A pantry that tells you what to use first
Every food at home on one wall, each with its own drawing, and a Use soon shelf on top for whatever has the least time left.
Pantry
Every food at home, with what needs using on top.
- Shelf life comes from USDA FoodKeeper, by food and where it is kept. Nobody types a use-by date.
- Use soon shows what has three days or fewer, and Cook with these finds recipes for it.
- “Do we have…?” answers in one line, with Add to shopping if you don’t.
- Freeze anything, and Taken out moves it to the fridge to thaw.
- Ticking a shopping line puts the food on the wall, on every phone in the household.
The wall, not a spreadsheet
The pantry is a wall of labels grouped the way a kitchen is: veg, fruit, dairy and eggs, meat and fish, tins and jars, spices. Each food carries a small drawing, how much there is, and how long it has left. Leftovers sit on their own shelf, Made at home, with the days they keep.
It keeps itself, mostly
Food arrives when someone ticks it off the shopping list and leaves when a dinner is cooked, so the wall is kept by the shopping and cooking you were doing anyway. Touch and hold a label for the rest: Use some, Used up, Binned, Freeze, Add to shopping.
Waste is a clock you can see
Heilsa counts each food’s life from the day it came home, using USDA FoodKeeper figures for the fridge, freezer or cupboard it lives in. Leftovers keep two days, as the UK Food Standards Agency advises, and thawed food a day. When something is close, it rises to the Use soon shelf and leads the dinner suggestions.
The rest of Heilsa
- Meal planningPlan dinners up to fourteen days ahead in Heilsa, ranked by what needs using first, what you already have and who is eating.
- RecipesHeilsa marks every recipe Can make now, Almost there or Missing key from your pantry, with nutrition and allergens on each one.
- Recipe importShare a recipe to Heilsa from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, a website or your photos, and check the recipe it reads before saving.
- Shopping listHeilsa writes the shopping list from your planned dinners, minus what is already at home, and moves bought food into the shared pantry.
- What you ateHeilsa adds up what you eat at home: food groups against the Eatwell Guide, nutrition per plate, weekly goals and Apple Health.
Try it with your own kitchen
Heilsa comes to the App Store in November. Join now, through TestFlight, and your household keeps it free through 2027.
iPhone with iOS 15.1 or later, in the UK and Switzerland. Somewhere else?