A shared grocery list the whole family can add to

The list lives in one place for the whole household. A kid can add cereal from the kitchen, you can add it again from the car, and the list still shows cereal once.

It is deliberately simple on its own, and it becomes the hub for the kitchen when other apps are installed: the recipe book and the weekly meal planner send ingredients to it, and the pantry pushes anything that runs low.

• Anyone in the family can add items; adults and admins check them off.
• Automatic alphabetical sort with unchecked items first.
• Case-insensitive duplicate detection, so 'Milk' and 'milk ' become one line.
• Recipes and Family Meals add a recipe's ingredients directly to the list.
• Pantry Inventory pushes depleted items onto the list with one tap.

Any household that shops from one list and is tired of texting it back and forth.

Who can use it

Adults and kids

Where it works

Your household hub and shared Spaces

Price

Included with every household plan, with no per-app charge

• Recipes
• Family Meals
• Pantry Inventory

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Grocery List is one of the apps in the Chickadee Bandit library. Every household starts nearly empty and installs only what it uses; there is no per-app charge. Your data lives in your household's own private, encrypted database, with no ads and no data selling. Browse the Family apps or read the source on GitHub.