Basic Shopping List vs Simple_Clock
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.
Simple_Clock
A minimalist analog clock designed with a classic Apple iPad aesthetic. It offers the unique ability to integrate calendar events and reminders as clock hands for enhanced time management.
- Classic Apple iPad style analog clock
- Optional calendar integration as clock needles
- Optional reminders integration as clock needles
- Minimalist design
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Classic Apple iPad style clock. Feature • Add Calendar and Reminders as clock needles (optional) Support: vibecoder.company@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Basic Shopping List at none against Simple_Clock's 1. Basic Shopping List also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Simple_Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (133 vs 6). On price 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. Simple_Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Basic Shopping List asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple_Clock holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple_Clock has 133 ratings behind it against 6, 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 71% of Simple_Clock'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, Simple_Clock every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic Shopping List | Simple_Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (133 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 133 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruno Ferreira | Seung-Un Ham |
Customer experience
Basic Shopping List
Simple_Clock
In-app purchases
Basic Shopping List
No in-app purchases
Simple_Clock
- Remove Ads (Lifetime)$4.99
Questions
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