SpecsyShopping lists
Stop putting together the same list every week
Most of an ordinary shop repeats again and again: milk, coffee, pet food, dishwasher tablets, the things you always buy.
Save the list as a template once — and next time add it in seconds instead of recalling everything from scratch.
- Milk
- lactose free, 2 × 1 L
- Coffee
- Lavazza Rossa, 1 kg
- Bread
- dark sourdough
- Cat food
- salmon, 12 pouches
- Tablets
- Finish Quantum, 60
The hard part is not the list, it is the detail
Writing "coffee, milk, bread" takes twenty seconds. Remembering that the coffee is that particular kilo bag, the milk is lactose free and the bread is the dark sourdough rather than the one next to it — that is what takes time.
And it happens every week: the same items, the same clarifications, reconstructed from memory. If someone else does the shopping, half the detail is lost on the way.
In Specsy the list can be saved once with all of its detail, and added again in one tap — already carrying the right names, photos, quantities and everything else.
What a template keeps with it
- Exact product names — not just broad categories
- The quantity for each item
- A photo — if the product is easy to confuse with a similar one
- The shop — if the product is not sold everywhere
- Every clarification and note that was added earlier
What is worth saving as a template
A template is not for a one off purchase, but for the sets that come round again and again.
- The weekly food shop — the base list that barely changes
- Cleaning products and refills — the things that run out on roughly one cycle
- A list for a trip or a country house — a familiar set you otherwise assemble from scratch each time
- A holiday table — when much the same thing is bought year after year
- Getting a child ready — for school, camp, a club or a trip
The archive remembers what you did not save
When a list is fully closed it moves to the archive and stays there for another month. From there the whole list can be restored, or just the items you need returned to the current one.
That helps when no template was saved in advance — the last shop is still to hand. And if a list repeats regularly, it can be saved from the archive as a template and used from then on with no time limit.
Questions people ask
What is the difference between a template and the archive?
You save a template yourself, and it is kept for as long as you like. A list reaches the archive on its own once everything is bought, and stays there for a month. From the archive it can be saved as a template, and then it is kept for good.
Can I repeat part of a list rather than all of it?
Yes. In the archive you can tick just the items you want and load them into your own list or straight into a new shared one.
Does Specsy know prices?
It stores the price you recorded. It does not track shop prices, so what you see is your own history rather than a guess.