Voice mode

Cooking

Open a recipe and tap the mic icon in the top corner. The session has the recipe loaded — title, ingredients, steps, scaled servings, and household allergens. Ask anything:

• “What's next?” — walks you to the next step in plain language.
• “How much salt?” — pulls the quantity from the ingredients.
• “Set a 10-minute timer for the rice.” — starts a timer with that label.
• “How long is left on the chicken timer?” — reads the remaining time.
• “Cancel the rice timer.” — stops a timer by name.

Timers started by voice show up in the same active timers bar as ones you tap to start, and behave the same way. The session paraphrases the recipe out loud so you're not hearing raw Cooklang syntax read back at you.

Staples

Staples are the items your kitchen always has on hand — olive oil, soy sauce, flour, rice. They auto-check in every grocery list so you don't have to dismiss them each time.

To manage them by voice: open the Groceries tab, tap More, choose Staples, then tap the mic icon next to the search input. Rattle off what's in your kitchen:

• “Add olive oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, and rice vinegar.” — adds them all to staples.
• “Remove rice vinegar.” — takes one out.
• “What's already on the list?” — reads your current staples.

Duplicates are caught — if you name something that's already a staple, you'll be told it's already there and the session moves on.

Groceries

The active grocery list — recipe ingredients you've added plus custom items. Different from staples in that it's weekly, not forever.

To manage it by voice: open the Groceries tab, tap the + button to open the add-item dialog, then tap the mic icon next to the input. Talk through what you need:

• “Add eggs, milk, two onions, chicken thighs, basil, and a bag of pasta.” — adds them all.
• “Take eggs off the list.” — removes one.
• “What's already on the list?” — reads it back.

If you mention something that's already a household staple, the session tells you it's covered instead of duplicating. If something's already on this week's list, same — it says so and moves on.

The pill at the bottom

While a session is running, a pill appears above the tab bar:

• Mic icon — tap to mute or unmute. Muted means the assistant won't hear you until you tap again.
• Status dot — color tells you what's happening: green while it's listening, peach while it's speaking, grey while connecting or muted, red on an error. The dot also pulses with audio level so you can see it's actually picking up sound.
• Label — the mode (Cooking, Staples, or Groceries) so you don't lose track of which session is open.

Tap the label or dot to open the full sheet — same row layout the active-timers sheet uses, with mute and end buttons inside. Closing the sheet just minimizes; only End stops the session.

Switching between modes

One session at a time. If a session is already running and you tap a mic somewhere else, you'll be asked to end the current one before starting a new one. The current mode is named so you know what's about to end.

What it can't do

• Each session is fresh. It doesn't remember earlier conversations.
• It works on the surface you started from. A cooking session can't add items to your grocery list, and a groceries session can't set timers.
• Backgrounding the app ends the session. Open the mic again to start a new one.
• It needs a network connection. Offline cooking still works with the rest of the app; voice doesn't.