Total Plus:Shopping Calculator 4+

I needed an app to calculate my spending on my grocery run at multiple grocery stores. Since I’m on a fixed income I have to make sure I’m not overspending. I downloaded this app and from the minute I started using it I fell in love with it.

You put in the name of the item, the price, and the quantity. When you add it the app makes the sound the scanner makes at the checkout stand. Initially the app won’t let you do quantities higher than one which makes you have to list multiple of the same item separately. I recommend spending the $1.99 or whatever the price is and upgrade the app. It will do bigger quantities and other help do stuff like adding in the sales tax for your state. The upgrade cost is really cheap and worth it. When your done using it at the store you can save what you did as a lost or receipt so down the road you can keep track of what you spent at the store and what items you got. Great for referencing what the price of an item you bought was.

Finally, I want to tell you after this long review (sorry), that this app is worth it. Download it and see how much it helps you. One plus is I haven’t seen a noticeable bug for this app which is rare these days.

Thank you very much for your comments, I really appreciate it. Comments like this motivates me to continue improving it. Thanks a lot!

I haven’t been able to use the app yet, I will change my star review after. ———I just want to make a suggestion. Add an editable field on the TAX RATE. I’m in Georgia, and the tax on food is 4%. But the app says 7% and there’s no way to change it. For now I have had to use Hawaii, as that is the closest to the percentage I need. ———-(PS, I read through a lot of the comments and love how you have been taking for use your feedback to improve your product. It’s very heartening to see that! Many of the things people ask for are things that I would’ve asked for. It’s a shame scanning is problematic, but the reasons you stated make perfect sense. ———I think if you implemented a SCANNER such as you can get with ‘my fitness pal’, MFP, you could let people scan the item itself, which would auto-populate the name and details of the product, but the user could add in the price at the store they are at) Thanks! :) EDIT: typo:On the rename list screen, the rename button is misspelled. 2nd EDIT: played around with app, it is DOPE. Love it!

First of all thank you very much for your comments, I really appreciate it! The issue with the tax rates could be resolved by adding a couple of custom tax rates, one for food, in your case 4%, and another one for the other items. Remember, you can add as many custom tax rates as you need and change between them before adding your items to your cart or to a list. I hope it makes sense. I agree, the scanning feature would be awesome. Thank you for pointing out about the typo, I will fix it in the next release. Again, thank you very much for your feedback. Enjoy!

I downloaded this app a couple of years ago, but never used it because I thought it would be fiddly trying to use it while shopping for groceries. Well this past Friday, I decided to finally use it, and it worked really well. Was easy to use. Only advice I would give is don’t keep the calculator up on your phone once you enter an items price on the calculator. Because when I was shopping, I kept accidentally hitting my phone. causing numbers to come up on the calculator. It didn’t add to my total. I could erase it. You can keep the app open and active just don’t have it on your main screen except when you’re needing to enter in prices. Not apps fault, my fault lol.

Great app.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for your comments, I really appreciate it.