Trip Packing List vs Packtale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trip Packing List
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Trip Packing List helps you prepare what to pack before a trip. Enter your destination, travel dates, trip length, and who’s going, and get suggested items and reminders. Designed for real trips: • Destination-aware suggestions • Adjusted for trip length and people • Simple, editable packing lists No accounts. No clutter. Just pack and go. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Packtale
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Packing isn't a chore. It's the first page of the trip. Packtale is a packing list that feels like a travel journal: soft paper pages, washi-tape category headers, and items that gently melt into the page as you check them off. Pack the last one, and the page quietly celebrates with you. Suggestions that check the weather Tell Packtale where you're going and when, and it drafts your list for you — from the real forecast when departure is within two weeks, from seasonal averages when it's further out. Any destination in the world works. If rain is likely, the umbrella is already on the list. Made for the way you actually pack Season, rain and activity tags shape what gets suggested, and everyday items scale with the length of your trip — six days, six pairs of socks. Every category and every item is yours to rename, reorder, recolour or remove; nothing is locked. Pack once, reuse forever Save any trip as a template and start the next one in seconds. Pick your departure and return dates, and Packtale reminds you the evening before you leave — right when packing actually happens. Two languages, one notebook The whole app speaks English and Traditional Chinese, down to the item names themselves. Yours, and only yours Packtale is free, with no ads, no tracking and no account to create. Your lists live on your device and sync across your own devices through your personal iCloud — we run no servers and can never see your data. It works fully offline, and any list can be shared as plain text when someone else is packing too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Packtale at none against Trip Packing List's 2. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Trip Packing List sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Packtale asks for nothing beyond the download.
Trip Packing List ships an update every 6 days, Packtale every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trip Packing List | Packtale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wuhan smart mofun Technology Co., Ltd. | Wai Yin Ng |
In-app purchases
Trip Packing List
- TravelList Annual3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$29.99
Packtale
No in-app purchases









