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Heilsa

A shopping list the whole household can trust

Most shared lists work fine in the shop and fall apart either side of it. Heilsa connects the list to the pantry it came from and the pantry it feeds back into.

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.
Salmon4 fillet
On the wall, bought today
Salmon4 fillet

Everyone sees the same list

Items appear on every phone in the household as they are added. Whoever is closest to the shop can go, and nothing depends on one person remembering to forward a screenshot.

Each item remembers why it is there

An item added because a recipe needed it stays connected to that recipe. Standing in an aisle looking at "coriander", it matters whether that is for Thursday or a guess someone made a fortnight ago.

Bought items become pantry items

Marking something bought moves it into the shared pantry. The loop closes without anyone doing a second pass of data entry, which is the step every other setup asks for and nobody performs.

Built for two people who shop separately

Households rarely shop together. The list is designed for the case where one person adds and another buys, hours apart, without either of them checking in first.

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.

Can more than one person add to the list?
Yes. Every member of a household shares one pantry and one shopping list, and changes show up on the other phones as they happen.
Does it work offline in the shop?
Yes. The household’s kitchen is kept on each phone, so the list opens and ticks off with no signal at all. What you change is shared with everyone else as soon as the phone is back online.

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?