Comparison

Lists vs NetaData

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

Head to head
About

Lists

Organize thoughts, plan projects, and write notes with an intuitive outliner. Features multi-level outlining, rich text formatting, and an optional AI assistant for content generation and translation. Seamlessly syncs across devices and offers export options.

Highlights
  • Multi-level outlining
  • Rich-text formatting
  • Optional AI assistant
  • Seamless cross-device sync
  • Export to PDF, Word, HTML
  • Password protection for folders
Features
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Lists is a user-friendly app designed for everyone who enjoys simplicity when it comes to organizing thoughts, planning projects, making lists, and writing notes. Whether you're a writer, student, project manager, or anyone who consistently works on intricate tasks, our app will help boost your productivity and streamline your ideas. Main Key Features: - User-friendly Interface: Designed for easy use, Lists comes with an intuitive interface where you can navigate, make entries, and review your created outline with ease. - Multi-level Outlining: Lists allows creating notes with multiple levels of detail; you can drill down to as many sub-levels as you want. - Optional AI Assistant to generate content for lists, summaries, essays, translations, blog posts, poems, emails, songs, quizzes, tests, memos, recipes, and so much more. - Rich-text formatting: Bold, italic, underline, highlight, subscript/superscript, alignment, line and paragraph spacing, first-line indent, page breaks, footnotes, comments, text and paper color, etc. - Create unlimited notebooks, folders and nested subfolders. - Protect individually your folders/notebooks with a password, very useful for iPads with more than one user in office, classroom or home. - Seamless Sync: Syncs effortlessly across all your iOS devices, making your outlines available anytime, anywhere. - Customizable Themes: Personalize your experience with a variety of themes and make the space truly yours. - Integrated Search: Find specific information quickly and easily using our state-of-the-art search and filter feature. - Export & Import Options: Need your outlines in other formats? Export to PDF, Word, HTML, and more. You can also import data from other formats. Lists presents you with a canvas for your thoughts, providing the perfect platform to plot your narrative, plan your project, or just jot down your thoughts in a clear and concise way. If you so choose, the included AI Assistant can perform tasks for you: • Easily generate automatically lists, summaries, essays, blog posts, poems, emails, songs, quizzes, tests, memos, recipes, and so much more. • Ask anything to our smart AI assistant, it's got your answers. • Nail perfect writing with built-in spell checking and grammar fixes. • Boost your vocab with a killer dictionary full of definitions, synonyms, and antonyms. • Make your writing better by analyzing sentence structures with no sweat. • Use the handy translation feature which supports heaps of languages, solving any language issues. • Talk and write in over 50 languages with our handy assistant. • Spin up travel plans, recipes, step-by-step guides, quizzes, tests, memos, essays, histories, poems, you name it. • Speech Recognition: Talk or type, either way we have smooth conversations. Try Lists today to bring clarity to your thoughts and productivity to your day! Privacy Policy http://www.noteswriter.com/Kairoos_Privacy_Policy.html EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ This app requires users to have a subscription to unlock all the features after a 3-day risk-free trial.

About

NetaData

Features
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===Definition data===: A class of data is described by defining multiple properties. Support basic properties (integer, double, string, date) and data properties (text, picture, movie). One property of the data class corresponds to one column of multi row and multi column data. One object of the data class corresponds to one row of multi row and multi column data. ===Edit Data===: You can add and edit objects, modify its basic properties or data properties. import and export objects in CSV format. Objects can be imported from CSV files exported from Number or Excel apps. Or objects can be exported to CSV files to be imported into Number or Excel apps. Importing also supports Json format. ===Import Data===: Copy text or files in CSV or JSON format and paste them into the application.  Or collecting data by accessing a configured URL with CSV or JSON content every n seconds. Basic properties in CSV or JSON are provided as values. Data properties in CSV or JSON are provided as urls which contain the data. ===Export Data===: Support exporting basic properties in CSV format.  Generate text in CSV format for the basic properties, then export(copy or save it as a CSV file). Group summaries can also be exported as CSV. ===Group, Filter and Sort Data in List and Charts===: You can filter, group, sort, and display the objects of the data class according to any five properties of the data class. Support three different filtering and display settings to help you view data from different perspectives. Support quick search on the filtered objects per keywords. Filtering supports multiple conditions (text contain, contained in some text, greater than, less than, equal-to, and not-equal). Sorting supports ascending or descending order. Display supports list display and kinds of chart display. One grouping property and the other four properties you selected will be displayed in the list. You can set the aggregation type for each property of the four properties. Filter conditions, display color and precision can be set for each of the five properties. The list group header displays the value of the group property and the aggregation information (count, sum, median, average etc.) of the group. Each row of the list displays four properties of the object according to four importance levels. The precision settings are used for grouping, filtering, and displaying. Chart display, grouped by the group-by property, with the first two of the four properties you select as the X axis and Y axis, displays line chart, bar chart, point chart and area chart. A sector chart is grouped by the group-by property, displaying the objects number in each group or the aggregated value of a property. It means that any two properties can be used as the X axis and Y axis to draw a chart. You can set two ruler lines for the X axis or Y axis. === Subscription ===: You can add and explore 99, 999, or 9999 objects by subscribing. Note: Because this app can only be used with a subscription, please export your data before your subscription expires if you don't want to renew your subscription. === EULA ===: [standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA)](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)

Screenshots

Lists4 screens
NetaData4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NetaData at every 2 days against Lists's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, 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. Lists sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and NetaData sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lists ships an update every 3 weeks, NetaData every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Lists versus NetaData: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterListsNetaData
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size248 MB2 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperKairoos Solutions SL勇 崔

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Lists

Subscriptions1
  • Unlock All including AI3 Days trial$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Outliner Lifetime Pro Upgrade$3.99
3 purchases

NetaData

Subscriptions3
  • 99 objects7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • 999 objects$4.991 Month
  • 9999 objects$5.991 Month

Questions

Is Lists free?
Lists is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NetaData free?
NetaData is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lists or NetaData have ads?
Neither Lists nor NetaData shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lists or NetaData?
Lists ships an update every 3 weeks, and NetaData every 2 days. Most recently, Lists was updated on October 8, 2026 and NetaData on October 4, 2026.

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