Households, sharing with your people.

A household is a group of people in the app who share the same set of recipes, cookbooks, meal plans, and shopping lists. Think of it as your kitchen shelf that everyone in the family can reach.

Every person still has their own account and their own private recipes. The household is only the shared layer on top. Nothing you keep private ever appears in the household unless you choose to share it.

You can belong to more than one household. Many people have a family household and a separate one for a vacation home or a friend group they cook with.

From the Households tab, tap New household. Give it a name that means something to you. Home, The Family, or The Beach House all work.

The person who creates it is the owner. Owners can rename the household, invite people, change roles, and remove members.

You can create more than one household. A little dropdown at the top lets you switch between them.

Open your household and tap Invite. Type in the email address of the person you want to add, pick a role for them, and send. They will get an email with a link.

When they open the link, the app asks them to sign in, or to make an account if they do not have one. Once they are in, they land right in your household.

If they lose the email, do not worry. Come back to the household, tap Resend on their invite, and a new one goes out. Old links stop working once a new one is sent.

Every person you invite gets a role. The role controls what they can do inside your household. You can change it later, so do not agonize over the first pick.

Owner is the person in charge. Owners can rename the household, add and remove members, change roles, and delete the household. There can be more than one owner. A spouse or trusted family member is a good second owner.

Editor is for people who cook with you. Editors can add and change recipes, cookbooks, meal plans, and shopping lists in the household. They cannot remove other members or delete the household. This is the right role for most adult family members.

Viewer is for people you want to include but not edit. A grandchild who wants to read Grandma's cookbook but should not accidentally rewrite it. Viewers can see everything shared, but they cannot change any of it.

Adding someone to your household does not hand them your whole library. Sharing is always a deliberate action.

For a recipe or cookbook, open it and tap Share with household. It shows up in their app right away. Take it back the same way, and it disappears from theirs.

Shopping lists and meal plans work a little differently. Anything you create with the household selected is shared with everyone in it, in real time. So two people at the grocery store can cross items off the same list, and both phones update as it happens.

Anyone can leave a household at any time. Open the household, tap the three dots next to your name, and choose Leave. You lose access to the shared items, but everything you personally own stays with you.

If you are the owner and you need to remove someone, open the household, tap their name, and choose Remove from household. Their access to shared items ends right away. Their own recipes and cookbooks are untouched.

Deleting the whole household undoes the sharing for everyone. It does not delete anyone's personal recipes or cookbooks. Only the shared layer goes away.