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I'm a huge fan of Paprika, their app is slick, they have apps on iOS/Android/Mac/Windows, and it all syncs. They have a ton of features under the hood that I don't even use (like meal planning, pantry management, etc) but I do love their shopping list feature. Just click the shopping cart icon on a recipe and it will let you add all the ingredients to one of your lists. You can easily uncheck all the things you already have and it respects recipe scaling and it will combine ingredients (so if one recipe has 2 tomatoes and you scale it 2x and then another recipe has 3 tomatoes and you leave it at 1x you will end up with 7 tomatoes on your list). Sometimes you need to clean up a recipe a little bit (brand name in the ingredient list or odd naming) but the nice part is you do that once then reap the benefits for forever.

Also, if you are feeling froggy, their cloud sync API is pretty easy to reverse engineer (it's a super basic REST service) so you can build on top of it or write little utilities if needed.

Having all my recipes in the same format is so nice and I can edit a recipe if I want to tweak it or if I find out that what a recipe called for wasn't quite right. Like the icing I make for my red velvet cupcakes called for an insane amount of powered sugar (aka confectioners sugar) and so I edited the recipe so next time I wouldn't over-buy the sugar. Same with tweaking the flavor profile, cook times, etc. And I can add things I always have to look up like sous vide temp/time, I just have a "Sous Vide Steak" "recipe" that has the times in the body of the instructions.

>>joshst+(OP)
This sounds great, and I’m ready to download the app, but the problem is that most of my recipes come from Facebook groups, YouTube, Insta, and Pinterest, and while some of them have corresponding web pages for the ingredients lists, many of them do not, which would make the web import feature non-functional, if I’m not mistaken. I wish there was a way all of these sites could share metadata for ingredients that the app could read.

Another future feature that would be nice and convenient is to add in-house aisle shopping directions to the smart grocery lists for selected (or default) grocery stores. I know stores like Safeway share this info with apps like DoorDash (possibly UberEats as well), and both Home Depot and Target apps have aisle by aisle directions too, so it’s not beyond the realm of the possible to include this feature. Being able to view a smart grocery list in my kitchen and then to go to the store with aisle by aisle directions is a dream of mine.