Description
Love to cook, but hate shopping for groceries?
Imagine yourself out at the coffee shop with some friends, and you remember that you have nothing in the refrigerator for dinner, and no idea what you want to make.
You pull out GroceryZen, and browse through some pictures of your favorite meals to inspire your shopping. The "Lasagna" recipe sounds good. One tap later, all of its ingredients are on your list. With one more tap your regular weekly staples of "Milk", "Cheese", "Cereal", and 12 more items are on the list.
You drive to the store, and breeze through every aisle just once, with no backtracking, because the list has reordered itself. Or better yet, email it to your husband, so he can do the shopping.
How is GroceryZen better?
- Starts with hundreds of common items, and add your own to the list. You don't need to wade through thousands of items you'll never buy to add to your list.
- Add shopping lists for your favorite recipes. Add all the ingredients for Lasagna in a single tap. You won't forget the parmesan cheese like you did last week.
- Photos of recipes to inspire you to make something yummy.
- Share the list or your recipe shopping lists using email, to send your significant other to the store.
- The list orders itself by aisle when you go to the store. No backtracking.
- Add, change, and customize the order of the aisles to match the way you shop.
- Type a few letters to search for items if you can't remember whether you added "green onions" or "scallions".
- Add notes and links to recipes, so you can remember where you found them.
What's New in Version 1.8
- Multitasking support. Great for adding recipes to switch back and forth between Safari.
- Svenska!
- Dansk!
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
No no no
1. There is no undo- so if you press an item on your list it disappears forever. What if you click on something accidently- and you are not sure what you clicked and an important item disappears forever? You would never even know it.....
2. It doesn't display the whole recipe line by line, if one ingredient is more characters than the line you cannot read the whole thing!!
3. It is hard to read recipes for said reason.
This was a waste of time to set up, and of money to buy!
Best Grocery App
I've tried about every grocery app and this one works best for me but it's still pretty terrible. Grocery apps seem so simple and there are so many why are they all so weak?
I like that you can create your own master list of items easily so you don't have hundreds of things in the main list you'd never ever buy. Searching for items is great.
The killer feature is the "recipe" feature but this is poorly named. It's really sub-lists. So you can have a recipe of things you normally buy every week and you can easily go through that list and add what you are out of. Or quickly add all the ingredients of a dish you're going to make.
The biggest problem is the incredibly, no, amazingly, awful way it handles quantities. You can advance the quantity forward by tapping the quantity of an item. But if your default is 3 then it advances by 3s (one tap = 6), if your default is 1 1/2 pounds one tap gets you to 3 pounds. Any other quantity change (including removing from your shopping list) requires going to an edit screen and selecting quantity and then saving. And then the app often erases the aisle info for that item.
Developer responded quickly to say I was wrong about this bug. When I gave them step-by-step instructions that always recreate it they didn't respond.
I don't know if it's been updated in months. If so the changes were minute.
Basically it's useful but obnoxious but still the best in a surprisingly weak class of apps.
Idea for an upgrrade
Love this app and use it all the time. I cut and paste recipes into all the time and use it for every trip to the grocery store. One thing that would make it even better though, is if I could catagorize my recipes: main dishes, holidays, side dishes, etc. I now have so many recipes, it takes awhile to sort throught them all. :) Thanks for a great app though!
- $1.99
- Category: Lifestyle
- Updated: Dec 03, 2010
- Version: 1.8
- Size: 2.2 MB
- Languages: English, Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: Greg Bernhardt
- © 2008 gbcb Software, LLP
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.1 or later.
