Skip to content
Heilsa

Heilsa for couples

Two people, two phones, one kitchen, and no shared idea of what is in it. Most of the friction is that last part.

The Pantry wall: 49 foods at home, each a drawing with its name. A Use soon shelf at the top holds banana and chicken thigh, both today, and the leftover curry is under Made at home.
Salmon4 fillet
On the wall, bought today
Salmon4 fillet

The duplicate shop is a coordination problem

Neither of you forgot. You both bought passata because neither of you could see the other’s trolley or the back of the cupboard. A shared pantry removes the guesswork without either of you having to text a photo of a shelf.

Whoever gets there first can shop

Items land on the shared list from either phone as they are added. There is no owner of the list and no handover step, which is what makes it survive a normal week.

Dinner without the negotiation round

The exchange that starts "what do you fancy" and ends "I don’t mind" usually stalls because neither person knows what is possible. Starting from what the kitchen can actually make turns an open question into a short one.

Light enough that both of you keep using it

A shared system only works if the less-enthusiastic person also maintains it. In Heilsa the upkeep is ticking the list in the shop and answering Dinner’s done after cooking, and it stays useful when that slips.

In the app

What you will use most.

  • The Shopping tab grouped by recipe: basil, gnocchi and mascarpone for Creamy Tomato Gnocchi, salmon for the Lemon Salmon Traybake, curry powder for the prawn curry, and two items added by hand.

    Shopping list

    A shopping list that writes itself

    Plan a dinner and what it needs, minus what is already home, goes on the shared list. Tick it in the shop and it is in the pantry.

    Shopping list in detail
  • The sheet for adding a dinner to Monday: leftovers from Sunday first, then Potato and Cheddar Frittata (you have everything for it) and two curries each missing one spice.

    Meal planning

    Dinner plans that start from the fridge

    Plan up to a fortnight of dinners. Heilsa ranks the choices by what needs using and what you already have, and leaves the deciding to you.

    Meal planning in detail
  • The Recipes tab: a card explaining how to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, websites and photos, above a recipe card for Mushroom and Spinach Scramble marked Can make now.

    Recipe import

    Save a recipe from any app

    Share a reel, a TikTok, a YouTube video, a recipe page or a photo to Heilsa, and it comes back as a recipe for you to check.

    Recipe import in detail

Questions

Plain answers.

Do we both need the app?
Yes, for the shared parts to work. Both of you join the same household and see the same pantry and shopping list.
What if only one of us keeps the pantry updated?
It still works. Coverage is tolerant of an imperfect pantry, and the person who does not update still benefits from seeing the shared list and what can be cooked.

Also written for

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.

Install with TestFlight

iPhone with iOS 15.1 or later, in the UK and Switzerland. Somewhere else?