Comparison

Shared Grocery List Organizer vs FlowBlock

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

FlowBlock

Features
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Most planners give you a list and leave the hard part to you: deciding what to do, and when. FlowBlock builds the day for you. Tell it what needs doing and roughly how long it takes. It finds the hours, works around the things you can't move, and re-plans when the day changes. Open it and there is one block on screen: the one to do now. WHAT IT DOES • Auto-scheduling. Your tasks get real times in the hours you actually work, with breathing room built in. • One block at a time. The Up Now card picks the block that fits the hour, so there is no list to sort through. • Routines that bend. "Every day", "3× a week", "2 weeks after I last did it". Fixed at an hour, or just first thing or last thing. • Flow sessions. A timer that knows which block it belongs to, on your Lock Screen and your Apple Watch. • Not now, without guilt. Push a block to later, the evening or tomorrow. It comes back on its own. • Widgets. See your day on the Home and Lock Screen, and tick a block done from the Home Screen. • Made for iPad. Your pages in a sidebar, a block's details beside the list, and a week where you can draw new blocks and move them. BUILT FOR BRAINS THAT DON'T DO LISTS A streak that survives a rest day. No red overdue badges. Miss a day and FlowBlock simply re-plans, because that is what a plan is for. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU USE iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and the web app at app.flow-block.com for planning at your desk. One account, always in sync. SUBSCRIPTION FlowBlock is free for 14 days, no card needed. After that, one Flow Pass subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and the web app. Flow Pass Monthly: US$11.99 per month. Flow Pass Yearly: US$89.99 per year. Local pricing is shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://flow-block.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://flow-block.com/terms

Screenshots

Shared Grocery List Organizer4 screens
FlowBlock4 screens

Verdict

The call

Shared Grocery List Organizer and FlowBlock are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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 and FlowBlock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shared Grocery List Organizer ships an update every 6 days, FlowBlock every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Shared Grocery List Organizer versus FlowBlock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShared Grocery List OrganizerFlowBlock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (59 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings59 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProduct Growth LLCAlikhan Bulatov

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

FlowBlock

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
2 purchases

FlowBlock

Subscriptions2
  • Flow Pass$11.991 Month
  • Flow Pass1 Year trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Shared Grocery List Organizer free?
Shared Grocery List Organizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlowBlock free?
FlowBlock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shared Grocery List Organizer or FlowBlock have ads?
Neither Shared Grocery List Organizer nor FlowBlock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shared Grocery List Organizer or FlowBlock?
Shared Grocery List Organizer ships an update every 6 days, and FlowBlock every 5 days. Most recently, Shared Grocery List Organizer was updated on November 1, 2026 and FlowBlock on October 28, 2026.

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