export Grocery list
That would be great to have a simple export function that just provide a text version of the grocery list.
I am using another grocery list tool called By Me a Pie. I'd like to be able to import my list into it.
I have already made some IOS shortcut apps to parse groceries from other receipes apps and it works fine. Here that is frustrating to not be able to have a usable list of items.
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Jan
Sep 6, 2025
Hi Sébastien Gandon, there is a print feature at the bottom of the grocery list. Does that help? Could you please send me a screen recording of how you expect the feature to work to feedback@mrcook.app? That would be very helpful :)
Sébastien Gandon
Nov 2
I am really sorry I did not see you question back in january 2025.
Here is the user workflow that I am happy with. using some shortcut to process the list and publish it to some other app.
The way the list of ingredients is formated impact the processing behind it.
I’ll check on the latest version is this ticket seems to be resolved.
Jan from Mr. Cook
Nov 2
Yes, please give it a try in the new app (available for beta users, soon for everyone else).
Jan from Mr. Cook
Nov 2
Thanks a lot for the video, Sébastien, that made it really clear!
With the new update that gets released in a few days you can do exactly this in Mr. Cook: open the shopping list, tap the … menu and choose Share as text. It opens the share sheet with one item per line, like "2 Bell peppers" or "500 g Chicken breast", so your shortcut can split it by new lines and send it to Buy Me a Pie. There are no headings or bullets, and preparation notes like "sliced" or "drained and rinsed" are left out.
Let me know if anything in the text still trips up your shortcut, then I'll fix it.
User
Nov 2
owesome, thanks for your feedback.
Is it the official version or the testflight version ?
Jan from Mr. Cook
Nov 2
It's not in the current TestFlight release yet, it comes with the next update in a few days (TestFlight first, then the App Store version).
Jan from Mr. Cook
Nov 2
The new TestFlight version is now available to download 👍 Would love to hear your feedback!
Sébastien Gandon
Nov 9
Hello Jan
This work really well and I adapted my shortcut for Buy Me a Pie.
in fact I think I am going to build a grocery app because buy me a pie is stalled for a couple of years and I need some feature not available there.
Any way thanks for making the export simpler for using in other apps.
Jan from Mr. Cook
Nov 10
Thanks for your feedback! What do you dislike about the in-app shopping list? I personally really like it, but I would love to improve it if you have any ideas on how.
Sébastien Gandon
Nov 11
Thanks a lot Jan for you feedback,
Indeed I never thought I could use the app for managing my shopping list as a recipes app is not shopping list app.
But after a quick look it seems that I could replace the one I am using right now with some minor modifications. I will try to test it live.
First what I like, the icons are really beautiful, although not sure how useful they are :). What is also amazing and not sure how you did that is that is find the right grouping and icon for things like acronyms and other languages items 👏
What I really think would help it to have a compact display because there are not many items displayed on my screen, displaying the associated recipe should be optional.
Another thing that I wanted to implement on a dedicated app is some widget with the list to not have to login to iOS over and over, or have it always on for 30mn or 1 hour(with auto off) the time for the time shopping.
But a bigger pb for using Mr Cook is that I would like to share my recipes and my lists with my wife. The list sharing work well but I don’t know how we can share the list of recipes. Is there a way to share the recipes without paying a second Pro license ?
Any feedback on my proposals and my question would be awesome.
Jan from Mr. Cook
Nov 11
Thanks Sébastien, that's really helpful feedback!
Glad you like the icons 🙂 The grouping and icons come from a small AI step that works out what each item is, so it also handles abbreviations and items in other languages.
Compact view: Fair point, the rows take up quite a bit of space. It's not planned right now, but I'll keep it in mind for later, along with an option to hide the recipe name.
Screen staying on: While the shopping list is open, Mr. Cook already keeps your phone from locking, so you don't have to unlock it between items. It stops as soon as you leave the list. A shopping list widget is a good idea too. There's already one for the meal plan, so I'll look into one for the list.
Sharing recipes with your wife: Yes, and she doesn't need a second Pro subscription. Create a cookbook, add the recipes you want to share, then invite her from the cookbook's share menu. She can use a free account. The recipes count towards your account, not hers, so she sees all of them. A shared cookbook only takes one of her 3 free cookbook slots.
Let me know how the live test goes!
Jan from Mr. Cook
Nov 2
You can now copy your shopping list as text, print it, or send it to Bring!.
User
Nov 2
I just tested the export as text but this is not a grocery list, it contains ways to cut and slice things, even way to prepare them.
it is hard to parse it to extract the items list
Jan from Mr. Cook
Nov 2
Thanks for testing it, you're right! The copied text included how to cut and prepare things, which doesn't belong on a shopping list.
With the next update that gets released in a few days the text only contains what to buy, one item per line: "2 onions" instead of "2 onions, finely diced". In the app you'll find it in the shopping list's … menu under Share as text, on the web under Copy list.