Every-List is built around three things: shared lists, a recipe box, and the people you share them with. Here's exactly what that means, a few ways to use it that go beyond the obvious, and a plain, side-by-side look at Basic vs. Premium vs. Household.
The summary is below. If you want the full detail — every feature, what it actually does, and the parts that aren't obvious from the name — these go further.
Every free feature, one expandable row at a time — including guest access, groups, notes, registries and full data export.
Stores and per-store price memory, voice capture, unlimited scanning, per-list passcodes and Household — plus a free month to try it.
Eleven worked examples, from the weekly shop to a home inventory for insurance — with the setup steps for each.
Create a list, share it with whoever needs it, and everyone sees updates the second they happen — no refreshing, no "did you get milk?" text. Assign items to specific people, group them however makes sense (by aisle, by room, by person), attach a photo or a link to an item, set a due date, and check things off as you go. A list can be a simple checklist or a full registry that invites guests by email who don't even need an account yet to see it.
Every list keeps its own history — who added what, who checked it off, and when — so nothing gets lost when three people are shopping for the same trip.
Ways people actually use it
Walk through your house room by room and add every item worth claiming — electronics, furniture, jewelry — with a photo attached to each one. If you're ever filing an insurance claim after a fire, theft, or storm, you've already got a dated, photographed record instead of trying to remember what you owned from memory.
Keep a reusable "Beach trip" or "Ski trip" list with everything you always forget, share it with everyone going, and let each person check off their own items as they pack.
One list per room, photos of what's in each box, assigned to whoever's responsible for packing or unpacking it - so nothing gets left in the old place or lost in the shuffle.
A wedding, baby, or birthday registry that invites guests by email - they don't need to already be your friend on Every-List, just enough of an account to see it and claim something.
Sharing a list with someone doesn't have to mean sharing everything on it. Every-List handles both - hand off specific items to specific people, and control exactly how much of the list a guest ever sees, down to the individual item.
Put a name on "pick up dry cleaning" and it shows up as that person's, not a floating item nobody claims. Managers can assign anyone on the list; everyone else can only assign themselves.
Invite an occasional helper - a house cleaner, a sitter, an in-law who's only pitching in on one thing - as a Guest, and they see exactly the items assigned to them. Nothing else on the list is visible to them - not just hidden in the app, enforced the same place every other permission on the list is.
A wedding, baby, or birthday registry is the one deliberate exception - a registry guest sees the whole list, so they can actually browse and claim something. Invite them by email before they even have an account; it connects automatically the moment they sign up.
Some lists aren't for sharing at all - a surprise party, a gift list for someone who shares your household. Passcode-lock a list so it's invisible to anyone else on your account, even a spouse you share everything else with.
Add the stores you actually shop at - the regular grocery store, the warehouse club, the hardware store - and group them however makes sense to you. Assign any item to a specific store right from the list, or leave it unassigned if it doesn't matter where it comes from.
Then, for anything worth comparing, log the price you see at each store as you shop. Every-List keeps that history and shows it side by side - so next time, you already know whether the milk is actually cheaper at the warehouse club, instead of just assuming it is.
Ways people actually use it
Log a price for the same item at two or three stores over a few trips, and Every-List keeps a running record of what you actually paid where - not a guess, a real price history you built yourself.
"Grocery," "Warehouse Club," "Hardware" - group the stores you shop at the same way you already group lists and recipes, with the same drag-to-reorder and Favorites you're used to elsewhere in the app.
Save each store's address or a map link once, and it's right there whenever you need to actually get there.
Save recipes by hand, paste them in, import them straight from a link, or scan a photo of a handwritten card - every recipe gets ingredients, step-by-step instructions, photos, and servings you can scale up or down on the fly. Send the ingredients straight to a shopping list, and duplicate quantities get combined automatically instead of showing up twice. Cooking mode keeps your screen awake and reads steps aloud, hands-free, for when your hands are covered in flour.
Strip away the word "cooking," though, and a recipe is really just a list of things you need and the steps to use them - which turns out to be useful for a lot more than dinner.
Ways people actually use it
"Replace the furnace filter" as a recipe: the filter size and any tools as the ingredients, the steps to actually do it as the instructions, with a photo of exactly where it goes. Next time it's due, you're not searching the internet again - you already wrote down exactly what your house needs.
Oil type and filter part number as ingredients, the steps (and torque specs) as instructions - one recipe per car, shared with whoever else drives it or does the work.
"Putting up the tree," "Winterizing the sprinklers," "Opening the pool" - the supplies you need and the steps in order, saved once and ready every year instead of re-figured out from scratch.
Materials list plus instructions for anything you build or make more than once - and since it's shareable, the next person who wants to make one doesn't have to ask you how.
Add friends and family to Every-List once, then share any list or recipe with them in a couple taps - no re-typing an email every time. Set roles (manager, member, or guest) so the right people can edit while others just view, organize your people into groups for lists you share with the same crowd every time, and see who's shared what with you all in one place.
Every change shows up instantly for everyone on a shared list or recipe - no syncing, no refreshing.
Control who can edit versus who can just see and check things off.
Save a set of people once - "the roommates," "the in-laws" - and share with all of them in one tap.
Choose push and in-app alerts per notification type, right down to the ones you'd rather not get.
A family spread across time zones still gets reminded at the right moment for each of them - not whatever hour it happens to be for whoever created the list.
Basic is a genuinely complete, real-time, shared list and recipe app - not a crippled trial. Premium adds more room and some real automation for the households that want it; Household shares that Premium subscription with up to 6 people, at no extra cost to them.
| Feature | Basic | Premium | Household |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | |||
| Shared, real-time lists | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recipe box (URL import, scaling, cooking mode) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Friends, groups, sharing & roles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Due dates & reminders | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Registries & guest invites | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited lists, items & people | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Notes on any item | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Print, share & full data export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| All five themes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photos & storage | |||
| Photos per list item | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Photos per recipe | 3 | 8 | 8 |
| Recipe library size | 20 recipes | 500 recipes | 500 recipes |
| Prices & budgeting | |||
| Manual price on any item | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Track Prices (running totals as you shop) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Projected total before you shop | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stores & price comparison across them | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto Group by Store | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Capture & automation | |||
| Type or paste items/ingredients | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scan a photo of a list or recipe | 3 free scans | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Add items by voice | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Privacy & sharing | |||
| List Lock (passcode-protect a list, just for you) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Covers your household (up to 6 people) | — | — | ✓ |
| Price | |||
| Cost | Free, forever | $9.99 / year | $14.99 / year |
| Free trial | n/a | 1 month | — |
Every real feature above the paywall is a genuine upgrade, not a crippled free tier holding you hostage. Premium starts with a free month, and you can cancel any time — you keep Premium/Household until the year you already paid for runs out, and nothing you created is ever deleted for cancelling.
Free, forever
For one account — starts with a free month
Covers up to 6 people
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