Our Groceries Shopping List Reviews

by QuackMeUp

OurGroceriesShoppingList doesn’t follow any kind of interface standards and doesn’t seem to have its own standard way of working. For an otherwise simple app, it’s not easy to items that you already input earlier. It may be in a named ‘list’ or in the Deleted ‘list’, both can be where an item ends up after purchase.

If you enter a new grocery item - they all have to be typed in completely - then realize you made a mistake (typing or otherwise) making a change results in a duplicate item. The same if you want to change from breakfast bars with almonds to breakfast bars without almonds. And WORST is this is a “multi-user” app so you don’t necessarily know this has happened so when the spouse returns with groceries you’ll get both! OR every time you make a change you can go find the old item and delete it but that’s only if you can find it because, again, OurGroceriesShoppingList doesn’t follow the usual standards.

I gave it 2 stars because it may be fine for a single user, but then again, if it were just me, I probably wouldn’t need a grocery list app that could probably be written on a mid ‘80s Atari.

by UpNorthEMT

I have a pantry inventory app that’s great. The only problem was it only scans food items, so I was looking for something where I could scan all grocery items and make lists for different stores quickly. Within minutes of downloading OurGroceriesShoppingList I decided it was exactly what I needed and made the upgrade purchase. OurGroceriesShoppingList is simple to use, easy to create multiple lists and the scanner is lightning fast.

But it lacks the ability to scan certain barcodes. Nothing I have from Aldi will scan. And since I do quite a bit of my shopping there, this is very disappointing. Had I known the scanner wouldn’t work with certain major stores barcodes I never would have purchased it. But you can’t know what it will scan until you purchase it. The light version should at least allow some sort of scanning capabilities. Because now I’ve spent $5 on an app that is virtually useless for half the stuff I buy.

by NDYNAMICS

Basic grocery list with cross device support and ability to have multiple lists and store simple recipes to add ingredients to a shopping list. User interface is meh but I don’t think it’s horrible. What it really needs is the ability to store a price for each item and total up each list (with quantities) so you can track spending while shopping. Not sure how it would work as you cross things off, maybe with a resettable total that increases with each crossed off item.

There’s also a fairly bad bug - when you use the fewer or more button on a recipe (say Onions (2) for example) and then add the recipe to shopping lists, it totally ignores the quantity. Makes that function pretty useless.

We log in all our phones in the family to one account t and were are able to add to shopping lists, but family sharing would be nice so each person could have their own login.

by The Teaman

I like a grocery app that has both a phone and a watch app. This one has that and does it fairly well. Going through the store checking your watch is easier than pulling your phone in and out and turning it on and off. OurGroceriesShoppingList lets you categorize products and it remembers the categories once you set them. It lets you add the same product to multiple store lists. I love the look of OurGroceriesShoppingList and it’s instant sync functionality.

The areas of improvement the maker should address is that I find the flow for the addition of groceries to be clunky. It would be nicer if you could start to type an item select from the matching list and straight away specify how many and the category ( if it’s uncategorized ) without having to navigate around into the info screen for the product.

I also find myself accidentally touching products to get to that information screen and instead it removes it from the list. This is counterintuitive. They should use a check box or a swipe left or right to remove the item from the list, which is more conventional. If you don’t wanna change now that you have a base of users, at least make it a preference setting for the newcomers.

by David_Dawson

There aren’t many ways that OurGroceriesShoppingList could be improved but the devs do keep making worthwhile adjustments. (Thank you for sorting changes, word case, etc.) I’ve been using it for many years and sharing this with my spouse. We were happy to pay to remove ads and, more than that, feel it’s a small price to pay for a great idea executed well.

My only complaint: I absolutely loved when these Siri integration was added but somewhere along the way it started to get a little bit flaky. Whenever I ask “hey Siri, add milk using OurGroceries,” for example, Siri will respond with “You were saying?” or “Did you accidentally summon me?” or “You’ll have to continue in OurGroceries” or “Sorry, I’ll need a few more minutes to process the updated app.”

I have rebooted my phone many times, turned Siri off and back on, and disabled then re-enabled Siri for OurGroceries. When it works it’s a dream come true (computers finally making life easier) but I’m sure I’ve spent more time troubleshooting this than the cumulative time the Siri integration had saved me. Not sure if OurGroceries or Apple is at fault but please fix it!

Really not sure when this started to go bad but it’s probably in the last month. If it’s something I’m doing wrong, it sure isn’t evident because it can break without any changes for Siri or OurGroceriesShoppingList . I have OurGroceriesShoppingList installed on three iOS devices (two mine, one my partner’s) and when it breaks on one it seems to happens for them all.

by LanTok

Update: OurGroceries support responded to an email I sent on this topic and worked with me until the problem was solved.

My husband and I have been using OurGroceriesShoppingList for more than a year, and we have liked it. But we have been spending a couple of months visiting family in Canada, and every time we go to the store, OurGroceriesShoppingList adds Mountain High Vanilla Yoghurt (Canadian spelling) and Mountain High Plain Yoghurt to the list. If I cross them off, they jump right back on. Since we have been shopping together, it’s been good for a laugh, but we could run into trouble if one of us thought the other added new items to the list and we started coming home with a lot of stuff we didn’t want. It would defeat the purpose of OurGroceriesShoppingList .

by Aymles

No more magnetic tablets on the fridge! No more old lists at the bottom of my purse! We have Alexa in every room so whenever something crosses our mind that we need, any member of the family shouts it out to add it to Target or Costco or wherever. Then we have OurGroceriesShoppingList on our phones. If we are at the store we don’t need to call and say “now what is it that we needed?” Plus it remembers your usual stuff. So you can check your normal groceries before you go - hmm do I need soda, milk, bread? It’s simplified our life and I am all about that!! Now if I can figure out how to add more than one item at a time when I yell it to Alexa - that would be awesome! One of these days I’ll figure it out. Or they will say “do you want to add another one?” Then I will jump for joy!!

by Slow Twitch

We have Our Groceries installed on all of our devices, and it synchronizes instantly and seamlessly. I will be at the grocery store marking off items on my cell phone as I add them to the basket. My wife will be at home adding items on her iPad, and they appear instantly on my list. Until now, the only inconvenience was having to frequently take my iPhone out of my pocket as I shopped. Last week I started using an Apple Watch, and discovered that there is a “companion app” for the watch that allows me to see Our Groceries on my wrist. Just like the phone and pad versions, the watch version works smoothly. Our Groceries is a flawless app, and is probably the most under-appreciated app on OurGroceriesShoppingList Store. It even has detailed and well organized instructions on their web site. I’m going back now to the store to see if this developer has any other apps that I should be enjoying. Congratulations to HeadCode on developing such a fine product.

by Human2nova

Starting approximately two updates ago, one of my family members was struggling with OurGroceriesShoppingList. Like a similar reviewer, she would start typing an item we purchased in the past but when she tapped on the item in the list OurGroceriesShoppingList would add the partially typed item instead and ask her to categorize it.

We deleted OurGroceriesShoppingList and then re-added it, and after signing in everything is great again. We love the way changes to the list update in real time, so when we are at different stores each of us can see what the other has added or crossed out. It is a very user friendly app and probably one of the best apps I’ve downloaded. I paid for the upgrade to eliminate the ads and support developers. Worth every penny. Excellent all around!

by Jjholmquest

Our family loves OurGroceriesShoppingList. I can add items to the list and if my husband or kids are stopping by the store they pick up whatever is on the list. I’ve seen some of the complaints on here. Most are complete BS! Just to address a couple, I’ve never once had a problem with items disappearing from the master list. The only way I can delete from the master list is to go INTO the master list. If you want to delete items off the grocery list then go INTO the grocery list. Must be rocket science, I guess some folks are not very savvy. The next one is a classic, they actually complain about typing in the WHOLE WORD, really? Are you really that lazy that you can’t type Spaghetti, only once, into the master list? Oh the horror, life is sooo unfair!!! Seriously folks, ignore the idiots, it’s a great app, give it a try!

by Dhysyebjahd

My husband and I absolutely LOVE OurGroceriesShoppingList. I’ve seen a review talking about if you make a typing mistake you have to renter it and then you end up with duplicate entries. I’m not sure why that user would think that. It’s actually very easy to correct. You can even move an item from one list to another very easily. OurGroceriesShoppingList has made shopping so much easier because whatever store my husband or I end up at (whether it be Aldi or Home Depot or any one of the other 20 stores we have in our list), we just open OurGroceriesShoppingList to see if there is anything on the list. The one that just happens to be at that store at that time pick the items up, crosses them off the list and voila the shopping is done and multiple trips are unnecessary!! Wish I could give it more than 5 Stars!!

by Tiggerrr!!!

My wife and I have been using OurGroceriesShoppingList for a couple of years, and we LOVE it. It is very intuitive and having shared lists makes tag-team shopping really easy. I recently discovered the Add Multiple Items setting and I was amazed how easy it is to use. When we are both shopping at the same time, we found that using the Star feature to indicate out-of-stock items helped keep us from doing double searches. Also, being able to move items from one list to another allows use to shop in two stores simultaneously and put out-of-stock or overpriced items on the other person’s store list in real time. The developers are actively adding even more great features. Keep them coming!

by Fla_girl

This is the first review I’ve ever written. Never saw a need before now. I’m so thrilled OurGroceriesShoppingList is still around and being updated. We have used OurGroceriesShoppingList for 5+ years. We’ve tried others but always come back to this. We’ve quit looking. It’s so simple that beauty and function lies in the simplicity. We use it for all kinds of lists - we have a list for everywhere we shop. We have lists for packing for various trips we regularly take. We have lists for things we need to do. Both of us can easily use the same list and it updates immediately. I’ll be home adding to our shopping list while my husband’s is shopping. I can see the items fall off the list as he updates what he’s added to the cart and he can see real-time what I’m adding. It’s nothing fancy but that works for us! I love it!

by Plazman888

This has god to be the best purchase I’ve ever made on OurGroceriesShoppingList Store. My wife and I use it almost daily for YEARS. First off, it’s free, but to remove a little banner ad (and support the developers) you can pay a few bucks. And no subscriptions either, like so many app devs are doing nowadays. And it’s still being actively developed, with new updates adding features often. And it’s stable. It might be the only iOS app I have that has never ver crashed. AND (I have a lot of ands for OurGroceriesShoppingList) it’s on the web also, so you can add stuff to your lists if your iPhone isn’t handy.

We use it daily for our shopping list, but we also have lists for Vacation Packing, Camping Trips and even keeping a list of potential names for our son (we chose Matthew)!

Love OurGroceriesShoppingList , best investment I’ve made in an iOS app!

by Onechunk99

I got OurGroceriesShoppingList thinking I probably wouldn’t use it very long. That was a mistake. It is fantastic! I love that you can create multiple lists for different stores you frequent. It also saves the items once you enter them into a list for future use so you don’t have to re-type them. And then there’s the recipe feature. I entered the ingredients for my most used recipes and now it’s super easy to know what I need if I’m at the store and don’t know what’s for dinner! OurGroceriesShoppingList also stays open on the phone when using it, meaning the phone doesn’t go to sleep. I love this, so I don’t have to constantly wake up my phone in the store to see the list. If the developer needs an idea for improvement, it would be to place the “add item” at the top of list instead of the bottom so the user doesn’t have to scroll. I highly recommend OurGroceriesShoppingList!

by TXDPS

I really love this grocery app! It allows me to create and list the different items I want at the stores where I shop AND I can share it with my family’s devices so if my husband goes to the store for me on his way home from work, I can easily transfer the list to his phone too (and maybe add an extra item or two while he’s shopping 😁) ...One of my favorite features is... when the store that I’m currently shopping at doesn’t have one of the items on my list, I just edit that item to move it to another store’s list. OurGroceriesShoppingList makes shopping so much easier and because it’s on ‘our’ phones...I’ll never be without it when I need it.

I have an idea for another app that would be so easy to integrate into this program, if I could reach OurGroceriesShoppingList programmers. The new app would really be a great help to a lot of people as well!!!

by Thisismynickname!!!!

This is the perfect grocery list app. It’s simple and it gets to the point. The interface is intuitive and easy to use. You add to the list. You cross off the list. You add back crossed off items when you need them again. That’s all I wanted in an app like this and it delivers!

Sharing a list with is as simple as it gets- you just use the same login on a different phone, no hassle for everyone creating a different one (how many more usernames and passwords so we all need??). Shopping in tandem with whoever you share the list with is also great because it updates almost instantaneously, so you can divide and conquer the grocery store effectively!

The ads are unobtrusive. OurGroceriesShoppingList itself is unobtrusive! I had to go out of my way to write this review instead of ignoring a persistent pop up asking me to rate OurGroceriesShoppingList .

I also love that the same simplicity carries over to its web version.

Lastly, hooking OurGroceriesShoppingList up to Alexa (or google etc I assume) is also amazing because you an just tell Alexa to add a thing to your list when you think of it.. no need to write it down or remember it for later.

I wish all apps were as straightforward, simple and effective as this. I would give OurGroceriesShoppingList ten stars if I could.

by Karma.kahana

aug2020:
i’ve used this for years and overall, it’s great. but two recent things are annoying: 1) when typing in the search bar, say for BREAD, after i’ve entered the first few characters and selected the found item, if i don’t DELETE those characters in the search field, and just hit GO, a new item is created with those letters. so then i have falsely added an item called BRE. in the past, the field cleared automatically. 2) with this update, the list items have too much space between them, like a double return as opposed to a single return. this seems like a silly thing to complain about, but it means i can see fewer items on my screen at once. now i have to scroll down to see more stuff. i liked the slightly more condensed spacing better.

sept2020:
these things have been fixed and are now how they used to be! i love it again, so thank you very much!

by Pagathaman

I have tried quite a few lists apps over a few years and I had an app called Grocery iQ that was similar to this but is no longer available so in my hunt to find a new grocery list app I came across this one and picked it because it was so similar and found I absolutely love it ! I almost gave OurGroceriesShoppingList a four star rating because at first I hadn't figured out that there is an add multiple items setting and at the time the setting had been turned off so that was bothering me but then I discovered the setting and turned it to the on position which is the first thing you should do if you download OurGroceriesShoppingList and now it is the most perfect well rounded greatest grocery app I've seen, I love how you can make aisle numbers a category and then it will put everything in the right aisle for you and I just can't say enough about it, I actually paid the $4.99 for the paid version and it was worth every single penny.

by Wyrenth

I have been looking for a shopping list app that lets me organize by aisle, which allows me to go from top to bottom in the list in a manner that matches my path in the store. I was very happy to discover this feature exists here — and it lets me arrange and rearrange the order of categories how I please! I use emoji to help me visualize this even more (💊Pharmacy, 🍊Produce, etc.). I wish I could change the group color to something besides green, and the $10 price tag to get rid of ads (plus other features) is a bit steep, but I will consider it worth supporting the developer once I have settled in and used it for a while.

Addendum (Dec 09, 2020) - I decided I liked OurGroceriesShoppingList well enough to support the developer with the no-ads purchase. Thanks for having such great custom sorting options!