SplashShopper - organizer for Android

I love this app and I use it every day. If I were to rate it based on how efficient the lists are and how much they help me organize I would give it a five. However every time I need to make a new list I find myself hating this app and it’s fatal flaw -which frustrates me to no end -and sends me looking to find another app to replace it. Whenever I go to make a new list it copies an old list and changes the name of the old list to match the new list . I then have two lists with the same name and the same items on them. When I go back to change the name on one of the lists it doesn’t work- it changes the name for both lists. I have to go back-and-forth 15 times in order for it to stop doing this, if it ever does. Sometimes it ends up working. Often it does not. So I don’t get to make a new list without eliminating one of my lists that already exist. So frustrating. I sure wish that they would fix this. Previous email received no response. Just tried to make another list today and I am in that place of what the heck are these people thinking with this app. So I’m here at the App Store looking for an update to see if maybe they fixed this yet. So anyway, beware the fatal flaw.

Don’t start using this app! Every time they update the software, I lose everything I’ve entered since my last desktop backup. The desktop syncing doesn’t work, and I couldn’t open the old version to send the email to retrieve my data. I’m tired of recreating everything every time this happens, so I’m done with this app! Even when the app was working, there were several glitches I had to work around. This app could be great if you fixed these things. I started using this on my Palm Pilot many years ago, so I really hate going to a different app!

I have used this since the Palm Pilot days and love it. However, I really wish they would enable cloud syncing. Then it would truly be THE BEST!

This is the best shopping list/recurring list app I’ve ever used. Like others I used it first on Palm Pilot, then BlackBerry, now Android. I’ve tried many other iOS list apps, none come close to SplashShopper as far as functionality, quickly creating, maintaining and using recurring lists. Which is why, despite the antiquated UX I return to this app whenever it works on the current iOS. I would gladly pay $10-20 for an updated version, but know a handful of loyal users who feel similarly is not enough to maintain the development effort required when so many users are looking for free apps. Possibly a stripped down free version that allowed only one free list, with in-app purchase for upgraded functionality? Who knows? The App Store is a difficult place to make a profit or even break even in such a flooded category. I’m grateful, that for now, it works on iOS 13.

I don’t know what happened to SplashData— maybe they just decided to put all their weight behind their SplashID app? I dunno. I’ve had all their apps since the early 2000’s, on my Palm. But this app just disappoints over and over again. They don’t update it. It stops working from time to time. Or worse. I just opened up my app and all my lists were unpopulated. That’s unacceptable. Yeah yeah - I could sync it with my desktops to repopulate it. But that’s not the point. It shouldn’t drop all my info. Ever. And contacting support is a joke. There’s no real usable info in their searchable support site - you can’t even sort it by app so there’s tons of irrelevant info to weed through. And if you try to eMail them at the address provided, it comes back undeliverable. The thing is - this is still, hands down, the best customizable shopping & other list app out there. Sigh.