Mobile

ShoppinLyst

Grocery planning, from list to store to recipe.

App Store
v2.1
0.8 MB download

App Store

ShoppinLyst in dark mode: eight lists including Groceries, Pantry, Wishlist and custom ones, each with item counts and progress bars — Lists with progress

ShoppinLyst's Recipes tab filtering breakfast recipes — pancakes, french toast, omelette — each with an ingredient count ready to add to a list — Recipes become shopping items

ShoppinLyst's Store Prices screen listing nearby Utah stores — Bella's Market in Vineyard, Costco Wholesale in Lehi — with website and search links — Store links in one place

01The product

The boring part of cooking is the list.

ShoppinLyst is a small, fast iOS app that keeps grocery planning in one place: lists with priorities, quantities, units and notes; a map of nearby grocery stores with distances and directions; store links for checking what’s available; and a recipes feature that adds what a dish needs straight to your list.

Unlike the engineering tools elsewhere on this site, this one is a shipped consumer product — designed, built, reviewed by Apple, and maintained through real releases since 2025. The 2.x series added the Recipes tab; version 2.1 shipped in August 2026.

02Around the app

ShoppinLyst's Nearby Stores map of lower Manhattan, dense with grocery-store pins and distance cards with directions — Nearby stores, with directions

ShoppinLyst Add Item form with name, quantity and unit fields, a priority selector and a notes field — Items carry quantity, unit, priority, notes

03Spec sheet

Platform iOS 18.2 or later

Category Productivity

Price Free

Current version 2.1

Download size 0.8 MB

First released August 2025

Rating 5.0 — from 6 ratings

A grocery app that downloads in under a megabyte is a deliberate constraint: native SwiftUI, system frameworks, no bundled analytics, nothing the product doesn’t need.

ShoppinLyst's App Store listing: the cart-and-checkmark icon, 'Smarter shopping, less waste', a 5.0 rating from 6 ratings, and the version 2.1 release notes — The listing, as shipped — the rating carries its sample size

04Why it matters here

Developer tools forgive a rough edge; consumer software doesn’t. Shipping ShoppinLyst meant the other half of engineering: App Store review, release management across versions, MapKit and location permissions handled respectfully, and an interface a stranger can use without a manual.

It is also the one project here whose source stays closed — the product is the artifact. You can install it from the App Store and judge it the way its users do.