Dinner from what you already have
I build an app that knows exactly what I buy — and I was still composting my groceries. Use it up suggests real recipes built around what's probably lingering in your fridge: tick what you have, type "1 egg" and mean it, add "no mushrooms", cook. Saved recipes stay on your phone.
New featureYour shopping list now takes dictation
Tap the mic and say it like you'd say it to a person — "add two bottles of milk from Lidl". Speech recognition on your phone, natural-language understanding, and a list that learns from its own mishearings. The first time I tried it, it added an entire sentence as an item.
Feature tourWhose order is your shopping list in, anyway?
I believed in the One Correct Sort Order at least three times — then watched a real person use the app. Category groups, drag-and-drop manual order, and pinned lists: three small features that arrange the list around how you actually shop.
New featureThe list that notices you're almost out of coffee
Staples never make it onto the list because they're staples — until the tin is empty. Listo now learns how often you buy the things you always buy and quietly suggests them when it's time to restock. All on your phone, no cloud profile, no creepy tracking.
Feature spotlightShop together without stepping on each other
Two people, one list, zero double-bought milk. How Listo's shared lists and linked accounts keep a household in sync — even when the store kills your signal.
New featureScan 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.
Behind the featureSort 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.
New featureScan 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.
Behind ListoWhy 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.