BusyBeeGrocer

One shopping list your whole household can edit โ€” organised the way you actually walk the aisles, and still working when the signal isn't.

Open BusyBeeGrocer Free. No password to remember โ€” just your email address.

Built for the shop, not the sofa

Most list apps assume perfect signal and a spare hand. Supermarkets offer neither.

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One list, everyone

Add something at home and it's on your partner's phone before they reach the car park. Everyone in the group sees the same list.

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Works without signal

Your list is kept on your phone. Tick things off in the chest freezer aisle with no bars at all โ€” it syncs itself when you're back outside.

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In aisle order

Give items a category and a preferred store, then sort by either. The list reads in the order you walk, so you stop doubling back.

Shopping mode

A stripped-back screen for the trip itself: a timer, what's left to find, and everything you've picked up moved quietly out of the way.

A list grouped by store and aisle Shopping mode showing only what is still needed The end of a shopping trip

Put it on your home screen

There's no app store and nothing to download. Open it once and add it to your home screen, and it behaves like any other app.

iPhone & iPad

  1. Open busybeegrocer.com/app in Safari
  2. Tap the Share button at the bottom
  3. Choose Add to Home Screen

Android

  1. Open busybeegrocer.com/app in Chrome
  2. Tap the โ‹ฎ menu, top right
  3. Choose Install app or Add to Home screen

Inviting the rest of the household

Anyone in a group can invite someone else. It's worth knowing how that works, because BusyBeeGrocer never sends the email for you.

You send the invitation yourself. Entering an address creates the invite and opens your own email app with the message ready โ€” but nothing leaves until you press send. On a phone with no email app set up, nothing will open at all.

The link is the dependable route. Every invite comes with a Copy invite link button. Text it, message it, hand it over however you like โ€” it works the same as the email.

An invite only works for the address it was sent to. That's what stops a forwarded link letting a stranger into your lists. Send it to the address that person will actually sign in with.

"Waiting to be accepted" means created, not delivered. Someone sitting in that list may simply never have been sent anything. Copy the link and send it again โ€” there's no need to invite them twice.

We do it this way on purpose. If the app sent invitations itself it could be used to mail strangers, and a message from an address you recognise lands in your inbox rather than a spam folder.