18 Apps to help with Grocery Shopping
In our increasingly busy world we all could do with some tools to help us with Grocery shopping. Whether it is to deliver nutritional and ingredient information for food products, find healthier products, compare prices of products, creat, manage and share shopping lists there is an iPhone app out there that can help.
Following is a list of 18 iPhone applications that can help. We’ve researched and hopefully provided a thorough list of the best tools that can help with grocery shopping.
We tried to do our best to make this a complete list but obviously there are going to be tools that we’ve missed off the list. If you know of any applications out there that are not on this list let us know in the comments section below.
Nutrition & Food Label tools for Shopping
FoodEssentials Scanner
The most powerful Food Label Scanning device in existence!!
The FoodEssentials scanner is the premier food label scanning device for anyone who wants to know what is in their food. Scan products and learn about their allergen, additive, ingredient and nutrient properties, customize your food label view, and find healthier products for you and your family
Price: $4.99
iTunes rating: *****
number of ratings: 3 (just released)
Don’t Eat that
Today’s food labels are of no use if you are not able to understand them. Although not all inclusive, Don’t Eat That provides you with useful information on over 1500 food additives and ingredients, allowing you to make a more informed decision about what you eat. This is a must for every food shopping trip.
When it comes to what you eat, various food safety organization standards might not be as high as yours. Don’t Eat That is particularly useful for English speaking residents or travelers to North America and the E.U. The detailed description supplies information such as additives that are prohibited in other countries, that are carcinogenic, unhealthy choices for children, or are allergens.
Price: $1.99
iTunes rating: *** 1/2
number of ratings: 74
Food Additives
Avoid those additives that are potentially dangerous or unsafe to your health & see which ones are considered safe. This application is perfect for those at risk, the health conscious, parents, vegetarians, vegans and/or people on religious based diets.
Price: $3.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 227
Food Substitutes
Save a trip to the supermarket, or if the supermarket doesn’t have the cooking ingredients you need then find a substitute. This app is a super convenient assistant while you’re grocery shopping.
Food Substitutes is always with you and doesn’t require an Internet connection because all the data is stored on your iPhone or iPod Touch. And the handy search feature helps you easily find the foods you’re looking for.
Price: $0.99
iTunes rating: *** 1/2
number of ratings: 13
Daily Burn
The DailyBurn iPhone App gives you quick and mobile access to the fastest-growing diet and fitness tracking site on the web. Track your weight, exercise, nutrition, and reach your fitness goals with DailyBurn.
A DailyBurn account is required to use this app. You may create your account from within the app. Once created, all of your data is automatically kept in sync and safely backed up to DailyBurn’s servers.
Price: Free then $2.99 to unlock
iTunes rating: **1/2
number of ratings: 9358
Comparison Shopping Tools
Shopsavvy
The original barcode scanner for mobile phones is finally available for the iPhone. Millions of users around the globe use the app to find the best online and local prices for the products they want to buy. Just aim the red laser at any barcode (UPC, EAN or ISBN) and ShopSavvy will provide inventory and pricing from your favorite local and online retailers. Works on ALL iPhones (first gen, 3G and 3GS).
Important note: the initial rating of this scanner were low due to problems with scanning. A recent update has scanning for the 3GS lightning fast. In addition the CEO Alex Muse, promises a new release in the next few weeks that will dramatically improve 2G and 3G scanning.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: **
number of ratings: 19798
Redlaser
Check online prices for a DVD player. Scan movies at the store and beam them to your TiVo.
Scan a book and check for reviews. Scan the milk and add it to your grocery list. Now also with nutrition data from Daily Burn and basic additive and allergen information by FoodEssentials
Price: $1.99
iTunes rating: ****
number of ratings: 24355
Shopping List Tools
ShopShop
A shopping list. Simple. Easy. Free. Your most recent choices will be remembered to avoid future typing. When you start typing a new item, all previously used items will be searched. When you tap on one, it is added to the shopping list, when you swipe across it, it is permanently removed. If you want to edit an item in the shopping list, press and hold the item.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 13949
Shopper
Enter Shopper, a refreshingly simple-to-use app. Shopper comes pre-populated with a number of grocery items to pick from with categories in which you can place those items.
Shopper’s list of items is not exhaustive by any means, but adding your own is easy and intuitive—if the item you’re searching for isn’t in the list, just tap Create to the right of the search bar. After creating or selecting your item you can then specify a quantity, price and category, as well as input a note. The ability to create new categories and rearrange existing ones so that your shopping list can be organized according to the layout of your grocery store make the app especially valuable.
Price: $0.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 6294
SplashShopper List Manager
Manage your lists of groceries, gifts, to do’s, wines, music, movies, and more. Track prices and locations. Easily manage, backup, and sync lists to your PC or Mac.
SplashShopper’s Key Features:
- Extensive built-in grocery list eliminates the tedious task of typing in items
- 10 additional prepopulated list types, including emergency items, travel checklist, wine recommendations, and more
- Create an unlimited number of additional customizable lists
- Assign items to multiple stores & track per-store prices
- Share your SplashShopper lists with other users
- Backup and wireless sync with your PC or Mac (additional cost).
Price: $4.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 469
Grocery Gadget Shopping List
Grocery Gadget s a full-featured grocery list app that also works well to manage other sorts of products you may buy. You can save lists, set up lists by store, view, edit, import and share lists. It comes with pre-built lists to get you going quickly and also has price comparisons and the opportunity to save with coupons. In the next release they are including a scanner to easily add products to your lists.
Price: $4.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 3128
Grocery Pal from Twicular, Inc. is the first mobile grocery shopping utility that combines the power of its shopping list organizer with the ability to access weekly in-store specials & promotions from a user’s favorite local stores! Grocery Pal not only makes your grocery shopping easier and less error-prone, it also enables you to browse and find money-saving deals at your fingertips!
Price: Free
iTunes rating: **
number of ratings: 471
GroceryIQ
Make grocery shopping simple and fast!
Grocery iQ includes all the features you’d expect from an intuitive and powerful shopping list application. Build new shopping lists quickly by simply scanning the barcode for any product or using the predictive search feature. Share your lists with others by using the new List Sharing feature. Never buy the wrong item again.
Price: $0.99
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 10006
Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List
Recipes from the award-winning food site Epicurious.com are available on your iPhone. Search over 27,000 delicious, easy, professionally-tested recipes from Bon Appétit and Gourmet, plus renowned cookbooks and chefs. Create shopping lists and save and email your favorite recipes. When you’re ready to cook, turn your iPhone on its side to view recipes step by step.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 17811
Other Useful Apps related to Shopping
AllRecipes
Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner is a fun and useful recipe app from the world’s #1 food site, delivering thousands of our members’ favorite quick and easy recipes to your iPhone/iPod Touch. Thousands of top-rated recipes – each featuring photos and reviews from our community of millions of home cooks – right in the palm of your hand! Plus, time-saving recipe tips from Allrecipes.com Members and their ideas for recipe variations that help to eliminate any guesswork!
Price: Free
iTunes rating: ***
number of ratings: 57585
Urban Spoon:
The other part of my life in the car is spent trying to make good on-the-go restaurant decisions. Can’t decide where to eat? Urbanspoon can help. Shake your iPhone and the Urbanspoon slot machine will pick a good restaurant for you to try. Keep shaking until you find a restaurant you’re happy with.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: *** 1/2
number of ratings: 164067
Coupon Sherpa
There’s no more need for a coupon book as long as you have an iPhone. Coupon Sherpa is an iPhone app that is exactly as it sounds – a program filled with coupons. Coupon Sherpa does the dirty work of looking through coupons on the Internet and bringing them to you. You can create a list of favorite stores, email coupons to friends, and coupons can even be scanned by optical scanners.
It’s not the coupon motherload, but you’re sure to save some money.
Price: Free
iTunes rating: **
number of ratings: 5138
GasBuddy
GasBuddy is the most comprehensive source of gas prices in the US and Canada. And the GasBuddy app is the most feature-rich fuel finder available for the iPhone. Compare for yourself. Gas prices change frequently and may vary as much as 20% within only a few blocks. It’s important to be able to find the service station with the lowest priced fuel. These are actual figures from 2/8/2010: A car that has an 18 gallon tank that gets 18 MPG in the city and drives 15,000 miles per year in Dallas, TX will save up to $6.48/tank and $358.33/year by using GasBuddy. Savings can change by the minute.
Price: $2.99
iTunes rating: **1/2
number of ratings: 928
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Pricecheckah is better than these comparison apps. It uses the great RedLaser barcode scanner, but gives you results from Amazon, eBay, walmart, overstock, buy.com as well as Google. It even let’s you put in your own stores.
And at only 99c.
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I realize this is a bit different but it might help some others looking at this article. But, I use iTrackmine because it lets us coordinate our shopping so we don’t pick up the same thing. And it has all the other tools that we need – but that is why it might not fit here because it is more general than these other tools…but I like it and find it useful so others may too. :~)