Bring! vs Groly

Bring! is a shopping-list app for planning purchases alone or with household members, roommates, or office colleagues. List changes are shared with other members in real time. Users can sort items by supermarket aisle, mark urgency, and choose light or dark mode and tile or list display. The app also provides local brochures, lets users add offers to a list, and stores loyalty cards. Each week it offers seasonal recipe ideas; users can save online recipes and add ingredients to a shopping list. Voice control works through Amazon Alexa and Siri. Bring! is available on Android, iOS, and the web. Its core functions, including shared shopping lists, recipes, and special offers, are free at free. The maker says app and website data are hosted and processed on Amazon Web Services servers. Its privacy policy says the app may collect device identifiers, IP addresses, account details, email addresses, country and language, and items or offers of interest. Support is available at [email protected].

Groly is a free, open, mobile-first progressive web app combining shared grocery lists, health tracking, nutrition logging, and meal planning. Multiple users can edit shopping lists with real-time synchronization and offline changes; lists also support barcode scanning, automatic categories, and item suggestions. The health tracker records supplements, water, caffeine, meditation, and mood, with history views and PDF export. A food diary tracks calories and macros using generic foods and branded product data from Open Food Facts. Users can create recipes, import them by URL, plan meals by week, and send ingredients to shopping lists. Product lookups use Open Food Facts, Open Products Facts, and Open Beauty Facts, routed through the Groly server and cached in SQLite. Groly runs in Docker, offers an Unraid installation option, and stores its SQLite database in a mounted data volume. It is self-hosted, with no open registration; an administrator invites users through single-use links expiring after 48 hours. HTTPS is required for PWA installation, offline mode, push notifications, camera access, and secure production cookies. The Docker image targets linux/amd64.