Nimblist - Shared shopping lists & recipes, perfectly in sync
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The shared shopping list that stays in sync across iPhone, Android, web, Alexa & Home Assistant. Everyone edits live — tick milk off at the shop and it vanishes from every phone, auto-sorted by aisle. Import any recipe from a link, photo, or browser extension, and snap your cupboard to build a smart pantry that tells you what you can cook. Free for unlimited shared lists; Premium adds recipe import, pantry matching & meal planning.
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Hi PH 👋 I'm the solo maker. I built Nimblist because every shared-shopping-list tool my household tried either didn't sync in real time or made everyone create accounts and fiddle with setup. Nimblist is the opposite: share one link, everyone edits live, and the list sorts itself by aisle so the shop is one clean pass.
This past month it went fully cross-platform — native apps on iOS and Android, plus web, a browser extension (Chrome + Firefox), Alexa ("Alexa, ask Nimblist to add milk to the shopping list"), Home Assistant and Zapier. One list, in sync everywhere.
The part I'm proudest of is the kitchen pantry: photograph your cupboard and it stocks itself, recipes get matched against what you already have ("what can I cook tonight?"), adding a recipe to a list skips what's in stock, and items carry use-by estimates (USDA FoodKeeper data) so less food goes in the bin. Recipe import, pantry matching and the meal planner are the paid tier — 7-day trial.
One for early adopters: there's a Founders licence — lifetime Premium for a one-time £79.99, no subscription, and only 250 will ever be sold (on the web at nimblist.app). Would love your feedback on the real-time sync and pantry-from-a-photo especially. AMA!
Love how the live syncing actually feels instant across devices, no awkward refresh dance. The auto-sort by aisle is a quietly brilliant touch that makes the whole shopping flow feel effortless.
@zeynepkluu Thanks for the positive response. If there's anything that you come across that you think could work better please let me know.
The live sync between my phone and my partner's is honestly smoother than any list app I've tried, and the auto-sort by aisle at the store is kind of a game changer for us.
@ceylandemioa2q Which platform are you on? Curious how the pantry-from-a-photo worked for you
Love the auto-sort by aisle feature, that alone would save my partner and me so much wandering around the supermarket. One thing that would make this a daily driver for us is voice input through Alexa for adding items with quantities like "add two cartons of oat milk" so we don't have to fiddle with the app while cooking. Would that be tricky to wire up with your existing Alexa skill?
@remziye6uti Good question — and something I want to get right. Right now the skill treats whatever follows "add" as the item text, so "add two cartons of oat milk" saves an item with exactly that name rather than oat milk ×2 — structured quantities via voice aren't wired up yet. The good news: the add-item the skill calls already supports a quantity field (the app and the other integrations use it), so teaching Alexa to pull the number out is a small change, not a rebuild. Putting it on the near-term list — thanks for the nudge! 🙌
@remziye6uti Update — just wired this up 🙂 You can now say "Alexa, ask Nimblist to add two cartons of oat milk" and it'll capture the quantity. Shipped it off the back of your comment. Thanks for the nudge!
Finally something that beats my family's chaotic group chat for groceries. Tick the milk at the shop and watch it disappear on everyone's phone instantly, that part just works.
@merggr Thanks for the great feedback. Let me know if you come across anything you feel should work better.