Open Shopping List

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Open Shopping List is an easy to use shopping list smartphone app and web app. It's designed to allow easy and efficient synchronization with a server and with other persons.

Install the smartphone application (currently supported on android), create your account, and immediately start editing your shopping list.

Then also access your account on the web admin pages (sorry, there's a scary browser security warning - more info), so that you create and share more lists from there; you can also import/export stuff. The lists are synchronized between your smartphone, the admin pages, and the friends with which you've activated sharing.

If you don't have or don't want to use a smartphone, you can also create and use your account only on the web, of course.

Why?

You and your friends can modify the same list each on your own smartphone and on your desktop computers. New shopping items pile up during the week and whoever is at the shopping centre can use the list to get all the needed stuff.

What's inside

There are already a lot of shopping list apps for smartphone and for desktop; Open Shopping List differentiates with its unique features set:

• easy and straighforward: no big deal, no big features, when you login to the admin page or open the app you're directly viewing your lists; adding/removing/editing an item is straightforward and fast
• powerful: the desktop app performs limited page reloading (items adding/removing is done with a background ajax request) and allows to mass upload items, download into a CSV for any use in a spreadsheet; the smartphone app has limited to no confirmation of actions (to let you act fast), and a "undo" feature for if anything goes wrong
• cloudy: automatically or manually synchronize your lists between your smartphone, your account on your desktop computer, and the smartphone of any friends
• secure (or at least, more secure than a lot): desktop and mobile app protect your privacy by using cryptographic hashing and secured network communication (SSL - information about the security warning) - notice that your data is stored in cleartext on server, though
• open-source: anyone can check the sourcecode, improve it, and nothing is lost if ever I stop working on it; and thanks to the server API, anyone is welcome to add another supported smartphone platform (iPhone, anyone?)
• free of charge: as long as the operational cost remains zero, I see no reason in charging you, so enjoy :)

Status

Open Shopping List is immature :)

Sun Jun 19 23:25:53 2011