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by casey_lang 3179 days ago
Does it have a good shopping list? I've had a Home since they were released and used to use the shopping list feature all the time when it was backed by Keep.

At one point they moved it into some web app that I could only access from my phone by spelunking through the Home app. Has that changed?

When it worked, it was great.

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It's in the "Google Express" app now (both a web app, as well as a "native" app).

I didn't like that change, but it does work just as well now, and keeps all the same features (checking it off, manually adding stuff, sharing with friends/family members, etc...).

I do wish they kept it in keep, and even allowed more "lists". Being able to tell it to add a book to my "reading list" would have been fantastic...

I had no idea this Google Express app existed (It's not available in my region of the world).

It's a shame they force you to use it, over just adding to a shopping list in Google Keep.

I was considering getting the Home Mini but now I'm not so sure (grocery list, weather check, and general help (timer/conversions) while cooking would have been my main usage)

There are ways out there using 3rd party services to get the old way back, but I haven't messed with them.
Offtopic perhaps, but that's the one feature I regularly use on the Alexa. "Alexa, add milk to my shopping list" is such a common occurrence in this house that we haven't switched off of the Alexa even though that's basically the only thing I use it for, and even though Amazon keeps making the shopping list worse with every product iteration.