Basic Shopping List vs Store Buddy
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.
Store Buddy
This straightforward shopping list tool allows for easy management of your purchases across multiple stores. It offers seamless synchronization between devices and intuitive controls for editing and deleting items. Designed for simplicity, it includes helpful tips and accessibility features.
- Free synchronization across devices
- Swipe to edit/delete items
- One-tap list clearing
- Undo past actions
- Keyboard commands for iPad Pro
- Big bold text and VoiceOver support
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Store Buddy is a simple shopping list organized around the stores you actually visit. Create a list for each store, save the items you buy over and over, and keep each shopping trip clean. Add saved items back to a trip one at a time or all at once, mark items done while you shop, then finish the trip without losing the saved staples you will need next time. Store Buddy is built for repeat shopping, not one giant list. Keep Costco separate from the grocery store. Keep pharmacy items separate from errands. Use Siri, App Shortcuts, Home Screen quick actions, and widgets to add items to stores without digging through the app. Search across a store's current trip and saved items, undo recent changes, and sync your lists through your Apple account. Features: - Store-specific shopping lists - Saved recurring items for each store - Siri and App Shortcuts for adding items by store - Home Screen widgets for recent stores - Configurable small widget for a pinned store - Home Screen quick actions for recent stores - Add one saved item or add every saved item at once - Press and hold any item for quick actions: mark done, save, edit, or remove - Mark trip items done and finish the trip when you are ready - Finished trips clear bought items while preserving saved staples - To Buy and Saved Items sections stay in place, even when a trip is empty - Search stores, current trip items, and saved items - Undo recent changes - iCloud sync through your Apple account - Dynamic Type support - Light and dark mode support - iPhone, iPad, and Mac support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Basic Shopping List at 100% against Store Buddy's 67%. Basic Shopping List also leads on iOS requirement (8.1 vs 17.0). Store Buddy's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 18 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Store Buddy holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Store Buddy has 78 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Basic Shopping List's written reviews are positive against 67% of Store Buddy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Basic Shopping List ships an update every 18 months, Store Buddy every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic Shopping List | Store Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 4.7 (78 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 78 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruno Ferreira | Arthur Sabintsev |
Customer experience
Basic Shopping List
Store Buddy
In-app purchases
Basic Shopping List
No in-app purchases
Store Buddy
No in-app purchases
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