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One shopping list for your whole household.

A shared shopping list for the whole household, sorted in the order you walk the aisles.

Download on the App Store

No ads and no supermarket deals. The app is paid for by the people who use it.

One list

One list for the whole household

The whole household shares one list. Everyone can add to it, and changes appear on every phone.

Each item shows the name of the person who added it.

The shopping list as the app draws it: items with the name of whoever added them, and suggestions from earlier trips below.

Aisle order

The list is sorted by aisle

Most list apps group items by type of food. This app groups them by the aisles of the shop you are in, in the order you walk through them.

Aisle sorting is optional. With it off, the list is a plain list.

Sorted by category

Dairy
  • Milk
  • Yogurt
Produce
  • Apples
  • Carrots
Bakery
  • Sourdough

Back and forth across the store.

Sorted by your walk

1 · Produce
  • Apples
  • Carrots
2 · Bakery
  • Sourdough
3 · Dairy
  • Milk
  • Yogurt

One pass, front to back.

Your shop, your order

The aisle order is yours to set

This is the aisle order for one shop. Drag the aisles into any order, and the list sorts itself to match.

Items are assigned to aisles by the app, and any item can be moved to a different aisle. The change is kept for that shop and shared with the household.

The aisle order screen for Greenway Market, listing Produce, Bakery, Deli, Seafood, Meat and Poultry, Dairy and Eggs, Frozen and numbered aisles as draggable rows.

Your shops

Each shop has its own aisle order

The app supports any number of shops. Each shop has its own aisle order, and the list is sorted to match the shop selected.

A shop can also have no aisles at all, which suits a small store. The list is then shown as a plain list.

Two stores listed: Greenway Market with twenty sections, and a Deli or Bodega marked as a small shop with no aisles or departments.

At the shop

Shopping with the list

This is the list during a shopping trip. Items are ticked off as they go into the cart. Everyone in the household can see the trip in progress and which items are already in the cart.

Items with no aisle assigned are shown in their own group at the top.

Shopping mode at Greenway Market, two of five items in the cart, the rest grouped under a Produce heading.

Splitting the trip

Two people on one trip

Two members of the household can shop the same trip together. One asks to help from their phone, and the shopper approves it.

The helper's list is in reverse aisle order, so the two shoppers start at opposite ends of the shop and meet in the middle.

Both are ticking off the same list, so each can see what the other has already picked up.

The helper's screen: a Helping badge, a line saying Sam is shopping the other end, and the same trip listed from the far end of the shop backwards.

Handing it over

Handing the list to someone else

The list can be handed to someone outside the household with a QR code. They scan it and get a copy of the list on their phone.

They receive only the list. They are not added to the household and cannot see past trips or later changes.

Household invites are for people who live with you. The QR code is for everyone else.

A QR code captioned five items, ready for someone else to scan.

Photos & notes

Photos and notes on items

This is the detail screen for one item. An item can have a photo, which is useful for a specific brand or product.

An item can also have a note. A note can be set to clear at the end of the trip or to stay on the item.

Each member of the household has a colour, shown next to the items they add.

An item's detail screen: the aisle it lives in at this shop, a note, and a switch marking the note as only for this trip.

Adding items

Four ways to add items

Items can be added by speaking, by photographing a recipe, by choosing a photo, or by pasting text. All four go through the same review screen before anything is added.

The Import Items sheet with four options: Speak, Camera, Photos, and Paste.

Checking before adding

Items are checked before they are added

This is the review screen after a list is spoken, pasted, or photographed. Each item is listed separately, and a named dish is expanded into its ingredients.

Anything the app is not sure about is marked, with a choice of what was meant. Nothing is added to the list until it is approved.

The review screen: milk, eggs and olive oil found; tacos expanded into tortillas, ground beef, cheddar, sour cream and salsa; and a question asking which green was meant for the salad.

What else it does

Other things the app can do

Works without a signal

The list is stored on the phone and works without a signal. Changes are sent to the household when the signal returns.

It remembers what you buy

Items bought before are kept as suggestions, so a new list can be built with a few taps.

Say your list out loud

A whole list can be dictated in one go. Each item mentioned is added as a separate item.

Paste in a list

Text pasted from a message, a note, or a website is turned into separate items.

Photograph a recipe

A photo of a recipe or a handwritten list is read, and the ingredients are turned into items.

Ask for a meal

A meal can be named instead of its ingredients. The app produces the list of things to buy for it.

You approve every item

Items found by dictation, pasting, or photos are shown for review first. Nothing is added to the list until it is approved.

A record of your trips

The app keeps a count of trips, items, and time spent shopping. These numbers stay on the phone.

It warns you before deleting

Anything that deletes data shows what will be deleted before it happens.

Text your list to someone

The list can be sent to anyone as a plain text message. No app is needed to read it.

Quick trips

Two kinds of trip

There are two kinds of trip. A full trip is shared with the household and sorted by aisle. A quick trip is a short list kept on one phone only.

A trip that ends early or at the wrong shop can be restored with one tap.

The shopping options sheet: At Store, Quick Trip, Restore last trip, Send as a message, Hand your list to someone here, and Pick up someone’s list.

Why not a shared note?

What a shared note cannot do

  • Update on every phone when an item is added.
  • Show who added each item.
  • Sort itself by your shop's aisles.
  • Show the household the shopping trip as it happens.
  • Let two people share one trip, or hand the list to someone outside the household.

Straight answers

What it is

  • iPhone only. No web version, no Android version.
  • The list is visible only to members of the household. Invites work once and expire after a day.
  • No ads and no deals with supermarkets. The app is paid for by its users. The shop names in the screenshots are made up.
  • Free to install and use. Heavy use needs a subscription, and the price is shown in the app.

Get it on your iPhone

Download on the App Store