Smart Shopping List

A shared shopping list that also tells you which store is cheapest for your basket — calculated from your own receipt prices, no AI cost.

The Smart Shopping List is a shared checklist for your account. Unlike a plain list, it’s connected to your Personal Inflation Index price history — every item you’ve bought and scanned has a known price at a known store, so the app can rank stores by your actual basket total, suggest what’s due for a refill, and flag genuine price drops.

Where to Find It

Open Shopping list from the home screen quick actions, or go to Settings → Shopping list. On a shared account, everyone sees and edits the same list.

Creating and Switching Lists

Every account starts with a default list called “My List.” You can keep multiple lists (e.g. “Groceries” and “Pharmacy”) and switch between them.

Tap the list name pill at the top of the screen to open Manage lists, where you can:

• Switch — tap any list to make it active.
• Create — tap New list and give it a name. Any account member can create a list.
• Rename — tap the pencil icon on a list row. Any account member can rename a list.
• Archive — hides the list without deleting it (its items are preserved). Editors and the account owner only. If you archive your last remaining list, you’ll see an empty “create a list” screen — the archived list stays archived and won’t reappear.
• Delete — permanently removes the list and all its items. Editors and the account owner only.

Viewers can view, switch between, add to, and check off items on any list, but cannot archive or delete one.

Share a List with Someone Who Doesn’t Have the App

Need your partner or roommate to grab a few things, but they don’t have the app? Tap the share icon next to the list name pill (editors and the account owner only) and choose Share link — this opens your phone’s share sheet with a public link to that list.

Anyone who opens the link sees the list and can check items off as they shop, without signing up or being added to your account. They can’t add, rename, or delete items — just tick things off, so what they check off shows up on your own list the next time it syncs.

The link keeps working until you archive or delete the list, or tap Revoke link in the same menu to turn it off explicitly. Sharing again after that creates a brand-new link. Re-sharing without revoking first is safe — it hands out the same link rather than breaking the one you already sent.

If you’ve added prices to items, the shared link shows them too, along with how much is still to buy — handy when someone else is doing the shopping for you.

Save a List as a Template (“My Weekly Staples”)

If you buy roughly the same groceries every week, save your usual list once and re-add all of it in one tap next time — no need to retype “milk, eggs, bread, coffee…” over and over.

Tap the bookmark icon next to the list name pill to open Templates:

• Save current list as template — saves every item currently on your active list (checked or not) under a name you choose. Any account member can save a template.
• Tap a saved template to apply it — its items are added to your active list right away. Anything already on the list (matched by name, not exact spelling) is skipped rather than duplicated, and a confirmation tells you how many items were added.
• Tap the pencil icon on a template to rename it. Any account member can rename a template.
• Tap the trash icon to delete a template. Editors and the account owner only.

Templates hold item names only — no prices or quantities — and there’s no separate management screen: everything happens in the same Templates sheet. A template doesn’t need purchase history to work, so it’s useful from the very first list you build.

Adding Items

Tap Add item to open the add sheet. You can add an item three ways:

• Search your tracked products — start typing and matching products from your Personal Inflation Index history appear below the search box.
• Frequently bought — when the search box is empty, a horizontal row shows your most-purchased products for one-tap adding.
• Free text — if what you typed doesn’t match a tracked product, tap Add “…” to add it as a plain text item. Free-text items aren’t linked to price history, so they won’t appear in price comparisons.

You can also ask the AI assistant to add items: open the Chat tab and say something like “add milk and bread to my shopping list.” The items are added to your active list right away — no confirmation needed.

Each item on the list has a checkbox, an editable quantity stepper, and a delete icon. Checked items sink to the bottom of the list. Use Clear checked (top-right of the screen) to remove everything you’ve ticked off in one tap.

Prices and Totals

Want to know how much the trip will cost before you get to the checkout? Give items a price.

• Tap + Price under an item’s name and type the price per item (a comma or a dot both work). Leave the field empty and save to remove the price.
• If you’ve bought that product before and scanned the receipt, the price sheet suggests the last price you paid (and where) — tap it to fill it in. You can always change it.
• With a quantity above 1, the item shows the price, the quantity and the line total, e.g. 4.99 × 3 = 14.97.
• Once at least one item has a price, a summary appears above the list: Still to buy (unchecked items only — it goes down as you tick things off), the Whole list total, and how many items still have no price.

Prices are in your account’s currency. Anyone on the account can set them, and they’re free on every plan.

Scan a Price Tag

Standing at the shelf? Photograph the price tag instead of typing.

• To add a new item, tap Add item → Scan a price tag. The camera opens; take a photo of the tag and the app fills in the product name, the price, and the details printed on the tag.
• For an item already on the list, tap its price (or + Price) and then Scan price tag. You can also pick a photo you already took with the gallery button.
• The details — pack size, price per kg or litre, the regular price and promo end date, and whether the price needs a loyalty card — go into the item’s note, shown under its name. A note you wrote yourself is kept, and the tag’s details are added after it.
• Nothing is saved until you tap Save, so you can correct anything the scan got wrong.
• If the tag shows a price in another currency, it’s kept in the note and not used for the total.

Each scan uses 1 AI request from your monthly limit (half of a receipt scan).

Auto-Check From Receipts

When you scan a receipt with the camera, any unchecked item on your shopping list that matches something on the receipt is checked off automatically — you don’t have to also tick it by hand right after you’re done shopping.

The match has to be exact: the receipt line’s product name has to match your list item’s name (after the app normalizes spacing, capitalization, and small OCR differences). A list item you typed as free text (like “milk”) that doesn’t match the receipt’s own wording won’t auto-check — you’ll still need to tap it yourself.

Right after saving the scanned receipt, if anything was auto-checked, the confirmation message tells you how many items were checked off, with an Undo button in case something was checked by mistake.

The same auto-check happens when you scan a receipt through the Telegram, WhatsApp, or Slack assistant. After the bot creates the expense, its reply tells you how many items it checked off. There’s no Undo button in chat — if something was matched by mistake, just uncheck it on the list screen.

You can turn this off in Settings → Data → Shopping list if you’d rather always check items off by hand.

Managing the List by Chat

Besides adding items, you can ask the assistant to:

• Remove an item — “remove milk from my list” or “take eggs off, I already bought them.” This takes the item off your list immediately, same as adding — no confirmation needed. It only removes items that aren’t already checked off; to mark something as bought without deleting it, use the checkbox on the list itself.
• Ask what’s running low or on sale — “what am I running low on?” or “any deals right now?” The assistant answers with the same restock and deal information shown in the Time to restock and Deals for you rows below.

Compare Prices (“Where’s cheapest”)

Tap Compare prices at the bottom of the list to see which store is cheapest for everything currently unchecked on your list.

The app looks at the latest price you’ve paid for each list item at every store in your price history, and for each store shows:

• The estimated total for your basket at that store.
• A coverage badge (“5/7 items”) showing how many of your list items have a known price there.
• A Cheapest badge on the best-value store. A store only wins the badge if it covers all your items, or at least 80% of them when no store covers everything.
• A stale prices warning if some of the prices used are more than 90 days old.
• A count of items not priced at that store.

Below the store cards, Cheapest per item breaks the comparison down item by item, showing the cheapest store and price for each — useful if no single store covers your whole basket.

Only items with a matched product (added from your tracked products, not free text) are included in the comparison.

Note: Comparing prices across stores is a Pro feature. Free plan users see an upgrade prompt when they tap Compare prices.

If you haven’t scanned enough receipts yet, you’ll see a prompt to scan a few first — the comparison needs price history to work from.

Store Map

From the price comparison screen, tap the map icon (top-right) to open the Store map. It plots every store from your comparison that has a known location (captured automatically when you scan a receipt with an address, or add one manually).

• Cheapest / Nearby toggle — sort the store list below the map either by estimated basket total or by distance from you.
• Tap Find nearby to get your current location and show distances. This requires location permission; without it, stores still appear on the map but without distance labels.
• Stores without a known address aren’t shown on the map, and a banner tells you how many were skipped.

Time to Restock

The app watches how often you buy each tracked product. Once it has seen at least 3 purchases of a product, it learns your typical repurchase gap (e.g. “you buy milk roughly every 6 days”). When a product is overdue based on that pattern — and isn’t already on one of your lists — it appears as a chip in the Time to restock row at the top of the shopping list. Tap a chip to add that item straight to your list.

You also get a push notification when something is due for restocking. A given item is only reminded once per shopping cycle, not every day — once you buy it again, the reminder resets and only comes back the next time it’s due. The app sends at most one restock reminder every couple of days, summarizing the first overdue item (“Time to restock? Milk and 2 more”).

Deal Alerts

The app compares the price you’ve recently paid for a tracked product against its average price over the last 90 days. If a store’s latest price for a product is meaningfully below that average, it shows up as a chip in the Deals for you row, with the store name and the discount percentage. Tap a chip to add the item to your list.

Deals are also delivered as a push notification when a genuine drop is detected, so you don’t have to open the app to catch a good price — but the same price drop won’t be pushed more than once a week, so you’re not nudged about it repeatedly.

Managing Notifications

Both notifications are on by default and can be turned off independently in Settings → Notifications:

• Restock reminder — the “time to restock” push.
• Deal alerts — the price-drop push.

Data Source

Restock predictions, deal detection, and store price comparisons are all built from the line-item prices captured when you scan receipts with the camera (OCR) — the same data that powers your Personal Inflation Index. Manually entered expenses and bank imports don’t include per-product prices, so they don’t feed into these features. The more receipts you scan, the better the suggestions and comparisons get.