[iOS] Pinch - Add Recipes from Almost Anywhere, Compare Grocery Prices from Most Supermarkets (ALDI Too)

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  AngoraFish on 13/05/2025 - 00:38

  -5

  Was this text dump made by ChatGPT? Because it reads as if it was made by made by ChatGPT.

  If you want your spam to feel authentic maybe use fewer headings, fewer bullets and fewer section breaks. Tell us a bit about yourself and why you're shilling for this product. Don't dump text like you're writing a FAQ.

  Why do you keep mentioning food security/food insecurity? It seems like just a buzzword that you don't really understand the meaning of.

  Does your app make me have to go to four supermarkets to get the ingredients for one recipe? Because it feels like your app is going to make me go to four supermarkets to make one recipe.

  Anyhow, on behalf of all Android users, good luck and god bless.

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    Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 01:46

    No, it wasn't written by ChatGPT.

    Responding to the food security point. We live in a country where predatory pricing tactics work against people making decisions in their best interest in the context of supermarkets - this makes the issue of food insecurity even harder to manage. There is even an additional document from the ACCC about the behavioural economics of it.

    What I as an individual can do is help mitigate this by making information accessible and transparent.

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      AustriaBargain on 13/05/2025 - 07:41

      Does the app use AI to make sure the shopping list is for the actual recipes?

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        Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 09:28

        +1

        Hey there,

        Not at all. When you think about some of the typical stuff you cook consistently you don’t need a recipe for you might have things you would buy, so you can decide per ingredient and they’re assigned.

        It also means you don’t need to add things you buy once and use over time like a kilo of salt etc

        That being said, it is a bit of upfront effort for better price visibility later on

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    OGGazelle on 13/05/2025 - 06:32

    +4

    OP in trouble for good structure and grammar

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      Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 09:51

      😬😬😬😬

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  OGGazelle on 13/05/2025 - 06:44

  Thanks OP, will check it out and see how it goes as I use it.
  First thoughts are that it seems very ‘clicky’ and as an entry point, possibly will take a lot of time to manage as a user. I guess that’s the price to pay for cheaper groceries though?
  The holy grail would be to have a ‘quick add’ by multi-selecting all groceries I need on a recipe, nominating maximum qty of supermarkets I want to travel to, and letting it find the cheapest outcome for those settings. Maybe after adding all my recipes, there could be a ‘re-calc’ option to assess the full grocery list and see what is the cheapest outcome with a given qty of supermarkets?
  Understand the manual add thing would have helped get this out to users quicker, and perhaps the ‘re-calc’ is easier than the ‘quick add’ because it can base it on user selections/curated data for groceries rather than finding/guessing recipe descriptions itself.

  All in all nifty app that can make a real difference to people if they want to invest the time - with a lot of upside to come!

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    Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 09:31

    Thanks for this feedback! I agree with you especially on the upfront effort.

    I was looking at this concept to be fair, I was still on the fence because it does take a bit of control away from people so this is good to hear that you might find it useful!

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  jv on 13/05/2025 - 10:03

  +1

  First item i checked….

  Only shows Coles price, not Woolies even though Woolies stock it.
  Price displayed at Coles is wrong too…

  App deleted…

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    Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 10:32

    What were you looking for?

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      jv on 13/05/2025 - 10:45

      Noshu carrot cake.

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        Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 10:55

        +1

        Just sussed it out for you.

        Thanks for commenting this really helps me sort it out.

        It’s marked as out of stock at Woolies, and it’s showing on special at Coles for $5.90 whereas my data looks a bit out of date!

        Would you want to see things out of stock vs not seeing them?

        Solved: it’s taking my location into consideration which means it’s showing the last price it was available from. I’ll be working on fixing this.

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          jv on 13/05/2025 - 11:08

          @pinchapp:

          It’s marked as out of stock at Woolies

          My local woolies had plenty of stock yesterday.

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  Rilo 117 on 13/05/2025 - 11:14

  I've imported 3 different URL's, 2 from popular mainstream recipes sites and 1 from social media (tidy'd up the ingredients).

  All the recipes are showing as $0, even when i try to create a shopping list it's not showing me any values of items.

  It's like its not pull from the sources or something.

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    Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 11:20

    Awesome thanks for checking it out and sharing this.

    I need to solve this one so it’s easier to use. This is how it’s setup now: in the recipes themselves if you tap the + next to an ingredient and add a product the prices start to calculate.

    Alternately if you add them to a shopping list you can add products for those ingredients inside the list.

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      Rilo 117 on 13/05/2025 - 11:33

      Awesome, now I see how it works.

      Looks cool.

      It'd be good if it could auto incorporate those prices, perhaps by the lowest price or lowest unit/value$ eg(500g tasty cheese @ $6.50 is better than a 250g @ $6). Or by Coles only or Aldi…for example.

      I like how you can filter aisle and shops in the list.

      Also like the cost of $ per serve.

      Overall, really good, I use the ap Deglaze for social media recipes and library for keeping track but i like this too.

      Does it pull cost of items only when you select the item initially, or does it update when items go on special, would be handy for a week where $$$ was tighter and you filter sort your meals by $

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        Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 11:56

        I’m glad it’s working!

        Once you assign products they should be up to date so you’d be able to see the cost going up and down over time. I refresh prices when they release them so in theory if cheese you’ve added is half price, you’d see that price.

        With the auto incorporate do you mean just adding the lowest unit price etc for the ingredient for you to review vs needing to start and do them all yourself? I reckon I could do that!

        In theory what I think about is someone who has half a dozen go to meals they don’t need recipes for, but they still need to shop. I’d want to be showing them the best value meals to make any given week to save that time you need to spend doing it all manually.

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  tenpercent on 13/05/2025 - 15:25

  Are you intending to monetise this app and if so how?
  It seems like a bit of effort to set up all my recipes and such so I would hate to find in 6 months from now I'm restricted to say 14 recipes unless I upgrade.

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  Associatedpinchapp @ Pinch on 13/05/2025 - 15:45

  I’ll need to find a way to make it sustainable when it does start to incur costs to that degree. To be honest with you until I explore that I can’t give you a concrete answer.

  My intention is to explore everything I can do before I would be asking for upgrades from early users.