Grocery Checklist vs Shift Editor & Quick Lookup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grocery Checklist
Create and manage your shopping lists with ease. Quickly add items as you remember them or build comprehensive weekly lists from an extensive item bank. Add custom items and notes for specific purchase details.
- Quick Add for immediate item entry
- Extensive item bank (800+ items)
- Add custom items
- Notes field for item details
- Checklist function
- Delete items easily
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For users searching for a simple and uncomplicated way to create that routine shopping list, this app is for you! Being only a shopping list with no complicated add-ons will make it easier for you to use. Use the Quick Add tab to create a list as you remember needed items in your busy day, or create a fuller weekly list using the extensive bank of items (more than 800) by clicking on the Add tab. You can even add your own items to this bank so that everything you ever need to shop for can be added to your list at the click of a button. Use the Notes field to indicate special features of your purchase such as weight, brand or price. The green buttons to the left of your list provide a useful checklist function allowing you to check off items as you get them. Or, using the red buttons to the right of your list, you can immediately delete items as they are purchased. This app will make your shopping trip a breeze. Never forget an item again!
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup
This app streamlines writing and referencing by integrating a browser with customizable text display. It offers smart Markdown shortcuts, multiple customizable presets for editing and viewing, and robust version control for documents. The app prioritizes a clean, distraction-free writing experience with advanced typography options.
- Integrated browser with custom color schemes
- Smart Markdown shortcuts
- Customizable presets for editing and viewing
- HTML preview sync
- Dropbox repository browsing
- Automatic document versioning
- Advanced typography options
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When we write, we reference the dictionary, Wikipedia, Google, and any number of websites. I made Shift to make writing and referencing both easy to do and especially, easy to read. The integrated browser displays text in your custom color-scheme using gorgeous fonts, so the web can readable at night and during the day. This means that you can quickly open Wikipedia or other text-based website and have the text size & colors match your custom choices without busy clutter. And Shift makes changing between presets easy. You have four customizable presets to choose from, accessible from the editor itself. Two touches, that's it. The MultiMarkdown editor syncs the text with an HTML preview that shows your work with the customizable style of your choice. Tap text to edit, pinch to preview. It's easy. Shift is smart about Markdown. Shift has shortcuts to create lists, emphasis and strong, indentation, headings, and more. All lines selected can be marked at once. For example, if you want to mark a few words to be italic, select at least parts of the words and press the italic button. Shift will insert the markdown where it needs to be. It's smart. Some Markdown documents or some websites are easier to read in landscape. That's no problem in Shift. You can use Shift in landscape view as well as portrait. And Shift can browse your entire Dropbox repository, not just a single folder. Every time you open a document, a copy is saved. Two previous versions are always available for you to revert any mistakes. There will be no tears when using Shift. I care about typography. Shift comes with Concourse, Equity, and Triplicate, three gorgeous fonts by Matthew Butterick (see http://practicaltypography.com). And so font selection and editor layout has been carefully put together. But you are free to change (and restore) text color, background color, highlight colors, and presentation style. You'll find that the keyboard color will follow your background color selection and other parts of the UI adapt to your choices as well. Shift is customizable, but it's simple. It gets out of your way so you can write and read the way you want. If you have any question, go to http://shiftwriter.com and press the "support" link on the bottom of the page. I'll answer as best as I'm able. Thanks for your time. A special thanks to Icons8 at http://iconpharm.com for the use of a number of their icons.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Shift Editor & Quick Lookup at none against Grocery Checklist's shown. Shift Editor & Quick Lookup also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). Grocery Checklist's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (346 vs 11). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grocery Checklist has 346 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Grocery Checklist's written reviews are positive against 100% of Shift Editor & Quick Lookup's.
Grocery Checklist ships an update every 3 weeks, Shift Editor & Quick Lookup every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grocery Checklist | Shift Editor & Quick Lookup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (346 ratings) | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 346 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lucid Atomics Corporation | John Lincoln |
Customer experience
Grocery Checklist
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup
In-app purchases
Grocery Checklist
No in-app purchases
Shift Editor & Quick Lookup
No in-app purchases
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