Real-time shared across every device — free
Add an item from anyone's phone and it lands on every other device in the household within a few seconds, including any fridge tablet. No 'I texted you' confusion.
Shared grocery list
Add 'milk' from anyone's phone, see it on the fridge tablet seconds later. Department-sorted so you walk the store in order. Free forever, no ads.
One family account · No credit card · Free forever
Most families end up running three or four grocery lists in parallel: one in someone's Notes app, one on the fridge whiteboard, one in a text thread that mostly gets ignored. By the time you're at the store, half the things you needed are stuck on a phone you didn't bring.
FamilyDash's grocery list is shared and real-time. Anyone in the household can add to it from any device — parent's phone, partner's phone, sitter's phone, fridge tablet. Items appear everywhere within seconds. Cross them off as you shop and they disappear from everyone's view.
The list is grouped by store department (produce, dairy, frozen, household) so you walk the aisles in order instead of zigzagging. Department order is configurable per store — Target and Kroger and Whole Foods are all laid out differently.
Add an item from anyone's phone and it lands on every other device in the household within a few seconds, including any fridge tablet. No 'I texted you' confusion.
Items group by produce / dairy / frozen / household / etc. Per-store department ordering means you walk Target in a different sequence than Kroger.
Common items are one tap. Recent items reappear at the top after you cross them off, so the third gallon of milk this month is a single tap.
Drop a recipe into the meal planner and its ingredients flow into the grocery list automatically, with quantities scaled to your serving count.
Connect a Kroger account once. The 'Send to Kroger' button turns the whole list into a ready-for-pickup cart. Saved product preferences mean you confirm 'yes, the Land O'Lakes butter' once, not every week.
Full-screen kiosk layout designed for a mounted iPad. Big touch targets, today's needed items front and center, partner can add 'eggs' from work and it shows on the fridge by the time you're cooking.
Yes — FamilyDash's grocery list is free forever. Shared in real time across every device, department-sorted, integrates with the free meal planner, supports unlimited family members. No ads. Pro ($4.99/mo or $34.99/yr) adds one-tap Kroger cart sync.
Notes works but it's not designed for groceries — no department sorting, no real-time across non-Apple devices (Android users are out), no integration with meal planning or store checkout. Notes also doesn't show on a fridge tablet without re-opening the file. FamilyDash is purpose-built for grocery list as a shared family workflow.
Yes — items appear on every device within a few seconds. Cross-offs propagate instantly too, so you don't double-buy because someone else just got it.
Kroger is live on Pro (full OAuth, product preferences, one-tap cart). Instacart is in development — we applied for the IDP API in April 2026 and are waiting on the dev key. The list itself works perfectly with any store; only the auto-checkout is Kroger-only for now.
Yes, on iOS. The 'Add to FamilyDash' Siri Shortcut lets you say 'Hey Siri, add strawberries to FamilyDash' and the item lands on your shared list. Set up once during onboarding. (Android voice support coming via the Google Assistant route.)
Free forever for your whole household. Pro from $2.92/mo when you want recipe scanning and Kroger cart sync.