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mitlist
Marburg, Germany
What it is
mitlist is a shared organizer for people living together, combining shopping lists, rotating chores, expenses and settlements, recipes and meal plans, a pinwall, and a calendar. Household members can update shopping lists in real time, claim items, record prices, and sort a shopping trip around the store. Expenses can be divided equally, by shares, percentages, or exact amounts. Users can save recipes, plan a week, adjust servings, and send ingredients to a shopping list. During public beta, mobile users can scan printed or handwritten grocery lists, with text recognition and grocery matching performed on the device. The app caches household information and queues many edits during connection loss, though offline support is still being improved. Its free plan includes all features for up to four household members, with limits of 1 GB of attachments per household, 10 MB per uploaded file, 100 active lists per household, and 1,000 entries per list. Premium costs €3.99 per month or €29.99 per year for one household of five or more. The product is in public beta; Android testing uses Google Play and iOS access uses TestFlight invitations.
For and against
For
- Shopping lists sync in real time.
- Expenses can be split in four listed ways.
- Recipes can send ingredients to a shopping list.
- Complete AGPL-3.0 product can be self-hosted.
Against
- Public beta; iOS testing requires TestFlight invitations.
- Offline coverage is still being improved.
- Free plan supports up to four household members.
- Premium starts at €3.99 per month for larger households.
The verdict
mitlist brings household lists, expense sharing, and meal planning into one organizer, with a free plan for households of up to four. It remains in public beta, and its offline support is still developing.
Who it suits
mitlist suits households that want to coordinate shopping, chores, shared expenses, and meal planning. It may also suit people who want to self-host the complete AGPL-3.0 product.
Plans and prices
Free
All features · up to 4 household members · 1 GB attachments per household · 10 MB maximum per uploaded file
Read 7 Oct 2026 · mitlist.me
Premium monthly
One subscription covers one household of 5 or more members
Read 7 Oct 2026 · mitlist.me
Premium yearly
One subscription covers one household of 5 or more members
Read 7 Oct 2026 · mitlist.me
On the record
- Beta status
- mitlist is in public beta; Android testing is through Google Play and iOS testing is through TestFlight invitations.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Data controls
- Users can use guest mode without an email address, export expenses as CSV or JSON, and delete their account and data from the operator's server.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Expense splitting
- Expenses can be split equally, by shares, percentages, or exact amounts.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The privacy statement lists optional operator-configured services including Resend, SendGrid or Brevo SMTP, Firebase/FCM, Cloudflare Turnstile, Web Push, AWS S3 or Cloudflare R2, and an FX rate feed.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Lists
- Household members can shop together in real time, claim list items, remember prices, and sort a shopping trip around the store.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Maker and location
- The legal notice identifies the provider as Abdelhalim Ahmed - tropicalthink, at an address in Marburg, Germany.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Meal planning
- Users can save recipes, plan the week, adjust servings, and send recipe ingredients to a shopping list.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Mobile scanning
- During public beta, iOS and Android users can scan printed or handwritten grocery lists; text recognition and grocery matching run on the device.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Offline use
- The app caches household information and queues many edits when the connection drops, while offline coverage is still being improved.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The privacy statement says mitlist collects no usage analytics, behavioral data, or phone-home telemetry by default; self-hosted instances do not send household content or telemetry to the project.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- mitlist helps people who live together organize shared lists, rotating chores, expenses and settlements, recipes and meal plans, a pinwall, and a calendar.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Security reporting
- Vulnerability reports are handled privately, with best-effort response times during public beta and coordinated disclosure after a fix is available.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- The complete AGPL-3.0 product can be self-hosted with PostgreSQL and an S3-compatible object store, and storage quotas can be configured or disabled.mitlist.me · read 7 Oct 2026
