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?
I haven’t seen Our Groceries listed yet. I don’t know Grocy so I don’t know how this one compares, bells-wise, but it’s pretty straightforward, you can share a list with any number of users, and manage/add/edit/remove lists and items via a web app or mobile app.
I’ve sent the devs more than one feature suggestion / bug report, and they were impressively responsive and forthcoming.
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We’ve been using KitchenOwl (on f-droid) for a few months and we’re hapoy with it.
This is the best suggestion so far. Thank you, will be checking it out.
Link for reference: https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.tombursch.kitchenowl/
We use Google Keep.
Another vote for Microsoft To-Do here. It’s powerful but manageable, and the sharing works very reliably and quickly.
We are using Tick Tick. https://www.ticktick.com/ We made several lists per store type.
We use Google Keep. Simply a shared list with checkboxes.
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.
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.
True, google keep works really well. But privacy-wise not so much.
Same here, Keep also let’s you tab in items, so we have it sorted by isle too. Makes shopping so much easier
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.
You could use pad.riseup.net as a perfunctory solution. It’s just a text file that anyone with the link can edit, but Riseup is privacy-focussed.
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.
It drives me crazy that notes does not reorganize the list when you check things, but that’s probably because it’s just markdown. My wife also refuses to use it. Carnet is the google keep like alternative that I think would work for me, but the sharing isn’t working currently, whenever the note is updated the share is removed.
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.
This is what I do too.
You might also be able to make that work with syncthing 🤔
I’ve switched to a mini whiteboard on the fridge and sending a photo. It was the most private option, abd more importantly the easiest way to add items
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
“Do not sell” is not the same as “do not share”. Part of some contracts is kickback of data as payment.
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.
Recently started using Appflowy for this, as a replacement for shared Apple Reminders/Notes.
