A short guide to how Stuart expects to be used. Nothing here is compulsory — these are the paths the app is built around, and knowing them makes the rest make sense.
Everything you add belongs to one Group — your own personal space, a family, or an organisation. Stock, recipes, purchases and tasks never leak between Groups, so a household list and a work list can live side by side in one account.
The menu at the top right, under your name. The Group you are in is the one every page is showing you.
Invite them from Manage groups. An invitation link carries the language you sent it in, so a Dutch-speaking guest lands on a Dutch page.
It is the record of what you physically have and where it is. Locations are places — a fridge, a freezer, a pantry, a shelf in the garage — and stock always sits in one of them.
No. Most people start with the handful of things they actually track: what spoils, what runs out, what is annoying to be without. Scanning receipts fills in the rest over time.
It is the quick-access menu, available on every page. Scan a barcode to look a product up, update its stock, or drop it straight onto the shopping list.
Record a purchase, and its lines become stock in the location you received them into. You can type it, or photograph the receipt and let Stuart read it.
No. Scanning a receipt matches the printed vendor against your supplier list and creates a new one when nothing matches. Names are matched loosely, so "ALDI BVBA" and "Aldi" are understood as the same shop.
No — a purchase is something that already happened, so today is the latest date it can carry. Expiry dates on the lines are the opposite case and can be as far ahead as you like.
Plan meals onto days and slots. Each planned meal knows how many it is for, which is what lets the planner check your stock and warn you when you are short of an ingredient — and offer to put the missing items on the shopping list.
Mark it cooked. That draws the ingredients out of stock and, if you say there were leftovers, banks those portions so a future meal can be served from them instead of cooked from scratch.
Because the evidence says it is wrong. If the same recipe leaves leftovers on two or more cooks, the amount actually eaten is what it really feeds, and you are offered that number. It is only ever a suggestion — decline it and you will not be asked about that number again.
As long as your Group's planner settings say. Past that they are swept up and you are asked whether they were eaten, given away, or thrown out.
Three places: you add to it directly, the quick-access scanner drops products onto it, and the planner offers to add what a meal is short of. Tick things off as you buy them.
Anything with a deadline that is not a meal — the shopping run itself, a delivery to be home for, a routine that repeats. They can carry a reminder before they are due.
Yes. Use Install app in the account menu, and Stuart runs like a normal app with its own icon. It follows your device's rotation lock rather than forcing an orientation.
Partly. Pages you have already visited stay readable, but anything that writes needs a connection.
In your Profile, or from the switcher on the sign-in pages. The language is part of the address of every page, so links you share open in the language you were using.
It signs you in with your Google account instead of a password. It is separate from Google Calendar sync — connecting a calendar is set up under Settings, and grants the planner permission to write your meals into it.
Use the feedback button in the bottom-right. It captures the page you are on and what the browser logged, which is usually enough to find the problem without asking you to reproduce it.
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