Best Shared Shopping List Apps in 2026: Free, Cross-Platform and Price-Aware

Disclosure: Lumy publishes this guide and makes one of the seven apps compared. Apps are grouped by the job they do best, not ranked, and Lumy is held to the same criteria as the others, limits included. Competitor facts were checked on each developer's own website, help centre or app-store listing on 15 September 2026. We assigned no star ratings and ran no scored tests.

A shared shopping list has two jobs. The first is coordination: everyone adds to one list, one person shops, and nobody brings home a second bottle of olive oil. The second is cost: knowing, before the till, roughly what the trip will take from the week's food budget. Almost every list app does the first job. Few help with the second.

Quick answer

• Mixed Android and iPhone household: OurGroceries, Bring!, Listonic, AnyList and Google Keep all have apps on both platforms. Apple Reminders does not belong on this shortlist.
• Free, with no subscription: Listonic and Bring! keep their core list features free, OurGroceries is free with ads, and Google Keep is a free app.
• Recipe and meal planners: AnyList, though unlimited recipe import and the meal-planning calendar sit in the paid AnyList Complete tier.
• Price-aware budgeting: Listonic (prices you type, remembered and totalled, free), AnyList (typed prices and a running total, paid) or Lumy (an approximate total from prices on your own past receipts).
• Voice assistants: OurGroceries, AnyList and Bring! support Alexa and Siri; OurGroceries also keeps reduced Google Assistant support on Android.
• Simplest possible: Apple Reminders if everyone uses an iPhone; Google Keep if anyone uses Android.

How the apps were compared

Each app was checked against six questions:

1. Cross-platform sharing. Can an Android phone and an iPhone edit the same list?
2. What is free. Which features need a subscription, and at what published price?
3. How sharing works. Separate accounts with invitations, or one shared login?
4. Price awareness. No prices, prices you type, or prices taken from what you actually paid.
5. Recipes. Can ingredients flow from a recipe into the list?
6. Voice and web. Voice assistants, and a browser version for planning on a laptop.

A general to-do app is the obvious contrast. Todoist's Free plan allows five personal projects with up to five people in each, and Pro costs $7 a month or $60 a year. It is a task manager, so it stays out of the comparison.

Comparison table

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The apps, grouped by the job they do best

Pure list apps first, then the three that price the trip. Order within each group is not a ranking.

OurGroceries

Best for: one list on every phone, watch and Alexa speaker.

Strengths: apps for iPhone and iPad (iOS 16 or newer), Android 6 or newer, Apple Watch, Wear OS, Alexa devices and desktop browsers. Items carry photos, notes, quantities and barcodes, recipes can add ingredients, and a partner sees a new item "immediately", according to the developer.

Limits: everyone signs in to the same account, so there are no separate logins. There are no prices yet; the OurGroceries FAQ says price tracking is "on our list of features to add in a future update".

Price: free with ads. The FAQ confirms you can pay to remove ads but does not state the price. Source: OurGroceries overview.

Bring!

Best for: retailer brochures, loyalty cards and recipes alongside the list.

Strengths: iPhone, Android, tablets and Apple Watch; shared lists sync in real time, with push notifications when someone adds or buys an item; Alexa and Siri; recipes saved from the internet; sorting by supermarket aisle.

Limits: we found no item-price or trip-total feature on its official pages. Its offers are retailers' promotions, not your prices.

Price: Bring! says all core functions, including creating and sharing lists, recipes and offers, are free. We could not confirm a paid tier on an official page, so none is quoted.

Google Keep

Best for: the simplest free checklist across Android and iPhone.

Strengths: free, with Android, iPhone and browser versions. You add collaborators by name, email address or Google Group, or share with a Google family group, and collaborators can edit lists.

Limits: it is a note-taking app, and none of its official help describes prices, aisle sorting or recipe import. If the owner deletes a shared note, "it'll be deleted for everyone".

Price: free (App Store listing).

Apple Reminders

Best for: households where every shopper uses an iPhone, iPad or Mac.

Strengths: it is already installed. From iOS 17 you can choose Groceries as a list type, and Reminders sorts items into categories such as Produce or Frozen Foods. People who accept a shared list can add, delete and complete items.

Limits: grocery lists need iCloud turned on for Reminders, and invitees need iOS 13 or later to see lists created in iOS 13 or later. iCloud.com offers a browser route after signing in with an Apple Account, but Apple warns you "might not see all of your shared lists" there. Treat it as an Apple-only tool with no prices.

Price: included with the device.

Listonic

Best for: free lists with prices you type once.

Strengths: iPhone, Android and a web app; unlimited shared lists that update in real time; voice input. You can add prices, and the total-cost calculator remembers each price "so the next time you add milk or rice, the cost is already filled in".

Limits: a remembered price is whatever someone typed, with no store or date attached. Listonic's own help notes that "prices change all the time" and leaves updating to you.

Price: Listonic says its core features are free "forever", with Premium for themes and ad-free use. The US App Store lists in-app purchases from $0.99 to $19.99, including a $15.99 yearly option.

AnyList

Best for: meal planners who want recipes to feed the list.

Strengths: creating and sharing lists (by email invitation) is free, with five web recipe imports and instant sync. AnyList Complete adds unlimited imports, a meal-planning calendar, item photos, per-store prices with a running total, and the web app. It supports Siri and Alexa.

Limits: item prices need Complete and are typed by hand, the web app is Complete-only, and AnyList's help centre says it does not currently support Google Assistant.

Price: AnyList Complete costs $9.99 a year for an individual or $14.99 a year for a household.

Lumy

Best for: households that keep receipts and want list, estimate and budget in one place.

Strengths: adding a product to a Lumy shopping list searches the products on your own receipts first, so the row arrives priced with what you paid last time. Priced rows add up to an "approximate total". Rows without a price are counted separately rather than as zero, and a price from an old receipt is marked. The family sees edits as they happen. Scanning the next receipt with the receipt scanner refreshes the prices the following list will use.

Limits: Lumy does not read live shop prices, so estimates are only as good as your receipt history, and a new household starts with blank prices. It is not a recipe or meal planner and has no web version. Receipt scanning and family sharing are Pro features, so the price-aware shared list described here effectively needs Pro. The Free plan includes shopping lists and product prices from your receipts, with caps on active lists, products per list and people per list.

Price: free to download; Pro is an in-app subscription whose price varies by country. See Free and Pro for what each plan covers.

Illustrative example: pricing a weekly shop before you leave

Figures are invented to show the method, not market prices. A family has $60 left in this week's food budget. Their plain list is ten lines with no numbers; built from past receipts, it looks like this:

Eight priced rows total $36.25. Two rules make that usable:

1. Price the gaps. Add the average priced row ($36.25 ÷ 8 ≈ $4.53) for each unpriced row: about $9 more, so plan for roughly $45.
2. Distrust stale rows. The chicken price is nine weeks old. If over a fifth of the total rests on prices older than eight weeks, add a margin or check in store.

At about $45 against $60, the trip fits. With $40 left, the family could swap the chicken before leaving rather than discover the gap at the till. A typed-price app gives the same arithmetic on whatever someone last entered; a plain list gives no number until the receipt. To build the price history itself, see how to track grocery prices from receipts or the grocery price tracker overview.

A household list protocol that prevents double buying

Most shared-list problems are process problems. Agree these once:

1. One list per shop, not per person. A pharmacy list is fine; a list per family member is not.
2. Anyone adds, one person shops. The shopper adds a first line such as "Shopping now: Ana".
3. Search before adding. If milk is already there, change the quantity instead of adding a second row.
4. Be specific. "Milk, 1 gallon, 2%" beats "milk".
5. Tick at the shelf, not at checkout. Others then see what is already in the basket.
6. Close the trip. Clear bought items, carry unavailable ones forward, and record the receipt if you track prices.

For the wider shared budget, see how to manage a family budget together.

Failure cases, and what to do about them

• Two people buy the same item. Both were shopping, or someone ticked late. Fix: the "Shopping now" line and ticking at the shelf.
• Stale prices. A spring price makes an autumn total look low. Fix: prefer dated prices and refresh the few items that dominate the total.
• Blank prices hidden in the total. If unpriced rows count as nothing, the total is a floor. Fix: apply the gap rule above.
• One partner cannot join. An Android user cannot fully join an Apple Reminders list. Choose a cross-platform app first.
• A shared login shows everything. With OurGroceries, everyone in the account sees every list. Keep private lists elsewhere.
• The owner deletes the list. In Google Keep, deleting a shared note you own removes it for everyone. Let a stable adult own it.

Set up a shared list across Android and iPhone in 10 minutes

1. Minutes 0–2: choose. Rule out anything without apps on both platforms; decide whether you need prices, recipes or voice.
2. Minutes 2–4: create. One person creates the list and invites the other: by email (AnyList), as a collaborator (Google Keep) or via one shared login (OurGroceries).
3. Minutes 4–6: join and test. The second person joins and adds "test item"; confirm it appears on both phones.
4. Minutes 6–8: add staples. Enter ten weekly items with specific names; if the app supports prices, price the five most expensive.
5. Minutes 8–10: agree the protocol. Pin the list, turn on notifications if offered, and agree the "Shopping now" rule.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best free shared shopping list app?

Listonic, Bring! and Google Keep need no subscription; OurGroceries is free with ads. Of these, only Listonic offers free price fields and a total.

Which shared shopping list app works on Android and iPhone?

OurGroceries, Bring!, Listonic, AnyList, Google Keep and Lumy all have apps for both. Apple Reminders works well only when everyone uses Apple devices.

What is the best shared shopping list app for iPhone only?

Apple Reminders, if you are on iOS 17 or later and use iCloud: it is built in, sorts groceries into categories and shares with other Apple users. Choose AnyList if you also want recipes.

Is there a shopping list app with prices?

Yes. Listonic lets you type prices and totals them for free, AnyList does the same with AnyList Complete, and Lumy fills prices from your own past receipts. None of these reads live shelf prices.

Can a grocery list app keep us on budget?

It can warn you before checkout. Compare the estimate, adjusted for unpriced and stale rows, with what is left in the week's food budget, and cut or swap before leaving.

How do we stop buying the same thing twice?

Use one list per shop, search before adding, announce who is shopping, and tick items at the shelf. Most duplicates come from timing, not the app.

Your next step

Tonight, pick one app from the table that runs on every phone in your house, run the 10-minute setup with the next person who shops, and add this week's ten staples. After the trip, write the receipt total beside your estimate: the gap shows whether you need a price-aware list.

Sources checked on 15 September 2026

• OurGroceries — FAQ
• Bring! — Features
• Google Keep Help — Share notes, lists and drawings
• Apple Support — Create grocery lists in Reminders
• Listonic Help — Add prices to know the total
• AnyList Help — Getting started
• Todoist — Pricing

Prepared and reviewed: 15 September 2026. Confirm features and prices on the developer's page before subscribing.