I’m looking for a good way to share grocery lists in my household. Currently we’re using Grocy but it has too much bells and whistles.
It’s really nice that Grocy suggests known products and can be used with the android app. But the process of adding new products feels a bit tedious.
I’m curious what other setups there are. Any suggestions?
we share a google keep note using a checklist.
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My wife and I use SimpleNote. I know it’s not a proper grocery app but it works really well. One person can create the grocery list initially then share with another. Either of us can then add to the list if we think of things we need or tick the box if we have bought it. Instantly updated on each others tablets, phone, desktop automatically. It’s free too!
Nextcloud notes, but the setup isn’t obvious:
- Create a list with user A
- Share the list .md file from the Notes folder via regular Nextcloud Files to user B
- As user B, move the shared note file to the Notes folder in the Files app
And you have a shared note. The Notes folder refers to the folder containing the user’s note files, not sure what the English name is.
Not sure how well concurrency is handled, as Notes doesn’t really support sharing, but if it’s for groceries, I doubt it’s a frequent issue. Has been working well for 2 years now.
I use todo lists for groceries. So getting things setup on nextcloud and then mobile devices with any caldav compatible app is pretty easy. We have a couple shared lists.
You can use tasks.org for android and reminders for iOS.
My wife likes AnyList so I use it too. If you’re looking for privacy-focused group lists I would suggest Home Assistant to-do lists (assuming you’re running Home Assistant already).
We use anylist and it’s pretty good, except for the lube and buttplugs that someone keeps adding to the grocery list.
You might also be able to make that work with syncthing 🤔
Out of Milk is one, not sure privacy wise though. there’s an ‘Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Info & Limit Use of My Sensitive Personal Info’ button down, but who knows how much they respect that.
Otherwise, I’ve used it a couple times with my roommate and it works well for listing products and synchronizing between devices. The interface is really simple and it even lets you scan barcodes
My family uses a custom Todo list on home assistant. I’ve got a separate dashboard of items we can just click to add to the grocery list, and then when shopping, checking them will move them out of the way. Very convenient, quick, and shared. So if you use HA, it might be good option, especially since you’re wanting something simpler (I was in the same boat)
that is an idea I might take :) how does this handle being offline? for example i sometimes lose connection in same stores here, but I still need to at least see the entries on the list :)
Hmm that’s actually something I hadn’t thought about, but yeah it probably wouldn’t work for an offline mode… If the app is already open, maybe it would work, but I’m not 100% sure. In general, it does require internet to connect to your home assistant (my phone is setup with wireguard to VPN into mind so it’s not internet facing). So yeah unless it can be used during those random connection drops, maybe not a perfect option :(
oh ok. I am using Nabu Casa Cloud for mine so i am always online via cloud. i tested it with enabling flight-mode and the app goes directly to the disconnected state. Altought the app I developed for a share grocery-list has the same issue, so I will give HA a try anyway :) so still a good recommendation 😀👍
Listonic works well for us.
Yeah we use that too. Works fine. A bit slow to update between us, but a refresh usually solves it
Google Keep is the most amazing app for this. You can make a checklist and when you check stuff off it goes to the bottom. If you uncheck it it goes back up. Perfect for maintaining a shopping list. My wife and I used to use a shared note on there as our shopping list.
Same here, Keep also let’s you tab in items, so we have it sorted by isle too. Makes shopping so much easier
True, google keep works really well. But privacy-wise not so much.
kinda funny to recommend Google Keep inside a privacy-community :) but ok, everybody has their threat-modell i guess :D
I just see thread titles, I don’t really check the community. It meets OP’s criteria. Also, not everyone is interested in the same level of privacy. I’m never going to go through the Herculean task of degoogling myself, too much stuff uses my Gmail. It’s just not worth it. I only have so much time in the day to enjoy myself. Aggressively turning things off like personalized ads, sharing data, etc. is acceptable to me.
you might be right about it being a hassle but if someone is asking something like this inside a community about privacy it most certainly does not meet OPs critera :D
Sorry for making a suggestion.
i use https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.tombursch.kitchenowl/ And once you set it up with all your products, it becomes really easy to manage the household.
We use Google Keep.
I’ll add another vote to how good Google Keep is for this, but as this is a privacy community, I’m not sure that is a suggestion that you want to hear.
I’ve also had good luck sharing documents with Syncthing, but because we tend to only have it sync on wifi it didn’t work as well for groceries specifically because you can’t add items to the list after the person shopping has left the home and expect them to see them.
Given it’s microsoft, it’s a no from me personally, but their todo app is very good.
Since I couldn’t pry my parents away from ms office anyway, I set them up on this specifically for groceries. They really like it.
Another vote for Microsoft To-Do here. It’s powerful but manageable, and the sharing works very reliably and quickly.
We just use a shared Note on our iPhones. Works well Google Keep also works if your an Android user
If you’re both on iOS you can also just use the reminders app, that allows you to say “hi Siri, add x to my shopping list”
