Packing_List vs Travel Checklist Plus
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.
Travel Checklist Plus
Simplify your packing process with this travel companion. It offers over 200 item suggestions and helps you track what's packed and what's still needed. Save time by reusing lists for return trips or future destinations.
- 200+ packing suggestions
- Tracks packed items
- Reusable packing lists
- Multiple destination lists
- Item packing history
- Easy-to-use interface
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Packing for a vacation or trip sucks. Travel Checklist Plus makes it easier. • 200+ suggestions for items you don't want to forget to pack • Keeps track of what you've packed, and tells you what you need to pack • You can re-use a list to pack for your return trip or if you're going to the same place again • You can maintain multiple lists for different destinations • Travel Checklist Plus suggests items you've packed for other trips. Add an item once and Travel Checklist Plus will remind you to pack it forever • A streamlined and easy-to-use user interface makes it even easier to pack for your vacations and trips
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Travel Checklist Plus at 5.0 against Packing_List's 3.0. Travel Checklist Plus also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Packing_List's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Packing_List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Travel Checklist Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Travel Checklist Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Packing_List's written reviews are positive against 100% of Travel Checklist Plus's.
Packing_List ships an update every 2 months, Travel Checklist Plus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Packing_List | Travel Checklist Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DotNetIdeas LLC | Roy Sianez |
Customer experience
Packing_List
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In-app purchases
Packing_List
- Packing List Remove Advertisements$1.99
Travel Checklist Plus
- Remove Ads$3.00
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