Collections September 2026

5 apps for the things you keep saying you'll do

The film you meant to watch, the book you meant to finish, the country you meant to visit. These five each hold one kind of intention and put it somewhere you will see it again.

The apps for the things you keep saying you'll do are Letterboxd, BucketPal, Margins, Visited and Listful. I built BucketPal; the other 4 are other developers’ apps.

MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published September 2026 · apps and prices last checked 13 October 2026

Four stars is my score for how well an app answers this moment. An app I built gets four and a half — that is a rule, not a comparison. The App Store’s own average is on each card beside it.

1. 

   Letterboxd

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Social Networking · App Store 4.8 (88,351)

   Letterboxd logs what you watched and keeps the watchlist that gets ignored every Friday — next to what your friends made of the same film.

   Skip it if ads would spoil it: their volume in the free app is what recent reviewers keep writing about, and the crashing arrived alongside them.

   Official site ↗More lists with Letterboxd

   
2. 

   BucketPal Editor’s pick

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Lifestyle · App Store 4.9 (16)

   BucketPal draws your life as roughly 4,000 weeks, with the goals sitting on the same grid — so "someday" has to pick a square.

   App Store ↗More lists with BucketPal

   
3. 

   Margins

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Book · App Store 4.9 (19,575)

   Margins logs books, series and authors into lists you actually keep — plus a search that works by mood or setting instead of title.

   Skip it if you will care about the streak: editing a missed day needs the subscription, and support is slow when something breaks.

   More lists with Margins

   
4. 

   Visited

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Travel · App Store 4.6 (13,913)

   Visited colours in the countries, states and regions you've been to, and the ones you still say you're going to.

   Skip it if you want cities rather than countries — that needs the upgrade, and an update logged people out and took years of map data with it.

   Official site ↗More lists with Visited

   
5. 

   Listful

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Lifestyle · App Store 4.8 (23,343)

   Listful puts everything you want, from any store, in one place — arranged how you like and shareable as a single link.

   Skip it if you would be upset to lose the list — items not saving, and sorting that resets itself, are the two complaints that keep coming back.

   Official site ↗More lists with Listful

   

BucketPal is one of mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.