IntelliList - Shopping List

This app helps me wiz around the supermarket in record time especially if you visit the same supermarket regularly. Just need to do a bit of work in the app up front like adding all your regular shop items and placing them in the correct aisle as they appear in your supermarket in the app. I hate spending time in the supermarket so I just use the app to navigate around the supermarket in the fastest time possible and this app gives me that functionality. Once all your products are in you can select the items you want to shop for at that particular time, if you accidentally get a product in the wrong aisle then it’s easy to edit afterwards. The app can list all your shopping list in aisle order so I just start at aisle one and collect all the items in my list for that aisle before walking around to the next aisle. Clicking on each product in the list as I put it in the trolly changes the status of the item in the list which then either gets crossed out or removed from view depending which mode you have it set in. Any mistakes whilst shopping can be easily rectified. Nice to be able to take your own photos of the products for your list which makes it much easier to identify when shopping. Support is very good and good communication with the supplier of the app has helped me get more out of it as I learn more. Maybe the help section could be improved to include a quick start guide to be able to wiz around the supermarket using the app as a start before moving on to more complicated stuff which the app can provide but as I said it now makes easy efficient shopping even with a big list. I always use it.

I passed this App a few times (I have tried many shopping Apps) mainly due to it being one year since the previous update. Another thing I usually look out for is Apple Watch support. Getting your phone out mid shopping is not always easy if your hands are full (but you can workaround this see below). That said what it does it is best in class in my opinion. At it’s core is price comparison. Other apps may have this, but they tend not retain price history and they certainly don’t show % increases or allow you to shop at the cheapest (or if they do it’s complicated to set up). To get the most from this App will take a bit of setting up and regular use. The more you add to it the easier planning a shopping trip will be. When I shop I now know roughly how much it will cost, if I need to look for cheaper alternatives in store or buy items from other shops. IntelliList does all the things you would expect, images, barcodes etc etc. Another surprise is the price. It is very competitive as it is a one time payment. You get way more features compared to some Apps that charge 3 or even 4 times as much, or require subscriptions. I have even set up a lists for Recipes I use a lot. You can price them up and quickly add any needed ingredients to your main list. I also have a list for my Freezer. 5 stars as I hope the developer is still working on the App as it could do with a few “updates” here and there: IOS16 widgets, Apple Watch App, GeoLocation shopping, Import CSV, squish a few bugs etc etc. Apple Watch: I wrote a Siri Shortcut as you can export your list as text to a message. The shortcut then copies this and sets it up as a list in reminders :-)

But I am missing an Alexa skill that allows me to add the IntelliList as I currently can with my favourite Shopping List App. Otherwise I would have given this 5⭐️

In this world where there are many opportunities to buy a single product with different merchants with discounts & offers, this app is useful in tracking down the prices from different stores/ways for a single product. You can add your own products and customise the existing ones. Thanks was looking for this from ages and glad I found this.

I am really enjoying the features IntelliList has. It allows the user lots of freedom in terms of customising the items you scan, as well as customising the app settings such as selecting the types of units you always want to use. I love that I can store information about the items I buy and easily compare previous prices. The app automatically calculates their percentage differences which is great. I’m not sure why there are so many pre-set items listed in all the different Aisle categories, because if you were to use one as a template for an item you are listing, you would end up changing the product name and photo anyway, and would have to add a barcode, price and unit value. And the Aisle feature I personally find useless because different supermarkets have different aisle names so I don’t understand the point of this app feature. I think the only presets that should exist are fruit and vegetables because their brand usually does not matter/is the supermarket’s brand. Otherwise, every other product has a brand name like Coca Cola, Pringles, etc. The aisle feature should be removed because it doesn’t do anything and is just a waste of time. Overall amazing app though! :) 😃

No use in the UK but still available on App Store to a UK phone.

Just started using this App so these are early impressions. Like all subject Apps, it seems you have to kiss a lot of frogs before finding the right one for you! I have tried several shopping Apps before trying Intellilist and in their ways they were all fairly good but none seemed to work well for me. Intellilist has taken me some time to set up in the way that I want it but having done so, shopping should now be an easier chore with the correct statistics being compiled in the background. For those wanting a simple system, Intellislist can provide this with ease. You don’t have to use all of the features. If however you are the type of person that might easily become interested in cost trends or where you are spending your money, this App starts to shine brightly. The likes: Syncs across all my devices once all are set up for Dropbox. Retains all the notes and information that I enter and doesn’t ease them at the end of the shopping session. Has several hundred in-built products that can be customised to your own requirements. Has a list of Stores which can be deleted or added to according to where the individual likes to shop - these are used to collate pricing information over time. Fast Developer response to queries that in truth I should have been able to find the answers to myself, they were all somewhere within the App help guides. Dislikes; Well, this one says more about me than the App. I struggled to get to grips with logging the product’s weights and measures correctly. Some are obvious and some, not so. The App is absolutely correct once you get the hang of inputting these parameters properly and you get used to it. I noticed a previous reviewer had perhaps struggled with this too. All in all, I have great expectations of having at last found the shopping App for me. I would recommend this App to all, especially if you feel you might grow out of the very basic ones. It’s a good, solid App that doesn’t crash or display quirky behaviour. The one off cost of the premium version is well worth the money as it is evident that a huge amount of development work has gone into building it. Give it a good try out, like me, you might decide it is one of the best out there.

The only information on using this app is in the learn feature. This explains nothing. It simply runs through a fast routine which is too fast to understand. This app is only for the young and proficient iPhone user, for older folks like me, who need it the most, this is annoying and renders it useless. Even when I cleverly, I think, “resort to YouTube”, all I can find is the demo that is embedded in the app. Computer programmers expect the general public to think like them but I can assure them we are a different breed and simply think like normal human beings. Please find one of us to present a carefully explained tutorial on YouTube and add a link in the app. The addition of a button that returns to the home page would, at least, give us a chance to re-find our way. This looks such a good app that I have spent hours, yes I do mean hours, trying to master it without success. THIS IS SUCH A SHAME AND IS, I’M SURE EASILY SOLVED. GET TO IT PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. John Smith UK

This app is totally useless, as it is not possible to set correct weights for items. It will only allow you to use pre-set weights. So it is not possible to get an accurate comparison of your spend between shops

One of the best app thanks for developing it, you are a genius 👍🏼