Grocery List App — Build Your Shop From Your Meal Plan
The list that writes itself from the week you already planned.
Writing a shopping list by hand is re-reading recipes you have already read and copying out ingredients you have already chosen. The list here is generated from the meals you planned, which removes the copying step and, more usefully, removes the items you forget when copying by hand.
Fed by your meal plan
Ingredients from planned meals arrive on the list without being retyped. That is the whole point: the plan you already made is the source of truth for the shop, so the two cannot drift apart.
Add by photo, not just by typing
Photograph a fridge shelf, a product or a bag of shopping and have the items pulled out and added. It is faster than typing for a big shop, and it is the realistic way to capture what you already own before deciding what to buy.
Expiry dates where they belong
Items can carry an expiry date, and the list can be filtered to what is expiring soon or already gone. Food waste is mostly a visibility problem — things rot at the back of the fridge because nothing ever told you they were about to.
It talks to your pantry
Groceries you have bought can move into your pantry, so what you own and what you still need are tracked separately instead of collapsing into one permanently stale list. Turn on automatic decrementing and cooking a planned meal can subtract its ingredients for you.
How it works
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Plan first
Build your week in the meal calendar — the list is generated from it rather than written separately.
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Add anything else
Type items in, or photograph what you need. Set expiry dates on the things that spoil.
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Shop and move to pantry
Check items off as you buy them and move them into your pantry so the two stay in step.
Frequently asked questions
Is the grocery list free?
Yes. Building and managing the list is free; photo scanning draws on the same free daily AI allowance as the other AI tools.
Can it build the list from my meal plan automatically?
Yes — that is the intended flow. Ingredients from planned meals go onto the list without you copying them out.
Does it group items by aisle?
Items carry a category, and you can filter by it, which is close enough to aisle order for most shops without pretending to know the layout of your particular supermarket.
What happens when I have bought something?
Check it off, and it can move into your pantry so that what you own and what you need stay separate.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes — it is a web app that works in a mobile browser, and there is a native iOS app if you would rather have the list in something you can open one-handed in a shop.
Start using it — free
Create a free account to keep your plans, lists and history across devices.
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