Comparison

FastPack vs Packtale

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

Head to head
About

FastPack

Features
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FastPack is a smarter way to build and manage packing lists for travel. Create organized packing lists, group items by category, and check things off as you pack. Reuse your best lists as templates, copy items between trips, and keep everything tidy with pinned and archived lists. Traveling with family or friends? FastPack makes group packing easier with shared spaces and member-specific packing. Assign items to each person and track exactly who has packed what. FastPack also helps you stay ahead of your trip with notes, due dates, search, filters, and iPhone reminders, so your packing list stays useful from planning to departure. Whether you pack for weekend getaways, family vacations, or repeat business trips, FastPack helps you pack faster and forget less. This app allows you to try it out for 7 days. Just sign up for a subscription, then cancel within 7 days if you are not happy with it. No billing will be done if you cancel during that period. FastPack offers monthly and yearly auto-renewable subscriptions after a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at purchase confirmation. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel at any time in your Apple ID Account Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kodsam.se/fastpack-privacy.html

About

Packtale

Features
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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.

Screenshots

FastPack4 screens
Packtale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Packtale at none against FastPack's 2. Packtale also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). FastPack's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FastPack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Packtale asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FastPack ships an update every 3 weeks, Packtale every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
FastPack versus Packtale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFastPackPacktale
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKodsam ABWai Yin Ng

In-app purchases

2 purchases

FastPack

Subscriptions2
  • FastPack — Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • FastPack — 1 Year7 Days trial$4.991 Year
None

Packtale

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FastPack free?
FastPack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Packtale free?
Packtale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FastPack or Packtale have ads?
Neither FastPack nor Packtale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FastPack or Packtale?
FastPack ships an update every 3 weeks, and Packtale every 3 days. Most recently, FastPack was updated on October 5, 2026 and Packtale on September 30, 2026.

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