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Heilsa

Cook with what you have

Searching by one ingredient gets you a list. Knowing what your whole kitchen can make gets you dinner.

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.
  • ShakshukaYou have everything for it.
  • Chickpea and Spinach CurryOnly missing Garam masala.

Ingredient search asks the wrong question

Typing "chicken" into a recipe app returns dishes that need eleven other things. The useful question is not which recipes contain an ingredient, it is which recipes your household can complete right now.

Coverage, not keywords

Heilsa checks each recipe against the pantry and sorts by what that leaves: cook now, nearly there, or missing something important. It is one lookup against what you own, so it stays fast as the catalogue grows.

The same ingredient by any name

Courgette and zucchini are the same vegetable, and coriander the herb is not coriander the ground spice. Heilsa resolves the names your household actually uses, so matching does not fail on vocabulary.

Staples are assumed, not counted

Nobody should lose a dinner suggestion over salt. Common staples are treated as present, so coverage reflects the ingredients that genuinely decide whether you can cook something.

In the app

How Heilsa does it.

  • 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.

    Pantry wall

    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 wall 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
  • A recipe page for Sticky Gochujang Chicken: its picture, 35 minutes, serves 4, dairy-free and gluten-free, about 685 kcal a serving with protein, carbs and fat, an Add to plan button and its allergens.

    Recipes

    Recipes, checked against your kitchen

    A hundred curated recipes and every one you add, each marked Can make now, Almost there or Missing key from what is at home.

    Recipes in detail

Questions

Plain answers.

How many recipes are there?
A hundred curated recipes, most of them weeknight dinners, plus every recipe your household adds. Depth where it is used beats breadth nobody cooks from.
Can I add my own recipes?
Yes — shared from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or a website, read off a photo of a page or card, pasted, or written out. Household recipes get the same pantry coverage as the curated ones.

Where else it helps

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?