Checklist vs Open Citadel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Ready-made checklist templates
- Helpful task suggestions
- Guided step-by-step mode
- Shareable lists
- Repeatable routines
- Progress tracking
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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
Open Citadel
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A book only changes you when you act on it. Most reading apps end when you close the book. Open Citadel starts there. It is your citadel of knowledge and self-development: one Library for the books, podcasts and blogs you learn from, and a way to act on what you learn. One Library for everything you learn from Books, podcasts and blogs sit side by side. Move between them in one tap. Free books from Project Gutenberg Browse Gutenberg's shelves, search its catalogue, and download books in the public domain in the United States. Readers outside the US should check the law where they live before they read. Podcasts you can finish Follow shows, search podcast charts and directories, and download episodes. The player has speed control, a sleep timer, chapters and show notes with seekable timestamps. Import your AntennaPod library and keep your place in every episode. Blogs, read in the reader Follow a blog by its feed or web address, or choose from a curated directory. Each post opens in the reader, so you can highlight it, tag it and talk it through with Samwell, just as you would a book. Highlight it. Keep it. Use it. Every highlight, note and tag is saved to your Timeline, a dated record of what you have learned. Samwell, your reading companion Samwell helps you set up your Library, talks through what you read, and turns what you want to change into a goal made of small steps. He checks in using your logs and highlights, so his advice is about your life, not someone else's. On-device Samwell runs on your phone, so he works without a connection. Compass counts consistency, not streaks Log a few minutes a day. Compass measures how often you show up, so one missed day never wipes out the rest. The whole cycle, in one app Read. Highlight. Set a goal. Log it. When the goal ends, Samwell writes down what it taught you, so the next one starts smarter. We assume you can decide what matters. Open Citadel helps you act on it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.open-citadel.online/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Open Citadel at none against Checklist's 4. Checklist's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Checklist sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Open Citadel asks for nothing beyond the download.
Checklist ships an update every 4 days, Open Citadel fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | Checklist | Open Citadel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (104 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 48.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Checklist.com | Thamsanqa Ncube |
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
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- Lock checklist order
- Better help/how-to guides
- Option to not require login
- Sync with iCalendar
Open Citadel
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Checklist
- 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
Open Citadel
No in-app purchases









