Grocery List Apps

Users discuss apps and tools for tracking food inventory, generating shopping lists from recipes or consumption, suggesting meals based on stock, and integrating with delivery services or home automation like Home Assistant.

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TravisLS Sep 1, 2009 View on HN

I would love an app that could keep an inventory of the food i have on hand in my aparment (based on what I've ordered in the past and my own inventory revisions), allow me to order more when I run out (from freshdirect.com or whatever the local equivalent is), and provide me with recipes that I can make with what I have on hand. Kind of complicated to orchestrate the whole thing, but would be obscenely valuable.

0points Oct 29, 2024 View on HN

Even Home Assistant have a shopping list built in by now.

monkeygus Apr 17, 2012 View on HN

this is a great idea, i had someone the other day ask me to make an app like this. have you thought about expanding it to help people when choosing groceries in the supermarket? i guess that would be a bit of scope creep though. good luck!

kls Oct 3, 2009 View on HN

Monitors usage and reports grocery list based on projected consumption.Provides coupons for purchased items. Or competitor brands.Social ranking system for recipes. As well as flavor profile so that people who prefer similar recipes as you affect a recipes rank more then someone with opposing tastes.Can send pre-order for packaging to local grocer or order hard to get items from the web.Can be integrated with a personal chef service to allow them to know what you have on site.I ha

sss111 Oct 29, 2024 View on HN

how do you buy your groceries, I wonder if a solution that scans the receipts might be better lol

bansuian Oct 2, 2024 View on HN

Have similar personal app except that it is for grocery list. It starts with the meals desired and once selected, give you the grocery list of what to get.

JamesonNetworks Apr 29, 2023 View on HN

The Home Assistant built in grocery store list maker is amazing

cbognet Jul 25, 2016 View on HN

Hi! Glad you found the service useful. We now have a feature that lets you specify grocery store so that less exotic ingredients are shown if you live somewhere a bit more obscure (grew up in a small town myself, so I get it!) You can also print your shopping lists if you don't want to use the iOS or Android app. We have thousands of recipes in our database and constantly growing, so let me know if you ever want to come back and try it again for a few days.

codegrappler Jun 3, 2025 View on HN

Don’t forget grocery list add-er!

jabroni_salad Jul 10, 2023 View on HN

It's only really good for groceries, but if you use Paprika's shopping list it will track what you have at home and subtract from it as you complete recipes.