Easy Shopping List app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Geoff Hackworth
First release : 15 Sep 2011
App size: 919 Kb
This app is incredibly simple to use with a clean and efficient user interface. The app automatically learns the store layout as you buy items, and will display them in that order the next time you go shopping. The user interface is optimised to the different actions you perform when creating your shopping list and when using your list.
Use Plan mode to create your shopping list:
• Items are shown in alphabetical order.
• Use item names that are meaningful to you, in any language.
• Add a note to an item to assign extra information such as a quantity.
Use Shop mode when shopping:
• Items are shown in store layout order.
• Tap an item to mark it as bought.
• Swipe an item to save it for later.
• Select Finished Shopping from the action menu when youre done.
Key Features:
• Simple user interface, optimised for planning and shopping to minimise the number of taps required.
• Automatically learns the store layout as you buy items.
• Set shop location and get a notification when nearby (not supported by all device types).
• Remembers items you have used before.
• Add items individually, or by choosing one or more from a list of previously used items.
• Send shopping list by mail or message.
Thank you for considering Easy Shopping List. If you would like more information please visit https://hacknicity.com/EasyShoppingList where you can read the User Guide and a Tutorial to get a feel for how the app works before you buy.
Latest reviews of Easy Shopping List app for iPhone and iPad
Easy Shopping List aims at giving you just the functions you need to prepare your grocery shopping list and make using the list as convenient as possible while you are in the store. The user interface is clean and intuitive, with separate Plan and Shop modes. In the interest of keeping things simple and straightforward, ESL doesn’t include features such as product prices, quantities, photos, bar code scanning, coupons and tracking for multiple stores. For users like me who don’t need those features, apps that include them can be unnecessarily complicated to use. I also tend to avoid apps that use funky colors, backgrounds and fonts. ESL doesn’t come with a large pre-built list of products, which may initially strike some people as a negative, but I have found this to be a strength. I have gradually entered my regularly purchased grocery products over a few weeks using the descriptions that I prefer and I don’t have to deal with a bunch of generic products that I will never use. Every product you add to your shopping list is kept in a history. When you are in Plan mode, the basic way to add a product to your shopping list is to enter a few contiguous characters of the name, which will search your history and give you a list of matching products. You can tap the desired product and it goes onto your shopping list. Version 1.4 of ESL includes a feature in Plan mode to display an alphabetical list of all of the products in your history and allow you to tap any number of them to add them to your shopping list at the same time. This new feature is great to use before you go to the store to fill in products you haven’t already added using the search feature. Sometimes I just leave the app in this mode between trips to the store and tap products as I run out of them. ESL is a pleasure to use in the store. Unlike some shopping apps that make you tap on a little button icon to check off a product, you can tap anywhere on a product in your list to mark it as bought. Bought products move to a separate list so you stay focused on what is left to buy. If you tapped a product by mistake, you can quickly move it from the Bought list back to the To Buy list by tapping it. I use the ESL option to disable the screen lockout, so your screen stays on and you don’t need to keep logging in if you don’t tap a product for a couple of minutes. I also use the ESL option to disable landscape mode while shopping so I don’t have to wait for the screen to reorient every time I tilt my iPod—which is pretty often as I hold my device in one hand and pick products from the shelves with the other hand. ESL also gradually learns the order in which you buy products and displays them in that order in Shop mode. This eliminates the need for putting products into categories in Shop mode, since your list will automatically group products by store department or aisle, based on the order in which you shop. If you decide not to buy a product on your list during this trip to the store, but want to preserve its correct purchase order, ESL allows you to mark the item as Saved for Later. When you exit from Shop mode, these saved products will still be on your list in Plan mode, but their correct purchase order is preserved. It takes a few shopping trips for new products you add to start appearing in the correct purchase order, but after you have used ESL for a while, you should almost always find that the top product on your shopping list is the one you plan to buy next as you walk through the store. Even though ESL is very easy to use, I referred to the excellent documentation a few times when I first bought the app. This is available from within the app and also from iTunes via a link to the product web site. If you are curious about how ESL works before deciding whether to buy it, look at the tutorial, which walks you step by step through the process of using the app. I wish all apps in the store made it this easy to evaluate them. I have also contacted Hacknicity Support a couple of times with questions and ideas and Geoff has been very responsive.
I like this app very much, i recomend anyone that like to symplify their lifes, this app is very easy to understand and also easy to manage by using the history it make everything easy for you. Keep up the good work!
This is just perfect and effective.
I like it its so simple. My favorite shopping app. I wish we could categorize it or move certain things around so I can write my list according to where things are located in the store.
Very useful for people on the go and that are always on there phone its like yall never forget what u need at the store again!!