The fridge list, if the fridge list kept itself up to date.
Someone finishes the cereal and tells absolutely no one. Hearth gives the whole house one live list — everyone adds the moment they notice, and whoever shops, shops it clean.
iPhone, iOS 18 or later. $6.99/month or $49.99/year — 14-day free trial on the annual plan.
From “we're out of everything” to one clean shop.
A family's grocery list fails at the seams between people — so that's exactly where Hearth does its work.
Everyone adds the moment they notice
Empty carton in hand? Just say it — voice is transcribed and categorized on-device, instantly. Typing, pasting, and photographing the paper list work too.
One household, everyone's phones
Invite each person once; they join in a tap with their own Apple ID. From then on there is exactly one list — not four screenshots of it.
Dinner fills the list by itself
Plan the week's meals and the ingredients flow onto the list, merged and categorized — the Sunday plan becomes the Monday shop without anyone retyping a thing.
Family scale is its own engineering problem.
A list shared by four or five people gets long, loud, and stale fast. What keeps it usable isn't one feature — it's a stack of small mercies:
Voice, for hands-full moments
“Milk, juice boxes, more of those crackers” — said out loud while unloading the dishwasher. Transcribed instantly.
Added by, checked by
When someone claims they “definitely added it,” the list settles the argument gently.
Lists for every errand
The weekly shop, the warehouse run, the birthday party, the pharmacy — separate lists so 60 items don’t become one unreadable wall.
Your staples, one tap away
Hearth learns what your family buys again and again and resurfaces those usuals, so rebuilding the weekly list takes seconds.
Works offline in the store
Basement supermarket, no bars, no problem. The list keeps working and syncs the moment you’re back on signal.
One cookbook, one plan
Save recipes once for the whole house, plan the week’s dinners, and let the plan fill the grocery list.
You don't need buy-in from the whole house to start. Hearth is solo-first — one person gets the full app, and the household grows whenever the others are ready. Household members need iPhones (iOS 18+); Android can't join the sync yet.
Dinners the table won't veto.
The meal plan is only as good as the recipes in it. Among Hearth's 300+ built-in recipes, these shelves earn their keep on school nights:
Real food in fifteen minutes.
For the nights between practice pickup and bedtime.
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Dinner on the table in thirty minutes.
The weeknight backbone — fast, filling, repeatable.
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Vegetarian dinners worth coming home to.
Hearty mains that don't trigger a “where's the meat” debate.
Browse the collection →Just the two of you? Hearth for couples. And when someone sends a recipe video to the family chat: saving TikTok recipes and saving Instagram recipes.
Running a family list,
asked and answered.
Does every family member need their own account?
Each person joins with their own Apple ID — Hearth doesn't do shared logins, which is what makes “added by / checked by” trustworthy. Many families start with just the one or two people who actually shop, and grow the household from there.
Can my teenager add things without wrecking the list?
Everyone sees the same list, and every addition is attributed by name — so a surprise entry is visible, owned, and takes one swipe to remove. In practice, visibility is the moderation: nobody sneaks in energy drinks under their own name twice.
What does it look like for the person actually doing the shopping?
A categorized list that updates itself: requests added from home appear mid-shop, checks happen with a tap, and if the store has no reception it all works offline and syncs after. No more photos of the list texted at 5pm.
Can it help with what to cook, not just what to buy?
Yes — Hearth plans the week's dinners too, and even suggests your first week to get you going. Pick recipes, and their ingredients flow onto the grocery list, merged and categorized. Recipes come from the 300+ built in, or anything you save from TikTok, Instagram, or the web.
Some of the family is on Android. Does that work?
Not for the shared list — Hearth is iPhone-only (iOS 18+) today, so household members need iPhones. One parent can still run the family list solo on iPhone; Android members just can't join the sync yet.
How is this better than a shared note or a text thread?
A note is a wall of text one person maintains; a thread buries the list by lunchtime. Hearth's list is structured — categorized items, live checkmarks, attribution, search, and recipe ingredients that merge in automatically instead of being retyped.
Everyone adds.
One person shops. It works.
Start with the person who does the shopping — the rest of the house can join any time. 14-day free trial on the annual plan.
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