Frequently Asked Questions

Grocery Board is a shared grocery list and meal-planning app for households, families, and roommates. Keep one live shopping list in sync across everyone's devices, plan your week with a meal planner, and organize your recipes in a digital cookbook.

Grocery Board is 100% free and ad-free, with no "pro" fee for sharing. Sync your list with as many people and devices as you need.

Yes. Sign in with Apple or Google for secure access and syncing across your devices — there is no separate password to remember.

iOS and Android phones, Mac, iPad, any modern web browser (installable as a PWA), and the Microsoft Store. Apple Watch is not currently supported.

It is built for the way households actually shop: real-time shared sync, smart categories and colors, item photos, meal planning, and recipe imports. A notes app can hold text, but it cannot keep a whole household on the same list.

Invite them from your board using a simple invite code, an email invite, or a QR code. Once they join, the list is shared and updates for everyone in real time.

As many as you like. There are no per-person fees and no limit on household members.

Yes. Create unlimited boards — for example, Home, Office, Camping, or Vacation — and keep them separate or shared.

Yes. When one person adds or checks off an item, it appears on everyone else's devices within seconds, and they can be notified of the change.

You can be alerted when someone adds an item to the list or checks one off, so no one is caught off guard at the store.

Start typing and smart auto-complete suggests items instantly, with fuzzy search that finds what you need even with typos. Adding an item takes seconds.

Yes. Items are automatically sorted into color-coded, collapsible categories you can customize, making a trip through the aisles faster.

Yes. Save photos of specific products, flavors, and sizes so anyone doing the shopping grabs exactly the right item.

Yes. Checking items off syncs the update to everyone else's list, so the household always knows what has been picked up.

Yes. Every item you add is saved to your catalog, so frequently bought staples can be re-added to the list in one tap.

Map out your week in custom meal slots — breakfast, dinner, kids' lunch, post-workout, and more. Tap any slot to plan a recipe or a meal idea.

Open a planned meal, review its ingredients, and add what you need to your list in a tap. Ingredients link to your catalog, so the list is built as you plan.

Yes. Paste any recipe URL and Grocery Board extracts the ingredients and saves them to your cookbook, ready to add to your list.

Yes. Use your device's camera to scan handwritten recipe cards or cookbook pages and turn them into structured recipes with no typing.

Yes. The Interactive Recipe Wizard asks a few quick questions and generates a structured recipe for your cookbook.

Yes. Save recipes to your cookbook, store source links, use a clean cooking view, print them, and generate AI recipe images.

Yes. Offline shopping list mode keeps your list, item photos, and cookbook available even with no cell service in the store.

Yes. The list syncs in real time across all signed-in devices, regardless of platform — iPhone, Android, Mac, iPad, or web.

Yes. Launch the web app at app.groceryboard.io from any modern browser, and you can install it as a PWA if you want an app-like experience.

Yes. Your boards are visible only to the people you invite. You sign in with Apple or Google for secure access.

No. Grocery Board is ad-free and does not use the ad trackers common in free apps. See groceryboard.io/privacy-policy for the full details.

Contact [email protected] and we will help you remove your account and associated data.

Check that you are online and signed in to the same board, then close and reopen the app. If the issue continues, update to the latest version or contact support.

Send them an email invite or share your board's invite code or QR code. They can install the app or open the web app to join.

Email [email protected]. We are always improving and welcome bugs, ideas, and suggestions.