Comparison

PearList vs Draft Light

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

Head to head
About

PearList

Effortlessly manage shared household lists like groceries, to-dos, and chores. Sync changes directly between devices without needing an account or relying on external servers. Assign tasks to household members to create a shared chore board.

Highlights
  • Multiple shared lists per household
  • Add, check, rename, assign, and delete items
  • Assign items as chores
  • Join by QR code or invite link
  • Offline functionality with sync
  • Open source and private by design
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PearList keeps your household's shared lists in sync across everyone's phones, with no account, no server and no company in the middle. Make a grocery list, a to-do list or a chore board. Anyone in your household can add items, check them off, rename them, assign them and delete them, and every change syncs directly between your phones. Assign an item to a person and any list doubles as a shared chore board. There is no sign-up and no login. You join a household by scanning a QR code or tapping an invite link. From then on everyone sees and edits the same lists. Because PearList is peer-to-peer, your lists live only on your devices. They are never uploaded to a server, so no company can read them, sell them or lose them in a breach. Everything syncs encrypted, directly device to device. Features - Multiple shared lists per household: groceries, to-dos, chores - Add, check, rename, assign and delete items, synced to everyone - Assign items to a person to use any list as a chore board - Join by QR code or invite link, no account needed - Works offline, syncs when your devices are online together - Open source and private by design: no account, no ads, no tracking PearList is fully open source: https://github.com/peerloomllc/pearlist

About

Draft Light

Features
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Write notes, journals, and stories in a quiet Markdown editor. Draft Light gives you unlimited drafts, clean reading, and tools to keep your writing organized. Open it and write at once—no account, no signup, and no limit on drafts. WRITE FREE • Create, edit, pin, categorize, search, count, and share unlimited drafts. • Format with Markdown headings, bold, italics, strikethrough, links, lists, and tables, then read cleanly with the marks hidden. • Fold sections in long drafts. • Link drafts, follow backlinks, and use a table of contents. • Sketch on iPad with Apple Pencil and an extendable canvas. • Save web links and selected text from the share sheet on iPhone and iPad. • Append Apple Watch dictation to a recent draft on your paired iPhone. • Create drafts with Siri and Shortcuts. • Write in every script, including right-to-left languages. • Export plain text, Markdown, TextBundle, rich text, and Draftlight files, or use the system share sheet. DRAFTLIGHT PRO — One non-consumable in-app purchase unlocks all eight Pro tools below. No subscription. See your local price in the app. • Sync through your private iCloud account across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. • Encrypt individual drafts with your own password. Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID, Optic ID, or your device passcode/login password, depending on your device. • Export HTML, DOCX, PDF, JPG, and ePub. • Search text recognized inside attached images and PDFs. • Find drafts with Apple Spotlight, @todo, @images, and @yesterday. • Choose installed fonts for body text, headings, and code, plus line height, writing width, and paragraph spacing. • Use multi-word and nested tags, pin tags, and give tags icons. • Keep tasks inside drafts and open one view of every draft that contains tasks. YOUR WRITING, YOUR CHOICE No Myworkingmemory account is required. Drafts are stored on your device by default. Pro iCloud sync uses your Apple iCloud account. Optional product-use analytics remains off unless you choose it and does not include your draft content. Apple Pencil requires a compatible iPad and Pencil. Spotlight excludes locked drafts and is disabled while app lock is enabled. Existing paid-app buyers receive Pro after Apple verifies their earlier purchase. Privacy: https://www.myworkingmemory.ai/draftlight-privacy.html Terms: https://www.myworkingmemory.ai/draftlight-terms.html

Screenshots

PearList4 screens
Draft Light4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PearList at every 5 days against Draft Light's every 2 months. PearList also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Draft Light's advantage is device support (5 vs 2). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

PearList ships an update every 5 days, Draft Light every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PearList versus Draft Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPearListDraft Light
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB5 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTimothy HudginsMyworkingmemory LLC

In-app purchases

None

PearList

No in-app purchases

None

Draft Light

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PearList free?
PearList is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Draft Light free?
Draft Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PearList or Draft Light have ads?
Neither PearList nor Draft Light shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PearList or Draft Light?
PearList ships an update every 5 days, and Draft Light every 2 months. Most recently, PearList was updated on October 12, 2026 and Draft Light on October 2, 2026.

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