Simple Checklist vs Notepad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Create checklists with checkable items
- Share checklists with others
- Track completion progress
- Graph number of completions over a week
- Manage recurring tasks
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
Notepad
Capture thoughts, pictures, voice notes, and checklists with this powerful yet simple notepad. Securely store logins and passwords, organize with categories, and easily find information with quick search. Includes reminders and backup options.
- Capture thoughts, pictures, and voice records
- Create and manage checklists
- Secure storage for logins and passwords
- Organize notes with categories and colors
- Quick search functionality
- Backup and restore data
- Password protection for app startup
Read full descriptionHide full description
Smart notepad makes it easy to capture your thought, pictures, voice records, checklist, birthdays, logins, and passwords. You can easily organize it and find it quickly later. The notepad helps you to keep all information with you. Smart notepad is very powerful but simple and easy to use. Main features: - Add notes - Add existing pictures to notes - Take photos and add to notes - Add voice records and listen to at any time - Add checklists - Add and remember birthdays - Secure storage for logins and passwords - Encoding with RSA and DES algorithms - Categories for notes - Colors for categories - A quick search for any data - Recent notes list - Restore removed notes from trash folder - Sorting notes by different fields - Birthdays reminder - Quick buttons to create notes - Quick copy data to memory - Password on application startup - Restore password to the email - Backup/restore data - Print notes - Share notes Supported languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Bengali, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simplified If you have any ideas for improvement just contact us by softser06@gmail.com Permissions Notice Camera: This is used to attach images to notes Microphone: This is used to attach voice records to notes Storage: This is used to backup/restore all notes (Ages 10+)
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Notepad at every 6 weeks against Simple Checklist's every 7 months. Simple Checklist's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $6.99) and chart position (#180 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Simple Checklist costs $2.99 and Notepad $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Checklist against 5.0 for Notepad. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Simple Checklist's written reviews are positive against 91% of Notepad's.
Simple Checklist ships an update every 7 months, Notepad every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and August 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Checklist | Notepad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #180 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Galloy | siarhei yatsuk |
Customer experience
Simple Checklist
Notepad
In-app purchases
Simple Checklist
No in-app purchases
Notepad
No in-app purchases
