Comparison

HomePlot vs Gift List & Ideas

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

Head to head
About

HomePlot

Features
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Keeping track of a homestead, a van build, an RV, or a tiny home usually means a mix of notebooks, phone photos, and spreadsheets that don't talk to each other. HomePlot puts it all in one place, and it works with no signal, because a lot of life off-grid or on the road happens with no signal. Set up your household once: Homestead, Van or Skoolie, RV or Motorhome, or Tiny Home, and HomePlot adapts to fit. RECORDS FOR EVERYTHING YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR Keep a record for each animal, plant, vehicle, and piece of property, with photos, notes, and a timeline of what happened and when. OVER 40 SPECIALIZED LOGS Milking, firewood, rainwater, propane, generator, fuel, compost, greenhouse, mushroom, sap, forage, canning, seed swap, well level, water testing, water filter changes, predator sightings, trail cam, nesting box, fence inspection, cover crop, aquaponics, chemical and spray applications (with re-entry and pre-harvest interval safety built in), and a build journal for anything you're constructing. ON THE ROAD Boondocking spots, overnight parking, dump stations, tire pressure, low bridges, road hazards, cell signal, internet speed, and meetups, logged as you go. MONEY Track costs and income by category so the year actually adds up, whether that's feed and fuel or fencing and fabrication supplies. FAMILY A shared family board for tasks, chores, notes, and voice notes. Child profiles get a simplified screen of their own. SAFETY A wellness check-in works like a dead man's switch: miss a check-in and the people you've nominated are notified. It's built for anyone who lives alone or travels alone. Emergency numbers for 24 countries are stored offline, with your coordinates ready to read out or send. ALSO INCLUDED A recipe book and a detector test log for smoke and CO alarms. HomePlot works offline. Everything you enter with no signal is saved on your device and syncs when you're back in range. HomePlot is free to use. Paid tiers add photo albums, an offline map of your places with satellite imagery, weather and frost alerts, push notifications, breeding and herd health records, pasture rotation, equipment and loan tracking, profit and loss reporting, invoicing, and more, in plans sized to how big your operation is. All paid tiers are auto-renewing subscriptions billed monthly, every 6 months, or yearly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://dirtdreamsoffgrid.com/end-user-license-agreement-eula/ Privacy Policy: https://dirtdreamsoffgrid.com/privacy/

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Gift List & Ideas

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A place to put a gift idea the moment you hear it, against the person you heard it from. Someone mentions what they want in March. You will not remember in December. Save it in three taps and stop trying to. NO ACCOUNT. NO SERVER OF OURS. Everything lives on your device and, if you want it to, in your own iCloud. Sync is free and starts off: turn it on and a new phone does not mean starting over. There is no login to expire and nothing of ours that can lose your list. Export all of it, any time, free. THREE TAPS FROM A COLD DEVICE Open, type the idea, pick the person. Price, link, photo and notes are there when you want them and skipped when you do not. EVERY DATE, COUNTED DOWN Birthdays, anniversaries, and anything else that comes round every year. See who is next and how long you have. ONE REMINDER A MORNING, AT MOST A digest of what is coming up and who still has nothing against their name. You choose how many days of warning you want. LISTS FOR AN OCCASION Build a list for Christmas, a birthday or a wedding, give it a budget, and see what you planned against what you actually spent. WHAT YOU GAVE, AND WHEN Mark an idea as given and it joins your history, by year, so you never repeat a gift by accident. NOT SHARED WITH ANYONE No wishlists, no registries, no lists other people can see. What you save is yours alone, and that will not change. NOT A CHRISTMAS APP It is as useful in March as in December, and it looks the same in both. FREE Five people, one occasion list, unlimited ideas, reminders, iCloud sync, Siri and Shortcuts, the share sheet, and export of everything, forever. WORKS WHERE YOU DO iPhone, iPad and Mac, one purchase for all three. Ask Siri to add a gift idea. Save from any app with the share sheet. People and ideas turn up in Spotlight. GIFTS PRO, ONE PURCHASE Unlimited people, unlimited occasion lists, widgets and quick capture, budgets and spend, photo attachments, every year of history, eight themes and nine app icons. No subscription. FROM WARESHQ WaresHQ builds practical apps that solve modern problems. They all work the same way: on your own device, with no account to create, one purchase instead of a subscription, and everything you put in exportable at any time. wareshq.com Privacy: Gift List & Ideas collects no data. The only network traffic is your own iCloud, which you can turn off. The App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because that is the truth.

Screenshots

HomePlot4 screens
Gift List & Ideas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: HomePlot at 15.0 against Gift List & Ideas's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. HomePlot sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Gift List & Ideas sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
HomePlot versus Gift List & Ideas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomePlotGift List & Ideas
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDailyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size27 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKendell CesarJoseph Spurrier

In-app purchases

10 purchases

HomePlot

Subscriptions10
  • Small Business7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Growing Operation7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Homestead (6 Months)$26.996 Months
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  • Commercial$29.991 Month
  • Small Business (6 Months)$42.996 Months
  • Small Business (Annual)$69.991 Year
  • Growing Operation (6 Months)$79.996 Months
  • Growing Operation (Annual)$129.991 Year
  • Commercial (6 Months)$159.996 Months
  • Commercial (Annual)$269.991 Year
1 purchases

Gift List & Ideas

One-time1
  • Gifts Pro$7.99

Questions

Is HomePlot free?
HomePlot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gift List & Ideas free?
Gift List & Ideas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HomePlot or Gift List & Ideas have ads?
Neither HomePlot nor Gift List & Ideas shows ads.

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