A list app that actually does something with the list.
Roaminder is built around one stubborn idea: the app should speak up at the exact moment the information is useful, and shut up the rest of the time. Everything below exists to serve that.
Getting things onto the list without it being a chore
If adding an item takes effort, you won't do it, and then none of the clever stuff matters. So this part is deliberately almost frictionless.
Quick Add pills
The dozen things you buy constantly, sitting as one-tap buttons on the home screen. Milk. Bread. Eggs. No typing at all. You choose what's on them.
Autocomplete that knows groceries
Start typing "chick—" and it offers chicken breast, chickpeas, chicken stock. It also quietly files each item into a category, which is how it later knows a hardware store isn't going to have your yogurt.
Smart Add — point the camera at it
Photograph the scribbled list on the fridge, or a product, or an entire basket of shopping. Roaminder reads it and adds everything it finds in one go. This is the fastest way to load a list you already wrote somewhere else.
Custom Lists
Save "Weekly Shop" or "Camping Trip" once. Next time, one tap dumps all fourteen items onto your active list.
Automatic Reminders
For the stuff you rebuy on a rhythm — coffee, dog food, contact solution — pick a cadence and the item comes back on its own when it's due.
Being told at the exact moment it's useful
This is the machinery that makes Roaminder different from every notepad you've ever abandoned.
Best Stop
Every store near you gets scored by how much of your list it kills in a single visit. The winner is pinned to the top of your home screen in unmissable amber. Six items across four stores usually collapses into one stop you were driving past anyway.
Proximity alerts
The notification that started it all. Get close to a store that stocks something on your list and your phone buzzes with what it is and how far away. Works with the app fully closed.
The map
See everything around you and which of your items lives where. Handy when you're planning a run rather than reacting to a buzz.
It waits before it speaks
Roaminder doesn't fire the second you clip the edge of a parking lot at 40mph. It waits until you've actually stopped somewhere for a moment — so alerts arrive when you can act on them, not while you're merging.
And then it stops
Once an item has pinged you, it goes quiet for hours. Pass the same supermarket four times on a Tuesday and you get told once, not four times. Nothing kills an app faster than nagging.
Home screen widget
Your list, your best stop and what's nearby — visible without opening anything. Resizes down to a single slim row if you like a tidy home screen.
Teaching it when to keep its mouth shut
A location app that pings you constantly gets uninstalled by Thursday. These four controls exist purely so that never happens.
Exclusion Zones
Draw a circle over your house or office. Total silence inside it, business as usual everywhere else. Essential if you live near a retail park.
Excluded Stores
A chain you'd never set foot in? Ban it. It vanishes from results and never alerts you again.
Store Preference
Only want your coffee from one particular place? Pin that item to that brand and it stops matching anywhere else.
Snooze
Not today. Push an item out of earshot for a while without deleting it.
Getting it back off the list
The other job every list app fumbles: the bit at the checkout where you're holding a phone, a wallet and eleven items.
Smart Complete is one photo. Point it at your cart, your basket, or the receipt. Roaminder reads what's there, matches it against your list, and ticks off everything it recognizes. You can still tap items off one by one if you'd rather — but after you've used the camera once, you won't.
8-Ball 🎱
Because an app should occasionally be fun.
Answer a couple of quick questions about your mood, your budget, who you're with — or just type an idea in — and Roaminder invents an actual outing. A themed evening, a project, a stupid little adventure. It comes with a proper shopping list attached, so every ingredient lands on your list and starts behaving like any other item: you get nudged when you're near the things you need.
It is completely optional and slightly ridiculous. It's also the feature people show their friends first.
Backyard Cinema Night
A sheet, a projector you already own, and food that's objectively bad for you. Starts at sundown.