Comparison

Trunk vs PackOnce

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

Head to head
About

Trunk

This app helps you organize your travel preparations by creating personalized packing lists. It allows you to track your packing progress for specific trips, manage your travel essentials, and customize item categories to ensure you don't forget anything.

Highlights
  • Personalized trip creation
  • Item and bag inventory management
  • Trip-specific packing lists
  • Packing progress tracking
  • Customizable item categories
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Stop re-making the same packing list every trip. Trunk lets you build a list once, reuse it anywhere, and check off every item with live weather for your destination — so you never leave something behind. WHY TRUNK • Reusable lists — build your go-to list once, load it for any trip • Trip-specific packing — dates, destinations, and day-by-day planning • Live forecasts — see destination weather for single- and multi-stop trips • Bags & inventory — track what you own and which bag it goes in • Progress tracking — watch each trip go from packed-nothing to ready-to-go • Custom categories — toiletries, clothing, gear, and your own BUILT FOR REAL TRIPS Weekend getaway, two-week vacation, or a multi-city itinerary — Trunk adapts to the trip instead of forcing you into a template. Travel lighter, pack faster, and stop forgetting the charger.

About

PackOnce

Create reusable packing lists for any trip, from business to beach. Organize your essentials, generate trip-specific checklists, and ensure you pack everything needed for your journey and for returning home. Lists save locally and work offline for privacy and convenience.

Highlights
  • Reusable packing lists
  • Trip-specific checklists
  • Offline functionality
  • Local data saving
  • Packing progress tracking
  • Shareable text copies
  • Packing to go home mode
Features
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Pack once. Ready every time. A little less “what am I forgetting?” A lot more looking forward to the trip. PackOnce helps you build reusable packing lists, turn them into fresh trip checklists, and bring everything home again. Start with a personal packing plan Get to know PackOnce through an interactive 12-step setup. Choose your travel style, trip length, and packing party. Try saving a sample list, combining lists, checking off essentials, and packing for home. Name your first adventure, review your plan, then choose a subscription to unlock your personalized list and trip. Your lists. Every adventure. Keep the essentials you trust and reuse them for business trips, beach escapes, family visits, and weekends away. Rename, edit, group, and reorder items your way. Each trip gets its own checklist, so changing a trip does not change your original saved list. Bring lists together Work trip with a beach day? Import a saved list into your trip and keep everything in one clear checklist. Your original lists stay ready for next time. A checklist that stays put Check off items without moving them around. See your packing progress, hide checked items to focus on what is left, quick-add something you forgot, undo deletions, and share a clean text copy. Suggested quantities can scale by days or travelers, and you can change any suggestion. Every trip, its own look Pick a style for each trip, such as beach, city, business, outdoors or family, and watch it appear on your trip cards and checklist. Check the last item for a small celebration, and finish a trip to add a stamp to your PackOnce passport. Add a departure date for a countdown and an optional reminder the evening before, keep your next trip on your Home Screen or Lock Screen with widgets, share any list as a designed image, and choose an app icon you like. Bring it all home The trip may be ending. Your checklist still has a job. Switch to “Packing to go home” to clear the checkmarks and make sure the charger, jacket, and other essentials get a return ticket too. Calm by design. Private by default. Choose a warm light theme or a deep dark theme. Packing lists save locally and work offline. When available, your private iCloud account keeps them up to date across your devices. No PackOnce account, ads, analytics, or tracking. Subscription access PackOnce requires an active subscription after onboarding. Choose Monthly or Yearly; both plans include unlimited trips and reusable saved lists. The App Store displays your localized price and full billing period before purchase. There is no free trial or free-trip access. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in App Store settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period. If access expires, your saved packing data is retained and an active subscription is required to open the workspace again. Already purchased lifetime access? Your verified lifetime purchase continues to unlock PackOnce without a subscription. Use Restore on the subscription screen if needed. Privacy Policy: https://packonce.cerebraenterprises.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://packonce.cerebraenterprises.com/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Trunk4 screens
PackOnce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trunk at none against PackOnce's 3. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. PackOnce sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Trunk asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Trunk against 5.0 for PackOnce. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trunk ships an update every 2 weeks, PackOnce every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Trunk versus PackOnce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrunkPackOnce
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyan ClewisCerebra Enterprises, LLC

Customer experience

Trunk

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PackOnce

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Trunk

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

PackOnce

Subscriptions2
  • PackOnce Monthly$2.991 Month
  • PackOnce Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • PackOnce Lifetime Access$9.99

Questions

Is Trunk free?
Trunk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PackOnce free?
PackOnce is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Trunk or PackOnce?
Trunk and PackOnce are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Trunk or PackOnce have ads?
Neither Trunk nor PackOnce shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trunk or PackOnce?
Trunk ships an update every 2 weeks, and PackOnce every 8 days. Most recently, Trunk was updated on October 30, 2026 and PackOnce on October 31, 2026.

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