I can never remember what good or bad prices are for most groceries, so I put together a little web-based mobile app so I can keep track of what I pay for various things. Then when I'm shopping, I can compare the new price to what I've spent in the past. Of course it also has a shopping list built in.
It's pretty rough around the edges, but I thought I'd share it just in case anyone's feeling adventurous and wants to give it a shot. It's web-based; just go to
https://shopping-brain.5apps.com/ and add a bookmark/icon to your home screen, and it should act pretty much like a native app.
Here's a quick tutorial-
There are 2 modes which you can access from the menu icon on the top left: at home is for adding items to your shopping list, and at the store is for when you're shopping.
If you're at home and you add an item, it'll just ask you for a name, optional details, and if you're out or just low.
When you're at the store, the first time you're shopping for an item you may want to set the units for unit price. Click the edit button at the top right when you're looking at the item.
If you want to get fancy, while you're editing the item, you can enter the 3 optional fields under calorie / unit, click the button, and it'll figure out and save the calories per unit. This'll make it easier to do MMM's calculation of "How much would it cost if I ate a hypothetical meal of only this food?". But you can skip this whole section.
There are definitely some rough edges and not-so-easy-to-understand bits, but I find it useful and you might too. If people start using it, maybe that'll incentivize me to improve it more :-) If you have any feedback or feel like telling me that it's useful, you can reply here, email me at daniel at benamy dot info, or use the feedback button in the app.
Finally, the app is free / open source so you can check out the code, file bugs or submit pull requests (please! :-)) at
https://bitbucket.org/dbenamy/shopping-brain.
