Grocery Gadget

I’ve been using grocery gadget for a long time and a couple of times development stopped and I was concerned it would stop being supported. I looked around and did not find another app that has the features that I need. I paid for the pro version and now am paying for a subscription with no complaints. I would rather pay again than have this app that I rely heavily on disappear. I live in a rural area and make a large shopping trip monthly. When I shop, I am shopping for my household and 2-3 others. I shop at Costco and 2-3 other stores as needed. Grocery gadget has the features I need to do this type of shopping easily and with a minimum of effort. Thank you for continuing development.

I have been using this app. for a number of years. When hand held computers came out, you wanted to put your shopping lists on that device. Then you wanted organized per your routine. This program satisfies both of those ”desires“ very well. Hopefully the day will come when the store will communicate with this app. or have something, simply because the store keeps rearranging their stock. You no more than get this app. set up with what is where. Bam! You start all over again learning the store and try to get this app. rearranged.

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EDIT: The developer did not read my complaint. I paid for lifetime ad-free access and then the developer switched to subscription model. They rewarded those of us who helped them get started by switching the deal later and giving us ads anyway. Now they’re still giving ads to those naive enough to give them MORE money (I am not one of those people. I did not and will never subscribe after their unapologetic shenanigans). Oh, and they raised the prices, too. ——- For everyone complaining about paying a monthly fee for this app and STILL getting ads, you should’ve taken a look at previous reviews and what these crooks did to their original paying customers who paid them money to get them going in the first place. Longtime users such as myself paid for lifetime use, ad-free, and then later on, they put ads into the app unless you subscribe to a monthly fee. Yes, it’s only $1/month, but that’s not the point. The point is these jokers CANNOT be trusted. So if you neglected to pay attention to what these guys did to their original customers, it’s your own fault you’re getting ripped off now. If they did it before, they’ll do it again. I can’t believe Apple puts up with this from a developer. It’s nuts. We pay for one thing and get something else. I don’t even use the app anymore.

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My GF & I both bought the Grocery Gadget app Pro version. Later the devs change their mind on how they want to sell it and added advertising. So annoying! But it’s worse than just that! An important reason we bought this app was so we could Share the shopping lists. Sadly The Developer took that feature away from the Pro version & now that is a Subscription-Only feature. I spent months trying to trouble shoot my GFs Grocery Gadget because it wouldn’t sync our shopping lists, only to finally figure out that feature had been taken away from us who bought the Pro version of the app. So criminal! Poor ethics. I’ve had a ton of crashing problems with this app. Really a problem. It seems much more stable since 2019, but because important features were removed & ads added, in also not using it as much. So that is why I can’t recommend this app. The good news is that when the app isn’t crashing or previously paid features are not being charged for again, this shopping list app is useful & “the best of the worst”. However I am now looking for a better shopping list app from a more ethical, higher quality developer.

Adding items is easy, the interface is intuitive, and the app is overall enjoyable. But I wasn’t able to designate a list as grocery store, I could only choose “everything”. That’s a lot of items to sift through and generally have to type a whole item name to get what I want on the list even though the list self filters as typing. That is a small inconvenience but manageable. Also, there’s no one click way to add another item. Like, I have one lemon on the list but want two, I have to open ‘lemon’ then add another. The thing that really bothers me is that the checked items don’t move to the bottom of the list.