 Aggressive push for paid subscription
  • 📢 Intrusive and frequent ads
  • 🔍 Lacks search functionality for long lists
  • 🤖 Poor user experience with clunky controls

Pocket Lists

From 1.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Simple and intuitive
  • 🔒 Secure with password protection
  • 👍 Customizable lists and categories
  • 👍 Shareable lists with family/team
  • 👍 Helpful for organization and productivity

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Sync issues and data loss
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Unreliable reminders and notifications
  • 🐛 Scrolling and UI glitches
  • 🐛 Inability to reorder lists and tasks

Bugs and requests

Checklist+

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Lists disappearing or not saving properly
  • Frequent crashes when editing or rearranging items
  • Buttons and controls not working as expected
  • Syncing issues between devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to move/reorder items and sub-items as a group
  • Option to automatically move checked items to bottom of list
  • In-line font formatting (bold, underline, etc.)
  • Folders or categories to organize multiple lists
  • Sync and collaboration features for shared lists

Pocket Lists

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Lists disappearing or not syncing
  • Checked tasks reappearing as unchecked
  • Inability to restore purchases
  • Compatibility issues with iOS 16
  • Crashing on app launch

Requested features

5 requests
  • Calendar view for scheduled tasks
  • Ability to set reminders for specific tasks
  • Option to collapse/expand subtasks
  • More customization options for lists
  • Integration with other productivity apps

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Checklist+

Subscriptions2
  • Checklist Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Checklist+ Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Checklist+ Premium Lifetime$19.99
8 purchases

Pocket Lists

Subscriptions5
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Family Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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  • Family Yearly14 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Family Yearly (Intro)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
One-time3
  • Premium Forever$19.99
  • Upgrade Premium to Family$19.99
  • Family Forever$34.99

Questions

Is Checklist+ free?
Checklist+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pocket Lists free?
Pocket Lists is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Checklist+ or Pocket Lists?
Pocket Lists is rated higher. Checklist+ averages 4.4 out of 5 from 7.9K ratings, while Pocket Lists averages 4.6 from 1.4K ratings.
Do Checklist+ or Pocket Lists have ads?
Checklist+ shows ads; Pocket Lists does not.
Which is updated more often, Checklist+ or Pocket Lists?
Checklist+ ships an update every 5 weeks, and Pocket Lists every 3 weeks. Most recently, Checklist+ was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pocket Lists on November 6, 2026.

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