Using your iPhone to save time and money at the supermarket - a review of Shopper by MidCentury Software

After my recent post about how to save money and reduce time spent at the supermarket I decided to have a look online at the apple web store to see if there was anything that could improve the efficiency of my shopping process (after all, a paper template is so 1985).

Lo and behold I found an app called Shopper  by MidCentury Software which is specifically designed to help make your grocery shopping experience faster, more efficient and even help you to save money (although this part of it takes a bit of work). 

Having used it yesterday I can say that this is a truly fantastic little app. It allows you to either select items from a series of "categories" or to add your own items and assign them to categories. You can even add photos and prices to the items (adding prices lets you see how much your shop will be prior to doing it so you can budget more effectively). The thing that I like most about it, however is the ability to drag and drop the categories into the same order as at your supermarket - this makes the whole process really efficient.

To summarise: if you are the person in your household who does the weekly grocery shopping and you own an iPhone, you simply must buy this application. At only $3.99 (AU) it's as cheap as chips and will save you time and money when you go to buy those chips...