Grandma's Tips vs BasicList
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grandma's Tips
Discover over 1200 practical tips and tricks for cooking, home management, health, beauty, and more. Learn secret ingredients, household hacks, and DIY solutions to impress your family and friends.
- Over 1200 tips and tricks
- Search functionality
- Random tip generator
- Favorites list
- Tip sharing
- 10 tip categories
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1000 TIPS AND MORE! Ever wondered what secret ingredients and tricks your grandma used to make that juicy steak, crispy fries or delicious cake? Or just want to learn about simple things like making fluffy mash potatoes, cooking the perfect egg, or peeling garlic quickly? You will find tips for all that and much more in this practical tool! More than 1200 tips how to cook super tasty meals, handle things around the kitchen, do housework and gardening, deal with small health and cosmetic problems, or make decorations and small repairs! 10 categories! Food & Drinks Housework Health Beauty Babies & Kids Decoration Do-It-Yourself Gardening & Plants Practical tips Saving tips Many features! More than 1200 tips and tricks Search function Random tips generator Favorites function Sharing function Join in! Help to improve this app! Send us your own tips and tricks. The best suggestions will be included in the next update! Impress your family and friends! Grandma's Tips is great for the whole family! This tool helps you save money, lead an eco-friendly and healthy lifestyle, and impress your friends with clever tricks!
BasicList
Create grocery lists by directly entering items or by adding pre-defined meals. Items are automatically categorized to streamline your shopping experience.
- Direct item entry
- Meal customization
- Add meals to list
- Categorized items (shelf, cold, frozen, not food)
- Efficient shopping experience
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just a simple grocery list. You have the option to enter items directly to the list, or to enter meals, customize the ingredients, and then add them to the list from the meals menu. The items on the list are categorized in four categories (shelf, cold, frozen, and not food) to make your shopping experience as efficient as possible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BasicList at weekly against Grandma's Tips's every 64 months. BasicList also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Grandma's Tips's advantage is ratings volume (222 vs 4) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.3). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BasicList holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grandma's Tips has 222 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Grandma's Tips's written reviews are positive against 100% of BasicList's.
Grandma's Tips ships an update every 64 months, BasicList weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grandma's Tips | BasicList |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (222 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 222 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rogobete Christian | Travis Ratliff |
Customer experience
Grandma's Tips
BasicList
Bugs and requests
Grandma's Tips
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incompatibility with iOS 11
- Inability to view full tips
Requested features
2 requests- Tips for new moms and infants
- More content updates and expansions
BasicList
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Grandma's Tips
No in-app purchases
BasicList
No in-app purchases
