Grocery shopping apps
Grocery shopping apps
I am currently using Bring! with my wife to organize our grocery shopping. I am looking for a self hosted alternative. I looked at the awesome self-hosted list and tried Specifically Clementines and of course Grocy. I like that Grocy also includes meal planning although the whole inventory management is too much for us. What I don't like is the interface for both of them. I don't see us using this while in the store with a kid on the arm. It is way too fiddly and complicated. Also adding new items to the list is rather complicated in both apps.
Do you have any suggestions for other projects with a more user friendly interface (even if it means less features)?
For meal planning and shopping lists, grocy os completely overkill.
You could look at Kitchen Owl, it even looks like bring! and you can use meal planning :)
We switched to Kitchen Owl and it works out okay. The recipe management is nice in theory, but doesn't work well for most of our recipe sources (because of parsing issues most websites aren't recognized and ingredient amounts are not parsed correctly for German recipes), but we usually just create an empty recipe with a link to the original. This isn't perfect - in hindsight we should have stayed with Bring! because it just works better. We are hoping that the issues will be fixed sometime in the future although I am not sure what to expect...
Huh, sad to hear. Do the recipe sources have the recipe markup or is it parsed directly from html?
I've been extremely fond of "Our Groceries" for many years. It strikes a sweet spot between features and simplicity of use, and the devs are very responsive and have added several features after my suggestions. Really the only downside right now is that it can't use the front facing camera on my wall mounted android tablet for scanning barcodes.
I really like Our Groceries, but AFAIK it's not self hosted nor foss
Correct, it is not.
I will have a look into it.
Seconded for Our Groceries. The sync between devices is great and I LOVE the barcode scanning.
I've used Homechart for a while, does lists, plans, budgets and a bunch of other stuff.
That sounds like it is very complex, but the interface seems nice. I will have a look.
It serves as a nice aggregate hub for a lot of household tasks, although I mostly use it for the lists and recipes at this time.
I'm using Mealie for this, and so far suits my needs
If you want to do a bit of engineering: CalDAV supports todo lists. I forget what server software I've got running, but I sync the list to my android phone via DAVx5 and tick off/add items via tasks. For other platforms you can just look for CalDAV-supported programs (most email apps.)
I don't think that I will do this. It will most likely not be a better user experience than our current solution with Bring!
But thank you for the suggestion.
This is what I have ended up running with nextcloud as the server.
I also have home assistant syncing to CalDAV so that I can automatically create/remove tasks.
Another thought: I use grocy (or at least try to use it) to have an overview of my stock and know when an open item in the fridge neeeds to be used before spoiling. But I just use a shared note on nextcloud for shopping, which is good enough for two people. But of course there is no meal planning or recipe management
My partner and I use a pinned issue as our grocery list on our git repo for managing our household. All running on top of a self-hosted gitea instance.
Great for being able to create git issues for honey-dos as well as having automations for creating issues for recurring tasks.
"Hey we need to take X to the vet for Y sometime next week" "Oh yeah, can you go ahead and put in a ticket?" Amd vice versa
Can't wait to tell my wife she has to create a merge request to change our plans for tonight. 😉
Ran into a similar conundrum. We use mealie for recipe management and occasionally meal planning, but the shopping list is clunky. We resorted to just making a list on a card in Planks. Not purpose-built, but it has worked rather well for us.
I really like tandoor reciepe. Maybe not exactly what your are looking for, but who knows :).
I like how the meal planner works and that you can save your own meal reciepes, add them to a grocery list...
BUT it is maybe a bit too complex and to much features?
I like the recipe management, but I dislike the grocery list for the same reason I don't like Grocy. It is just too complex and hard to use in the store.
Yeah, I know !
How I do it:
I bought a mobile holder for bicycles, and put it on the cart when I'm in the store. It works, its not perfect but I does what I need !
But i totally agree that the grocery list could be better integrated, but it's FOSS, self-hosted and free. So I'm happy :)
Obsidian?
Interesting thought. I found this blog post, but I think this is not what I'm looking for.
I really like KitchenOwl’s shopping list interface, native iOS app, and OIDC integration. I haven’t used the budgeting or meal planning functions yet.
Update: We switched to Kitchen Owl as suggested in the comments.