The best app for making top 10 lists is the one that gets out of your way: you pick a category, add ten things, put them in order — and then it does something with the list. Top Tens is built for exactly that. It is free to download on Google Play, and it lets you rank anything, compare your list against a friend’s, fuse several lists into one Master ranking, and share the result as a card you can post anywhere.
Most list apps stop at the list itself. A good one should also let you:
This is where most free apps quietly charge you. Many list apps are free because your data is the product: your rankings get profiled for advertising or sold on. Top Tens does neither — its privacy policy states plainly that it does not use your data for advertising profiling and does not sell your personal information. (There is a full post on this: Is there a top 10 app that doesn’t track you?)
Top Tens is free to download and use, with an optional paid subscription that unlocks more vault space. There is no charge to make, share, compare, or challenge lists. (Is Top Tens free?)
Do I need an account?
You can browse the pre-seeded stock vault without one. Creating and keeping your own vault — your own lists — needs an account, which is a passwordless login: an email address and a one-time verification code, no password to remember or steal.
Is it only for movies and music?
No. Those are the obvious ones, but any category works — restaurants, sports teams, video games, books, travel spots, snacks, anything. (What can I rank on Top Tens?)
Where do I get it?
On Google Play now, free. The Apple App Store version is the same app, distributed through Apple’s store.
A top 10 list is only half the fun. The other half is comparing it, arguing about it, and proving — once and for all — that yours is right. Pick an app that does all three, and that doesn’t sell your taste to advertisers while it’s at it.