The Listo Blog

Stories from the making of Listo — a shared shopping list app built by a solo developer.

New feature

Scan a receipt, and the discounts come too

A REWE receipt's total didn't add up — twenty-one lei of loyalty-card discounts hid at the bottom, unlabeled, impossible to tie to any one item. Here's why Listo stopped trying to guess, and now reads the discounts off the receipt and takes them off your total.

Andrei Timofte June 30, 2026 4 min read Read →
Behind the feature

Sort your list the way you walk the store

A list in the wrong order doesn't feel broken — it just quietly makes you walk the store twice. Here's how to reorder Listo's categories to match your route, and shop in one clean pass from entrance to till. Free, and set up in about a minute.

Andrei Timofte June 16, 2026 4 min read Read →
New feature

Scan a receipt, get next week's shopping list

Point your phone at last Saturday's receipt. A few seconds later your list for next Saturday is half-written. Here's how the scanner works — including the Romanian Lidl receipt that forced a model switch — and why this one piece of Listo is in the optional subscription.

Andrei Timofte May 25, 2026 5 min read Read →
Behind Listo

Why I built Listo

My wife sent me shopping items buried inside a WhatsApp thread full of everything else. I kept missing them, U-turning on the way home, and losing messages to bad store signal. So I built the shopping list I actually wanted.

Andrei Timofte April 22, 2026 3 min read Read →