GroceryZen App Reviews

I love this app. It allows me to save recipes and add ingredients to my grocery list. I made a recipe for common items so that I could keep track of my staples. I do wish it had a menu planner. It just needs to be basic. It could even be a weekly list that I could create right from my recipe list. Right now Im going to notepad to keep a list of my recipes for the week. I wish I didnt have to switch apps.

Love this app. Needs some tweaking: add more default items and/ or let us save added items to default list. "clear all" for shopping list w/o removing from default list. Good concept, though.

Its not clear if this app is still beibg activly developed - but it should be! I think it is very well designed and it really helps me get my shopping done quickly. We have saved many many hundreds of dollars by shopping more deliberately. Two features Id like to see: - Undo when checking off items in list (now you have scroll way down to find item) - Ability to more easily adjust quantity on list. Now touching number increments one higher - but just as often I want to go lower. Using the edit function is cumbersome. How about touching number gives you choice of quantity? Hope the developer stays with this.

This is just how I think for grocery lists. I looked at a lot of other options too. If you want something simple this is it. If you need prices and coupons etc, this is not it for you. My only complaint is that its a little too sensitive crossing things off the list. Sometimes, I just want to scroll through the list and it will check off an item instead.

This app has been such an amazing tool to simplify my grocery lists. I entered my recipes and can add all the needed ingredients with just one tap. I love that you can completely customize your shopping list by rearranging aisles and adding new aisles. It wont add the same ingredient from separate recipes if the measurement types are different (cup vs ounces) but it is a minor complication. It would be helpful to catagorize recipes (appetizers, main dishes, desserts, etc) for simplified searching but even without that feature this app has been a life saver!

I am only seeing three photos of recipes. Only bought for a pairing with food52, any suggestions on why this app seems so empty?

I have compared a lot of the shopping apps in the App Store and this is by far the best - at least for my needs. Yes, there are apps out there with more features but a lot of them suffer from feature bloat. It might make sense to add prices and aisles and coupons and stores - but honestly, when you are in the store shopping for groceries you dont really have the time for all that stuff. I want to get things done in a fast, easy and efficient way and this app is the best. Its also the only one that passed the SOT (Significant Other Test). When you are shopping with your spouse (who might not be as technically inclined as you are) you gotta be quick on your feet. Add items, lose items, change items - and you better do it quickly. This app might not look the part but it is well thought out and it really shines in the store. And thats what matters. Plus: the recipe function rocks! There are three things though that prevent me from giving it five stars. I am not sure if it is actively developed - thats a big downside in my book. And its not that great outside the store. Id love to fine-tune my list of items at home before my next shopping trip. In my study I do have the time to really think about my items and group them accordingly. A web-based client to re-arrange and edit my items and recipes would be awesome. Of course you would need some sort of syncing solution for that - but this ties in nicely with my other caveat: emailing my lists is nice - but instant syncing would be so much better. There are other apps that do this. Id love to sync my current list, my general list of items AND their categories with a web-based version AND with my significant other. That way we could shop in the same store and spread out and see what the other already got. Or I could go shopping and my wife could check her iPhone at home and add missing items that she just thought of. The app - as it is - is great. If you ask me, its the best. But syncing would make it really awesome.

Love this app and use it all the time. I cut and paste recipes into all the time and use it for every trip to the grocery store. One thing that would make it even better though, is if I could catagorize my recipes: main dishes, holidays, side dishes, etc. I now have so many recipes, it takes awhile to sort throught them all. :) Thanks for a great app though!

1. There is no undo- so if you press an item on your list it disappears forever. What if you click on something accidently- and you are not sure what you clicked and an important item disappears forever? You would never even know it..... 2. It doesnt display the whole recipe line by line, if one ingredient is more characters than the line you cannot read the whole thing!! 3. It is hard to read recipes for said reason. This was a waste of time to set up, and of money to buy!

I love the ability to select a recipe & add to list. I use this feature as I use weekly menus containing recipes or when I am at the store and need ideas, or when I find an ingredient on sale and want to use it for one of my recipes. I also use recipes to list items I buy at specific stores (i.e. Health food store, etc.) and I have a recipe "Every" for basics to get every shopping trip. My couponing method is to separate coupons by month, so I have month "recipes" with ingredients that I have coupons for that expire that month. Heres the catch, I would like to see a program upgrade that flags the ingredients that I have coupons for so that when those ingredients are added from a meal recipe or store recipe, I will be able to see I have a coupon and should pull it from my file. Right now I add a dollar sign to the name of the ingredient as my flag, but it can disappear with long ingredient names. I also will second the request for some way to handle long lists of recipes. Perhaps the ability to search that narrows the field with each letter entered?

Ive tried about every grocery app and this one works best for me but its still pretty terrible. Grocery apps seem so simple and there are so many why are they all so weak? I like that you can create your own master list of items easily so you dont have hundreds of things in the main list youd never ever buy. Searching for items is great. The killer feature is the "recipe" feature but this is poorly named. Its really sub-lists. So you can have a recipe of things you normally buy every week and you can easily go through that list and add what you are out of. Or quickly add all the ingredients of a dish youre going to make. The biggest problem is the incredibly, no, amazingly, awful way it handles quantities. You can advance the quantity forward by tapping the quantity of an item. But if your default is 3 then it advances by 3s (one tap = 6), if your default is 1 1/2 pounds one tap gets you to 3 pounds. Any other quantity change (including removing from your shopping list) requires going to an edit screen and selecting quantity and then saving. And then the app often erases the aisle info for that item. Developer responded quickly to say I was wrong about this bug. When I gave them step-by-step instructions that always recreate it they didnt respond. I dont know if its been updated in months. If so the changes were minute. Basically its useful but obnoxious but still the best in a surprisingly weak class of apps.

Alphabetize please!!!! Like others, I use the "recipes" as sub-lists and add aisles for different stores. I add to it throughout the week and use it every time I shop. Its a 3.5 stars. Alphabetization would make it a 5.

I agree with other reviewers. Need to be able to alphabetized isles. I am like most other I shop in the same sequence. So if I could put the isles in my stores order, that would be great. I find myself missing isles because it was so far down the list. I use this ap all the time. Looking forward to an update!

I keep coming back to this app. It is still the only grocery/recipe app that runs off of a database of ingredients, which makes adding your own recipes very quick and easy. Most other apps just give you a text box to write the ingredients in. That is tedious. I hope the developers will resume working on this app. Features Id like to see: High res graphics Item combination in grocery list: i.e. one recipe calls for 2 onions, another for 1, the grocery list says "3 onions". Cloud syncing for backups. I lost all of my recipes once with this app. Still debating entering them all in again.

This app is awesome for so many reasons! I like selecting the items as opposed to typing each of them out. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE that I can email the list. I email it to my husband from time to time and all he has to do is import it. AMAZING!! I never grocery shop without it! I would rank 5 full stars if they would make an iPad version. Right now I run the iPhone version which is adequate, but you know... Also, cloud functionality would be awesome for my lists so I dont have to email them to myself if I make a list on my iPad and just take my phone grocery shipping. Great product!

One of my favorite apps! Saves time and I save my recipes so it helps me pick out what Im going to make for the week! No more forgetting an ingredient

I love this app, but the iOS 7 version is less visually efficient. Please put some grey in the aisle headings to separate them from the items listed!!! The white really confuses my eyes and frustrates me. I cant fast scan items in aisles. It looks like one long list. I understand you wanted to be cohesive with iOS 7, but its not functional. Overall, it meets my needs in a way that a paper list cant. My phone is always with me so I can always add items when I have a random thought about something I want to buy. I live how editable the item list is. I created a Trader Joe aisle so I have a TJ shopping list as well as a grocery store list. I love that it sorts my shopping list by aisle! My trip through the store was so efficient before this white design change.

I have used and depended on this app for years. Its just right. I can check off items I need plus add ones not on the list or customize with brand names like the type of bread. For some of my regular recipes I have added the ingredients with the quantities and a photo. Then when Im going to make that, I just choose that recipe and it also was up on my shopping list. You can then take off any ingredients you already have. Ive also created a couple of specialty stores that I go to for special ingredients. I open GroceryZen when Im in the store and check things off is it going to my basket. I highly recommend this app. In this day of increasingly complex apps, this one is simple and elegant.