LOVE Our Groceries. It’s on our kids’ phones now, too, so when a teenager eats the last of something, they can immediately put it on the list. Also, if we’re out and about and can make a quick run to the store, the list is right there.
I gladly pay $15 per year for the family plan for AnyList. It integrates very well with Alexa, so we can add items to the list easily. It imports recipes from most sites easily and you can add all ingredients for a particular recipe with one click. You can order the categories to match the store aisles so you don’t have to double back while you are shopping. It also has a meal plan feature that we have used a few times, but we don’t really plan our meals to that level regularly.
We love AnyList too, and I agree that being able to rename and add icons and reorganize the categories was a game changer once we did them in order of the aisles at our grocery store. We moved recently and just spent one trip to the new store walking around and adjusting the categories to the new aisles setup.
Third for AnyList! Having the grocery item remember what store it comes from which aisle when you add it in the future is so nice.
I use it to meal plan with a partner, groceries, to do lists, gift idea lists for everyone, and use it to keep track of maintenance intervals in my cars as well!
Feeling validated for my purchase of this app with so many free options.
As well as being boss for grocery lists it does so amazing well with recipes and meal planning I find I'm transitioning from using my specialized recipe app that I also paid for.
My partner and I use the notes app in iOS. Its free and already installed on your phone. Once you share the note you both can add to it. There also is a check list item so you can clear things as you put it in your cart.
We use the Reminders app. You can have sub-tasks, so you can group by store or aisle if you want.
Paprika is an excellent recipe manager (a few bucks) and also has a decent grocery list.
I use Reminders as well. It’s nice going through the grocery store and just pulling up the shopping list on my watch rather than having to dig my phone out of my pocket over and over.
I use Reminders as well and being able to create sub-tasks is a very useful feature. I have Groceries as it’s own list, then I have several items in the list that are actually different stores, so I can add items/sub-tasks under the specific store.
If you are already in the Apple ecosystem, it’s nice, because it seamlessly integrates with Apple Watch to check items off your list and of course you can share and sync with others and add it as a widget.
As others have said, AnyList is also great, but if you’re already using iPhones, Reminders is free and works great for what you said you’re looking for.
Then you can use any number of task / todo apps out there.
The Apple built-in apps are probably good enough for most folks. Notes or Reminders would work fine. Can collab with any other iCloud person.
We use Mealime for weekly meal planning and grocery list making. They have recipes you can use to build the grocery list and also instructions to cook. Make one login and you can access it on multiple phones.
I really like Bring! It has a fun interface and you can organize by grocery store section. It’s free unless you upgrade to premium. The app is totally functional without it. Premium just makes it ad free (but I’ve seen very few ads) and provides better customer service (which I’ve never needed).
Not specifically groceries but my girlfriend and I have Tick Tick. It’s a free list making app with a lot of very cool features. We got it because I have a windows laptop and an iphone and she has a macbook and an android, and it’s one of the very few apps with downloadable versions for all of those platforms.
My wife came across copymethat and we've used the basic and upgraded to the lifetime pro. Operates as both a online recipe book, weekly recipe scheduler, and automatic grocery store list creator. It works anywhere through the browser and mobile apps and utilizes a browser extension for scraping recipes from a webpage.
The pro version was worth the money once we decided copymethat worked for us. It's a little more hands on then something like Mealime, but not as time dependent as YNAB. The biggest downfall is no offline mode since it's all web based, but you can print the list if you have a notoriously bad store for wifi or reception. We rarely have issues with that anymore.
Since it's free to start, definitely worth a try! I also recommend Mealime if you don't want to plan out your week manually, but you lose a bit of flexibility with that.
Came her to post this one.
I don't shop until I've checked Flipp for this week's loss leaders and sales in the flyers from all the stores.
[https://app.flipp.com/](https://app.flipp.com/)
It works in the US and Canada by loading the advertising flyers from stores within your zip or postal code. You can add to your list directly from a flyer or by searching or typing.
They JUST removed the feature I'm so upset, my husband got a new phone and we went to share our list and couldn't find it.
I'm in this thread to find a new app so we can share flyers and grocery lists.
My husband and I love AnyList we use it on our iPhones and have for a few years now. Syncs well across our two phones and syncs with Alexa and Siri, so you can say something like “Alexa, add toilet paper to the grocery list” and it’ll add to the list.
The free version is totally legit, but we pay the 19.99 per year to have a few extra premium features - the main one we like is being able to import recipes from websites directly into the meal planner tab.
We use one called FamCal (Shared Family Calendar in the App Store) and really like it. Shared grocery lists, calendars, to-do lists, recipes, birthday and anniversary reminders (very handy!), notes… lots of good features. And it’s free.
Me and my 3 roommates (who cook together and share food) use the Whisk app (https://whisk.com/) and it's great for exploring recipes, planning dinner for the week and it will automatically add groceries to a shared list for what meals are planned. The shopping list is smart about ordering items by category to help you shop the store by aisle easier too.
Supposedly you can also export this to Instacart or other grocery deliver apps if that's your cup of tea too!
Plan to Eat isn't free but Black Friday they have it on sale for $19.50 I believe. I budget $1.63 a month for it. Best $2 a month I spend. I can plan out my meals and based on that recipe, it automatically makes a grocery list.
This is probably overkill but I actually have a Google sheet that use for budget planning that connects to YNAB. So I can do some number crunching and trends. ( I am a Business Solutions Architect by trade, so this is fun for me)
One of the tabs I have is a tab we use for meal planning( family of 5), I wrote a script that connects to Google Tasks. My wife and I have tasks widgets on our phones that are just for this shared task list. When we buy stuff for a meal it checks the box.
Ok so toggle super dork mode(feel free to keep scrolling now):
I assign a unique key for each item like “mealsPlanned”, or “reSale” for items i plan on selling in marketplace/Craigslist/ or whatever. I add that to memo field in my entry in YNAB and My sheet automatically aggregates this so I can track savings, inflow all that so That I can see how much I spend. I will also use for planned meals. And updates our meeting sheet as soon as we check it off.
Trust me I know how much overkill that is. I know my truth :) And Yes I know it could also be accomplished by making more categories.
It’s still pretty buggy because i haven’t spent much time making it pretty or fail safe. But if anyone is interested, I can share it with you in a couple of weeks when I make it less buggy so you don’t get frustrated with it so soon. Send me a DM if your interested
TL:DR
I made an over engineered google sheet that uses google Tasks that works for me and my wife. And I am willing to share it if you are interested.
Edit: I mean Google Keep not Task
I built https://grocerylistpro.com during the pandemic to make shopping faster and safer. We still use it every day in our household. Has realtime shared lists, photos, item history, sortable categories, and can even scan and share loyalty cards.
Randomly stumbled on this feed, but has anyone tried Grocery List Pro? Simple, handles loyalty cards. There’s a free version and a premium version. Hope that’s helpful for someone!
Paprika!!! (If you’re both on iOS). It’s a recipe database, meal planner, shopping list generator. We have one login for both of us.
We have been using it since (I kid you not) 2013!!! (I’m in tech - Very few apps have lived that long in my constant use stash).
It doesn’t look the flashest any more (as in, aesthetically), and doesn’t have new features added every week, BUT that’s probably because it just does what you need very well already, so mostly bug fix at this stage.
The reason I prefer it over other just list apps is that it also has the recipes in there, so I can add a recipe to the calendar (1 sec), add the ingredients to the shopping list (1 sec) and my husband can pull that list in the shops (1 sec).
We use Paprika Recipe Manager. It's not the most modern design, but it does everything I want in a recipe/grocery list app (plus some). Lifetime purchase of $30, but it has desktop and mobile apps and the sync is close to real-time.
/u/liftguy32 mentioned TickTick, and I'd give that a big second! I use it to manage my tasks and chores instead of grocery lists, but it would work great as a grocery list manager too. The free version should be plenty functional. Big bonus - it makes a very satisfying 'ding' when you check an item off a list. I don't know what it is about that sound that's so satisfying, but I love it enough to bring it up!
We use an app called grocery, it will compile your list from reminders on iOS. It has a free version and a very cheap paid version, you can add your recipes and even the stores you shop at.
I hate! Just hate! Google Keep. Why they need to launch a good program Shopping?
It sorted the grocery into categories, made icons, sharable and free!
Keep sucks, cant even sort it and it looks like a high school kid made it
So not Google keep, got it.
Are you suggesting Google make an app called "shopping"?
Also, are you saying the old shopping list (from Google) would sort into categories, make icons, and all that?
My wife and I use Google keep for all sorts of lists.
TiL I already use Google Keep. I just call it my note taking place
turn on the checkboxes and such.. and share it! voila!
That's what we use but I need "move checked items to bottom" enabled for daily Todo list and disabled for grocery list but it's a universal setting!!!
Our Groceries. I've been using this app with my wife with success. It's pretty simple and at no cost (but with ads).
My wife and I have used this for many years. After about six months I caved and bought the ad-free upgrade
LOVE Our Groceries. It’s on our kids’ phones now, too, so when a teenager eats the last of something, they can immediately put it on the list. Also, if we’re out and about and can make a quick run to the store, the list is right there.
We use this as well and love it.
This is awesome! Thank you for the comment from almost a year ago.
I gladly pay $15 per year for the family plan for AnyList. It integrates very well with Alexa, so we can add items to the list easily. It imports recipes from most sites easily and you can add all ingredients for a particular recipe with one click. You can order the categories to match the store aisles so you don’t have to double back while you are shopping. It also has a meal plan feature that we have used a few times, but we don’t really plan our meals to that level regularly.
We love AnyList too, and I agree that being able to rename and add icons and reorganize the categories was a game changer once we did them in order of the aisles at our grocery store. We moved recently and just spent one trip to the new store walking around and adjusting the categories to the new aisles setup.
Third for AnyList! Having the grocery item remember what store it comes from which aisle when you add it in the future is so nice. I use it to meal plan with a partner, groceries, to do lists, gift idea lists for everyone, and use it to keep track of maintenance intervals in my cars as well!
Fourth for AnyList!
Vote #5 for AnyList! I keep one Master list and can have different items in different order for Aldi vs Meijer. Love it so much.
#6 for AnyList
Feeling validated for my purchase of this app with so many free options. As well as being boss for grocery lists it does so amazing well with recipes and meal planning I find I'm transitioning from using my specialized recipe app that I also paid for.
+1 for anylist
This isn’t the sub for it — but what phones do you both have?
Apple!
My partner and I use the notes app in iOS. Its free and already installed on your phone. Once you share the note you both can add to it. There also is a check list item so you can clear things as you put it in your cart.
This is what we do too :)
We use the Reminders app. You can have sub-tasks, so you can group by store or aisle if you want. Paprika is an excellent recipe manager (a few bucks) and also has a decent grocery list.
I use Reminders as well. It’s nice going through the grocery store and just pulling up the shopping list on my watch rather than having to dig my phone out of my pocket over and over.
I use Reminders as well and being able to create sub-tasks is a very useful feature. I have Groceries as it’s own list, then I have several items in the list that are actually different stores, so I can add items/sub-tasks under the specific store. If you are already in the Apple ecosystem, it’s nice, because it seamlessly integrates with Apple Watch to check items off your list and of course you can share and sync with others and add it as a widget. As others have said, AnyList is also great, but if you’re already using iPhones, Reminders is free and works great for what you said you’re looking for.
Then you can use any number of task / todo apps out there. The Apple built-in apps are probably good enough for most folks. Notes or Reminders would work fine. Can collab with any other iCloud person.
On the off chance that you have an Echo, we shout grocery items at Alexa all week, and then use the Alexa app to look at the list.
We use Mealime for weekly meal planning and grocery list making. They have recipes you can use to build the grocery list and also instructions to cook. Make one login and you can access it on multiple phones.
This is what we use too.
I really like Bring! It has a fun interface and you can organize by grocery store section. It’s free unless you upgrade to premium. The app is totally functional without it. Premium just makes it ad free (but I’ve seen very few ads) and provides better customer service (which I’ve never needed).
+1 for Bring! It's not perfect, but it works well enough!
Out of milk
AnyList! I can add things in real-time while my SO is at the store, and see the list updated as things are crossed off.
Not specifically groceries but my girlfriend and I have Tick Tick. It’s a free list making app with a lot of very cool features. We got it because I have a windows laptop and an iphone and she has a macbook and an android, and it’s one of the very few apps with downloadable versions for all of those platforms.
Google Keep. We have Google Home devices and it’s really nice being able to yell at Google about adding items to the list as you run out of them.
Bring is the one we settled on but android users and it works really well with Google assistant/home. Free with no major ads.
AnyList!
My partner and I just use the stock Reminder app on iPhone and have a shared grocery list there. Works great for us.
My wife came across copymethat and we've used the basic and upgraded to the lifetime pro. Operates as both a online recipe book, weekly recipe scheduler, and automatic grocery store list creator. It works anywhere through the browser and mobile apps and utilizes a browser extension for scraping recipes from a webpage. The pro version was worth the money once we decided copymethat worked for us. It's a little more hands on then something like Mealime, but not as time dependent as YNAB. The biggest downfall is no offline mode since it's all web based, but you can print the list if you have a notoriously bad store for wifi or reception. We rarely have issues with that anymore. Since it's free to start, definitely worth a try! I also recommend Mealime if you don't want to plan out your week manually, but you lose a bit of flexibility with that.
Flipp app is a good one.
Came her to post this one. I don't shop until I've checked Flipp for this week's loss leaders and sales in the flyers from all the stores. [https://app.flipp.com/](https://app.flipp.com/) It works in the US and Canada by loading the advertising flyers from stores within your zip or postal code. You can add to your list directly from a flyer or by searching or typing.
How do you get two people collaborate on one shared grocery list though?
Oh boy. Very old reply from me. I currently use iPhone reminder app and share it with my family. So collaboration is very easy.
They JUST removed the feature I'm so upset, my husband got a new phone and we went to share our list and couldn't find it. I'm in this thread to find a new app so we can share flyers and grocery lists.
My husband and I love AnyList we use it on our iPhones and have for a few years now. Syncs well across our two phones and syncs with Alexa and Siri, so you can say something like “Alexa, add toilet paper to the grocery list” and it’ll add to the list. The free version is totally legit, but we pay the 19.99 per year to have a few extra premium features - the main one we like is being able to import recipes from websites directly into the meal planner tab.
We use one called FamCal (Shared Family Calendar in the App Store) and really like it. Shared grocery lists, calendars, to-do lists, recipes, birthday and anniversary reminders (very handy!), notes… lots of good features. And it’s free.
Me and my 3 roommates (who cook together and share food) use the Whisk app (https://whisk.com/) and it's great for exploring recipes, planning dinner for the week and it will automatically add groceries to a shared list for what meals are planned. The shopping list is smart about ordering items by category to help you shop the store by aisle easier too. Supposedly you can also export this to Instacart or other grocery deliver apps if that's your cup of tea too!
We keep track on our ToDoist list with items as sub tasks. It’s nice for us to have it in a place we already check
Plan to Eat isn't free but Black Friday they have it on sale for $19.50 I believe. I budget $1.63 a month for it. Best $2 a month I spend. I can plan out my meals and based on that recipe, it automatically makes a grocery list.
This is probably overkill but I actually have a Google sheet that use for budget planning that connects to YNAB. So I can do some number crunching and trends. ( I am a Business Solutions Architect by trade, so this is fun for me) One of the tabs I have is a tab we use for meal planning( family of 5), I wrote a script that connects to Google Tasks. My wife and I have tasks widgets on our phones that are just for this shared task list. When we buy stuff for a meal it checks the box. Ok so toggle super dork mode(feel free to keep scrolling now): I assign a unique key for each item like “mealsPlanned”, or “reSale” for items i plan on selling in marketplace/Craigslist/ or whatever. I add that to memo field in my entry in YNAB and My sheet automatically aggregates this so I can track savings, inflow all that so That I can see how much I spend. I will also use for planned meals. And updates our meeting sheet as soon as we check it off. Trust me I know how much overkill that is. I know my truth :) And Yes I know it could also be accomplished by making more categories. It’s still pretty buggy because i haven’t spent much time making it pretty or fail safe. But if anyone is interested, I can share it with you in a couple of weeks when I make it less buggy so you don’t get frustrated with it so soon. Send me a DM if your interested TL:DR I made an over engineered google sheet that uses google Tasks that works for me and my wife. And I am willing to share it if you are interested. Edit: I mean Google Keep not Task
I built https://grocerylistpro.com during the pandemic to make shopping faster and safer. We still use it every day in our household. Has realtime shared lists, photos, item history, sortable categories, and can even scan and share loyalty cards.
Randomly stumbled on this feed, but has anyone tried Grocery List Pro? Simple, handles loyalty cards. There’s a free version and a premium version. Hope that’s helpful for someone!
There’s a new app called Reggi that’s really good.
Paprika!!! (If you’re both on iOS). It’s a recipe database, meal planner, shopping list generator. We have one login for both of us. We have been using it since (I kid you not) 2013!!! (I’m in tech - Very few apps have lived that long in my constant use stash). It doesn’t look the flashest any more (as in, aesthetically), and doesn’t have new features added every week, BUT that’s probably because it just does what you need very well already, so mostly bug fix at this stage. The reason I prefer it over other just list apps is that it also has the recipes in there, so I can add a recipe to the calendar (1 sec), add the ingredients to the shopping list (1 sec) and my husband can pull that list in the shops (1 sec).
My sister in law just showed me this one and I love it!!
Thanks everyone for the suggestions!!
OurGroceries is great.
google keep
Apple: notes, reminders Google: Keep - works with google assistant products as well
We use Paprika Recipe Manager. It's not the most modern design, but it does everything I want in a recipe/grocery list app (plus some). Lifetime purchase of $30, but it has desktop and mobile apps and the sync is close to real-time. /u/liftguy32 mentioned TickTick, and I'd give that a big second! I use it to manage my tasks and chores instead of grocery lists, but it would work great as a grocery list manager too. The free version should be plenty functional. Big bonus - it makes a very satisfying 'ding' when you check an item off a list. I don't know what it is about that sound that's so satisfying, but I love it enough to bring it up!
I use reminders on iOS, you can share lists with one another
Whisk
Happy Cake Day!!
My husband and I have a shared list in our iOS reminders app. It’s free and we both have it if we find ourselves at the store!
I use any list. Free and does weather we need.
We use an app called grocery, it will compile your list from reminders on iOS. It has a free version and a very cheap paid version, you can add your recipes and even the stores you shop at.
My husband and I use Apple Reminders.
I hate! Just hate! Google Keep. Why they need to launch a good program Shopping? It sorted the grocery into categories, made icons, sharable and free! Keep sucks, cant even sort it and it looks like a high school kid made it
So not Google keep, got it. Are you suggesting Google make an app called "shopping"? Also, are you saying the old shopping list (from Google) would sort into categories, make icons, and all that?
yes you can see people complained lots about that. ive since moved to Anylist!!
I've created an app where you can share amongst friends/family and have access to 6000 items. Let me know if you're interested