ShopList simple vs Compress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShopList simple
Create and manage multiple shopping lists with customizable colors and sorting options. Easily delete purchased items by shaking or tapping, and personalize your experience with different fonts and text sizes. Share your lists with others.
- Create up to 9 colored lists
- Alphabetical or manual list sorting
- Display product count on icon
- Delete items by shaking or tapping
- Choose from 4 fonts
- Adjust text size
- Share lists
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"ShopList simple" is a simple, old school shopping list app simple no subscription, no ads, no tracking and no in-app purchases You can use it to create up to 9 different lists in all possible colors -Sort lists alphabetically or manually -Display product number on the icon -Delete purchased products by shaking or tapping -Choose from 4 different fonts -Adjust text size -Share the lists
Compress
Easily reduce video file sizes on your iPhone or iPad. This app also generates SRT caption files using on-device transcription and offers translation into 23 languages, all while keeping your data private.
- Video compression
- Batch compression (up to 10 videos)
- Customizable compression settings
- On-device SRT caption generation
- Offline transcription
- SRT translation (23 languages)
- Privacy-focused
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Compress-san is the easiest way to compress videos on your iPhone or iPad. Just select a video from your photo library, and queue up your video for compression. Select up to 10 videos for compression at once and add them to the queue. In the application settings, you can choose your desired compression settings, compressing video to sizes as low as low quality 480p. Compress-san also will use local on-device transcription models to create caption SRT files for your videos. Create subtitle text files locally and privately, with no audio or video leaving your device for creation of the SRTs. After an SRT is generated, you can also translate it into 23 different languages using local translation services. Compress-san is the simple and private way to cut your video sizes and create SRT subtitle transcription text files.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Compress at 100% against ShopList simple's 50%. Compress also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.4 vs 2.0). ShopList simple's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On 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
Compress is free to download; ShopList simple costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Compress holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Compress has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of ShopList simple's written reviews are positive against 100% of Compress's.
ShopList simple ships an update every 2 months, Compress every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShopList simple | Compress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Rutkowskij | Cameron Banga |
Customer experience
ShopList simple
Compress
In-app purchases
ShopList simple
No in-app purchases
Compress
No in-app purchases
