A list, a recipe, and the people you share them with.

🛒 The weekly grocery run

For anyone who shops for a household

The obvious use, and the one that compounds. The first week you build a list. By the fourth week you're mostly tapping suggestions, because Every-List has quietly learned what you buy — and the aisle order you painstakingly set up on week one is still there.

1. Make one list called "Groceries" and share it with whoever else shops.
2. Group the items into the order you walk the store — Produce, Dairy, Frozen, whatever matches your route. Drag items in; everyone sharing the list sees the same layout.
3. Add items all week as you run out. Anyone in the house can add from their own phone, and it appears on yours immediately.
4. When you get home, hit Reset. Everything unchecks; the items, the grouping and the notes all stay.

Why it gets faster: type-ahead suggests what you've bought before with the quantity already filled in, so week ten takes a fraction of the taps week one did. Uses: item groups, Saved Items, reset, notes. Tier: Basic.

👥 Splitting up inside the store

For couples and families who shop together

Two people, one cart each, one list. Instead of tearing a paper list in half or shouting across the frozen aisle, assign items and let each person filter the list down to their own.

1. In the car park, assign the heavy or far-flung items to whoever's taking that half of the store.
2. Each person filters to their own name and works their side.
3. Check-offs appear on the other person's phone as they happen — so nobody buys the second gallon of milk.

The bit that matters: real-time sync means "did you already get the bread?" is answered by looking at the screen. Uses: assignments, real-time sync. Tier: Basic.

🙈 A caterer, contractor or sitter who should only see their part

For anyone who works with outside help

You're planning an event. The list has the budget on it, the surprise you've arranged, a dozen family tasks — and twelve things the caterer is responsible for. You want them to have those twelve things and nothing else.

1. Add the caterer to the list as a Guest, not a member.
2. Assign them their twelve items.
3. That's it. Those twelve items are the entire list as far as they're concerned.

They can't see the other items, the other people, the budget, or the surprise — and not because the app is hiding them. Guest access is enforced in the database's own security rules, so the rest of the list is never sent to their device at all.

Also works for: a contractor with four of the twenty jobs on the house punch list, a dog walker, a babysitter with just the evening's instructions, a teenager with their chores, a neighbour helping with one thing. Uses: Guest role, assignments, notes. Tier: Basic.

🧾 A home inventory for an insurance claim

For every homeowner and renter, ideally before anything happens

If you ever have to file a claim after a fire, a flood or a burglary, the insurer asks what you owned. Almost nobody can answer that from memory, and the difference between a remembered list and a photographed one is real money.

1. Make a list called "Home inventory" and group it by room.
2. Walk through the house. Add anything worth claiming — electronics, appliances, tools, jewellery, instruments — and photograph each one as you go.
3. Put the model, serial number, and roughly what it cost in the item's note. Put the purchase price in the price field.
4. Print or export the whole thing and keep a copy somewhere that isn't in the house.

An hour, once, and you've got a dated record with photographs instead of a memory test on the worst week of your year. Add to it as you buy things.

Uses: item photos, notes, groups, prices, print & export. Tier: Basic — Premium's three photos per item helps for multiple angles and serial numbers.

🔧 Home and car maintenance, written down once

For anyone who has re-searched the same thing three years running

Strip the word "cooking" from a recipe and what's left is a list of parts and a sequence of steps. That describes changing a furnace filter, winterizing the sprinklers, or servicing a car just as well as it describes a casserole.

1. Make a recipe called "Furnace filter". The ingredients are the filter size and any tools; the instructions are the actual steps.
2. Photograph where the filter goes and which way the arrow points. That photo is the part you'll be glad of.
3. Tag it and share it with whoever else might have to do it.
4. Next time it's due, you're not searching the internet for generic advice — you're reading what your house needs.

Also works for: oil type and filter part numbers per car, opening and closing the pool, putting up the tree, repainting a specific room (with the paint codes), or any craft project you've made more than once. Uses: recipes, personal notes, photos, sharing. Tier: Basic.

🎁 A wedding, baby or birthday registry

For the moment when most of your guests aren't app users

A registry is the one case where you want guests to see everything, and where the people you're inviting have no reason to already be on Every-List. Both of those are handled.

1. Make a list and mark it a registry. Add a description — it's what guests see when deciding whether to accept.
2. Add what you're hoping for, with a link to the exact product and a photo where it helps.
3. Invite guests by email address. No friend request, no account required.
4. Guests claim items, and everyone sees what's already been claimed — so nobody buys the third toaster.

If you invite someone who's never used Every-List, the invitation waits for them. The moment they sign up with that address it connects automatically — you don't have to re-send anything or chase them.

Uses: registry lists, email invitations, product links, event date. Tier: Basic.

📦 Moving house

For the six weeks nobody enjoys

The two things that go wrong in a move are losing track of what's in which box, and losing track of who was supposed to do what.

1. One list, grouped by room.
2. As you pack a box, add it as an item, photograph the contents before you tape it shut, and number it in the note.
3. Assign the admin — mail redirect, utilities, meter readings, the deposit — to whoever's handling each one, with a due date on the list.
4. At the new place, work the list by room in reverse.

Uses: groups, photos, assignments, due dates. Tier: Basic.

🧳 Travel and packing

For the family that always forgets the same thing

A packing list is worth building properly exactly once, because Reset makes it reusable forever.

1. Make "Beach trip" (or "Ski trip", or "Camping") and group it by person, or by bag.
2. Share it with everyone going. Assign each person their own section so they pack themselves.
3. Put the departure date on the list — everyone gets reminded the day before, each in their own local time.
4. When you're home and unpacked, Reset it. It's ready for next year.

Uses: reset, assignments, time-zone-aware reminders. Tier: Basic.

🏡 Looking after a parent, between siblings

For families sharing care at a distance

Shared caregiving usually falls apart on coordination rather than willingness — three people each unsure whether someone else already handled the prescription.

1. One shared list for errands and appointments, with everything assigned to a specific sibling so nothing is ambiguous.
2. A second list — a home inventory or a medication and dosage list — with photos, so anyone stepping in knows what they're looking at.
3. Give the parent's cleaner or aide Guest access to just the tasks that concern them.
4. Put due dates on the time-sensitive items. Everyone gets reminded in their own time zone, which matters when the family is spread across the country.

Uses: assignments, Guest role, photos, time-zone-aware reminders. Tier: Basic.