So close to being perfect. – aisleRunner Review

This app has some features that I absolutely love. I can add as many items as I want, customize the aisles where found, and choose multiple stores with their respective aisles for each item. If I need an item and I am in any store which carries it, it will be placed in that store's list. I REALLY like that feature. After using this app on multiple shopping trips, I've discovered some big issues with using this particular app. 1: No Aisle Delineation: Items are listed first by aisle, then alphabetically, but there is no delineation in the list. You are looking at one giant list with an aisle order that is unknown (alphabetic?) and not customizable. Basically you have to waste time scrolling through your list to find the first & last items in the particular aisle you want. It's eyeball straining and difficult. This is the biggest detraction of this app. 2. The master list is a bit of a pain. It's the first thing you see and it is populated with ALL of the items you have added. You can "search" it by starting to type the item name, then choosing it or simply run down the entire list choosing items you need. For me, opening the app and seeing a giant list was just counter-intuitive and sloppy looking. I don't need to see the back-end workings of the app when I open it. I'd prefer to see a list of my stores to quickly choose which one I'm going into or to open on the last store list I had used. 3. Toggling the "Need": when you are ready to shop, you have to click the "Need" toggle, which removes all of the other items you have entered from view. Now you have a list you can check off as you shop. This affects both the master list and individual store lists, so in essence you could simply shop from the master list, but it also makes the store lists a little confusing as all items available in a particular store can be seen via the store list. This, of course, brings the issue of which aisle you are in back, but it's not a bad idea unless you have multiple stores and a large list. Also, I found that if I was checking off an item from the top of the list, I would often inadvertently hit the "Need" toggle and the list would revert back to the "everything you have ever entered" list. For me, these are major issues that made the app unusable. All the other features of the app I really liked, especially how easy it was to customize and that it isn't bogged down with features I'll never use (coupons, pantries, & mind-my-business cloud storage come to mind). I think I would list this as a 5 star app if the developers would just add a simple bar between the aisle items with the aisle name. Add in a way to organize the aisle order for each store and I'd be in heaven.
Review by Thaylie on aisleRunner.