Comparison

Shared Grocery List Organizer vs Making Places

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Making Places

Easily manage your home and connect with your property management team and community. Access important property information, make payments, manage keys and parcels, and receive instant notifications.

Highlights
  • Manage property aspects
  • View key documents
  • Communicate with office teams
  • Pay service charges
  • Receive parcel alerts
  • Manage key access
  • Stay updated on announcements
Features
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Places enables owners and residents to easily manage their homes from one easy to use app. Effortlessly connect with their property management and on-site teams, as well as their community. Through Places they will be able to see important information about their property and the wider estate. Make service charge payments, manage access, keys and parcels, and receive instant news notifications or important massages from the office teams, helping to stay up to date with your home, the community and those things that matter to you the most. These are some of the highlights of Places: - Manage key aspects of your property - View key documents - Communicate with the office teams - Talk to your concierge - Pay your service charge - Get parcel delivery alerts - Manage key access - Keep updated on news announcements

Screenshots

Shared Grocery List Organizer4 screens
Making Places4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Making Places at none against Shared Grocery List Organizer's 10. Making Places also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Shared Grocery List Organizer's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (41% vs 21%). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shared Grocery List Organizer sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Making Places asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shared Grocery List Organizer ships an update every 6 days, Making Places monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Shared Grocery List Organizer versus Making Places: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShared Grocery List OrganizerMaking Places
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (59 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews — better21.4% of reviews
Number of ratings59 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProduct Growth LLCDwellant

Customer experience

Shared Grocery List Organizer

All ratings59 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral5.1%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews165 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral7.9%
Negative50.9%

Making Places

Written reviews14 reviews
Positive21.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative64.3%

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

Making Places

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Shared Grocery List Organizer

Subscriptions8
  • Shopping UK Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Shopping UK Premium (Yearly)$6.991 Year
  • Shopping UK Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
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  • 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
One-time2
  • Lifetime$29.99
  • Lifetime Promo$29.99
None

Making Places

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shared Grocery List Organizer free?
Shared Grocery List Organizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Making Places free?
Making Places is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shared Grocery List Organizer or Making Places have ads?
Neither Shared Grocery List Organizer nor Making Places shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shared Grocery List Organizer or Making Places?
Shared Grocery List Organizer ships an update every 6 days, and Making Places monthly. Most recently, Shared Grocery List Organizer was updated on November 6, 2026 and Making Places on November 4, 2026.

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