Help center

How each part of A La Carte works, in plain language.

• Your cookbook

  How saved recipes are organised in A La Carte — searching, collections, tags, favorites, scaling servings, cover photos, and sharing.

• Importing recipes

  Every way to get a recipe into A La Carte — a link, a social post, a photo, a PDF, or the share sheet — and what to do when an import fails.

• Dietary preferences and allergies

  How to set allergies and dietary preferences, what A La Carte does with them, and what the flagging can and cannot be relied on for.

• Tracking your pantry

  How to add what is in your kitchen, scan shelves with the camera, read the freshness bars, and correct an expiry date.

• Building a grocery list

  How to build a shopping list from recipes or a meal plan, why it skips what is already in your pantry, and how checking items off restocks it.

• Planning your meals

  How to schedule recipes onto days of the week and turn a planned week into a grocery list in one tap.

• Using cook mode

  A full-screen, step-by-step view for actually cooking — with timers that keep running in the background and an ingredient checklist.

• Ask Capy

  What the Ask Capy assistant can help with, what it deliberately will not do, and how it uses web search.

• Profile and account

  Editing your profile, household size, language, exporting your recipes, and managing your subscription or account.

• Troubleshooting

  Fixes for the things that most often go wrong — failed imports, a missing share-sheet entry, and content that looks wrong.