Grocery - Smart Shopping List

Love this app and my husband and I use it whenever we shop. It’s so nice that he can see what I’ve added to the list and check things off if he’s the one that grabs them. I’ve tried multiple grocery apps over the years and this is my favorite. I have tried for a very long time to find a way to contact the developer though, and I can’t, so that’s my reason for removing a star. I wish there was some type of customer service email. It just sends me to Twitter. The app needs another feature. We should be able to subdivide the grocery lists for each store. When I am getting low on something but not out yet, I like to add it to my list and make a note that I don’t need it unless it’s on sale, so in general just items that I add to a specific store’s list because I might want them at some point, but don’t necessarily need them now. I am praying for an update where I can have a list for a specific store where I can divide it in two, one subdivision for things I absolutely need to get at the store on the next trip, and one for things that aren’t “must haves” for whatever reason. Please, please allow this! I will have to search for a new app soon if I can’t get that because my full lists are getting too hard to navigate while at the store now. I pay for the app and would love this feature. Thank you!

I shop for 2 houses. So the ability to have multiple stores (location 1) synced to a single list is great, as is the ability to have another set of stores (location 2) linked to a different list. Having the lists built on Apple reminders lists is great too because A) I use the Paprika app for recipes and meal planning, and export lists from there into apple reminders, so they can automatically populate a shopping list in Grocery app, and B) not everyone in the house uses Grocery but they all have Apple Reminders. However, when you’re stocking pantries in 2 locations, the inventory and “keep in stock” features seem useless. :( If the developer takes feature requests, I’d love to see 2 things! First, have the “households” feature include the ability to switch between more than one household, with separate inventory, history, & “keep in stock” data for each household. And second: would further love to have a single store’s list display items from 2 reminders lists (or show items from an Apple Reminders Smart List), perhaps with color distinguishing which reminders list each item comes from. Why? My 96 year old grandfather makes a shopping list in Apple Reminders and shares it with me. I need to be able to see his list while i’m shopping, and check stuff off of his list in the same shopping trip that i’m checking stuff off of my list, but not confuse him by having all of my shopping items show up on his Apple Reminders list.

I have tried over 40+ grocery/shopping apps, and this app has SO MUCH POTENTIAL. It’s feature rich and has some great functionality. However, like most app developers, use-case and actual usability seem to be an afterthought—which is paramount for any successful app. Features mean absolutely nothing without that! The sync function fails consistently and is poorly planned. I’m required to manually force a sync to iCloud and pull data from iCloud to update shared data on other devices. As a result... we have abandoned use for family and sync function. I have tested this with multiple devices and new data and all problems are easily reproducible. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled to confirm the short list of issues. There is a definitely learning curve, which could be easily remedied. Emails to developer confirm that you are likely to not get a response, another failed use-case example. It’s easy to open a free support & ticket tracking system to receive the list of issues to be prioritized and worked on, establish a roadmap for features, and get this back on track. I hope that the developer takes this app seriously for future updates, enhancements, and builds up its potential. Again, because it truly has SO MUCH POTENTIAL.