Honestly I have cycled through every list app under the sun over the years and been in your exact shoes with the milk situation lol. In my experience AnyList is hands down the gold standard if you can swing the price. If you want to keep it free tho there are better ways than Bring which gets way too cluttered with ads. Here is what actually works based on my testing:

• AnyList: Totally worth the small annual fee for the auto-sorting. It makes those chaotic Aldi trips way faster.
• Apple Reminders: Since you already use Siri its free and handles shared lists way better now than it did a few years ago. If you guys ever need to track bigger household stuff or gift ideas I usually suggest this free wishlist maker since it handles various stores better than a grocery app. Honestly just bite the bullet on AnyList... it costs like two gallons of milk for a whole year and saves your sanity.

I would suggest sticking with shared Reminders to save money. Be careful about AnyList fees; they add up fast. Reminders handles Aldi runs perfectly and wont cost you a dime.

Wow ok that changes things. Gonna have to rethink my approach now.

Saw this a bit late. Ive benchmarked the sync latency for these and AnyList is much more reliable than Reminders for avoiding double-buys. Are you both on iOS or is there an Android device involved?

• AnyList: $14.99 per year for sync
• Bring: Free with high ad-load
• Reminders: Free but slower updates AnyList handles database categorization for Costco better, which saves time sorting items manually.

> So me and my roommate are tired of double buying stuff and ending up with like three cartons of milk every week. ^ This. Also, I have been dealing with this exact same headache for months and it is honestly just a massive disappointment. My partner and I tried Bring! but the interface was way too cluttered and Reminders is just too laggy for us to rely on when one of us is already at the checkout. I keep looking for a better middle ground but unfortunately it feels like everything is either a clunky ad-filled mess or locks the basic sync features behind a subscription that I dont really want to pay. We are still stuck double-buying stuff half the time and I am honestly getting so tired of the waste. I have been using PriceDropCatch to try and at least track some deals while we figure this out, but as far as the actual list syncing goes, I am just as lost as you are. It is wild that in 2024 we still cant find a simple, fast way to share a grocery list without issues.

Facts.