Packing_List vs Packing List*
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Packing_List
Organize your travel packing and unpacking with customizable lists. Associate trips with dates and destinations, and even check weather conditions. Features include item notes, quantities, locations, luggage assignment, and weight tracking.
- Customizable packing lists
- Trip association with dates and destinations
- Destination weather checks
- Item notes, quantity, location, luggage, and weight fields
- List composition from master lists
- Search and mass item editing/deletion
- List sharing
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This application helps you to maintain packing lists and organize packing/unpacking process. You can associate your trips’ departure/return dates and destination cities with lists and check destinations’ weather conditions. Each item in lists has a note, a quantity, a location,a luggage and a weight fields. List Composition lets you select items from existing lists to generate new lists. To take advantage of this feature, you need maintain a master list containing all your travel items. Before each trip, select items from the master list to generate a new list specifically for the trip. Searching enables you to locate items quickly in large lists. Mass Changing allows you to select and then edit or delete a group of items together. You can manipulate lists in views grouped by locations or luggage. Packing is to take items from location by location and distribute them to luggage. Grouping by location helps to organize your packing process. Unpacking is to bring items from luggage by luggage back to where they come from. Grouping by luggage helps you to track your unpacking process. List Sharing enables you to share your list through email, Facebook or other social media types. “Packing List Cloud Connector” is an optional paid feature. With the feature, you can edit lists in web browsers on desktops or laptops; upload, download, synchronize and operate on the same lists from multiple devices; backup lists to our cloud server.
Packing List*
Easily create and manage travel checklists for vacations or business trips. Mark items as packed to ensure you don't forget anything. Features a simple interface to add, edit, and delete items.
- Create and manage packing lists
- Mark items as packed
- Add, edit, and delete items
- Simple and easy to use interface
- Never forget items
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A very easy to use and efficient app to list and track of all of the items you need for a vacation, business travel or any other traveling. It uses the newest and best UI interface and is very simple to help you list your items that you want to bring with you and mark them as packed once you add them to your luggage. Never miss any items again that you need for your traveling. * Simple & Easy To Use * Great To Help Your Traveling * Never Forget Items To Pack * Mark Each As Completed & Packed * Add, Edit Delete Items Easily * Improve Your Vacations or Business Travels
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Packing List* at 4.3 against Packing_List's 3.0. Packing List* also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). Packing_List's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. Packing_List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Packing List* asks for nothing beyond the download.
Packing List* holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Packing List* has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Packing_List's written reviews are positive against 50% of Packing List*'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Packing_List ships an update every 2 months, Packing List* every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Packing_List | Packing List* |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.3 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DotNetIdeas LLC | Steve Veloudos |
Customer experience
Packing_List
Packing List*
In-app purchases
Packing_List
- Packing List Remove Advertisements$1.99
Packing List*
No in-app purchases
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