Nimblist: Shared Grocery List

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About this app

Nimblist is the collaborative grocery list your whole household shares — updates appear on everyone's phone in real time, so you never buy the milk someone already grabbed.

It does the things a shopping list should, then a few things no other one does.

SHOP TOGETHER, IN REAL TIME
• Share a list with your family or housemates — add, tick off, and edit together live
• Items auto-sort into aisles so you shop the store in order, not back and forth
• Add several items at once by voice — say them, check the review step, done
• Or scan a barcode or type — either way, items are categorised for you

TURN ANY RECIPE INTO A LIST
• Import a recipe from a URL and send the ingredients straight to your list
• Snap a photo of a cookbook page or handwritten recipe and Nimblist reads the ingredients
• Save and tag your recipes; share them with your household

COOK FROM WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE
• Track your kitchen pantry — Nimblist tells you what you can cook right now
• When you add a recipe to your list, it skips what's already in your cupboard
• Free use-by estimates flag food before it's likely to spoil, so you waste less

PLAN THE WEEK
• A simple meal planner that builds your shopping list as you go
• Share a meal plan with the people you cook for

WORKS WITH YOUR LIFE
• Add items hands-free with Alexa
• Connect to Home Assistant and your smart home
• Capture recipes from your laptop with the Nimblist browser extension
• Offline-ready — keep adding even when the supermarket signal drops

PRIVACY-CONSCIOUS BY DESIGN
• Export your data anytime
• A free self-hosting option for the technically inclined

Free to use, with an optional Premium upgrade for pantry-to-recipe matching and photo pantry import.

Download Nimblist and turn the weekly shop from a chore into something your household just… handles.

What’s new

Not every night is a recipe.
You can now add anything to your meal plan by typing it straight onto the day — "Takeaway", "Leftovers", "Dinner at Mum's" — without saving a recipe first.
One-offs sit alongside your recipes so the week reflects what you're actually eating, and when you add the plan to a shopping list, the text comes across as an item.
Also fixed: the Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/Snack buttons could appear cut off when adding a meal.