Shared Grocery List Organizer vs ShiftDeck
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/
ShiftDeck
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ShiftDeck is a shift planner for people on rotating rotas: ambulance, police, fire, nursing, doctors, transport, manufacturing, offshore. Set your pattern once. Whether it repeats every 4 days or every 12 weeks, ShiftDeck fills your calendar for years ahead. Tap any day to change it, add overtime, a note, who you were on with, or mark yourself off sick, without touching the pattern underneath. KNOW YOUR SHIFTS • Month view and agenda, months ahead • Reminders the evening before and before each shift, on your phone, no account needed • Heads-ups when a rota breaks the rules, like an early after a night PLAN YOUR LIFE • Free time: add a partner's, a friend's or a housemate's rota and see the days and evenings you are all free • A web page and calendar link for family, showing shift names only • Home-screen widgets: your next shift, or the week ahead KEEP YOUR RECORDS • CPD tallies you define, counted per shift, with presets for ambulance, police, fire and rescue, nursing and doctors, and a CSV export for your portfolio • Sickness and exposure log with watch windows • A quick wellbeing check after a shift, just for you PRIVATE BY DESIGN Notes, colleagues, CPD and wellbeing never leave your phone. Only shift names and times are ever shared, and only when you choose to. SHIFTDECK PLUS The rota, reminders, wellbeing and CPD are free. Plus adds account sync across phones, the web page and calendar link, sharing and Free time, and CPD export. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your account settings. Privacy policy: https://shiftdeck.app/privacy Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ShiftDeck at 15.0 against Shared Grocery List Organizer's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 ShiftDeck sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shared Grocery List Organizer ships an update every 6 days, ShiftDeck every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shared Grocery List Organizer | ShiftDeck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (59 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Product Growth LLC | Fully Coded Solutions Limited |
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
ShiftDeck
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
ShiftDeck
- Plus, monthly$2.991 Month
- Plus, yearly$19.991 Year
Questions
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