App icon for Basket, a green grocery basket filled with produce and bread

Basket

Know what groceries cost before you shop.

Coming Soon to the App Store

Basket is a free grocery price tracker for iPhone and iPad. Keep the prices you see, compare different package sizes, and find out whether another stop will save enough to be worth it.

One email when the app launches. Nothing else, ever.

Your Own Record of What Things Cost

Grocery prices are easy to forget and surprisingly hard to compare. A smaller package can look cheaper. A sale can still cost more than the regular price across town. A second stop can save money and waste an hour.

Basket keeps the useful part: what you paid, where you found it, how much was in the package, and whether the trip is worth changing.

What Basket does

  • Compares the cost that matters. Add the package size and Basket converts prices to a common unit before choosing the winner.
  • Keeps a price history. Each update adds a dated entry, so you can see whether a current sale is actually good.
  • Plans the shopping list. Add what you need and Basket groups the list by store, totals the trip, and shows what another stop saves.
  • Reads receipts and order screenshots. On-device text recognition finds item names and prices, then lets you confirm every match before saving.
  • Works with the stores you use. Start with popular chains, find nearby stores, or add a custom store search address.
  • Stays private. No account, no ads, no analytics, and no developer-operated data server.

Free by choice

Basket has no subscription and no paid tier. Grocery data stays on your device and can sync through your private iCloud when available. Receipt images are read on your device and discarded after you confirm the results.

The Book Behind the App

Built by Chris Weiss, who is also writing The Last Bites.

Food in the book is never just food. It is money, memory, leverage, and the thing someone makes when saying what they mean would be harder.

Basket comes from the less dramatic end of the same question: what does a meal ask of you before anyone sits down to eat it?

Read the first three chapters while the groceries are still in the fridge.

Support

Questions, feedback, or something not working? Email chris@insearchofacity.com.

Read Basket’s privacy policy.