Packing List & Trip Planner vs FlightDial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Packing List & Trip Planner
Create and manage packing lists for any trip, from camping to city breaks. Get smart suggestions, track progress, and customize categories. Premium features include multiple lists, PDF export, and reminders.
- Smart item suggestions
- Check off items
- Customizable categories with emoji/color
- Dark Mode
- Progress tracking
- Multiple lists (Premium)
- PDF export (Premium)
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Never forget a thing again. Describe your trip in one sentence, typed or dictated, and Packliste builds the list that fits. Or take the few steps where the assistant asks about lodging, activities and how long you’re gone. Then check off what’s in the suitcase and see at a glance what’s still missing. Start right away - Your first list is free, ready for camping, the beach, a camper trip or a city trip - Suggestions while you type: a few letters are enough - Your own categories with emoji and color, rename and reorder items - Progress per category and for the whole list - Overview with a large card for the next trip, as a grid or a list - Dark mode, easy on the eyes in the tent at night - For iPhone and iPad, and on iPad the overview and list sit side by side New in 4.0 - Your trip in your own words: “ten days in a camper in Sweden with two kids” turns into a finished list. With Apple Intelligence, on device. - Dictate instead of typing - Trip weather from Apple Weather, right above the list - An archive for past trips, reusable with one tap - iPad in landscape, with your own column count Everything you need (Premium) Pay once, pack forever. No subscription. - Multiple lists, one per trip - Share a list: pack together from one list and see live what’s already in - Packing assistant for lodging, activities, duration and party size - Templates for camping, beach, city break, skiing, camper, caravan, vacation rental, festival, theme park and family - Weather and climate feed into the suggestions - Quantities per entry: “2× pants” instead of the same line twice - PDF export for printing and passing on - Reminders 7, 3 and 1 day before departure - Countdown, Live Activity and widgets for home screen and lock screen - My Things and Library: whatever always comes along is already there Two kinds of sharing Sharing a list means several people pack from the same list. Family Sharing means your Premium purchase covers up to 5 family members. Lists stay separate until you explicitly share one. What Premium costs One payment. Decide within the first 48 hours after setup and you get the reduced introductory price. No subscription, no follow-up costs. Your data is yours Your lists stay private and sync through your own iCloud account, with no separate sign-in. Text understanding runs on device. No ads, no tracking across apps. Your next vacation starts with a good list.
FlightDial
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FlightDial turns your wrist into a radar screen. Real aircraft, live from community ADS-B data, drawn on an analog dial at their true bearing and distance from you. The dial turns with your compass, so a plane at 10 o’clock on screen is at 10 o’clock in the sky. One crossing the centre is about to pass overhead, and FlightDial taps you when it will. • Live traffic on a clean analog dial, over a terrain map • Turn the Digital Crown to zoom from 2 to 50 km • Tap a plane for its registration, type, altitude, speed, distance and bearing • A complication showing how many aircraft are near you • A haptic when something is about to pass overhead • Watch Heathrow’s traffic any time, free FlightDial World unlocks any sky on earth: search a city or airport and keep it as its own dial. Live traffic: ADSB.lol community data (ODbL).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FlightDial at none against Packing List & Trip Planner's 2. FlightDial also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Packing List & Trip Planner sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. FlightDial asks for nothing beyond the download.
Packing List & Trip Planner ships an update weekly, FlightDial every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Packing List & Trip Planner | FlightDial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Remo Adams-Schonfeld | Mishigo OU |
In-app purchases
Packing List & Trip Planner
- Premium$2.99
- Packliste Premium$3.99
FlightDial
No in-app purchases
Questions
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