Furnishing a first apartment is a hundred small purchases that are easy to forget until the moment you need them, like the fact that you own zero trash cans and no shower curtain. The right list app breaks the overwhelm into rooms, tracks what you have bought, and ideally starts you from a template so you are not building the list from memory. Here are the tools that do it best.
Start from MovePlan's first apartment checklist so you are not trying to remember every trash can and shower curtain from scratch. Then move the items into a live app: AnyList if you want a polished dedicated list, Google Keep or Our Groceries if you are sharing with roommates for free, and Notion if you want to track budget and priority for every purchase.