AnyList cost (2026): free vs Complete, and alternatives
AnyList is free for shared lists, and AnyList Complete costs $9.99 a year for one person or $14.99 for a household. What Complete unlocks, when it's worth it, and how OurGroceries, Paprika, Plan to Eat, Samsung Food, KitchenPal and Well Stockd compare.
AnyList is free for shared grocery lists, and AnyList Complete costs $9.99 a year for one person or $14.99 a year for a household. If a list your whole household edits is what you need, stay: it's cheap, it's well made, and its reviewers rarely complain. Switch only for something AnyList doesn't do, such as knowing what's already in your kitchen (Well Stockd, Paprika, KitchenPal), a list with no subscription at all (OurGroceries), or a bigger meal planner (Plan to Eat).
Every price and feature below comes from the vendor's own site or app store listing, checked in October 2026.
AnyList free vs Complete: what each plan includes
AnyList's features page splits the plans like this.
| Feature | Free | Complete ($9.99 a year, or $14.99 for a household) |
|---|---|---|
| Shared lists with live sync | Yes | Yes |
| Siri or Alexa to add items, home-screen widgets | Yes | Yes |
| Shop online at Walmart, Instacart, Kroger and more | Yes | Yes |
| Recipes, cooking mode, ingredients to the list | Yes | Yes |
| Import recipes from websites | 5 recipes | Unlimited |
| Web app on a PC, Mac app, Apple Watch | No | Yes |
| Meal planning calendar, and a list made from it | No | Yes |
| Meal plan synced with Google Calendar | No | Yes |
| Prices with a running total, stores and filters | No | Yes |
| Recipe scaling and recipe photos | No | Yes |
| Folders, location reminders, passcode lock | No | Yes |
The household plan covers the people in your household, so it works out to about $1.25 a month for the whole house.
Is AnyList Complete worth it?
Yes, if you plan meals or shop from a computer. The meal calendar, the web app and unlimited recipe import all sit in Complete, and $14.99 a year for a household is very little for those. AnyList's App Store rating backs that up: 4.86 stars from about 81,000 ratings when we checked, and its recent reviewers mostly praise the price and the family sharing.
Stay on the free plan if you only tick things off on your phone. Shared lists, voice entry, widgets and store links are all free.
What AnyList doesn't do
AnyList holds what you write down. It doesn't know what's already in your cupboard: there's no pantry, no expiry dates and no "what can I cook tonight" on its features list. That's where the second jar of cumin and the yogurt going off at the back of the fridge come from.
It also arrives without recipes. You save your own, five from websites on the free plan, and the meal calendar needs Complete.
AnyList alternatives compared
| App | Price, checked October 2026 | Free version | Pantry and dates | Meal planner | Store links | Sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AnyList | Complete $9.99 a year, $14.99 for a household | Yes, generous | No | Complete | Walmart, Instacart, Kroger and more | Free, live |
| OurGroceries | Free with ads; ad removal about $1 a month, $6 a year or $20 once | Yes, every feature | No | No | Instacart | Free, with as many people as you like |
| Paprika 3 | $4.99 iPhone, $29.99 Mac or Windows, once per platform | Android and Windows, up to 50 recipes | Quantities, purchase and expiration dates | Daily, weekly, monthly | No | One sync account; family logins in the Paprika 4 beta |
| Plan to Eat | $5.95 a month or $49 a year | No, 14-day trial | No | Yes, any length | Pickup and delivery services | One account for the household |
| Samsung Food | Free with ads; Food+ $6.99 a month or $59.99 a year | Yes | A Food List; pantry search is Food+ | Free | 23 integrated retailers | Shared lists and plans |
| KitchenPal | Premium $3.99 a month or $14.99 a year | Yes, with limits | Quantities, dates and alerts | Full planner on Premium | Not listed | Family sync |
| Well Stockd | Free; Pro adds planning ahead and a household (pricing) | Yes | Amounts, estimated dates, reminder emails | Free this week by hand; Pro up to 8 weeks | Walmart and Kroger carts you review | Free: one shared list with one person; Pro: a household of up to six |
AnyList vs OurGroceries
OurGroceries is free with ads, and its user guide says every feature, list sharing included, works without paying. Removing the ads costs about $1 a month, $6 a year or $20 once, and it removes them for everyone you share with. It runs on iPhone, Android, the web, Alexa, Siri, Apple Watch and Wear OS, and it exports all your lists and recipes as a ZIP. Pick it if you want a shared list and never want a subscription. You give up AnyList's meal calendar and its store, price and folder tools.
AnyList vs Paprika
This one is sharing against stock. Paprika 3 is a one-time purchase per platform, $4.99 on iPhone and $29.99 on Mac or Windows, and its pantry tracks quantities, purchase dates and expiration dates. AnyList shares one list across a household in real time and costs less per year than one desktop copy of Paprika. Paprika's family logins are in the Paprika 4 beta, and Paprika says those new features will need a subscription later. Our Paprika cost guide covers that change.
AnyList vs Plan to Eat
Plan to Eat is a bigger planner: plan a week, a month or longer, save menus, see nutrition totals on the planner, and send the list to grocery pickup or delivery. It costs $49 a year with no free plan, against AnyList's $14.99 for a household. Pick Plan to Eat if planning is the main job and you collect recipes from all over the web. More in our Plan to Eat alternatives guide.
AnyList vs KitchenPal
KitchenPal is a pantry tracker first. It keeps quantities and expiration dates, sends alerts before food expires, suggests recipes from what you have and shares the shopping list with your family. Premium, at $3.99 a month or $14.99 a year, adds unlimited scanning, your own recipes and the full meal planner. Pick it if you want AnyList's sharing plus a pantry with alerts.
AnyList vs Well Stockd
Well Stockd starts with what's already in your kitchen. You add food by typing, scanning barcodes one after another, a receipt photo, a forwarded Walmart order email or your voice (a few voice entries a day on the free plan). Each item has an amount, and fresh food gets an estimated date you can change. More than 3,800 recipes, plus your own, show whether you can make them tonight. Reminder emails arrive before food reaches its date, and the shopping list works offline in the store, sorted in your aisle order, with Walmart and Kroger carts you check before anything is sent. All of that is free, and the features page lists the rest.
The trade-off is sharing. On the free plan you share a separate shopping list with one other person; a whole household cooking from one kitchen, plan and list needs Pro. Planning beyond the current week, and turning the plan into the shopping list, are Pro too. Well Stockd is a web app you add to your home screen, so there's no Apple Watch app, widget or Siri shortcut like AnyList's. The AnyList switch page shows what carries over, and our guide to tracking pantry inventory covers the habit that makes an inventory stick.
Who should stay with AnyList
Stay if your household already shares an AnyList list and it works. Moving everyone to a new app is often harder than the problem you're solving. Stay on the free plan if you only shop from your phone, and pay the $14.99 if you want the meal calendar and the web app. Look elsewhere only if you keep buying food you already have, or you want the app to tell you what to cook from what's home.
FAQ
How much does AnyList cost?
AnyList is free to download and use. AnyList Complete costs $9.99 a year for one person or $14.99 a year for a household, as of October 2026.
What does AnyList Complete include?
The web app and Mac app, Apple Watch, the meal planning calendar and a grocery list made from it, Google Calendar sync for the meal plan, unlimited recipe import from websites, recipe scaling and photos, prices with a running total, stores and filters, folders, location reminders and a passcode lock.
Is AnyList free?
Yes. Shared lists, Siri and Alexa, widgets, store links to Walmart, Instacart and Kroger, recipes with cooking mode and five web recipe imports are free.
Is there a free AnyList alternative?
OurGroceries is free with ads and includes list sharing. Samsung Food is free with ads and adds a recipe catalog and a planner. Well Stockd's free plan adds a kitchen inventory of up to 30 foods with reminder emails and recipes matched to what you have.
Does AnyList track what's in my pantry?
No. AnyList's features page lists no pantry, quantities on hand or expiry dates. Paprika, KitchenPal and Well Stockd do track them.