Comparison

PlanMyPack vs Carrywise Packing Lists

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

Head to head
About

PlanMyPack

Features
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PlanMyPack helps you decide exactly what to pack for every trip. Create trips with destinations, dates, and notes, then build packing lists for each travel segment. Organize your luggage into containers like suitcases, backpacks, or bags, and add items with quantities so nothing gets forgotten. Plan your trip by day or event, including outfits, accessories, and essentials. Then assign those items to your luggage or add them to your To Get list if you still need to buy or prepare them. PlanMyPack is focused on one thing: making packing easier, clearer, and less stressful. Key features: - Create and manage trips - Build outbound and return packing lists - Organize items by suitcase, backpack, or bag - Add, move, reorder, and update item quantities - Plan clothing and essentials by day or event - Track items you still need to get - Move completed items into your packing list Pack with confidence, stay organized, and prepare every trip with less friction.

About

Carrywise Packing Lists

Features
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Carrywise Packing Lists helps you organize reusable trip checklists with sections, quantities, categories, packed states, and completion progress. Start blank, reuse a saved template, or open Starter Builder in the trip editor. Choose Weekend, Business, or Outdoors; select a Warm, Cool, or Mixed climate; and set the number of days. Carrywise uses bundled on-device rules to propose an editable checklist. Append only missing items, or explicitly confirm before replacing a checklist. Matching items keep their packed state. Create and edit every item, assign it to Carry-on, Checked bag, Personal item, or your own bag name, and filter the checklist by bag without changing overall progress. Group items by section, mark what is packed, and save useful lists as templates for the next trip. The history view keeps previous lists and lightweight summaries from your entries so you can reuse what worked. Everything works locally on this iPhone. Starter Builder is rule-based and works offline. There are no accounts, external analytics, cloud services, or paid features in the launch release.

Screenshots

PlanMyPack4 screens
Carrywise Packing Lists3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PlanMyPack at 15.1 against Carrywise Packing Lists's 17.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
PlanMyPack versus Carrywise Packing Lists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanMyPackCarrywise Packing Lists
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEDGAR ALEJANDRO CANTU ZAVALAShane Young

In-app purchases

None

PlanMyPack

No in-app purchases

None

Carrywise Packing Lists

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PlanMyPack free?
PlanMyPack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Carrywise Packing Lists free?
Carrywise Packing Lists is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PlanMyPack or Carrywise Packing Lists have ads?
Neither PlanMyPack nor Carrywise Packing Lists shows ads.

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