Just An Alarm Clock vs Basic Shopping List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Just An Alarm Clock
This utility app provides a straightforward alarm clock experience with customizable colors and fonts. It focuses on simplicity, allowing users to easily set alarms and snooze or dismiss them with simple gestures. The app is free and free of ads or in-app purchases.
- Customizable colors
- Multiple font options
- Easy alarm setting
- Swipe to dismiss alarm
- Tap to snooze alarm
- Ad-free experience
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Just an Alarm Clock is exactly what it sounds like. It's a clock. With an alarm. That's all. You can customize the colors, and choose from several fonts for the clock as well as several alarm tone options. But that's it. No tracking the vernal equinox, no automatically waking you at local sunrise. It's just designed to be easy to use. Set the alarm for the time you want. Swipe anywhere on the screen to make the alarm stop ringing or tap the large alarm bell to snooze. Nothing tricky, because lets face it, you're still mostly asleep when you are trying to operate this thing. Some other things it doesn't include? No pop-up ads, no in-app purchases to unlock the number 7, no annoying quizzes to make you think when you're not even awake yet. It's Just an Alarm Clock. And its free.
Basic Shopping List
Easily create and manage your shopping lists. Quickly add common items with auto-complete and share your lists via SMS or email. Keep track of items already in your cart with a separate list.
- Create and manage shopping lists
- Share lists via SMS or email
- Auto-complete for common items
- Track items in shopping cart
- Reorder items
- Delete individual items
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A simple and easy to use shopping list to help on your everyday shopping. Features: - You can send the shopping list to someone else by SMS or e-mail. - Auto complete allows you to quickly add items common items. - Keeps a separate list with the items that you already have in your shopping cart. - You can delete individual items from both the shopping list and the shopping cart list. - Allows items to be reordered from both the shopping list and the shopping cart list.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Basic Shopping List at 100% against Just An Alarm Clock's 53%. Basic Shopping List also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.8) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Basic Shopping List holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Just An Alarm Clock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basic Shopping List's.
Just An Alarm Clock ships an update every 24 months, Basic Shopping List every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Just An Alarm Clock | Basic Shopping List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (12 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 18 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 8.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BesqWare | Bruno Ferreira |
Customer experience
Just An Alarm Clock
Basic Shopping List
In-app purchases
Just An Alarm Clock
No in-app purchases
Basic Shopping List
No in-app purchases
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