Shared Grocery List Organizer vs Shopping List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shared Grocery List Organizer
Organize your grocery shopping with a smart list that categorizes items by aisle and recognizes over 20,000 products. Share lists with family and friends to coordinate shopping trips and prevent impulse buys. Features include cost calculation and auto-lock for convenience.
- Organizes items by aisle
- Recognizes over 20,000 grocery items
- Shareable lists with real-time updates
- Cost calculation for shopping trips
- Auto-lock checklist
- Natural language item input
- Recipe ingredient parsing
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Smart shopping list for US shoppers. It knows almost every product in the supermarket and will arrange them by aisle. Share your list with family and friends. Never forget to buy something again. Use a list to save money — no more hunger-driven impulse buying. Calculate the cost of your shopping†. • Huge database of over 20,000 grocery items. Includes generic products and brand names. • Share your list with family and friends. You'll see their changes, and they will see yours. Shopping together? Split up, mark-off items as you go. Your list will update to show what is left to buy. • Create different lists for different shops, events or to share with different people. Give each list a name and colour. Choose from 12 vibrant colours. • Self-improving suggestions — the more you use it, the smarter it becomes. • Auto-lock checklist to prevent accidental touches while walking around the shop†. • Add items from earlier shopping trips, or create a template list to copy from. Copy or move items between lists. • Type naturally: “3 pints of milk”, “large steak”, “beef or lamb”, “wine for tonight”, “birthday card - Amy”, “2 large tins of beans”, “3 small red tomatoes”, “5kg potatoes”. • Paste ingredients from a recipe and watch as each product is recognised and categorised by its location in the supermarket. • Add your own categories. Enter a name and choose a colour from one of the 24 schemes available. • Rearrange your categories† • Quickly clean-up the list to remove bought items. † Some features require a premium subscription Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Shopping List
Easily create and manage shopping lists with a simple, intuitive interface. Search for thousands of products, organized by category, and share your lists with others. It's a straightforward tool for keeping track of your purchases.
- Create shopping lists
- Search thousands of products
- Products sorted by category
- Share lists with others
- Intuitive and easy to use
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Shopping Notes is a simple and powerful shopping list app that helps you organize groceries, household items, and everything you need to buy. Create shopping lists in seconds, add products from thousands of categorized items, and keep your grocery planning fast and organized. Share shopping lists with your spouse, family, or friends for easier collaboration and never forget an item again. Use ready-made templates, create custom lists, and manage weekly grocery shopping, travel checklists, pantry restocks, and more. Whether you need a grocery list, shopping checklist, or shared shopping planner, Shopping Notes makes shopping smarter, faster, and stress-free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shared Grocery List Organizer at 4.6 against Shopping List's 3.7. Shared Grocery List Organizer also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (59 vs 3). Shopping List's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 41%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Shared Grocery List Organizer sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Shopping List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shared Grocery List Organizer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shared Grocery List Organizer has 59 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Shared Grocery List Organizer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Shopping List's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Shared Grocery List Organizer ships an update every 6 days, Shopping List every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shared Grocery List Organizer | Shopping List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (59 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Product Growth LLC | Danh Pham |
Customer experience
Shared Grocery List Organizer
Shopping List
Bugs and requests
Shared Grocery List Organizer
Reported bugs
10 issues- Shared lists showing read-only access when should be editable
- Lists disappearing or resetting after app use
- Items randomly ticking off without user action
- Sync not working between shared devices
- iPad app displays phone layout instead of tablet view
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- Subscription status not recognized after device transfer
- Shared lists not updating bidirectionally
- App crashes or becomes unresponsive
- Previous lists reappearing unexpectedly
- Autocomplete greying out text after certain words
Requested features
12 requests- One-time purchase option instead of subscription
- iCloud sync across multiple devices
- Apple Watch app support
- Web version for desktop access
- Ability to add duplicate items to list
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- Alphabetical sorting within shopping lists
- Reorder categories and items freely
- Force sync button for manual updates
- Inline list editing without tapping each item
- SMS/email list sharing option
- Restore 'clear all' with confirmation dialog
- Better onboarding experience for new users
Shopping List
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shared Grocery List Organizer
- Shopping UK Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
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- Shopping UK Premium (Yearly)$6.991 Year
- Shopping UK Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Premium Yearly Membership7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
- Premium Yearly Membership7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Premium Yearly Membership7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$29.99
- Lifetime Promo$29.99
Shopping List
- Upgrade Pro$3.99
Questions
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