SplashData has written some pretty cool apps before (some scoring rave reviews on TamsPalm in the past: SplashNotes, SplashID and SplashMoney) but I think I’ve found my favorite.
SplashShopper is a list manager on steroids. SplashShopper, unlike other shopping list managers around, allows you to keep multiple lists, say a weekly shopping list, a birthday wish list, and a family Christmas list. Each list can have a number of items from multiple stores, and the list can be sorted by treating the stores as categories:
The application allows you to create lists that can be reused over and over again, using a template function called QuickList. QuickList allows you to define certain lists as templates that can be created on a moments notice. So if, for example, you always get milk, eggs and butter on your shopping trips, but always managed to forget at least one, you’d simply create your QuickList before you go shopping and not need to worry about forgetting them.
By clicking on the icon of an item, you can mark the item as Unneeded and easily continue shopping. By switching to the ‘needed’ tab, you can easily see what you still need to shop for and you are given a checkbox to mark the item as unneeded, which seems more intuitive than clicking the icon in the ‘all’ tab.
A cool feature of SplashShopper is the ability to assign multiple stores — or whatever you’ve defined your first category to be — to each item.
Choosing -MULTIPLE- allows you to select any stores you wish, up to eight.
To make a Treo user’s life much easier, SplashShopper has a feature called ‘No stylus mode.’ This mode, as it implies, replaces the stylus’s use with the hardkeys, allowing easy navigation of your shopping lists. The only downside to this mode is that it effectively locks you into the application by not allowing you to use your hardkeys to exit the application.
Altogether, SplashShopper is a wonderful application for anyone from a stay at home mom, to a busy businessman. The ease in creating lists and adding items is only trumped by the ease of viewing the list you’ve created. If you’ve ever had to go back to a store multiple times to get toiletries or food that you’ve forgotten (I know I have) this application is a must have.
There is even a desktop syncronisation tool that, which though I couldn’t use (My hotsync is badly borken on Vista) looked like a great way to create your lists and easily sync them to your device. You can easily import and export to and from your favorite formats to make the switch even easier. SplashShopper import/export supports cvs, and various HandShopper formats. It can also Import files from PDA Cookbook, perhaps one of the coolest features.
And even better! To celebrate the holidays, you can purchase SplashShopper at the TamsShop for 20% off by entering the discount code “SPLASHCHEAPLY”at the checkout screen. This discount is only available until the end of January so urry up!
