Let your phone do the remembering

Borrowed a book? Owe someone an answer about Saturday? A clock-based reminder will go off at the wrong moment. In Reminders, open the item's details, turn on When Messaging and pick the contact. Apple says the reminder appears the next time you chat with that person in Messages.

A location reminder can fire when you arrive home — or when your iPhone connects to your car over Bluetooth, which is exactly when "drop off the parcel" is useful. Apple notes that location-based reminders need Reminders to have access to your precise location in Location Services.

Change a list's type to Groceries and Reminders places each item into a category such as Produce, so the list follows the shop instead of the order you remembered things.

AnyList isn't a general to-do app, so it isn't in our selection. But if most of your shared list is food, it is built for exactly that: a shared shopping list that sorts into categories you can rearrange to match your store, plus a recipe box.

Cultured Code offers a 15-day trial of Things only on the Mac. The iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro versions are one-time purchases with no trial; the company explains that App Store trials are only available to apps with in-app purchases or subscriptions.

This is our first price check, so we can't yet tell you what has changed. Next time we can.