Groceries
By Sophiestication Software
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Description
Groceries is a beautiful and easy to use shopping list for your iPhone and iPod touch. Never forget your shopping list again!
WHAT OTHERS SAY
"Groceries is fast, starting almost immediately and pulling up search results instantaneously. It is also very simple; crossing off items just requires a tap for Groceries to remove it from the list. While simple to use, it still offers a lot of functionality." (4½ of 5 mice)
- Kyle Baxter, Macworld
"Groceries is a shopping list app that leans in the simple direction but chooses its features wisely. The process of making a list within its interface is familiar in seconds." (5 of 5 stars)
- Billy Miller, 148apps.com
"It’s obvious that time and thought went into the application UI and how it should work."
- Jeff Smykil, Ars Technica
FEATURES
– Beautiful user interface
– Share lists over email
– Re-import lists from email into Groceries
– Grocery search with instant results
– Build-in range of goods
– Add new items in an instant
– Keep track of recent items and favorites
– Multiple shopping lists
– Amount entries… no longer buy too less or wrong package sizes
– Customizable units
– Organize groceries in aisles
– Copy and move items into different aisles or shopping lists
– Add notes to your items
– Custom actions for single, double and triple tapping list items
– Optional home screen badge
– More options in the Settings Application
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What's New In Version 2.1.3
- Picking a favorite or recent item now works correctly again
Customer Reviews
Decent App
Purchased and used both "Grocery Gadget" and "Groceries - The Grocery Shopping List".
The user interface is clean, slick, and intuitive, rather than the more utilitarian interface found in Grocery Gadget. However, I found the interface in Groceries to be less *useful* than Grocery Gadget in two ways. First, Groceries does not have a convenient way to indicate quantity, unlike Grocery Gadget's dedicated +/- counter. Second, Groceries does not have the capability to attach pictures to the item (again, unlike Grocery Gadget). Both programs allow multiple lists, categories within lists (e.g. "produce"), and creation of custom categories and items.
Neither app has what feels to me to be a mature item database. For example, neither database contains "bok choy." The Grocery Gadget database is a little more extensive than that used by Groceries, but can sometimes get *too* specific -- you'll either have to add "apples" yourself, or choose from amongst the half-dozen specific varieties in the list.
I have switched fully to Grocery Gadget for its richer functionality, but would switch back to Groceries in a heartbeat if they added an easy quantity indicator and the ability to attach photos to items.
Great for when you’re at the store, but making a list is a chore
This is easier to use when at the store than pen and paper. But writing a grocery list is somewhat of a chore.
First, the built-in database is not very helpful — lacking entries for, e.g., broccoli and 2% milk. (For plain milk, you can have whole, skim, or low-fat — but milk is sold in 4 varieties in the US.) It is very heavy on brand-name items. However for all but a few items, I don’t care what brand I buy. It would be way more useful to have a single entry for “Tortillas, Burrito Size,” than a dozen entries for tortilla brands that aren’t available where I live.
With that said, the database problem should get better the longer I use the app, because you can easily add your own items to the database.
The second and bigger problem is that you can’t specify quantities at the time you add the item. I usually have a list of recipes in front of me, so I have to go through my entire list and select the items, and then go through the list a *second time* to enter quantities.
I’ve used this for my last two shopping trips and, honestly, typing up a list in Word or OmniOutliner is faster, but I’m going to keep using this app in the hope that it will be faster once I get over the learning curve.
Almost perfect
This is a really great app. The only things missing are a few simple items sorted to the top (do a search for Milk to see what I'm talking about), and a simple way to mark an item to quickly let me know I have a coupon. I use the notes feature right now, but it's not intuitive and is super slow. I'd be better off using pen and paper.
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$1.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated:Jun 19, 2010
- Current Version:2.1.3
- 2.1.3 (iOS 4.0 Tested)
- 5.4 MB
- Languages:English, German
- Seller:Sophia Teutschler
- © 2008-2010 Sophia Teutschler
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
