Basic Checklist vs Life Lists
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic Checklist
Create unlimited checklists for groceries, to-dos, or any organizational need. This free, ad-free app helps you stay organized and track accomplishments by crossing items off your lists.
- Unlimited checklist creation
- Ad-free experience
- Grocery list organizer
- To-do list management
- Track accomplishments
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Free and with no ads, this basic checklist allows you to create any number of checklists for the grocery store, supplies, to-dos, or anything else to keep you organized. If you're like me, crossing things off a list means you've accomplished something. Enjoy this free app to help make your productivity even more productive. Give it a try and see if it can work for you.
Life Lists
This app helps you organize everything in your life with customizable checklists, notes, habit trackers, and more. It offers advanced features like subtasks, sections, and visual customization with icons and colors. Keep your data private locally or sync across Apple devices.
- Customizable checklists and notes
- Habit tracking for recurring tasks
- Workout logging and tracking
- Budgeting and cost calculation
- Visual customization with icons and colors
- Syncing across Apple devices
- Collaboration on lists
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Life Lists is one place for everything in your life — lists, notes, habits, budgets and plans — with an AI assistant that keeps it organized. ASK, AND KEEP THE ANSWER • Ask anything. Answers come back as clear cards: a verdict, an estimate you can adjust, steps, comparisons, diagrams. • Turn an answer into something you own — a checklist, a budget, a pro/con list, habits — filed in the right folder. • Snap a photo of a listing, a receipt or a product and get the answer it implies: is it a good deal, how do we split the bill, what's next? • Research in depth: one sentence becomes a folder with an overview, budget, plan, options and sources. • Talk instead of typing with voice chat. • The chat knows your lists and updates them: "add milk and eggs", "what's left to pack?" ORGANIZED FOR YOU • A folder for each part of your life — Health, Home, Work, Family — with what you're working on at the top. • Organize automatically tidies as you go: related lists grouped, empty ones put away, every change one tap to undo. • A dashboard for your day: what's due, what's late, your habits and the weather. EVERY KIND OF LIST • Checklists, prioritized and numbered lists, sections • Groceries that sort themselves by aisle • Habits with streaks, reminders and packing lists • Notes, notebooks, a journal and stickies • Budgets that add up, weighted pro/con lists, side-by-side comparisons • People lists for birthdays and the details that matter • Tools beside your lists: timer, stopwatch, focus mode, counter, breathing, voice memos and meeting notes EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, plus home screen widgets • Sync with iCloud and share lists with family and friends — or keep everything on your device • 500+ icons and colors, unlimited lists, no ads YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE • Your lists live on your device and, if you choose, in your iCloud. • AI features send what you ask to our AI providers only after you allow it. Turn AI off anytime and Life Lists works as a classic list app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Life Lists at weekly against Basic Checklist's every 26 months. Life Lists also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 21). Basic Checklist's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 74%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Life Lists holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life Lists has 1.8K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Basic Checklist's written reviews are positive against 74% of Life Lists's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Basic Checklist ships an update every 26 months, Life Lists weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic Checklist | Life Lists |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (21 ratings) | 4.6 (1.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 73.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Derek Carter | DG Apps, Inc. |
Customer experience
Basic Checklist
Life Lists
Bugs and requests
Basic Checklist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Life Lists
Reported bugs
4 issues- Lists disappearing or getting corrupted
- Inability to paste text into list items
- Unexpected list item reordering
- Crash when trying to create new lists
Requested features
5 requests- Recurring reminders or to-do items
- Ability to sort lists manually
- Cross-device syncing and sharing
- Password protection for sensitive lists
- iPad and landscape mode support
In-app purchases
Basic Checklist
No in-app purchases
Life Lists
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Basic Checklist free?
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