Comparison

Checklist vs SemanticMarker

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

Head to head
About

Checklist

Organize tasks and build routines with ready-made templates and helpful suggestions. Share lists with others and follow steps in guided mode for everyday chores, work procedures, and personal projects.

Highlights
  • Ready-made checklist templates
  • Helpful task suggestions
  • Guided step-by-step mode
  • Shareable lists
  • Repeatable routines
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Checklist helps you organize what needs to be done, start from ready-made templates, build better lists with helpful suggestions, share with family or friends, and follow each step in guided mode. Use Checklist for everyday tasks, shared lists, repeatable routines, reminders, habits, and work procedures. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH CHECKLIST • Start from ready-made checklist templates • Use checklist builders for groceries, routines, packing, and more • Get helpful task suggestions when building a list • Create task lists for everyday life • Share lists with family, friends, or teammates • Follow each checklist step by step in guided mode • Add reminders so important tasks do not slip • Turn repeated checklists into routines • Track progress and stay consistent • Use checklists for SOPs, procedures, and repeatable work USE CHECKLIST FOR • Grocery lists and shopping • Packing lists and travel checklists • Cleaning checklists and chores • Home maintenance • Morning routines and night routines • Daily habits and weekly resets • Workout and stretch routines • Family tasks and personal projects • Event planning • Work checklists, SOPs, and business procedures START FROM TEMPLATES, BUILDERS, OR SUGGESTIONS Do not start from a blank page every time. Browse ready-made public checklist templates, use a checklist builder, get helpful task suggestions, or create your own list from scratch. FOLLOW CHECKLISTS STEP BY STEP Guided mode helps you move through a checklist one step at a time, so you know what to do next and nothing important gets missed. Use guided lists for routines, packing, cleaning, workouts, family tasks, SOP execution, procedures, and any checklist where order matters. SHARE, REPEAT, AND TRACK PROGRESS Share checklists with family, partners, friends, or teammates. Use shared lists to plan a trip, coordinate chores, manage groceries, prepare for an event, or keep everyone aligned on a repeatable process. Turn repeated checklists into routines, schedule them, reuse them, and track progress over time. Use routines for morning habits, night routines, cleaning schedules, workouts, family tasks, weekly resets, and recurring work processes. FOR LIFE, FAMILY, AND WORK Checklist is useful for everyday checklists, guided routines, shared household lists, SOPs, standard operating procedures, and step-by-step business processes. Create a checklist, start from a template, build the list you need, share it, follow each step, and repeat it as a routine. Terms of Use: https://www.checklist.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.checklist.com/privacy

About

SemanticMarker

Features
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For summer 2026, we have added NFC functionality. You can write an NFC tag with your guest feeding URL. Anyone with a smart phone can then scan the tag and run your guest feeding site. The Bluetooth BLE discovery has been cleaned up to you won't see 2 names for the same device - after you have renamed one of your feeders or clickers. This is a limitation of iPhone where the bluetooth remembers a device the first time you "discover" it. So if you change its name (through our messages or BLE) the iPhone still thinks it's the old name. But the advertisement has the new name. So I figured out how to cache the new name and use it instead of the old (remembered) name. Hopefully this cleans up things. Support for 26.3. 2026 is the year of IoT control for my #Abilities users. Kona Currents, LLC offers a unique Remote Education and IoT processing app for creation, collection, processing, search, and messaging of optical visual markers we call Semantic Marker (R). An innovative text and optical search engine is included, along with an API for processing optical labels, barcodes and two-dimensional codes. These optical image and data files are downloadable for internal and external use. This app interacts through published API's with Cloud Computing services. The app will communicate via MQTT messaging among a suite of IoT devices, as well as using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) directly to devices, which is especially useful to set credentials such as WIFI passwords for the IoT devices (ie. ESP 32 devices). See SemanticMarker.org for more on the abilities use. - We have one user using Eye Tracking to send messages to reward his service dog over our IoT framework! #Ability Now for Summer 2025, is the support for Space and Time of your Semantic Marker(R). This includes GPS and Time that is extracted from the meta-data of your markers. The Map will now show the markers in their geospatial location. See the map above where the optical visual markers, which represent music artifacts, are placed at where the concert was recorded. The date of the events are also tagged - and stored in the photo for sharing outside the Semantic Marker(R) framework. Now think of real-estate or other location based artifacts: tag with a Semantic Marker(R) and the marker is much more valuable. https://semanticmarker.org/users/common/MusicMatrixSM.png

Screenshots

Checklist4 screens
SemanticMarker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Checklist at Free against SemanticMarker's $9.99. Checklist also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). SemanticMarker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Checklist is free to download; SemanticMarker costs $9.99 up front. Checklist sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. SemanticMarker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checklist ships an update every 4 days, SemanticMarker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Checklist versus SemanticMarker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChecklistSemanticMarker
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating3.6 (104 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings104 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB281 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChecklist.comScott Moody

Bugs and requests

Checklist

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Lists deleted after update
  • Cannot log in
  • Password reset issues
  • Items disappear after update
  • Inability to order lists
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  • Item order scrambles
  • Cannot delete items on iOS
  • Notes do not wrap
  • Checklist order not lockable
  • Typing and editing issues
  • Sync problems
  • Login failures
  • Deleted items reappear
  • Cannot move items or lists
  • Login with Facebook/Google fails
  • Password requirements prevent login
  • App closes shortly after opening
  • Cannot edit single words

Requested features

9 requests
  • Dark mode
  • Add deadlines and reminders
  • Improve editing functionality
  • Allow item deletion on iOS
  • Enable note wrapping
Show 4 more
  • Lock checklist order
  • Better help/how-to guides
  • Option to not require login
  • Sync with iCalendar

SemanticMarker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Checklist

Subscriptions4
  • Checklist Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Checklist Family Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Checklist Plus Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Checklist Family Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
None

SemanticMarker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Checklist free?
Checklist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SemanticMarker free?
SemanticMarker costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Checklist or SemanticMarker have ads?
Neither Checklist nor SemanticMarker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Checklist or SemanticMarker?
Checklist ships an update every 4 days, and SemanticMarker every 6 weeks. Most recently, Checklist was updated on October 20, 2026 and SemanticMarker on October 6, 2026.

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