Any tips on a “grocery list” app to replace Keep? Need something that can sync between mine and my wife’s phones - E2EE nice to have but not strictly required.
A lot of the Keep replacements I see posted are just fancy text editors full of markdown formatting junk and I just want a good working checklist that moves checked items away.
A lot of the Keep replacements I see posted are just fancy text editors full of markdown formatting junk
Keep is specifically for taking notes, not just for grocery lists. But personally, I use Obsidian.md with a specific note full of checkboxes, and use SyncThing to sync the folder/vault between devices. That being said, since you don’t want markdown you probably wouldn’t be interested in it
IMO insisting that free software options be “no-AI” while accepting proprietary stuff is backwards. In the proprietary world it’s the norm that as the end-user you aren’t entitled to know how the software is built, because that’s considered a secret. Your favorite proprietary developers could be using “AI” and you’re not supposed to know about it. In the proprietary world as long as it looks good and does what you want it to do it doesn’t matter how it’s implemented.
If you’re insisting on being free of “AI” then as a consequence you have to insist on at least source-availability. As far as I know Obsidian isn’t even that.
I just started using KitchenOwl for this. It can be a little clunky, but it suits my purposes well.
Pros:
self hostable
multiple grocery lists
categories and sorting are customizable (so I can put the categories in the order I shop in)
sync across devices near instantaneous
web and desktop interface
Cons:
can be a little slow to add items. You can’t just add text, you have to wait until the search is complete
does not automatically combine the same item together
occasionally when I switch to the app and mark an item complete, it doesn’t take. Only happens on the first item on open and I just click it away again, so not a huge deal.
I went on a similar search when I ditched big tech a few years ago. I tried most of the options that were available at the time but I’m sure the landscape has changed now.
Any tips on a “grocery list” app to replace Keep? Need something that can sync between mine and my wife’s phones - E2EE nice to have but not strictly required.
A lot of the Keep replacements I see posted are just fancy text editors full of markdown formatting junk and I just want a good working checklist that moves checked items away.
Keep is specifically for taking notes, not just for grocery lists. But personally, I use Obsidian.md with a specific note full of checkboxes, and use SyncThing to sync the folder/vault between devices. That being said, since you don’t want markdown you probably wouldn’t be interested in it
Unfortunately Obsidian is proprietary
True, but the alternatives all either suck or are coded with AI
IMO insisting that free software options be “no-AI” while accepting proprietary stuff is backwards. In the proprietary world it’s the norm that as the end-user you aren’t entitled to know how the software is built, because that’s considered a secret. Your favorite proprietary developers could be using “AI” and you’re not supposed to know about it. In the proprietary world as long as it looks good and does what you want it to do it doesn’t matter how it’s implemented.
If you’re insisting on being free of “AI” then as a consequence you have to insist on at least source-availability. As far as I know Obsidian isn’t even that.
I really like koffan.
I just started using KitchenOwl for this. It can be a little clunky, but it suits my purposes well.
Pros:
Cons:
I softly suggest using a messaging app for this, like a signal thread where you delete items as they’re picked up.
Or you could just make a poll in signal, then just “vote” the items to check them off.
Can signal handle separate conversations between two people? Wouldn’t want to clutter our texts with a grocery list.
Yeah you can make a new group chat that just has the two of you, so it would be separate from your other chat.
I went on a similar search when I ditched big tech a few years ago. I tried most of the options that were available at the time but I’m sure the landscape has changed now.
I’ve been happy with the shopping list manager built into https://github.com/TandoorRecipes/recipes with https://github.com/kitshn-app/kitshn