Comparison

squiggle vs Unpack

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

Head to head
About

squiggle

Features
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Squiggle - Your Lists Sidekick Squiggle is the beautifully designed list app for everything: groceries, tasks, packing lists, wishlists, and whatever else is living rent-free in your head. Built with a hand-drawn, doodle-style feel that makes organising actually enjoyable. AI-Powered Features Let AI do the heavy lifting. Magic Add turns a quick thought ("dinner party for 8") into a full, organised list in seconds. Smart Sort groups your items by category so you move through a store without backtracking. AI Create builds an entire list from a single prompt. Lists, Your Way Create lists with custom emoji, pastel colours, and a hand-drawn card design. Star your favourites to pin them to the top. Archive lists you don't need right now; they're always there when you do. Save any list as a reusable template. Reminders That Actually Work Set a time-based reminder or a location reminder that fires when you arrive near a store or place. Squiggle uses geofencing so you never forget the one thing you needed to pick up on the way home. Collaborate in Real Time Share any list with friends, family, or teammates. Collaborators see changes instantly. Get push notifications when someone adds or checks off an item, without the noise of every single update. Home Screen Widget Add the Squiggle widget to your home screen and see your active list at a glance. Tap any item to jump straight into the app. Cloud or Local, You Choose Sign in to sync up to 50 lists across your devices. Prefer to keep things private? Switch to device-only storage, no account required. You can even use Squiggle as a guest without creating an account at all. 4 Languages English, Arabic, French, and Finnish, with full right-to-left support. Squiggle is supported by non-intrusive ads. No paywalled core features, no subscription required to get things done.

About

Unpack

Capture your life's moments with this journaling app. Log thoughts, track moods, save photos, and organize memories using tags. It offers a flexible, unstructured approach to documenting your experiences, making it easy to revisit your past.

Highlights
  • Quick journaling for thoughts and moods
  • Tag entries for automatic collection building
  • Photo journaling for visual memories
  • Flexible use as diary, planner, or tracker
  • Unstructured writing with no minimum length
  • Effortless life capturing and meaningful revisiting
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A journaling app to capture life as it happens — track moods, write notes, save photos, and organize your memories with tags. Key features: • Quick journaling for thoughts, moods, and moments • Tag entries to build collections automatically • Photo journaling to capture memories visually • Flexible: use as a diary, planner, or life tracker • No rigid structure — write as little or as much as you want Unpack is built for the moments you don’t want to lose — big or small, planned or spontaneous. Jot down a quick thought, log your mood, save a photo, or outline what’s next. Everything goes in as easily as it comes to you. Instead of forcing your life into rigid entries, you can tag anything you add. Over time, those tags turn into living collections: your trips, ideas, routines, phases, and memories automatically organized and easy to revisit. Use it as a journal, a mood tracker, a planning space, or all of the above. However you use it, the goal is simple: make capturing your life effortless, and make coming back to it meaningful. No pressure to write long entries. No complicated structure. Just capture, tag, and let your story take shape. -- Privacy Policy: https://and.notion.site/Unpack-Privacy-Policy-341eb9a83adb80388687f064070e877c EULA: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

squiggle4 screens
Unpack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: squiggle at none against Unpack's 2. squiggle also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26). Unpack's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and update cadence 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. Unpack sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. squiggle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

squiggle ships an update every 8 days, Unpack weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
squiggle versus Unpack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametersquiggleUnpack
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKhaled AbbesAndriy Gordiyenko

In-app purchases

None

squiggle

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Unpack

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is squiggle free?
squiggle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Unpack free?
Unpack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do squiggle or Unpack have ads?
squiggle shows ads; Unpack does not.
Which is updated more often, squiggle or Unpack?
squiggle ships an update every 8 days, and Unpack weekly. Most recently, squiggle was updated on October 31, 2026 and Unpack on October 31, 2026.

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