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Grocery list & shopping apps.

6 apps · 2,084 reviews held · 1,042 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

2.3star
How angry
50%
Negative reviews
66%
Room to enter
2 of 6
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: ads. 5 of 5 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 6 of 6 still carry billing complaints.

One gap.

Shares of this market’s 1,042 negative reviews.

Billingelevated

36.6% vs 30.8% typical store-wide.

Counted in 381 reviews · 6 of 6 apps · 2.3star mean

What they said · 3 of 381
  • Jewel-Osco Deals & Delivery1star· Aug 28, 2026

    Close then re open — Tip- the app doesn’t work unless you open it… immediately close then re open it. It’s inconvenient enough just to have to open an app and search for the item on slow blocked phone connection to get the advertised price but I have noticed that closing the app and re opening makes it actually functional. Now while shopping everyone is pausing to open their phone while shopping…

  • Albertsons: Grocery & Deals1star· Aug 27, 2026

    Don’t order for delivery — I’ve used the app for pickup and delivery multiple times with little to no issues. My recent delivery order however was delivered to the wrong address. The AI chat feature offered not help but it was also unable to connect me to live agent and there was no other way to reach out for assistance. After trying and failing to find the groceries myself I submitted a refund re

  • Jewel-Osco Deals & Delivery1star· Aug 25, 2026

    $30 off $75 — I hate that you list that I can get $30 off when I spend $75 or more and then I get to see store and I can’t use. Specify how you can get the discount, DON’T MAKE PEOPLE GUESS!

Named problems · 3
  • Price judged too high for the value22 of 381
  • Trial converted without clear consent12 of 381
  • Charge the user never authorised5 of 381

Also counted

ThemeOf 1,042 negatives
  • Performance186 · 17.9% · 6 apps
  • Support91 · 8.7% · 5 apps
  • Ads67 · 6.4% · 5 apps
  • UX54 · 5.2% · 5 apps
  • Login & auth47 · 4.5% · 6 apps
  • Limits & caps18 · 1.7% · 2 apps
  • Sync & data10 · 1.0% · 1 apps
  • Accuracy9 · 0.9% · 4 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after grocery list & shopping apps, in their order.

Who they're for
chat
Google
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App Store
free grocery shopping listfree shared grocery listgrocery list for chatgrocery list freegrocery listour grocery shopping listshared grocery listgrocery list maker

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “grocery list for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 36

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 6 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 1 of 6 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
ReciMe: Recipes & Meal Planner$29.99–$59.99 · 3 tiers6.5% of 396
Jewel-Osco Deals & Deliveryfree1.4% of 222
Shopping List - Simple & Easy$0.99–$9.99 · 2 tiers0% of 19

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

Open the app library

Is there a market for a new grocery list & shopping app?

6 apps compete on this shelf, holding 2,084 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, billing, runs in 6 of 6 of them at 36.6% of negative reviews against 30.8% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in grocery list & shopping apps?

1. Billing: in 6 of 6 apps, 36.6% of negative reviews.

How many grocery list & shopping app reviews did App Imp count?

2,084 US App Store reviews across 6 apps, 1,042 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.