CheckList vs Noteka
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CheckList
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CheckList is a versatile app for creating all kinds of lists. Plan your shopping, pack for trips, organize household chores, work tasks, ideas, celebrations, recipes, pantry supplies, renovations, moving, and much more. Create your own lists from scratch or use the ready-made online catalog with 1000+ items, conveniently organized into categories. Add items in seconds by typing just the first few letters, import lists from photos and the clipboard, rearrange them with simple drag and drop, set reminders, and mark items as completed with a double tap. Keep everything important in one place and reuse lists from your history. Build your own catalog, add items one by one or all at once, organize them into categories, and label them with colors. Customize the app to match your needs by choosing patterns and interface colors, and changing the app icon. Simplicity and ease of use are at the core of CheckList’s design. Almost every action can be performed with simple gestures, taps, and swipes, without complicated menus or unnecessary confirmations. Every feature is designed to make creating, editing, and managing lists fast, intuitive, and convenient for both everyday tasks and long-term planning. Features: • The app interface is available in 20 languages. • Ready-made catalog with 1000+ items and online updates. • Online catalogs continue to grow with new localizations. • Sync across all your devices with iCloud. • Unlimited lists and items. • Quickly switch between your lists. • Color labels for list items and catalog entries. • Progress indicator for every list. • Quickly add items by typing just the first few letters. • Import lists from the camera, photos, and clipboard. • Flexible catalog search by prefix or partial match. • Manually reorder items with drag and drop. • Quick color selection by tapping the color label. • Set quantities for individual list items. • Reminders for list items with easy management. • Protect individual items from accidental changes. • Group list items using different criteria. • Move completed lists and categories to history. • Convenient history search and list reuse. • Quickly share lists with family and friends. • Mark items as done with a double tap. • Support for one-time and reusable lists. • Choose catalog categories for each list. • Individual settings for each list. • Protect individual lists from accidental deletion. • Create your own items and categories. • Search the catalog within a selected category. • Bulk add items to the catalog using a separator. • Customize appearance with patterns, colors, and gradients. • Change the app icon to match your needs. -- From the Developer: I originally created this app for my wife after I noticed that she was making grocery lists for our home every day in the Notes app. Every time, she either started a new list from scratch or edited an old one, manually adding new items and removing the ones she no longer needed. Day after day, I watched her go through the same routine until one day I decided to find her an app with a ready-made catalog where she could create lists on the fly just by typing the first few letters and quickly check off purchases right there in the supermarket. But that turned out to be harder than I expected, as the apps I found felt inconvenient and poorly designed, and their ready-made catalogs were either missing or too limited and impractical. So I decided to build my own app without those shortcomings. After a lot of hard work, the result was CheckList, a lightweight, easy-to-use, and thoughtfully designed checklist app with a catalog for groceries and everyday shopping. But then my wife surprised me again. As we were getting ready for another trip, I found her making a packing list... and once again, she was doing it in Notes. And you can probably guess what happened next... -- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Noteka
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Noteka is a notepad that never goes online. Your notes live in one file on your phone and nowhere else. No account, no sign-in, no sync, no server, no analytics. Turn on airplane mode and everything works exactly the same. LOCK IT Set a PIN, or use your fingerprint or face. The PIN itself is never stored — only a salted hash of it, and that never leaves your device. Decide whether Noteka locks the moment you put it down, or a few minutes later. NOTES AND CHECKLISTS Write freely, or tick things off. Both are the same kind of note, so a shopping list turns into a paragraph and back with one tap. Press and drag a card to reorder it, in list or grid view, and drag items inside a checklist. REMINDERS THAT ACTUALLY ARRIVE Pick a date and time. Repeat once, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. They fire on the minute you chose, with no internet, and they survive a restart. TIMER Quick presets, or set hours, minutes and seconds exactly. The alert reaches you even with the app closed. KEEP IT TIDY Folders, pinned notes, seven card colours, an archive, search, and four ways to sort — including an order you drag into place yourself. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Türkçe, Español, Português, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Русский, العربية, हिन्दी, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, 한국어, 中文 and Nederlands. Noteka opens in your phone's language on its own. NOTEKA PRO — ONE PAYMENT, NO SUBSCRIPTION The free version holds up to 30 notes, 3 reminders and 3 folders. Pro lifts every limit and adds backup and restore: one file with everything in it, saved wherever you choose. Because Noteka never uploads anything, that file is the only copy of your notes outside this phone. Notes you have already written stay readable and editable forever, with or without Pro. No subscription. No ads. No tracking. Nothing leaves your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Noteka at 15.0 against CheckList's 18.5. 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
Both are free to download. CheckList sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Noteka sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | CheckList | Noteka |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pavel Vatulin | Furkan Demirci |
In-app purchases
CheckList
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$9.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$29.99
Noteka
- Noteka Pro$4.99









