HeilsaA shared pantry that stays useful
Keep a practical view of what is available, used up, and worth cooking before it fades into memory.
Shared pantry in detailFrom what is at home to what is for dinner.
Heilsa keeps one pantry your whole household can see, shows which dinners it already covers, and turns the gaps into a shopping list that comes back again as pantry.
iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Free during the beta.
Spaghetti Carbonara
20 min · serves 4- Spaghetti
- Bacon
- Egg
- Parmesan
- Garlic
- Black pepper
The problem is not a shortage of recipes.
It is that nobody in the house knows what is actually in it. Someone shopped on Saturday. Someone used the last of the rice. The recipe you saved needs three things you are not sure about. Every evening the same question arrives, and answering it means rebuilding the state of your own kitchen from memory.
It is not a dramatic problem. It is a small one, repeated daily, usually when everyone is tired.
Pantry, dinner and shopping as one motion.
Each step produces what the next one needs. That is what makes keeping the pantry current worth the few minutes it costs.
- 1
Capture what is home
Add pantry updates quickly, manually or with review-first AI capture.
- 2
See what can be cooked
Recipe coverage starts from current household pantry state.
- 3
Move gaps into shopping
Missing ingredients become shared shopping items with context attached.
- 4
Bring groceries back
Bought items return to the pantry so the next dinner decision starts current.
Four tabs, and no dashboard.
The whole app is these screens. Everything else is the connection between them.
Pantry
One pantry, grouped by where things actually live.
Recipes
Sorted by what the pantry already covers.
Shopping
Every item remembers the dinner it came from.
Plan
Tonight, then the next few days, then honestly empty.
Recipes through the lens of what is home
See what your household can cook now, what is almost covered, and which ingredients are still missing.
Recipe coverage in detailA plan that already knows your kitchen
Plan up to a fortnight of meals from the pantry you actually have, and leave the days you have not decided on empty.
Meal planning in detailA shopping list with pantry context
Move missing recipe ingredients into shared shopping, then bring bought items back into the pantry.
Shopping loop in detailAI capture with review before save
Turn a messy pantry update or a photographed recipe into structured rows, then review them before they touch household state.
AI capture in detailWritten for households that cook.
- Solo cooksCooking for one against recipes and packs built for four. Heilsa tracks what is home, what a meal actually made, and what is still worth eating.
- CouplesTwo people shopping independently buy the same passata twice. One pantry you can both see, and a list with no owner and no handover step.
- FamiliesFood disappears faster than anyone tracks by memory. Everyone adds to one list from their own phone, and dinner starts from what is actually home.
Plain answers.
- What is Heilsa?
- A shared food workflow for households. One pantry that everyone in the home can see, recipes checked against it, and a shopping list that feeds back into it.
- Is Heilsa a recipe app?
- It is a recipe app with a pantry underneath it. Curated recipes plus any you add yourself, all checked against what is actually in your kitchen before you pick one.
- Is this a nutrition or calorie tracker?
- No. Recipes can carry nutritional context, but the core loop is household food decisions. Heilsa does not track macros and does not give dietary or medical advice.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing during live testing. There is no paid tier today and no card is required to take part.
Try it with your own kitchen
Heilsa is in live testing on iPhone. Tell us about your household and we will send you a TestFlight invite.
iOS 17 or later. Free during the beta.