Add Groceries Just by Snapping a Photo

Point your camera at something on the counter. It's on your list, in the right category, before you've put it down.

Updated June 2026 · 3 min read

Typing out a grocery list is the slow part. You tap into a search box, spell out "pomegranate," pick the right result, repeat. Do that for twenty items and you've turned a two-minute job into a chore. Kartov's Snap & Add skips all of it: you point your camera at an item and the AI recognizes it and drops it into your list.

How Snap & Add works

1. Open the camera from any list and choose "Snap items."
2. Point at an item — a cereal box, a piece of fruit, a bottle of olive oil. Tap the shutter.
3. It's added and categorized automatically. A little confirmation shows what was recognized.
4. Keep going. Snap the next thing, and the next — build a whole list by walking around your kitchen.

What you can snap

• Packaged goods — boxes, cans, jars, bottles.
• Fresh produce — loose fruit and veg that don't have a barcode at all.
• The stuff you can't spell — or can't remember the brand of. Just show it to the camera.

Why it beats typing — or scanning a barcode

Barcode scanners only work on packaged products with a clear, scannable code. Snap & Add works on a banana, a half-used bag of flour, or a spice jar with a peeling label. There's nothing to line up and no database miss — the AI just looks at the item the way you do. And because it auto-categorizes, your list stays organized by aisle without any sorting on your part.