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Excellent app! Changed the way we grocery shop
No more getting to the grocery store and realizing you forgot to bring list. My husband and I have been using the OurGroceries app for many years. We absolutely love it. It’s not glitchy or weird. It does everything it’s supposed to.
We love that it updates instantly in real time. We can be at the grocery store together in two different parts of the store or we can be at two separate grocery stores. If one of us marks something off or adds something on a list, the other one sees it instantly. We have a list for each of the grocery stores that we shop in. Multiple family members can share the account. Paying the small price to remove ads is worth it because you can scan barcodes to add things into your database of things you buy. You can create categories for the items in your personal database of groceries. We had a categories like personal care, frozen food, cold food, canned food, etc. that makes it easier to find things and add them to a list. Highly recommended! One of those game-changer apps that you didn’t even know you needed nearly as badly as you do.Show lessWRMLD
Almost perfect, but needs to consider the shopper
So this app is basically what I realized I needed, and fortunately found it existed already so I didn’t have to build it myself. The coordination between recipes and shopping is great, but could use a little tweaking.
For example, let’s say I have two recipes, each calling for 1/2 onion. If I add the item to my shopping list, do I get 1 onion or do I get 1/2 onion x2? Gets worse with 1/4 etc. So recipes should have units (selected in the menu; volume/mass depending on how your region does cooking measurements. 1/4 cup onion vs 0.5 onion vs 100g onion etc
Also, adding a “Store” & “aisle” column would be so helpful, especially if it could handle two or more stores. I frequently hit two or three stores, and they stock things in different places. For instance, Rotel canned tomatoes with chilies is in the tomato aisle in one store and the Mexican food aisle at another store. In my other system, I simply used the initial of the store (G for Giant, W for Wegmans,etc) and the aisle number so I knew to look for it in G10 or W01b. This also allows for increased efficiency if you are going to your favorite store and can select (sort by Store/aisle) so I only have to make one pass down each. Right now, I store this info in the notes, but that won’t sort.
90% of the way there!Show less/)(&,5)!
Essential Family Tool and Timesaver
Looked at a lot of grocery apps and ultimately selected this one, and have been so pleased. We’ve been using for about 5 years now. It lets all family members see the list, update the list, and have the update show in real time, as in instantly.
I like how we can easily create different specific lists for specific stores.
Additionally, for the large store where we grocery shop most frequently (Costco), it let me set up sub-categories in the order that I shop within the store (by numbering categories). After that initial work, it now automatically files any grocery item under the appropriate category,and thus for me in the right shopping order at Costco! That really makes the actual shopping quick.
I love how if I remember an item I need to buy at some random moment in my day, I can just quickly go into my lists and add it.
Lastly, it’s not a big deal, but I also like how items are removed from the list by tapping the item but they don’t instantly disappear. Instead, they go to a list below where they show as scratched out. You have to actively say delete that removed item sublist to completely get rid of those items. This feature—that I didn’t know I needed— lets you double check your cart or add an item back to the list if you tapped it accidentally.Show lessJMacL*
Love this App
I’ve used Our Groceries for more than 10 years. I LOVE it, and I’ve recommended it to many people who now also love it. It’s so useful and well-designed. It’s incredibly helpful to be able to co-own lists with other household members. I also love being able to arrange the items in my list to coincide with my path through the store. (And it seems like the app “learns” to do this for me the more I use it for a particular list.) We started out using it just for groceries, but we gradually began adding more lists… hardware store, Target, farmers market, liquor store… I don’t even know how many lists we have now, probably at least a dozen! With so many lists, it’s helpful that the app lets me know, when I’m adding something to one list, if it’s already on one of our other lists. If you haven’t tried Our Groceries yet, I HIGHLY recommend it.Show lessgoldiegirl65
Love this app
This is the best groceries app I’ve used and I’ve tried way too many of them. The only other one I’ve had and liked isn’t around anymore. I like the idea of being able the share/edit grocery list(s) with your household, it’s super helpful.
The only minor “complaint” I have is that it doesn’t have one specific feature that the other one I used to use did that was super helpful. The other one had a feature to be able to set and save the price of what each item costs and not only see the price of the item while viewing the list, but then when you went back the the main view of all your lists, it would show you the total cost of each specific list for the items that were not crossed off so that you knew what your cost would be before you went to the store. This also made it easier for budgeting your monthly bills.Show lessVincent Camelli
Great app, needs some small improvements
Need to be able to put a price in for each item, per pound, per each, etc and have that total per store for total spend/budget. I currently put the size (usually ounces) in the notes but I sometimes need notes too, so having a separate place for size would be helpful. Needs to tell you what device added the item to the list. We share with five family members and I always have to group text questions about the list because I don’t know who added it. It’s far too easy to accidentally take an item off the list. Needs to be a swipe or checkbox, or something that requires more effort. It takes more effort to press the “I” to get more info! This is the app’s biggest flaw. Change the circle I to a checkbox and have the item details come up when you click it and it would solve this.Show lessNDYNAMICS
Developer Response
Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions! To make it harder to accidentally cross items off the list, you can choose how items are crossed off in the app settings. For example you can choose "press and hold" or "swipe". You can read more about it here: https://www.ourgroceries.com/user-guide#settings_cross_off_actionAdd Transfers Between Lists?
Seems it would be simple to add the function of either moving or copying an item from one list to another. This would make it possible to keep a Favorites list and copy items from it to another list as you look through Favorites in adding items to, say, this week’s grocery list for a specific store.
The use of a favorites list to move things to new current lists is the only feature I really miss about grocery apps I have used before. As it is, I keep a Favorites list, but using it is awkward, because I have to switch to the target list, and manually add the item(s).
Thanks for making one of the easiest-to-use apps on my iPhone. My suggestion would make it even easier.Show lessG of Maine
Developer Response
You can use our Recipes feature for this. Create a Recipe called "Favorites", put all your favorite items on it, and then tap each item you wish to add to add it to the chosen shopping list. This remembers a separate destination shopping list for each recipe item. Later this year we will update the way recipes work to be more flexible in choosing where added items go. Read more here: https://www.ourgroceries.com/user-guide#recipes Please email us at support@ourgroceries.com anytime if you have more questions or suggestions!Your making me nervous!
I have been using this app for years now. I started with the free version and after a couple years upgraded just to throw money their way for making such an awesome app. The upgrade does have improvements though, like being able to add photos. My wife and I are linked (even before I upgraded) which is Super handy! I use the store or facility name for the category. I already know in what department the milk is.
This is the most useful, helpful, and reliable app I have on my phone and wished it was a standard for so many other developers. Please please please don’t go away, sell or drastically change the app.
Thank you Ourgroceries, you guys rock!Show lessJon_Rex
So far so good. One request
UPDATE: I am really liking this app. No problems and easy to use. So, I just upgraded to “Lifetime”. I figured that was the best deal to roll the dice on. Plus I am now cancelling my subscription to another list creating app that just is working for me any more.
I just starting using this app to replace another shopping app that I have and I really like it so far. The one request that I have (or perhaps I just don’t know how to do it) is to be able to manually re-arrange the lists so I can put the most frequently used lists first instead of just alphabetical order. I only see the option for alphabetical or empty lists at the bottom. If all seems to work out with this app I will be purchasing ad-free version. Thank you. UPDATE: Thank you for your response and the tip for getting the lists in the order that I want. Wonderful idea !. Love this app. Changing to 5 stars.Show lessLupeLu54
App is great, but it doesn’t work on Alexa
The is great and exactly what I was looking for. I tried to enable it for Alexa, but it doesn’t work. I enabled the skill and linked to my OurGroceries account. When I use the command, “Alexa, Ask OurGroceries What are my lists?”, Alexa responses, “Welcome to OurGroceries, please use the Alexa to link your account”. I have disabled/re-enabled and relinked many times and it still never works. The use of Alexa to maintain my grocery list is very appealing and one of the main reasons I chose OurGroceries.
Update
It has been 1.5 weeks and only one response from the developer, when he just said it should have worked and nothing else. The app itself is exactly what I was looking for, but having Alexa support would make it near perfect. The developer support is sad.Show lessFrank in San Diego
