Comparison

Vantra Lists vs Simplio Shopping List Planner

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

Head to head
About

Vantra Lists

Features
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Vantra Lists helps you stay on top of your day with simple, beautiful, and powerful list-making. Create custom to-do lists, personalise them with icons, and organise your tasks with ease. The app is free to download with limited features. Full access requires a subscription, which can be made within the app.

About

Simplio Shopping List Planner

This app helps organize grocery shopping by categorizing items and remembering your preferences. It aims to make trips to the store efficient, ensuring you get everything you need without unnecessary ads or data sharing.

Highlights
  • Categorized item organization
  • Favorite items with notes
  • Recurring list automation
  • Pantry tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Offline functionality
  • List sharing (image, PDF, text)
Features
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A grocery list that knows milk lives in dairy and remembers you always buy oat. If you have ever stood in the wrong aisle reading a list out of order, or come home with everything except the one item you went for, a calm shopping planner solves more than it looks. Simplio Shopping List is a quiet grocery app for couples coordinating weekly shops, families with specific diets, and anyone who treats the supermarket as a place to leave quickly. Lists live on your device, there is no account, no ads, and the grocery list never gets sold to a recipe app, a coupon network or a third-party server in the loop. The goal is short trips and full bags, not a new place to be advertised to. Every feature described below is unlocked only with an auto-renewable subscription purchased inside the app. New subscribers get a free trial: 3 days on the weekly and monthly plans, one week on the yearly plan; you may cancel anytime during the trial to avoid being charged. Add items into twelve categories such as dairy, fruits, vegetables and bakery, then sort the shopping list by category so it follows the store rather than your typing speed. Favorite items reappear with a tap, quantity and unit fields handle the difference between two apples and two kilos of apples, and notes carry the brand your partner actually wants. The favorites list can be sorted by how often you use each item, so the bread you always forget stays one tap away. Home Screen widgets in small, medium and large sizes keep tonight's groceries glanceable, and the small widget opens quick add with a single tap. The grocery planner side of the app turns a chaotic week into a routine: recurring lists rebuild your weekly, biweekly or monthly shop automatically, a pantry tracker counts what is already at home and highlights items running low, and a reminder on any list nudges you before you head out. Repeating items like cleaning supplies come back on a monthly cadence without you adding them by hand each time, and monthly reports show how many items you completed and which categories you buy most. Lists are stored on the device, so the app works without a connection and a phone in a basement freezer aisle still records every check. Any list can be shared as an image, a PDF or plain text. The interface ships in 39 languages with VoiceOver support, designed as a grocery checklist and food list that respects your time and your data. List maker tools cover non-grocery shopping too — hardware runs, pharmacy lists, market stalls — and the same calm grocery list maker logic carries over. It is a grocery shopping companion, not a marketplace, and the data stays where you put it. Unlock with Pro: • Unlimited lists (free: 3) • Medium and large Home Screen widgets • Recurring weekly, biweekly and monthly lists • Unlimited items per list (free: 10) • Unlimited favorites (free: 10) Subscription Pricing & Terms Features require a subscription. Pricing and terms available in-app. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription and free-trial conversion in Settings > Apple ID after purchase. Any unused portion of the free-trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

Screenshots

Vantra Lists4 screens
Simplio Shopping List Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Vantra Lists at weekly against Simplio Shopping List Planner's every 2 months. Vantra Lists also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.5). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Vantra Lists sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Simplio Shopping List Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vantra Lists ships an update weekly, Simplio Shopping List Planner every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Vantra Lists versus Simplio Shopping List Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVantra ListsSimplio Shopping List Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Subscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInverti LtdBahattin Duran

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Vantra Lists

Subscriptions2
  • Vantra Lists Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Vantra Lists Pro - Yearly$19.991 Year
3 purchases

Simplio Shopping List Planner

Subscriptions3
  • Shopping Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Shopping Pro Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Vantra Lists free?
Vantra Lists is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simplio Shopping List Planner free?
Simplio Shopping List Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vantra Lists or Simplio Shopping List Planner have ads?
Neither Vantra Lists nor Simplio Shopping List Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vantra Lists or Simplio Shopping List Planner?
Vantra Lists ships an update weekly, and Simplio Shopping List Planner every 2 months. Most recently, Vantra Lists was updated on November 8, 2026 and Simplio Shopping List Planner on November 8, 2026.

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