listam vs PearList
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
listam
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A minimalist P2P grocery list app. It's fully open source and verifiable, many powerful features incoming!
PearList
Effortlessly manage shared household lists like groceries, to-dos, and chores. Sync changes directly between devices without needing an account or relying on external servers. Assign tasks to household members to create a shared chore board.
- Multiple shared lists per household
- Add, check, rename, assign, and delete items
- Assign items as chores
- Join by QR code or invite link
- Offline functionality with sync
- Open source and private by design
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PearList keeps your household's shared lists in sync across everyone's phones, with no account, no server and no company in the middle. Make a grocery list, a to-do list or a chore board. Anyone in your household can add items, check them off, rename them, assign them and delete them, and every change syncs directly between your phones. Assign an item to a person and any list doubles as a shared chore board. There is no sign-up and no login. You join a household by scanning a QR code or tapping an invite link. From then on everyone sees and edits the same lists. Because PearList is peer-to-peer, your lists live only on your devices. They are never uploaded to a server, so no company can read them, sell them or lose them in a breach. Everything syncs encrypted, directly device to device. Features - Multiple shared lists per household: groceries, to-dos, chores - Add, check, rename, assign and delete items, synced to everyone - Assign items to a person to use any list as a chore board - Join by QR code or invite link, no account needed - Works offline, syncs when your devices are online together - Open source and private by design: no account, no ads, no tracking PearList is fully open source: https://github.com/peerloomllc/pearlist
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PearList at every 5 days against listam's every 6 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
listam ships an update every 6 weeks, PearList every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | listam | PearList |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | francesco romeo | Timothy Hudgins |
In-app purchases
listam
No in-app purchases
PearList
No in-app purchases









