Comparison

Simple Checklist vs Ideafall

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Simple Checklist

Easily manage your recurring tasks and track your progress with a simple checklist. Perfect for routines like morning rituals or daily workouts, this app helps you stay on track and visualize your achievements.

Highlights
  • Create checklists with checkable items
  • Share checklists with others
  • Track completion progress
  • Graph number of completions over a week
  • Manage recurring tasks
Features
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Simple Checklist puts easy checklist management in your pocket. Keep track of your progress as you step through a checklist of items, such as your morning ritual, your daily workout routine, or the steps to launch your space craft. FEATURES - Create checklists with items to be checked off. - Share checklists. - Complete checklists and graph number of completions over the last week. SUPPORT If you have any feedback or questions, we'd love to hear from you! You can reach us at simplechecklistapphelp@gmail.com or @simplecheckapp on Twitter.

About

Ideafall

Capture, organize, and evaluate your creative thoughts. This app supports your entire ideation process, from initial brainstorming to strategic execution planning. Visualize ideas, analyze them objectively, and build roadmaps for bringing them to life.

Highlights
  • Capture ideas from web content
  • Visual brainstorming with 'spaces'
  • Objective idea evaluation with charts
  • Agile roadmap for execution planning
  • Share ideas and charts as images/PDFs
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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Ideafall (formerly Ideabook) helps creative minds focus on their best ideas. From ideation and capturing of ideas to reviewing and decision making, Ideafall supports your entire creative process in a unique and practical way. CAPTURE YOUR IDEAS Easily capture all your ideas - wherever you are. Got inspired while reading something on the web? Simply select the relevant text and share it with Ideafall. Quickly add additional thoughts to existing ideas via Spotlight-enabled search. Collecting your ideas has never been easier. Never lose a good idea again. BRAINSTORM & IDEATE Sometimes you need a more visual setting for coming up with new ideas for a specific topic. Or you want to do a brainstorming session in a more organized way. This is where "spaces" come in: visually organize your ideas via idea cards, group related ideas together and help your brain to understand the big picture. EVALUATE. REVIEW. DECIDE Innovative people typically have too many ideas, rather than too few. But to be successful we have to focus on our best ideas. Ideafall helps you to rate ideas regarding up to 10 configurable criteria and analyze them using bubble charts. Improve your chances of success by evaluating ideas more objectively and thus, making more informed decisions. ROADMAP & EXECUTE The best ideas are not worth anything without a proper strategy on how to execute them. The agile roadmap enables you to schedule your ideas across four different horizons: Now, Next, Later, and Someday. The "roadmap" view is visualized as a Kanban board and supports drag & drop. Implement and track your ideas more efficiently with the help of a clear, agile execution strategy. FEATURES - Searchable tabular "Ideas" view with adjustable sort order - Clear drag & drop enabled "Spaces" view for spatially organizing ideas using idea cards - Unique "Bubbles" view for analyzing ideas using customizable bubble charts in four dimensions (x, y, bubble size and color) - Kanban-style, agile "Roadmap" with four horizons (Now, Next, Later, Someday) for planning an execution strategy using drag & drop - Global portfolio filter - Easy sharing of idea spaces and bubble charts as image or PDF documents - Clean and at the same time highly visual user experience - Built-in support for accessibility - Seamless syncing via iCloud Get Ideafall and focus your creativity!

Screenshots

Simple Checklist3 screens
Ideafall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Simple Checklist at $2.99 against Ideafall's $29.99. Simple Checklist also leads on chart position (#180 vs unranked) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Simple Checklist costs $2.99 and Ideafall $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Checklist against 5.0 for Ideafall. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Checklist has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Checklist ships an update every 7 months, Ideafall every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Simple Checklist versus Ideafall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple ChecklistIdeafall
Price$2.99 — better$29.99
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#180 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael GalloyElemental Tools GmbH

Customer experience

Simple Checklist

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ideafall

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Simple Checklist

No in-app purchases

None

Ideafall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Checklist free?
Simple Checklist costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ideafall free?
Ideafall costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simple Checklist or Ideafall?
Simple Checklist and Ideafall are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Simple Checklist or Ideafall have ads?
Neither Simple Checklist nor Ideafall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Checklist or Ideafall?
Simple Checklist ships an update every 7 months, and Ideafall every 4 months. Most recently, Simple Checklist was updated on September 9, 2026 and Ideafall on August 18, 2026.

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