PackRat & Go vs Carrywise Packing Lists
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PackRat & Go
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Pack Rat keeps your packing stress-free. Organize everything you're bringing by day, by event, and by bag, so nothing gets left behind. Whether you're packing for a weekend trip or a two-week vacation, Pack Rat gives you a day-by-day structure to plan exactly what goes in your bag for every occasion. ORGANIZE BY TRIP - Set your destination, travel dates, and notes in one place. Pack Rat automatically builds out your packing days so you can start adding items right away. PACK BY DAY & EVENT - Create events for each day — a flight, a beach afternoon, a dinner out — and track the specific items you need for each one. PACK BY BAG - Assign items to specific bags so you always know where everything is when you're heading out the door. BUILT FOR REAL TRAVEL • Day-by-day packing breakdown • Event-based item tracking • Organize items by bag • Trip notes • Dark mode • Full VoiceOver and accessibility support Sign in with Apple or create an account to save and manage all your trips.
Carrywise Packing Lists
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Carrywise Packing Lists at none against PackRat & Go's shown. PackRat & Go's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PackRat & Go ships an update every 10 days, Carrywise Packing Lists every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PackRat & Go | Carrywise Packing Lists |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Isabel Laurenceau | Shane Young |
In-app purchases
PackRat & Go
No in-app purchases
Carrywise Packing Lists
No in-app purchases
Questions
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