Simple but smart - best shopping list app
The app has some greatfeatures that make it easy to use. The best is the two views of your shopping list - one an alphabetical view for when you are sharing items at home. The second view is for when you are in the shop, and the app sorts the list in the order you find the items in the shop. Makes it so easy to run through your list and get everything. There’s also a really detail help page on the web that explains all about the app.
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Finally a shopping list app that does what I want
This shopping list keeps the order of items as arranged during previous trips to the store. That is super-useful!
Simple and useful
It’s just a shopping list maker, but it’s simplicity is why I love it.
Very useful
This app is really easy to use and very handy to add things to your list over the days before you go shopping. Very highly recommended.
Finally found a truly simple & functional shopping app
I have been looking for a grocery shopping list app to replace my very old “Simple Shop” app ever since Apple started putting up reminders that it won’t even work in upcoming iOS versions. I have downloaded and tried many so-called “simple" shopping list apps. Easy Shopping List accomplishes what I want with a lovely interface.
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Developer not interested in considering enhancements
The app is fine - the issue I have is that when I made a suggestion that the developer add more colors to highlight items on the list because that's how I distinguish different stores, he basically said, " Nope - I'm not interested in doing that." Then suggested I use another app. I paid for this app and would like some consideration. Get the free version - don't pay for this!
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Response from developer
As I said in my email that prompted you to write this review: "The app is unashamedly simple and is really designed for shopping at just one store." "I don't think I would be able to add multiple colours without making the user interface more complicated. And that would go against the whole philosophy of the app being simple and easy to use."
Chez
This was a really BIG waste of money. If you want to write a shopping list, (which this is), it is going to be less fuss to get a pen and pad. Much better apps available and cheaper.
Great app!!!
Very useful!
I AM ADDING THIS, BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP BE FASCINATED BY SIMPLICITY AND USEFULNESS OF THIS APP! It does it's job with 100% efficiency! I AM USING THIS APP SINCE 2011 and not going to change into another one!
I AM ADDING THIS, BECAUSE I CAN'T STOP BE FASCINATED BY SIMPLICITY AND USEFULNESS OF THIS APP! It does it's job with 100% efficiency! I AM USING THIS APP SINCE 2011 and not going to change into another one!
A+
Very useful for people on the go and that are always on there phone it's like y'all never forget what u need at the store again!!
Easy shopping list
I like it it's so simple. My favorite shopping app. I wish we could categorize it or move certain things around so I can write my list according to where things are located in the store.
Perfect
This is just perfect and effective.
Excelente
Ótimo app, achei nele a praticidade aliada à simplicidade que tanto buscava em outros apps do tipo, excelente p/ usar no supermercado durante as compras, pois tem a opçao de marcar o que ja foi posto no carrinho, enfim, ótimo app, gostei e recomendo.
Excellent......
I like this app very much, i recomend anyone that like to symplify their lifes, this app is very easy to understand and also easy to manage by using the history it make everything easy for you. Keep up the good work!
Excellent app
Excellent app. Very easy to use.
Just as easy to use as its name implies
Easy Shopping List aims at giving you just the functions you need to prepare your grocery shopping list and make using the list as convenient as possible while you are in the store. The user interface is clean and intuitive, with separate Plan and Shop modes. In the interest of keeping things simple and straightforward, ESL doesn’t include features such as product prices, quantities, photos, bar code scanning, coupons and tracking for multiple stores. For users like me who don’t need those features, apps that include them can be unnecessarily complicated to use. I also tend to avoid apps that use funky colors, backgrounds and fonts.
ESL doesn’t come with a large pre-built list of products, which may initially strike some people as a negative, but I have found this to be a strength. I have gradually entered my regularly purchased grocery products over a few weeks using the descriptions that I prefer and I don’t have to deal with a bunch of generic products that I will never use. Every product you add to your shopping list is kept in a history. When you are in Plan mode, the basic way to add a product to your shopping list is to enter a few contiguous characters of the name, which will search your history and give you a list of matching products. You can tap the desired product and it goes onto your shopping list. Version 1.4 of ESL includes a feature in Plan mode to display an alphabetical list of all of the products in your history and allow you to tap any number of them to add them to your shopping list at the same time. This new feature is great to use before you go to the store to fill in products you haven’t already added using the search feature. Sometimes I just leave the app in this mode between trips to the store and tap products as I run out of them.
ESL is a pleasure to use in the store. Unlike some shopping apps that make you tap on a little button icon to check off a product, you can tap anywhere on a product in your list to mark it as bought. Bought products move to a separate list so you stay focused on what is left to buy. If you tapped a product by mistake, you can quickly move it from the Bought list back to the To Buy list by tapping it. I use the ESL option to disable the screen lockout, so your screen stays on and you don’t need to keep logging in if you don’t tap a product for a couple of minutes. I also use the ESL option to disable landscape mode while shopping so I don’t have to wait for the screen to reorient every time I tilt my iPod—which is pretty often as I hold my device in one hand and pick products from the shelves with the other hand. ESL also gradually learns the order in which you buy products and displays them in that order in Shop mode. This eliminates the need for putting products into categories in Shop mode, since your list will automatically group products by store department or aisle, based on the order in which you shop. If you decide not to buy a product on your list during this trip to the store, but want to preserve its correct purchase order, ESL allows you to mark the item as Saved for Later. When you exit from Shop mode, these saved products will still be on your list in Plan mode, but their correct purchase order is preserved. It takes a few shopping trips for new products you add to start appearing in the correct purchase order, but after you have used ESL for a while, you should almost always find that the top product on your shopping list is the one you plan to buy next as you walk through the store.
Even though ESL is very easy to use, I referred to the excellent documentation a few times when I first bought the app. This is available from within the app and also from iTunes via a link to the product web site. If you are curious about how ESL works before deciding whether to buy it, look at the tutorial, which walks you step by step through the process of using the app. I wish all apps in the store made it this easy to evaluate them. I have also contacted Hacknicity Support a couple of times with questions and ideas and Geoff has been very responsive.
ESL doesn’t come with a large pre-built list of products, which may initially strike some people as a negative, but I have found this to be a strength. I have gradually entered my regularly purchased grocery products over a few weeks using the descriptions that I prefer and I don’t have to deal with a bunch of generic products that I will never use. Every product you add to your shopping list is kept in a history. When you are in Plan mode, the basic way to add a product to your shopping list is to enter a few contiguous characters of the name, which will search your history and give you a list of matching products. You can tap the desired product and it goes onto your shopping list. Version 1.4 of ESL includes a feature in Plan mode to display an alphabetical list of all of the products in your history and allow you to tap any number of them to add them to your shopping list at the same time. This new feature is great to use before you go to the store to fill in products you haven’t already added using the search feature. Sometimes I just leave the app in this mode between trips to the store and tap products as I run out of them.
ESL is a pleasure to use in the store. Unlike some shopping apps that make you tap on a little button icon to check off a product, you can tap anywhere on a product in your list to mark it as bought. Bought products move to a separate list so you stay focused on what is left to buy. If you tapped a product by mistake, you can quickly move it from the Bought list back to the To Buy list by tapping it. I use the ESL option to disable the screen lockout, so your screen stays on and you don’t need to keep logging in if you don’t tap a product for a couple of minutes. I also use the ESL option to disable landscape mode while shopping so I don’t have to wait for the screen to reorient every time I tilt my iPod—which is pretty often as I hold my device in one hand and pick products from the shelves with the other hand. ESL also gradually learns the order in which you buy products and displays them in that order in Shop mode. This eliminates the need for putting products into categories in Shop mode, since your list will automatically group products by store department or aisle, based on the order in which you shop. If you decide not to buy a product on your list during this trip to the store, but want to preserve its correct purchase order, ESL allows you to mark the item as Saved for Later. When you exit from Shop mode, these saved products will still be on your list in Plan mode, but their correct purchase order is preserved. It takes a few shopping trips for new products you add to start appearing in the correct purchase order, but after you have used ESL for a while, you should almost always find that the top product on your shopping list is the one you plan to buy next as you walk through the store.
Even though ESL is very easy to use, I referred to the excellent documentation a few times when I first bought the app. This is available from within the app and also from iTunes via a link to the product web site. If you are curious about how ESL works before deciding whether to buy it, look at the tutorial, which walks you step by step through the process of using the app. I wish all apps in the store made it this easy to evaluate them. I have also contacted Hacknicity Support a couple of times with questions and ideas and Geoff has been very responsive.
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Very easy shopping list
Now using this app every time I shop. Would be 5 stars if I could re-order the list to the way the shop is laid out.
Easy Shopping List
I downloaded this app a couple of weeks ago and have slowly been developing my 'Shopping List' of regular items that I shop for. It is reasonably easy to use with no frills and bangs to complicate things. I have recently updated to the latest version which has explanatory notes and a link to a web page where comprehensive instructions are available. ( this is a really great idea for somone new to the app and was lacking in the initial version).
On the whole I like the app and would recommend it to anyone to try, its strength is in its simplicity.
Well done Hacknicity
On the whole I like the app and would recommend it to anyone to try, its strength is in its simplicity.
Well done Hacknicity
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Very useful app!
What a great little app. It's simple design and layout make it really easy to use, especially when wandering round the supermarket. I really like the fact it remembers the order you pick things up off the shelf in, so learns the layout of the shop. Highly recommended!
