It’s always nice to come home to a well-stocked refrigerator and make a delicious dinner for yourself or your family. Planning your grocery list can ensure that, when you make a trip to the store, everything you need to make the week’s meals will be bought in one trip.
Particularly if you live with a spouse, significant other or roommate whom you split the groceries with, compiling a joint list can be a hassel. A number of apps attempt to solve this problem by either organizing your lists, or syncing your lists into one list. Check out our top four apps to make grocery shopping more efficient and just easier altogether.
OurGroceries: This is a super helpful app if you share a grocery list with a spouse. Both people download the app and enter the same email address on the setup screen to access one joint account. Click the confirmation email and you’re ready to make shared lists. Anyone can make a list or add an item. You can sort your grocery list by item type — meat, dairy, etc. — and also title each grocery list. Say you’re both shopping at the same time, you tap the items to cross them off the list and the other person’s list is automatically updated in seconds. OurGroceries is available for iOS, Android and Blackberry. If there is a downside to this app, it’s that it is not very aesthetically pleasing, at least compared to some of the other grocery list apps. But it works well.
BuyMeAPie: If you search the App Store for “grocery list free” you’ll find the lite version of this app. Search “Buy Me a Pie” and you’ll find the $2.99 full version of this grocery list app. From Skript, LLC, based in Russia, the lite version of this app offers list making abilities, plus a list organization system, while the fully loaded version adds the ability to sync lists with other iOS devices and send links to various lists via SMS or email. All users can create lists using items in the app’s dictionary of items. This is somewhat limited, but you can type in your own items, too, and the dictionary will remember those for future reference.
Out Of Milk: Do you ever go to the grocery store and forget what’s already in your pantry? Out of Milk holds your grocery list as well as keeps stock of what’s in your pantry —- you have to enter this information, of course, and keep it up-to-date. Listing syncing is free on this app. Users can enter the quantity of each item and organize according to aisles. Pull-up various lists with the top bar popup menu. Available on Google Play.
Honorable Mention: Remember the Milk. While this isn’t specifically a grocery list app, Remember the Milk is a to-do list for everything in your life. From taking out the trash, to buying milk or reminding yourself to buy your best friend a birthday gift. Each task is marked as “complete” or “incomplete,” so you know what’s still on your list. Prioritize lists and send yourself reminders via text message, IM or email.
Honorable Mention: Grocery IQ. What you’ll notice right away with this app is that it briefly walks you through how to create lists. You can add items to your grocery list by typing them in, but this app also lets you add items with your voice or by scanning items’ barcodes. The scanning recognition works well, and is a fun way to populate your grocery list — just go through your pantry and fridge and scan the barcodes. With the app, users can also access discounts from Coupons.com, which is the parent app of Grocery iQ. Like other grocery apps, you can also sync your lists to your roommates’ smartphones. Grocery iQ is available for iOS and Android.
Honorable Mention: Fooducate is your hand-held personal nutritionist while in the grocery store. Simply scan a food item in the grocery store, and Fooducate will show you its letter grade in terms of health. Fooducate’s grading algoritms were developed with help from dietitians. The app is available on iPhone and Android.
Do you have any issues with grocery shopping or sharing lists that could be solved by using one of these apps? Which one appeals to you? Tell us in the comments.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2012/09/07/apps-organize-grocery-list/
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