Comparison

Funnel vs TapList

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

Head to head
About

Funnel

Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.

Highlights
  • Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
  • Send notes and photos to PKM apps
  • Capture sketches and calendar events
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
  • Built-in document scanner
  • Song capture via Shazam integration
Features
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

TapList

This app allows you to create visual to-do lists using photos, making it easy to track groceries, medications, or packing essentials. You can quickly capture or import images, mark items as complete, and share lists or individual photos with others. It offers iCloud syncing and beautiful color themes for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Photo integration for list items
  • Visual to-do lists
  • iCloud syncing across devices
  • Shareable lists and photos
  • Mark items as complete
  • Customizable color themes
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TapList is the photo-powered, easy list app. You can use it as a nice, simple, visual to-do list with the ability to check things as done. But you can also use it to quickly take photos of things you want to quickly access later — groceries, supplements and medications, packing lists, anything where a photo helps you get the right thing. And sharing a complete list, a list item with notes, or just an individual photo is quick and easy. You’ll end up using TapList every day. TapList is great for: Groceries To-Do’s Water Tracking Medications Workouts Supplements Packing Lists Photos of Documents Recipes Home Remodeling Projects Anything! ADD PHOTOS Capture photos right in TapList or import from your Photo library. TapList photos are backed up in iCloud and not in your iPhone’s Camera Roll. Usually you don’t want photos of products you need to buy or medications mixed in with your family photos. You can however export a photo captured with TapList to your Photos library. To minimize storage used photos are saved at a medium resolution in the High Efficiency Image File format. SYNCED WITH iCLOUD Your lists are automatically synced with iCloud. And if you use the TapList app on another device such as an iPad logged into the same iCloud account, your lists will be synchronized. MARK ITEMS AS COMPLETED Swipe right to check list items complete. Swipe left to delete list items or entire lists. REARRANGE LISTS OR LIST ITEMS Long press for half a second to begin dragging list cells or list item cells to reorder. SHARE WITH FAMILY OR CAREGIVERS Press the Share button to share a complete list, a list item with notes attached, or simply the list item photo. Using the Share button you can also save a photo to your camera roll. BEAUTIFUL COLOR THEMES Ten different themes to choose from! COMPLETE PRIVACY No usernames, passwords or logins. We don’t collect a single thing about you or how you use the app. Nothing whatsoever is transmitted from your device to us. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://taplist.today/privacy

Screenshots

Funnel4 screens
TapList4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Funnel at Free against TapList's $5.99. Funnel also leads on ratings volume (43 vs 4). TapList's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Funnel is free to download; TapList costs $5.99 up front. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and TapList sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TapList holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Funnel has 43 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Funnel's written reviews are positive against 100% of TapList's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, TapList every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 11, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Funnel versus TapList: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFunnelTapList
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating4.6 (43 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB38 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNoteSight Labs ApSEmotive Engines, LLC

Customer experience

Funnel

All ratings43 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral2.3%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.0%

TapList

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Funnel

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
  • Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

TapList

One-time1
  • TapList Premium$4.99

Questions

Is Funnel free?
Funnel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TapList free?
TapList costs $5.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Funnel or TapList?
TapList is rated higher. Funnel averages 4.6 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while TapList averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Funnel or TapList have ads?
Neither Funnel nor TapList shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Funnel or TapList?
Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, and TapList every 3 weeks. Most recently, Funnel was updated on July 11, 2026 and TapList on September 15, 2026.

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