My List Items vs Zetlist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My List Items
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Maintain your lists with My Lists. Share your Lists with others. Features: - Easy to use - Simple UI - It has a widget so it can be added to your Home Screen - Share your lists with others - Realtime updates of changes to your lists to the people you shared it with - You can add, delete and edit list entries - You can view, add, delete and edit other people's lists in realtime - You can see all the people who are available to share your lists with.
Zetlist
This app displays entire shopping lists at once, allowing for quick scanning and easy management. It offers extensive customization for text size and spacing, voice input in multiple languages, and robust undo functionality for all actions. Your data remains private on your device with no accounts or servers.
- Full list visibility
- Customizable text and spacing
- Multi-language voice input
- Universal undo for all actions
- Offline data storage
- Plain text import/export
- Shareable list links
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Most checklist apps are built for work. Zetlist is built for a supermarket aisle. It shows you the whole list. At the default size a row is one line of text tall, which puts about 26 items in front of you at once on a 6.1-inch iPhone, with nothing overlapping them. A big shop becomes one glance instead of four scrolls. That is the entire idea. Everything else here exists to keep it out of your way. COMPACT — AND YOU DECIDE HOW COMPACT • Four text sizes, four row spacings • Set separately for your list of lists and for the items inside them, because picking a list and scanning a list are different jobs • A live sample in the settings sheet, so you see the change before you keep it • Sits on top of your iPhone's own text size, so Accessibility › Larger Text still does what it always did VOICE — IN THIRTEEN LANGUAGES • Hold the microphone, say "add milk and eggs", let go • Delete, check and uncheck by voice too • Spoken commands in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Korean — "añade leche y huevos", "füge Milch hinzu", "우유랑 계란 추가", "sütü sil" • Each one written to that language's own grammar, not translated from English: it knows that Turkish says "sütü" for a row you wrote as "süt", and that Swedish says "mjölken" for "mjölk" • Every other language your iPhone can transcribe still works — what you say comes back as an offer, one tap from being an item • Keep as many as you speak. English to begin with, more in the settings, in whatever order you like • Runs on the phone wherever your iPhone has the language installed, so it works on a plane • No assistant in the middle — no "you'll have to continue in the app" • Slide your thumb up while holding to throw the recording away • If nothing recognisable was heard, you get the transcript as an offer, never as an action UNDO — ON EVERYTHING Delete an item, delete a whole list, delete everything checked, clear all the checks, wipe a row's text: every one of them puts an Undo button in front of you for a few seconds. A mis-tap in a moving trolley is one tap from being fixed. NO ACCOUNT. NO SERVER. NO ADS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. There is no sign-up because there is nothing to sign up to. No server exists, so your lists cannot leave the phone, cannot be read by anyone, and cannot go down. Nothing is collected, tracked or measured — the app has no analytics of any kind. PASTE A LIST IN, COPY IT BACK OUT • Paste anything with line breaks and each line becomes an item, its bullet or numbering stripped • Copies back out one item per line, plain text • Hiding the checked ones? It copies only what you can see, and the menu says so before you tap SHARE A LIST WITH A LINK The whole list is compressed into the link itself, so sharing needs no account and no server either. Send it to anyone who has Zetlist, however you like. It arrives with the order, the check marks, the colours and the bold. It is a copy, not a live document: after that, the two lists go their own way. MADE FOR THE SMALL THINGS Groceries. Packing for a trip. The pharmacy. What to grab from the hardware store. Zetlist is deliberately not a task manager, and it will not grow into one. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO, ON PURPOSE No due dates. No reminders. No priorities. No subtasks. No notes fields. No projects, tags, or filters. No collaboration. No sync between devices. If you need any of those, you need a different app, and there are good ones. ALSO IN THERE • Six text colours plus the default, and bold, for the two things on the list that actually matter • Hide checked items with one tap, and bring them back with the same one • A short flourish when the last box gets ticked, and nothing else that moves • Reorder by holding a row and dragging it • Dark mode, Dynamic Type, and VoiceOver throughout • iPhone only, and built like it Zetlist is a personal project by one person. There is nothing to upsell you, which is why the app can afford to be this small.
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Verdict
My List Items and Zetlist are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | My List Items | Zetlist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Larry SHANNON | KYUBIN LEE |
In-app purchases
My List Items
No in-app purchases
Zetlist
No in-app purchases









