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Guide

How Mango & Dill works

Every feature explained, in the same words as in the app. You'll find the same explanations behind the help button on every screen of the app.

Shopping list

The list, under control

Three quick gestures cover the whole shop. The list follows your store's walking route and learns as you check items off.

Tap an item

The item moves to your cart, checked off.

Tap the icon

Opens the category picker, placing the item at the right spot along your route.

Swipe

Swipe right to mark as urgent. Swipe left to delete.

Sorted by walking route

Fine-grained sections follow your path through the store, from the entrance to the checkout.

Pick your store

The badge above the list picks the store. Kaufland, Rewe, Aldi, and Lidl come with ready-made routes. When the app recognizes your branch, the badge shows it.

Move a section

Press and hold a header: “Move up/down” shifts the section, “Remember position” keeps it there.

Quietly learns along

After a few shopping trips, checking items off teaches the app your actual route, on this device only. The “Learn store route” switch in the list settings turns this off.

Share your list

Three steps and you're shopping together. Both of you need iCloud.

1. Open the More menu (⋯) on the shopping list.

2. Choose “Share List”.

3. Invite someone, done.

Private, no account

Everything lives in your private iCloud. No account, no ads, no tracking.

Shopping mode

Your next items sit on the Lock Screen. Check them off without unlocking.

Tap the basket

The basket button at the top of the shopping list starts shopping mode.

Check off without unlocking

A Live Activity shows your next three items and progress. Check them off right there.

Done?

Tap the basket button again. Shopping mode ends and the card disappears.

Meals

Meals & Suggestions

Recipes do the shopping for you.

A meal onto the list

One tap puts all of a meal's ingredients on the shopping list.

Matches your list

Suggestions show which meals you can cook from your list.

Create your own meal

Tap + at the top right: name, time, ingredients. And it's yours.

Meal plan

Meal plan

Plan the next seven days and keep your calendar in the loop.

Plan a meal

Each day has “Plan a Meal”. Pick a meal, set servings, done.

Calendar mirror

Choose a calendar at the top right: every planned meal appears there as an event and disappears along with it.

Ingredients

Ingredients & Items

The library behind your list and meals: what an item is and where it belongs.

Add an item

Tap + at the top right and enter a name. Tapping an existing row opens the same editor.

Set the category

The category decides which section an item lands in on the shopping list, so where it sits along your route.

Choose an icon

“Automatic” finds an icon to match the name. Or pick one yourself in the grid below.

Household & Toiletries

Items in this category appear on the shopping list, but never in meals or suggestions.

These explanations match the in-app help (version 1.0). Missing something? Write to support@mangodill.app.