Bring! Grocery Shopping List

My partner and I have been using this for years to sync our shopping list(s) for around 7 years. When my kids are old enough to have phones they will be synced in as well. The paid version is so cheap and works seamlessly. I can’t think of any complaints. It automatically categorizes everything for you but gives you the option to change categories. You can customize the order in which it displays categories, which is great for tailoring for your specific grocery store to make shopping faster and easier. Everything is customizable but not over-complicated. I’m hesitant to make any recommendations but if there’s anything that could be added, I think it would be good if instead of the “inspiration” section, it was a “frequent items” section that made it easy to see and add my most common items. That said, I love this app, I’m thankful for it being consistent, simple, and fun to use.

I wrote the following review in April 2023. The development team was not able to replicate any of the quirks that had been plaguing me. So I finally switched to another app and it is working well with no quirks. “I have used Bring! for several years and have been very happy with it. Recently, however, I seem to be finding some quirks with it, and the development team has not been able to replicate them. One quirk is that sometimes a single item will disappear from my list when I open Bring! on my Apple Watch. And once it has disappeared from my Apple Watch, I find that it is also missing in the iPhone app. Another quirk is that sometimes when I dictate an item on my list, and select from the icon choices that Bring! offers, the app picks something other than the item whose icon I selected. The results of these quirks are first that I need to double check everything I have entered onto my list and second that I take a screenshot of my list ahead of time and can check that in case some items disappeared from the list that my watch displays.”

I don’t usually take time to review apps but I feel like I have to with this one. I didn’t even realized it’s been 3 years since I’ve been using it on a weekly basis. I’ve tried before this app using google docs, notes, other apps but none of them lasted until I found Bring! I was looking for an app that I can share it with someone. I found it! Now with my partner or when we had a trip with friends to have one shopping list, divide in the store, get what we need and meet at the register. Not only we saved money, trees(paperless shopping list) but also a lot of time. Even this year when we had to stay home. We would go grocery shopping once every 2 weeks. So we would start the shopping list and add things to it whenever we would think of something. If my partner would go shopping and I would be at home, I remember something I would just add it quickly to the list and he would be notified. It’s honestly an amazing app and it improved my life! I also shared if with my friends and now they are all using it and they are impressed how great it is just as I am. Great job Switzerland!