OurGroceries Android App
last week I put the Android App OurGroceries through some serious paces. We had 2 big birthday parties which required a pretty significant shopping list. I installed theOurGroceries app on my Motorola Droid as well as on my husbands HTC Eris.
Download was quick and painless which has been the statis quo for all apps. Being a former Blackberry lover I have to say the app install process is about 1000% better than my former Blackberry Curve experience.
The OurGroceries app is more than a simple grocery list app. It has one particularly cool feature. When you install the app you create a master account with your email address. When you install it on a second phone register with that same email account. Now both phones OurGroceries apps are in perfect sync. Change the list on one phone and it changes on both.
Why is this important? After cooking, cleaning and planning 2 big parties the brain was not function at full capacity. There were a few things that I didn’t get on the list at the start. While I was buzzing through the house I added more and more items. The person with the other phone did not get updated phone calls or additional text message they just saw the list as I prepared it.
My second favorite is the quick recipe feature. You know when you make hamburgers for supper you always need hamburger, buns, ketchup, pickles, mustard and cheese. You plug these ingredients into a recipe in Our Grocery for hamburgers. When you are doing your meal planning you don’t need to re enter these items into your list you simple select the recipe. The items are added to the list.
You can make multiple lists. You can make one for Walmart, office list, school supply list, project list. You get the idea. If you are shopping for it you can create a list for it.
When you are using the list in the grocery store it is a simple one touch on the item and it is checked off. Super easy.
There are a couple of functions I would like added to OurGroceries. One would be to categories the items on your list into aisle. I know when I am doing my power shopping I check off and isle or category at a time. I would like to see the items grouped together so you are not scrolling through the list or backtracking through the store.
I would also like to see some online integration. While I usually have my phone with my I spend a lot of time in front of the computer. It would be a little quicker to make my shopping at my desk on a full keyboard.
OurGroceries is an excellent app that any Busy Mom with a Android based phone should pick up.
