The Three Sections

Each aisle is split into three sections.

Inventory Check

Items the app is asking about. These are either new ingredients it hasn’t seen before, or items it thinks you might be running low on.

Look in your kitchen:

• Tap Have It if you still have it. The app notes this and waits longer before asking again.
• Tap Need It if you’re out. The item moves to To Buy.

When there are many items to verify, Have All and Need All buttons appear to confirm or deplete everything at once — use Have All when you’ve already done a quick scan and have everything.

Items are sorted by how many of your selected recipes use them, so the most important ones appear first.

You don’t have to clear every Inventory Check item before shopping — anything you skip stays there until next time.

To Buy

Items you need to purchase, grouped by aisle. These are things you’ve told the app you’re out of. Check them off as they go in the cart.

On Hand

Items you have. Shown with reduced opacity that fades as the item ages — items you just bought appear bolder so you can confirm your cart at a glance.

Before you shop

Walk through your kitchen and work through the Inventory Check items. Then head to the store and work through To Buy, checking items off as they go in the cart.

While shopping

Check off items as they go in the cart. Checked items get a brief strikethrough before sliding into On Hand, where they appear bold to confirm what you’ve just grabbed.

If you checked something by mistake, uncheck it — same-day corrections are treated as an undo, and the item moves back to To Buy with no effect on the learned schedule.

For older On Hand items — things you thought you had but have since run out of — use the Need It button to move them back to To Buy. This also tells the app to ask again sooner next time (see How the system learns).