Things To Do vs Simple List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Things To Do
Organize your life with a simple and intuitive task management application. Easily add, manage, and share your to-do lists for personal or collaborative use. Ideal for everyday errands and shopping.
- Uncluttered task-list interface
- Add multiple tasks easily
- Share tasks with others
- Ideal for grocery/shopping lists
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Things To Do is an intuitive and user friendly to-do list app. THREE KINDS OF LISTS - To-do lists - completed items drop to the bottom so what's left stays on top - Shopping & grocery - items stay in the order you want, with section headers and a one-tap "uncheck all" to reuse the list - Travel & packing - set trip dates and see how long you're away - Switch a list's type anytime if your needs change INTUITIVE & USER FRIENDLY - Star the items that matter so they rise to the top - Group items under section headers - Move tasks from one list to another with a long-press - Keep certain shopping or travel items checked even when you reset the list - Choose a custom icon for any list - A built-in guide shows you how everything works EVERYWHERE YOU ARE - Syncs automatically across your iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Mac with iCloud - No account or sign-up - just your Apple ID - Import a list from pasted text, and export, share, or print any list AD-FREE AND PRIVATE - No ads - No in-app purchases - Your data stays yours
Simple List
Organize your tasks with a straightforward list-based system. Navigate between different sections using simple swipes. This tool prioritizes ease of use for managing your to-do items.
- Swipe navigation between pages
- Swipe actions on to-do items
- Simple and easy to use interface
- Task organization
- List management
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This app contains 6 pages. User and swipe left/right (outside the list items) to move next/previous pages. It also supported highlighted features by swiping left/right directly onto the to-do items. ULTIMATELY SIMPLE & EASY TO USE !!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simple List at 4.7 against Things To Do's 4.0. Simple List also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.5). Things To Do's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (66% vs 50%). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple List holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 18 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Things To Do's written reviews are positive against 50% of Simple List's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Things To Do ships an update every 2 months, Simple List every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on August 25, 2026 and July 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Things To Do | Simple List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (62 ratings) | 4.7 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | OneMast | giang pham |
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In-app purchases
Things To Do
No in-app purchases
Simple List
No in-app purchases
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