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Free — $0, forever. A shopping list, the full recipe library with six saved favorites, inventory tracking, price comparison, and recall alerts. Ad-supported.
Ad-Free — $5.99 once, yours for good. Everything in Free with the ads gone, plus room for two lists, a household of two, list sharing, saved loyalty cards, your own recipes, smart restock suggestions, and 25 saved favorites. One payment, no subscription.
Silver — $9.99/month or $113.99/year. Ad-free, three lists, a household of three, week-at-a-time meal planning, 50 saved recipes, prices refreshed every six hours, and one included delivery a month once delivery launches.
Gold — $15.99/month or $172.99/year. Everything in Silver, with five lists, a household of five, two-week meal planning, 100 saved recipes, real-time prices, and two included deliveries a month. Gold comes with a 14-day free trial — the best way to see what the app does when it knows your household.
Platinum — $26.99/month or $274.99/year. Ten lists, a household of ten, a full month of meal planning at a time, 200 saved recipes, real-time prices, priority support, and four included deliveries a month, plus the extras we're building for delivery as they arrive.
Monthly or annual, cancel any time.
A one-time $5.99 removes ads permanently — no subscription, no renewal, nothing to cancel.
And it's more than just quiet. Ad-Free also gets you a second list, a household of two so you can share with the person you actually shop with, saved loyalty cards, recipes you write yourself, restock suggestions, and room for 25 saved favorites. The meal planner stays with the subscription plans.
If you later subscribe to Silver, Gold, or Platinum — all ad-free — and cancel down the road, your one-time purchase is still there waiting. You bought it; you keep it.
Silver includes one delivery a month, Gold two, and Platinum four — and they reset each month, so there's never any counting to do.
Your included deliveries start with your first paid month. Delivery launches in fall 2026, and we'll spell out exactly how it works, including what an extra delivery costs, before it does.
No, and that's on purpose. Unlimited delivery sounds generous right up until it forces someone to pay for it — either your Runner, in lower pay, or you, in higher prices. Four included deliveries covers nearly any household, and anything beyond that is priced simply and honestly.
Yes, whenever you like — from your Account & Subscription page, in a couple of taps. No phone call, no retention maze.
Your paid features stay on through the end of the period you've already paid for, then the account drops to Free. Your lists, recipes, and history stay exactly where they are.
All major credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and direct bank payment by ACH — all handled by Stripe, the same processor behind a large share of the internet. Your card or account number never touches our servers; we never see it and never store it.
Prefer to pay straight from your bank? ACH skips the card entirely.
We don't prorate refunds for a partial period — you keep the features you paid for until the period ends. But if you were charged in error, or something doesn't look right on your bill, email support@glplusinc.com and we'll sort it out. We'd rather fix it than argue about it.
Email support@glplusinc.com from the address on your account and we'll take care of it. Your lists, history, and personal information are permanently removed within 30 days; some anonymized usage data may remain, and it can't be traced back to you.
Self-serve deletion is coming.
Not from the app yet — email support@glplusinc.com from your current address and we'll move it for you. Changing it yourself is on the way.
On the sign-in screen, tap "Forgot password?" and we'll email you a reset link. If you signed up with Google or Apple, there's no password to reset — just sign in with that same button.
Not yet — and we'd rather tell you that than show you a coupon wall that doesn't do anything.
Coupons are coming, but only in a form worth having. The easy version of this feature is to sign an exclusive deal with one coupon network or one chain, take the check, and quietly become an app that works properly only if you shop where our partner wants you to shop. That's the opposite of what we're building. We're not going to narrow where you can shop to make a coupon tab look full.
And as with pricing, it isn't entirely in our hands. Digital coupons live with the stores and the brands, and they have to be willing to share that data in a form we can pass through to you honestly. So we ask, we keep asking, and we'll switch coupons on the day we can do it across the stores you actually shop — clipping straight to the loyalty card you've already saved with us, so the discount lands at the register instead of living in an app you forgot to open.
In the meantime, the savings that are live today are the ones that don't need clipping. Sale prices are already built into everything you see — when something's on sale at one of your stores, that's the price we compare with. Price your whole list across your stores and take the trip that wins. And keep your loyalty cards here so you're not digging through your keychain at the register.
Email support@glplusinc.com, or use the contact form at /contact — whichever you'd rather. Both reach the same people.
We aim to reply within one business day, and usually much faster.
Email is monitored seven days a week. Billing problems and anything blocking you from getting into your account get picked up first thing each business day.
We're a small team, not a call centre — which means you're writing to someone who can actually change the thing you're writing about.
Not today. We're email-first, and honestly it works better for both of us: there's a written record, we can look at your account properly before answering, and nobody sits on hold.
If enough people tell us a phone line would genuinely help, we'll look at it.
Partnerships: partnerships@grocerylistplus.com. Press: press@grocerylistplus.com. Vendors and brands: there's a For Business section in the footer with everything you need.
Settings, then Give Feedback, or email feedback@grocerylistplus.com. Every submission is read by someone who can do something about it, and the things people ask for repeatedly are how we decide what to build next.
Tell us what you're trying to do, not just what you want added — the problem is usually more useful to us than the solution.
Not yet — delivery launches in fall 2026, starting in Charlotte and Cincinnati. Here's what we're building, because it's deliberately not what everyone else is doing.
The same person, every week. Your groceries are brought by a Grocery List Plus Runner who covers your area and keeps a regular book of households — including yours. Not whoever happened to accept the ping. After a few weeks they know you want the green bananas, that the side gate sticks, that you're never home before six. None of that is something we coded. It's just what happens when it's the same person.
Runners aren't a rotating pool, and the money is why. Your Runner keeps 100% of the delivery fee and 100% of every tip — we never take a percentage of either one. Your tip is not a number we participate in. There's no acceptance rate to protect, no algorithm quietly penalizing them for saying no to a Tuesday, and no competing against other Runners for your order. They aren't interchangeable and we don't treat them that way.
Scheduled runs, not on-demand — and that's the point. We don't do ad-hoc "bring me something in the next 30 minutes" deliveries, and we're not planning to. On-demand only works if a crowd of drivers sits idle waiting for a ping, unpaid, hoping one comes. Scheduled runs mean your Runner knows their week ahead of time, plans a real route, and earns predictably. That's the difference between a job and a hustle, and it's the whole reason the same person can keep showing up. If you and your Runner arrange on-demand deliveries, that's between you and them — but it's never the default, and it isn't something we dispatch.
You pick them, and they pick you. Runners in your area have profiles, you choose the one you want, and they accept. A two-way match, the way you'd settle on a regular hairdresser — not an assignment handed down by dispatch.
It's a smaller idea than "groceries in fifteen minutes." We think it's a better one.
You build your list during the week the way you already do. Lock it in, and on delivery day your Runner shops it and brings it to your door.
You'll know who's coming before they set out. If something's out of stock, they'll ask you rather than guess. And because it's the same Runner most weeks, the asking gets rarer over time — they'll already know you'd rather have the smaller loaf than none.
A Runner who covers your area — not whoever happened to accept the ping.
Every Runner passes a full background check before their first delivery, including criminal and driving records, with ongoing monitoring afterwards. Before each delivery you'll see who's coming: their photo, a little about them, and the languages they speak.
Yes, and both sides get a say. Runners in your area have profiles — who they are, when they run, and how many deliveries they have open — and you pick the one you want. They accept, and you're matched.
It works the way choosing a regular hairdresser or house cleaner works: a person you picked, who knows your name and your kitchen, not a rotating cast of strangers.
A flat fee per delivery, the same everywhere we serve. No surge pricing, no distance charges, and never a markup on your groceries — you pay the shelf price.
Silver, Gold and Platinum each include deliveries every month. Tipping is entirely up to you, suggested at checkout and never added without you seeing it, and 100% of every tip goes to your Runner — we don't take a cent of it, ever. Exact numbers go up before launch.
Charlotte, NC and Cincinnati, OH first, in fall 2026, then metro by metro from there. Where we go next depends on where Runners and local vendors line up — which is why it's a real expansion rather than a switch we flip nationally.
Another Runner in your area covers the run, and you'll know who before it starts. Or skip the week entirely — no fee, no penalty, no explaining yourself.
Your Runner is standing in the aisle, so you get a message with what's actually there — usually with a photo — and you decide: swap it, skip it, or leave it for next week.
You can also set your preferences ahead of time — replace with the cheaper option, match the size, contact me first, or don't substitute at all — so most of it is already decided and nobody has to text you in the cereal aisle. Those settings are in the app now, waiting for launch day.
When delivery launches, what you pay is: your groceries at the store's shelf price, a flat delivery fee, a processing fee, and a tip if you'd like to leave one.
That's the whole list. We never mark up your groceries — the price you see is the price the store charges, and we don't make a cent on the food itself. The Community Fund donation on every order is ours, not yours — we cover it. Exact figures go up before launch.
Because running this costs money, and we'd rather charge for it in the open than hide it in your grocery prices.
The processing fee covers taking a card payment, plus the fraud monitoring, compliance and support that sit behind every order. It's how we keep the lights on without touching the shelf price and without taking a percentage of your Runner's fees or tips.
It's a percentage of your groceries plus the delivery fee — never your tip, which we don't touch and don't charge you to process. It's shown to you before you pay, and it's where we earn on your order, alongside a small commission local vendors pay us when they sell something.
A donation we make on every order, to food-access organizations in the metro where the order was placed — food banks and hunger-relief groups working close to where you live. You'll see it on your receipt as a gift line at $0.00, because it comes out of our margin rather than your total. We'd rather give than ask you to.
We'll name our partners once the agreements are signed, and publish what was collected and where it went, so it's a number you can check rather than a claim you take on faith.
A tip is suggested at checkout, calculated on your grocery subtotal rather than the full total — you shouldn't be tipping a percentage of our fees. Pick a suggested amount, set your own, or set it to zero. Nothing is ever added without you seeing it first.
100% goes to your Runner, every time.
No. Not a percentage, not a processing deduction, not ever. We don't cap tips, we don't make them mandatory, and we don't touch them on the way through.
If you tip, your Runner gets exactly what you tipped.
Two structural reasons, not a promotion.
First, we don't mark up your groceries. A lot of delivery apps quietly raise the shelf price before you ever see it, so the fees aren't where the money's really coming from. We show you the store's price and charge for delivery separately, where you can see it.
Second, our fees are small, named, and don't stack. A delivery fee and a processing fee. That's it — your tip is untouched, and the Community Fund donation is ours to make, not yours to pay.
Spend Less. Eat Better. Shop Smarter.
That's the whole idea. Grocery List Plus tells you what your groceries actually cost before you get to the register, and helps you plan the week around the food you already have.
Build your list and watch real shelf prices from the stores near you land next to every item, so you can see at a glance where this week's trip is cheapest. Plan your meals from a library of thousands of recipes — each one with its ingredients, step-by-step instructions, full nutrition, and an estimated cost to make. Tell the meal maker what's already in your kitchen and it'll show you what you can cook tonight without another trip to the store.
Keep a running picture of your household inventory so the things you always buy turn up on your list before you run out. Get food-recall alerts matched to the items you actually bought — not a generic news feed. Filter everything by how your household really eats: diets, allergens, the cuisines you love, the time you actually have on a Tuesday. Swap ingredients for healthier ones and watch the nutrition update as you go. Keep your loyalty cards in one place. Share the whole thing with the people you shop for. And all of it works in English and Spanish.
Coming in fall 2026: scheduled delivery to your door, and a marketplace of local farms, butchers, and independent grocers in your metro — at honest prices, with no markup on what you pay.
The planning side goes wherever you do. Lists, recipes, meal planning, inventory, and recall alerts work anywhere in the country, and live store pricing shows up wherever we have coverage — which grows every week.
Delivery and the local marketplace are a different kind of thing. Those get built neighborhood by neighborhood, because they depend on real drivers and real local vendors we've met face to face. We're starting in Charlotte, NC and Cincinnati, OH in fall 2026 and expanding metro by metro from there, as fast as we can do it properly.
Tap "Get Started" on the home page and you're in. Sign up with your email, or use Google or Apple if you'd rather skip having another password to remember.
The Free tier is free forever — no credit card, no trial clock counting down. Add your ZIP code or allow location access and you'll see prices from the stores near you right away.
Yes — and it stays free. No credit card, no trial period, no bait.
Free gives you a shopping list, the full recipe library with room to save six favorites, household inventory tracking, price comparison across the stores near you, and food-recall alerts tied to what you actually buy. It's ad-supported, and that's exactly how it stays free.
When you want more, the paid plans open up the meal planner, sharing your lists with everyone in your household, saved loyalty cards, recipes you write yourself, smart restock suggestions that learn your rhythm, and — once it launches — included deliveries each month. If ads are the only thing bothering you, there's a one-time $5.99 that removes them for good, with no subscription attached.
See Account & Subscription for exactly what each plan adds.
Grocery List Plus runs in any modern web browser — laptop, tablet, or phone — and everything syncs the second you sign in. The list you build at the kitchen table is the list in your hand at the store, already checked off by whoever got there first.
Native iOS and Android apps arrive in fall 2026.
Not at all. You can build lists, browse recipes, and plan meals without telling us where you are.
But location is what makes the prices real. Add a ZIP code or allow location access and you'll see what things actually cost at the stores near you, which store wins this week's trip, and recalls that matter to the items in your kitchen. When delivery and the local marketplace launch in fall 2026, your location is what connects you to both.
We never share your location with advertisers. Not now, not ever.
You don't share an account — everyone gets their own sign-in, their own preferences, their own saved recipes. What you share is a household.
Add the people you live with and you're working from the same lists, the same meal plan, and the same picture of what's actually in the kitchen. When someone uses the last of the coffee, it's gone for everyone, not just for them. No more standing in the aisle texting "do we need milk?"
Households come with the one-time Ad-Free purchase and every subscription — two people on Ad-Free, three on Silver, five on Gold, ten on Platinum. The Free tier is a single-user account.
Three things that sound alike and do different jobs. Here's the short version: sharing is the action, a group is who you share with, and a household is the people you live with.
Sharing is the thing you do to a list. Every list starts private — yours alone. Sharing it means handing it to a group of people who can then add to it, check things off, and see what everyone else has done. You can un-share it just as easily, and it goes back to being yours. Use it when you want a specific list in more than one pair of hands.
A group is a named set of people that sticks around, and it shares lists — and only lists. Make one for your roommates, your running club, the four of you cooking Thanksgiving, your mother across town. Add people by name if they're already friends on Grocery List Plus, or invite them by email — they don't need to be a friend first. Build it once and you can hand it this week's list and next week's without rounding everyone up again.
Everyone in a group keeps their own kitchen. Your inventory stays yours — what's in your cupboards, what you're running low on, what you bought last week. Nobody in a group can see any of it. They see the list you handed them, and nothing else. Use it when you want help with a list from people you don't live with.
A household is the people you actually live with, and it shares everything. Not just the lists — the kitchen itself. What's in the cupboard, what's running low, what got used up yesterday, the meal plan, the whole picture. When someone finishes the coffee, it's finished for everyone. When someone's already at the store, they can see what the house needs rather than what one list says.
Everyone in a household sees everything, and that's deliberate — a shared kitchen only works if everyone's looking at the same one. Household size depends on your plan: two on Ad-Free, three on Silver, five on Gold, ten on Platinum. Use it when you're running one kitchen together.
And they stay separate. Being someone's friend doesn't put them in your groups. Being in your group doesn't put them in your kitchen. You decide each one, and you can undo any of them.
Yes — because it's genuinely one list, not copies passed back and forth. When someone adds bananas or checks off the milk, that's the list, for everyone on it. You'll see their changes when your list next loads.
There's an activity feed on every shared list too, so you can see who added what and who already grabbed the thing you were about to go get.
The independent food businesses in your neighborhood: independent grocery stores, farmers, butchers, fishmongers, tortillerías, carnicerías, halal markets, bakeries, and the people you already see at the farmers market.
Independent grocers matter most of all — a neighborhood store where you could do an entire week's shop at their own shelf prices, with no chain in the middle and nobody's algorithm deciding what gets stocked.
Not a category we scraped off a map. We go and meet them, one at a time, and we don't list anyone whose products and prices we can't stand behind.
No. The price the vendor charges in their own store is the price you'll see in the app. Not the price plus a little, not a "convenience adjustment."
We'll make our money the way we say we do: a small commission the vendor pays us, and customer subscriptions. Never from quietly raising what you pay for food.
After delivery is running. The marketplace only works if there's someone to bring the food, so we're building it in that order rather than launching two hard things at once.
Charlotte and Cincinnati first, same as delivery, and we'll say so here the moment there's a date worth trusting.
That's the plan, and it's the reason a Runner shops your order rather than a store packing it. One trip, several stops, one delivery — the bread from the bakery and the meat from the butcher arriving together instead of on three different afternoons.
We visit in person. We look at quality, at how they handle food, at whether they can be relied on week after week, and at whether they fit the neighborhoods we're serving — including whether they can serve customers in Spanish, because a lot of our best vendors will.
Then we do the unglamorous part: getting their products and prices into the app accurately, which is our job rather than theirs. No listing fee, no monthly fee, no charge to be there — vendors pay a small commission only when they actually sell something.
Start at the vendors page — there's a "Start selling" link in the For Business section of the footer — or email vendors@grocerylistplus.com and a person will write back.
We're onboarding Charlotte and Cincinnati first, but tell us where you are anyway. Where we go next depends on which neighborhoods have vendors worth showing up for.
Each vendor stocks their store however they see fit — their own farms, regional suppliers, family recipes, whatever they've always done. We don't source food and we don't tell anyone what to carry.
What we do is show you their actual inventory and get it to your door, along with whatever they tell us about where it came from.
Yes — every card, in one place, ready at the register.
Add your Kroger Plus, Publix Club, or any other store card and we'll show it as a full-screen scannable barcode when you're standing at checkout — no fumbling through a keychain or hunting for the right app. Keep a photo of the card itself, the name it's under, and any notes you need alongside it.
Your store still applies its own discounts and fuel points to your account the way it always has; we just make sure the card is there when you need it. Saved loyalty cards come with the one-time Ad-Free purchase and every subscription.
No — there's no Grocery List Plus points program today, and we're not going to invent one just to have a rewards tab.
Our honest view is that most points schemes pay back a fraction of a percent while making you feel like you're saving, and we'd rather spend that effort on what actually moves the number: showing you what your groceries really cost and which store wins the trip.
That said, we listen. If enough of you tell us a rewards program would be genuinely worth having, we'll take a serious look — tell us what you'd want out of one.
It answers "what's for dinner" once instead of seven times.
Plan a day, a week, or a whole month, depending on how far ahead you like to think. Drop a meal into any slot — from your favorites, from anything in the library, or just type what you're actually making. Mark a night as leftovers, because that's a real plan too. Moved dinner to Thursday? Move it and carry on.
When the week looks right, send it to your list in one go — and it arrives already knowing what's in your kitchen, so you're only buying what you're missing. Out of ideas? Ask for a week of dinners and edit from there. Had a good week? Copy it forward instead of reinventing it.
Afterwards, everyone at the table can say how it went, so next month's planning knows what actually landed.
The meal maker is — every plan, free included.
The meal planner comes with a subscription, and the difference between plans is how far ahead you can think: Silver plans a week at a time, Gold two weeks, Platinum a full month. Everything else about it — sending a week to your list, copying a week forward, suggestions, per-person ratings — works the same on all three.
Tell it what's in your kitchen and it goes through the entire recipe library looking for what you can actually cook tonight.
Every result comes back showing how much of it you already have, and exactly what's missing. Sort by best match to cook the thing you're closest to finishing. Sort by fewest missing ingredients when you're willing to grab one or two things on the way home. Or sort by what those missing items would cost, and let dinner be the cheapest thing you can complete.
Turn on pantry-only and it hides anything needing a shopping trip at all — just what you can make right now, with nothing but what's already there. Allow swaps and it counts substitutions you'd be fine with, which turns a lot of "almost" into "yes."
Then narrow it however you actually think about food: calories, time on the clock, how many people you're feeding, how many ingredients you're willing to deal with, difficulty, cuisine, meal type, high-protein, low-carb, low-sugar. It can automatically leave out anything someone in your household is allergic to, and apply the preferences you've already set, so you're never filtering for the same things twice. Keep the ones that worked, and mark the ones you've tried.
Free on every plan. It's the fastest way to stop standing in front of a full fridge deciding there's nothing to eat.
Yes. Set how your household eats and the whole library filters to match: diet styles like keto, vegan, paleo and Mediterranean, the health labels that matter to you, the cuisines you love, the kinds of meals and dishes you actually cook, and even the cooking methods you prefer. Set it once and every suggestion, every filter, and every week of dinners respects it.
Yes — and it starts with the people, not the plan. Add everyone in your household with their food allergies, the health labels that apply to them, and any notes about how they eat, so you're planning with the whole table in view rather than just yourself.
After a meal, each person can say how it went — a happy face, a shrug, or a no-thanks — so you learn what actually works for whom instead of guessing. How many people you can add depends on your plan: three on Silver, five on Gold, ten on Platinum.
We're excited to announce that the Grocery List Plus mobile apps are arriving very soon — iOS and Android, this fall.
Until they land, there are no download links anywhere. If you see one, it isn't us.
And you don't have to wait to start. Grocery List Plus runs in your phone's browser today — the full thing: lists, recipes, the meal planner, prices from your stores, recall alerts. Sign in on your phone and on your laptop and it's the same account, the same lists, the same everything. Whatever you build now is waiting for you in the app on day one.
When they land, the apps add the things only a phone can do — scanning barcodes as you shop, and a list that keeps working when the store has no signal. We'll say so right here the day they're live.
Yes. One account, one set of lists, everywhere you sign in. Build the list on your laptop at the kitchen table and it's on your phone in the parking lot — already checked off by whoever got to the store first.
iOS 15.1 and later, and Android 7.0 and later. That's deliberately wide — we'd rather work on the phone you already have than the one you're supposed to have bought.
Older devices may still work; we just can't promise it.
Yes — on every recipe and on products where the manufacturer publishes it: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber, sugar and sodium.
The useful part isn't the numbers sitting there, it's watching them move. Swap an ingredient for a lower-sodium or higher-fiber version and the nutrition recalculates as you go, so you can see what a change actually buys you before deciding it's worth it.
When the mobile apps arrive this fall, you'll also be able to see a week of planned meals totalled up in one view.
Not as a number you set for yourself — not yet, and that's deliberate. Telling someone their daily calorie target edges into health advice, and that deserves to be built properly rather than bolted on.
What you can do today is see the numbers on everything: every recipe's full nutrition, what a swap changes, and what a meal actually contains before you cook it. On the mobile apps this fall, you'll also be able to pick the health goals that matter to you and see how many of your planned meals line up with them each week — counted honestly, as meals, not dressed up as a score.
Where we're strongest is recipes and planning. Add each person in your household with their allergies, and the meal maker will automatically leave out anything that would put them at risk — you don't have to remember to filter, it just doesn't show you those recipes. You can filter the whole library by nut-free, dairy-free, gluten-free and more.
On individual packaged products, we're not there yet. Allergen data from manufacturers is patchy and inconsistent, and a missing warning is far more dangerous than no warning at all — so we don't show one. For anything allergy-critical, read the physical label. We'd rather tell you that plainly than have you trust a field we can't stand behind.
No — and anyone who tells you their nutrition data is perfect isn't being straight with you.
We use manufacturer-published data and established nutrition databases, cross-checked against USDA FoodData Central. That's very accurate for packaged goods and a good estimate for recipes, where real cooking varies more than any database can capture. For anything medical or allergy-critical, the label on the package wins.
Two ways, and they answer different questions.
Which store wins this item? Open any product and you'll see every one of your stores listed with its current price — the cheapest one flagged, sale prices marked with the regular price crossed out, and an honest "not carried" where a store doesn't stock it at all.
Which store wins the whole trip? That's the one that actually saves money. Grocery List Plus prices your entire list at each of your stores and tells you which comes out ahead — and it factors in the cost of the trip itself, so it won't send you to a second store across town to save a dollar on cereal. Full-basket comparison comes with a subscription.
When you search for something or add it to your list, we ask your stores what it costs right now, rather than showing you a number we cached last month and hoped was still true.
Today, live pricing comes from the Kroger family of stores — Kroger itself, plus Harris Teeter, Fred Meyer, King Soopers, Ralphs, QFC, Mariano's, Dillons, Food 4 Less and Foods Co — through Kroger's own developer API.
We want that list to be a lot longer, and we're working on it constantly. Here's the honest part: whether a chain shows up here isn't entirely up to us. Some grocers publish their prices through a developer program anyone can build on. Others keep that data closed, or license it on terms that would only work if we marked up what you pay — and we won't do that. So we ask, we keep asking, and we add a chain the day they're willing to share accurate, current pricing. If your store isn't on the list, telling them you'd like it to be genuinely helps.
What we won't do is scrape prices off a website or estimate them. A wrong price is worse than no price.
And it isn't only the big chains. Any store can sell with us directly — a neighborhood grocer, a butcher, a farm stand, a halal market, a specialty shop. If that's you, there's an application on our vendors page and we'd love to hear from you.
Fresher than anyone else will give you, and how fresh is up to you.
On Gold and Platinum, prices are real-time — when you look at an item, we ask the store right then. Silver refreshes every six hours. Ad-Free twice a day, and on the Free plan, once a day.
That's not an arbitrary ladder. Knowing what something costs right now is the hardest and most expensive part of what we do — every live price is a call to the store's system — so it's the thing your subscription actually buys. Everything else in the app works the same on every plan.
Yes. Add the stores you actually shop to Your Stores, and pick one as your primary — that's the one we lead with and price your list against by default. The rest sort by how close they are to you.
These are also the stores we go and ask when you search, which is why picking the two or three you really use beats adding every store in town.
Yes. When something's on sale at one of your stores, we show the sale price with the regular price crossed out beside it — so you can see what you're saving and where, and the comparison reflects what you'd actually pay at the register.
No. Not your personal details, not your purchase history, not your location, not ever. We don't sell it, we don't rent it, and we don't hand it to data brokers.
We make money from subscriptions and from the fees on an order. That's the whole business model, and it's deliberately one that doesn't require selling you out.
Everything travels over an encrypted connection. Passwords are handled by a dedicated identity service and hashed — we never see them, and couldn't tell you yours if you asked. Card details go straight to Stripe and never touch our servers.
Beyond that, we don't publish the details of how our systems are put together — not to be cagey, but because a map of the plumbing is only useful to someone looking for a loose joint.
Ads don't load at all until you say they can. If you never give advertising consent, the ad network's code is never even fetched — not throttled, not anonymized, simply never loaded. That's not a setting buried three menus deep; it's the default until you change it.
When you do consent, ads are served by Google, and Google's advertising works the way Google's advertising works. We're not going to tell you that's private, because it isn't.
If you'd rather not have any of it: the one-time $5.99 removes ads permanently, and every subscription is ad-free.
Three ways. Buy the one-time $5.99 ad removal and they're gone for good. Subscribe to any plan — Silver, Gold and Platinum are all ad-free. Or simply decline advertising consent, and no ads are ever loaded.
Only the Free tier sees ads, and only with permission.
Product data comes from the retailers themselves wherever we can get it — for chain groceries that's the store's own product feed, which is also where the prices come from. Beyond that we draw on public food databases and commercial barcode catalogs to fill in names, sizes, ingredients and nutrition, and we cross-check nutrition against USDA FoodData Central.
Where a manufacturer publishes the details, that's what you see. Where nobody does, we'd rather leave a gap than invent one.
Very good for national brands and major chains, patchier for regional and store-brand items where the manufacturer never published much to begin with. Sizes and nutrition on smaller brands are the usual gaps.
If something looks wrong, tell us — Settings, then Give Feedback, or email support@glplusinc.com. We'd genuinely rather hear it than have you quietly stop trusting a number.
On the mobile app, yes — point your camera at a barcode and we'll identify the product, add it straight to your pantry, or drop you into a search if it's something we haven't catalogued yet. The apps arrive in fall 2026.
On the web, search is the way in: type a few letters and matching products appear as you go.
Yes — on every plan, free included. This is the one thing we won't put behind a subscription.
Recall notices come from the FDA and USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, and we match them against what's actually on your lists and in your kitchen — so you get told about the thing in your fridge, not a feed of everything recalled in America this week.
Not yet on individual products. The sources don't agree with each other, and a wrong "gluten-free" is worse than none at all — that's not a label we're willing to guess at. Where we do filter by diet and allergen today is recipes: keto, vegan, paleo, Mediterranean, nut-free, dairy-free, gluten-free and more, all filterable. Product-level certifications are something we want to get right rather than get fast.
Thousands, and growing every week — and they're ours. Not a licensed feed rented from a recipe network and served identically in a dozen other apps. Every recipe is written in English and Spanish from the ground up, so nothing reads like it went through a translator on the way to you.
Each one comes with its ingredients, step-by-step instructions, and full nutrition — and where we have prices for your stores, an estimated cost to make. "What's for dinner" and "what will dinner cost" stop being separate questions.
One tap and every ingredient is on your list. If two recipes this week both want onions, you get one line for onions, not two — we consolidate as they go on. And you can dial the servings up or down on the recipe itself, so the amounts you're cooking from match the number of people at the table.
Yes. Write your grandmother's version down properly — your ingredients, your steps, your photo — and it sits alongside everything else, ready to plan a week around or add to a list in one tap. Share it with your household and they cook it the way you actually make it.
Writing your own recipes comes with the one-time Ad-Free purchase and every subscription.
Yes, and it's one of our favorite things the app does. Swap in lower sodium, less sugar, or more fiber and the nutrition recalculates as you go, so you can see exactly what the trade costs you before you commit to it. No lectures, no red warning labels — just the numbers, so you can decide.
Yes — by diet (keto, vegan, paleo, Mediterranean and more), by allergen (nut-free, dairy-free, gluten-free), by cuisine, by meal, and by the health labels that matter to how your household eats. Set your household's preferences once and the whole library filters itself to match, every time you open it.
Sí — de verdad, no a medias.
Todas las recetas están disponibles en español: el título, la descripción y cada paso de las instrucciones. Se escriben en los dos idiomas desde el principio — no se traducen al final, ni pasan por un traductor automático camino a tu cocina.
La aplicación completa también está en español: tus listas, los precios, las alertas de retiro de productos, el planificador de comidas. Puedes cocinar en español y hacer las compras en español sin tener que cambiar de idioma ni una sola vez.
Si estás leyendo esto, ya sabes que hablamos en serio.
Start typing in the search rail right on your list and matching products appear as you go — you can search your usual stores, your own history, or the whole catalog.
When you want to browse rather than type, head to Search. Look through the full catalog, filter down to what you're after, open a product to check the price, size, nutrition, and whether it's on sale — then add it to your list right there. Added the wrong thing? One tap undoes it.
And typing is the slowest way in anyway. Add every ingredient from a recipe in one tap, or drop a whole week of planned meals onto your list at once. Mark the things you always buy as recurring and they'll be waiting on every new list you start. As the app learns your rhythm, it'll quietly suggest what you're probably running low on before you notice.
On the mobile app, point your camera at a barcode and we'll find the product for you — straight into your pantry if you're putting the shopping away, or into a search if it's something we haven't seen before. The apps arrive in fall 2026.
Yes — and better than aisle order, it's your aisle order.
On screen, sort your list by group, alphabetically, or by when things were added, and every item carries its department so you always know what you're looking at. Print it and the list rearranges itself by department, in the order you actually walk the store — and you can set that walk order per store in Shop Settings, because nobody's Kroger is laid out like their Publix.
Yes — sharing comes with the one-time Ad-Free purchase and with every subscription. Invite the people you shop with and you're all working from the same list, with an activity feed showing who added what and who already grabbed the milk.
The Free tier is a single-user list. If you shop for a household, sharing is the first thing worth upgrading for.
Yes, and they're the quiet workhorse of the app. Mark the things you buy every time — milk, coffee, the good bread — and they'll be on every new list you start, without you having to remember them. Uncheck one and it stops. That's the whole feature.
It does, and it gets better the longer you use it. Grocery List Plus watches how often things actually get bought in your household and starts flagging what you're likely running low on — usually after a few shops, once it's seen your rhythm rather than guessing from averages. Suggestions come with Ad-Free and every subscription.
Nothing is ever added behind your back. It suggests; you decide.
There's no file to upload or list to paste in — and honestly, we built something better for what you're usually trying to do.
Instead of copying someone else's list into yours, share one and work it together. When you start a list, put it in a group — your friends, people you already shop with, or anyone you invite by email, friend or not — and you're all looking at the same list. They add what they need, you add what you need, and whoever gets to the store first checks things off for everyone. Nothing to import, nothing to reconcile, no "did you already grab the eggs?"
Sharing comes with the one-time Ad-Free purchase and every subscription.
Yes — with the mobile app, the store is exactly where it's built to work.
Your list, your prices, and your barcode lookups live on your phone, so you can walk the aisles, check things off, add what you forgot, and scan as you go with no signal at all. Everything you did syncs the moment you're back on a connection, and nothing gets dropped in the meantime — if the sync has to wait an hour, it waits an hour and then goes.
Some things do need a connection: fresh prices, recipe browsing, and anything involving your household in real time. And on the web, Grocery List Plus needs to be online — though you can always print your list before you go, grouped by department in your walk order.
The mobile apps arrive in fall 2026.
That's coming with the local marketplace in fall 2026. When it lands, you'll be able to browse a nearby farm, butcher, or grocer and drop their items straight onto your list, and we'll keep track of which items come from where so your delivery arrives in one trip.
First, try a refresh — most slowness is one stuck request rather than anything deeper. If that doesn't do it, sign out and back in, which rebuilds your session from scratch.
Still slow? Email support@glplusinc.com and tell us what you were doing and roughly when. We can look at what actually happened on our side, which beats guessing.
Check your spam folder first — that's where most of them turn up.
If it's still missing, email support@glplusinc.com from the address you signed up with and we'll check whether it left our side and where it went. If it's a verification email you're waiting on, say so and we'll get you sorted the same day.
You can also control which emails we send at all in Message Settings, where email, in-app, push and text each have their own switches.
Tell us — that's genuinely the fastest route. Settings, then Give Feedback, or email support@glplusinc.com.
Say what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead. A screenshot is worth more than a long description. Half the time "it's not working" turns out to be something we labelled badly, and that's our problem to fix rather than yours to work around.
It goes to people who can actually fix it, and it gets read.
Yes. We build to WCAG 2.1 Level AA on the web and follow the platform accessibility guidelines on iOS and Android, including contrast ratios, keyboard navigation and proper labelling. There's a full accessibility statement on the site.
If you hit something that doesn't work with your screen reader or your keyboard, tell us and we'll fix it — that's a bug like any other, not a nice-to-have.
