Basic Shopping List vs Text Message Sounds +
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.
Text Message Sounds +
Access a collection of over 65 popular and funny sound effects and ringtones. Easily set these sounds for text message notifications, alerts, or alarms. This app groups popular downloaded notification sounds into one convenient place.
- Over 65 funny ringtones
- Sound effects for notifications
- Alerts and alarms
- Easy to use interface
- Grouped popular sounds
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Text message sounds includes some of the most popular text message sounds and ringtones at the tap of a button. Tap to listen to over 65 funny ringtones and sound effects perfect for a text message notification, alert, alarm and more. Text message sounds features some of the most downloaded funny text message notification sounds grouped together in one easy to use application. - text message sounds - easy to use - simple interface - new sounds
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Basic Shopping List at 100% against Text Message Sounds +'s 27%. Basic Shopping List also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.9) and ads (none vs shown). Text Message Sounds +'s advantage is ratings volume (275 vs 6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Basic Shopping List holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Message Sounds + has 275 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Basic Shopping List's written reviews are positive against 27% of Text Message Sounds +'s.
Basic Shopping List ships an update every 18 months, Text Message Sounds + every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic Shopping List | Text Message Sounds + |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better | 3.9 (275 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 27.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 275 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Bruno Ferreira | Jason Torres |
Customer experience
Basic Shopping List
Text Message Sounds +
Bugs and requests
Basic Shopping List
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Text Message Sounds +
Reported bugs
6 issues- Not Working ???
- Literally, nothing happens.
- All I saw was an ad for a game, closed the ad and got a blank screen
- As soon as the app is opened it pops up with an add. Normally adds don’t bother me but when the x appears you can’t click on it, all is does is pop up with ‘copy’.
- Goes straight to a solitaire game app
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- There is no way to see apps in iTunes any more so instructions are useless. Unless the developer has a new way of downloading these this app does not work.
Requested features
3 requests- Provide clear instructions for downloading tones
- Offer a way to download tones without a computer
- Improve ad functionality (clickable 'x')
In-app purchases
Basic Shopping List
No in-app purchases
Text Message Sounds +
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Basic Shopping List free?
Is Text Message Sounds + free?
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Do Basic Shopping List or Text Message Sounds + have ads?
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