Suru vs Pocket Lists
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Suru
This app helps you organize tasks, projects, and ideas with a flexible, visual interface. Create multi-level checklists, take structured notes, and plan anything from assignments to vacations. Share your work and track productivity with a clean design.
- Multi-level checklists
- Outline creation with photos
- Structured note-taking
- Drag-and-drop reorganization
- Photo attachments
- Real-time collaboration
- PDF export
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Organize tasks, outline ideas, and plan anything with clarity and ease Suru is a flexible, visual tool for creating to-do lists, managing projects, outlining notes, and organizing everything from class assignments to vacation plans. Whether you are brainstorming your next idea or tracking daily tasks, Suru helps you stay structured, focused, and inspired with clean design and powerful features that fit your workflow. With Suru you can: • Create multi-level checklists and break big tasks into smaller ones • Outline papers, presentations, and research with photos and detail • Take clean, structured notes in class, at work, or on the go • Plan vacations, events, or personal goals • Reorganize tasks with drag-and-drop and customize colors • Attach relevant photos directly to your lists • Share outlines and checklists with friends, family, or teammates • Mark tasks complete and track your productivity • Export beautifully formatted PDF outlines With Suru Pro you can: • Create unlimited projects and media attachments • Sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Back up your projects and lists to the cloud • Access exclusive color themes and export formats With Suru Teams you can: • Share and collaborate on lists in real time • Invite others to view or edit projects • Keep everyone on the same page at work, home, or school Why users love Suru: • Clean and intuitive interface • Colorful themes for visual thinkers • Flexible enough for lists, outlines, plans, and notes • Works across all your Apple devices Subscription Info: Suru Pro and Suru Teams are available via monthly or annual subscriptions. Prices may vary by region. Subscriptions are charged to your iTunes account and renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Manage your subscription in iOS Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited upon purchase. Support: support@esotericdevelopment.com Privacy Policy: https://www.esotericdevelopment.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.esotericdevelopment.com/tos
Pocket Lists
Organize your life with a beautifully designed to-do list app. Create checklists, set sophisticated reminders, and collaborate on tasks with others. It's powerful yet easy to use for personal organization and shared projects.
- Cross-device synchronization
- Collaborative list sharing
- Customizable list appearance
- Prioritized to-do stream
- Advanced location-based reminders
- Natural language reminder input
- Calendar view for tasks
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Pocket Lists is a beautifully designed to-do list app for making checklists, focusing on important tasks, sharing & collaborating on to-do lists and tasks with friends and family. The app excels as both an everyday personal to-do list organizer with sophisticated reminder functionality, and as a family collaboration app for groceries, travel packing, Christmas lists, gift ideas, vacation planning, and more. You’ll love Pocket Lists for being powerful yet surprisingly easy to use. The app’s feature set makes it a superb replacement for most checklist and to-do list apps, including the stock Reminders app: • Sync your to-do lists across all your devices for free. • Share to-do lists and collaborate on tasks with friends, family, and teammates. Sharing a list is as easy as sending a link. • Personalize your to-do lists with a variety of beautiful icons and cover images for all sorts of things. 400+ awesome colorful icons included! • To-do Stream: a dynamic to-do list (filter) that collects to-dos among all your checklists, and displays them in the priority & due order, allowing you to focus on what’s important right now. • All types of to-do reminders: due date, due time, repeating, and location-based — drop pin anywhere on a map, select either “arrive to” or “leave from”, and even define a location radius. • Set due reminders by typing naturally: “Meeting tomorrow morning”, “Car service Saturday 7pm”, “Prepare Christmas gift list on dec 20 every year”, “Cinema Friday night” and so on. The app automatically understands due date from your input, and sets a reminder. • Calendar view: rotate your iPhone into landscape mode to see all your scheduled to-dos in a monthly calendar layout. • Import to-dos and events from stock Reminders and Calendar apps. • And a lot more: — Priorities & Notes for to-do items, — To-do item search, — Quick inline to-do add, — Support for #hashtags, — Dark Mode, — Archiving feature for hiding certain checklists, — Copy & Paste add of multiple to-dos at a time, — Send checklists via email, — Duplicate and re-use checklists when needed, — Use dividers to visually group to-dos within big checklists. Plus an awesome bundle of premium features available as an optional auto-renewable in-app subscription or a one-time purchase: + Web App that allows you to work with your checklists using any desktop computer, + Subtasks: easily divide big tasks into smaller to-dos, + Superpriorities (+3 priority levels): mark particular to-dos as urgent, critical, or not important, + Private lists: lock particular to-do lists with passcodes and unlock with Touch ID or Face ID, + Custom repeat controls: set to-do repeat intervals and frequencies flexibly, + Apple Watch app: use Pocket Lists on your wrist without even taking an iPhone out of a pocket, + Custom icons for to-do lists, + File attachments: attach files and photos to any to-do items, + Per-list and per-priority sound alert customization. The premium feature set is available as either monthly and yearly subscription or as a one-time purchase. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://pocketlists.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://pocketlists.com/terms/
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Verdict
Suru and Pocket Lists both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 87% of Suru's written reviews are positive against 42% of Pocket Lists's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Suru sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Pocket Lists sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Suru against 4.6 for Pocket Lists. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 526 and 1.4K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Suru's written reviews are positive against 42% of Pocket Lists's.
Suru ships an update fortnightly, Pocket Lists every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Suru | Pocket Lists |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (526 ratings) — better | 4.6 (1.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.8% of reviews — better | 42.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 526 | 1.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 184 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Esoteric Development | 1312 |
Customer experience
Suru
Pocket Lists
User reviews
Suru
From 526 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simplicity and ease of use
- 💡 Visually appealing design
- 🚀 Efficient organization and task management
- 💡 Customizable color themes
- 👍 Helpful for staying organized and productive
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync and backup issues
- 🐛 Bugs and crashes
- 🔒 Concerns about subscription model and lack of one-time purchase
- 🔒 Difficulty with editing and rearranging tasks
- 🔒 Lack of landscape mode support on iPad
Pocket Lists
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Simple and intuitive
- 🔒 Secure with password protection
- 👍 Customizable lists and categories
- 👍 Shareable lists with family/team
- 👍 Helpful for organization and productivity
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync issues and data loss
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Unreliable reminders and notifications
- 🐛 Scrolling and UI glitches
- 🐛 Inability to reorder lists and tasks
Bugs and requests
Suru
Reported bugs
4 issues- Subscription issues and inability to access purchased content
- Crashes and freezes when using the app
- Syncing problems leading to data loss
- Inability to edit or rearrange tasks as expected
Requested features
5 requests- Add reminders and alarms for tasks
- Improve task rearrangement and organization
- Implement better syncing and backup options
- Introduce a one-time purchase option
- Add landscape mode support for iPad
Pocket Lists
Reported bugs
5 issues- Lists disappearing or not syncing
- Checked tasks reappearing as unchecked
- Inability to restore purchases
- Compatibility issues with iOS 16
- Crashing on app launch
Requested features
5 requests- Calendar view for scheduled tasks
- Ability to set reminders for specific tasks
- Option to collapse/expand subtasks
- More customization options for lists
- Integration with other productivity apps
In-app purchases
Suru
- Suru Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Suru Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Suru Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
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- Suru Team - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Suru Teams - Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Suru Pro - Yearly14 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Suru Pro - Yearly14 Days trial$10.991 Year
- Suru Pro - Yearly14 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Suru Team - Yearly14 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Suru Pro - Yearly14 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Suru Team Yearly14 Days trial$28.991 Year
- Suru Pro Lifetime$19.99
- Suru Pro Lifetime$29.99
- Suru Pro Lifetime$39.99
Pocket Lists
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Family Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- Family Yearly14 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Family Yearly (Intro)1 Year trial$24.991 Year
- Premium Forever$19.99
- Upgrade Premium to Family$19.99
- Family Forever$34.99







