Comparison

PackRat & Go 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

PackRat & Go

Features
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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.

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

PackRat & Go4 screens
Carrywise Packing Lists3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
PackRat & Go versus Carrywise Packing Lists: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPackRat & GoCarrywise Packing Lists
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsabel LaurenceauShane Young

In-app purchases

None

PackRat & Go

No in-app purchases

None

Carrywise Packing Lists

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PackRat & Go free?
PackRat & Go 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 PackRat & Go or Carrywise Packing Lists have ads?
PackRat & Go shows ads; Carrywise Packing Lists does not.
Which is updated more often, PackRat & Go or Carrywise Packing Lists?
PackRat & Go ships an update every 10 days, and Carrywise Packing Lists every 2 months. Most recently, PackRat & Go was updated on October 31, 2026 and Carrywise Packing Lists on November 5, 2026.

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