Basic Shopping List vs Make a List!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Make a List!
Create and share unlimited lists with friends and family. Automatically syncs across all your iOS devices and Mac. Supports audio notes, pictures, and due dates for enhanced organization.
- Unlimited list creation
- List sharing
- Push notifications
- Audio and picture attachments
- Due dates
- Cross-device synchronization
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Fast and easy way to create FREE unlimited lists to share with your friends and family! "Make a List!" automatically synchronises all your lists with all your iOS devices and Mac (app on Mac App Store). Key features: • Push Notifications • List sharing • Audio notes attachment • Picture attachment • Highlighted text • Marked item • Export list • Print list • Comments • Due dates Data synchronisation requires iCloud Drive enabled. For feedback or suggestions write to info@makealist.net
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Basic Shopping List at none against Make a List!'s 1. Basic Shopping List also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 66%). Make a List!'s advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 6). On price, rating 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. Make a List! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Basic Shopping List asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Basic Shopping List against 4.6 for Make a List!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Make a List! has 1.7K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Basic Shopping List's written reviews are positive against 66% of Make a List!'s.
Basic Shopping List ships an update every 18 months, Make a List! every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic Shopping List | Make a List! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) | 4.6 (1.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 1.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruno Ferreira | Filippo Maguolo |
Customer experience
Basic Shopping List
Make a List!
Bugs and requests
Basic Shopping List
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Make a List!
Reported bugs
6 issues- Items randomly disappearing from lists
- Duplicate lists being created
- Inability to view new list entries
- Reordering lists not working as expected
- Syncing issues between devices
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- Compatibility problems with Apple Watch
Requested features
7 requests- Add alarm functionality
- Allow sub-tasks within lists
- Improve list sorting and reordering
- Provide a way to delete entire lists
- Remember previously added items to avoid retyping
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- Add more color and icon options
- Improve Apple Watch integration and complications
In-app purchases
Basic Shopping List
No in-app purchases
Make a List!
- Remove Ads$3.99
Questions
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