Simple Checklist vs North Pole
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
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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.
North Pole
This app helps organize family Christmas shopping by creating and sharing private wish lists. It offers AI-powered gift recommendations based on popular requests and allows users to reserve gifts to avoid duplicates and spoilers.
- AI Santa gift recommendations
- Personalized recommendations by age and interests
- Create and share private wish lists
- One-tap gift reservations
- Real-time notifications for reservations
- Dedicated kids' wish lists
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Need gift ideas? Chat with the AI Santa with access to the most requested toys. It scans the most added gifts across thousands of real wish lists this season (2025) and delivers personalized recommendations by age, interests, and educational level Organize your family Christmas shopping without the chaos. Create and share private wish lists with family and friends. Add items with links, photos, sizes, colors, and notes—everything stays in one secure place. Key features: One-tap reservations: Claim a gift instantly—no duplicates, no spoilers Real-time notifications when someone reserves an item from your list Clear view of what’s still available and what’s already taken Dedicated kids’ wish lists managed under a parent’s account No ads. 100% Free. Perfect for families who are done with endless group chats asking “What does everyone want?” and “Has anyone bought this yet?” Make Christmas shopping easy this year! LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: North Pole at Free against Simple Checklist's $2.99. North Pole also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months). Simple Checklist's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
North Pole is free to download; Simple Checklist costs $2.99 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 North Pole. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Simple Checklist ships an update every 7 months, North Pole every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Checklist | North Pole |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Galloy | Aaron Heine |
Customer experience
Simple Checklist
North Pole
In-app purchases
Simple Checklist
No in-app purchases
North Pole
No in-app purchases









