What can the AI Assistant do?

The AI Assistant helps you plan your shopping: it prepares items for your shopping list from your description, a recipe or a photo, suggests what to cook and offers ingredient substitutes. You’ll find it in the Assistant  tab in the app’s bottom bar.

How the Assistant can help

The Assistant works like a chat. Write in your own words, as you would to someone helping you plan your shopping, and it replies with suggestions. You can ask it for:

• A shopping list from a description: say what the occasion is, for example a barbecue for six people, and the Assistant suggests items.
• A list from a recipe: paste a recipe and the Assistant lists the ingredients, also scaled for a different number of people.
• A list from a photo: add a photo of a recipe, a dish or the inside of your fridge and say what you need.
• Meal ideas: list the ingredients you have, and the Assistant suggests what to cook and what else you need.
• Ingredient substitutes: ask what to use instead of an ingredient you don’t have or don’t eat.
• Meals that fit your diet: ask for, say, meat-free or gluten-free dinners. If you have allergies, always check the ingredients on the package.
• A long list from a note: paste items saved in a note or message, and the Assistant turns them into separate items.

How items get onto your list

The Assistant doesn’t add, change or delete items or lists on its own. When it suggests items, an Add [number] products to list button appears under its answer. There you choose the list they go to or create a new one. So instead of “Add milk to my Weekend list”, simply say what you need.

Where the Assistant works and whether there’s a limit

The Assistant is only available in the Listonic app for Android and iPhone. It isn’t available in the browser (app.listonic.com).

In the free version, there’s a limit on how much you can use the Assistant. When you reach it, you can watch a short ad to keep chatting. Listonic Premium gives you unlimited access to the Assistant.