User Guide
Step-by-step instructions for every feature in Pantorio. Pick a topic below to get started.
Getting Started
Learn how to add your first dishes, organize ingredients, recipes, tags, and attach appetizing photos.
How Recommendations Work
How Pantorio picks what to cook for any meal of the day: ratings, rest periods, Rediscover, Today's Pick and Suggestion tuning.
Weekly Meal Planning
Master the interactive meal planner: assign dishes, schedule calendar events, and use Plan Week.
Aisle-Sorted Grocery List
Generate shopping lists automatically from your meal plan, check pantry stock, and share lists via QR code or text.
Cooking History & Insights
See what you cooked and when, spot forgotten favourites, and understand your household's cooking habits.
Themes and Personalization
Customize Pantorio's look and feel with Sage, Citrus, Berry, and Iced accent themes across Light and Dark modes.
Backing Up Your Data
Protect your recipe library with point-in-time cloud snapshots, verifiable restore points, and offline JSON exports.
Printing & Exporting to PDF
Bring recipes, weekly cookbooks, and grocery checklists to physical paper or share high-resolution PDFs 100% offline.
Multi-Entity Search: Autocomplete Suggester & Search Scorer
Master fast offline search across dishes, tags, ingredients, and categories with word-position ranking and instant autocomplete.
Barcode Scanner & Nutrition Catalog
Scan packaged food barcodes with your camera, pull instant nutritional data via Open Food Facts, and manage your local grocery catalog.
Hands-Free Cooking Mode & Step Timers
Master multi-step recipes with large countertop typography, docked step navigation, precision 10-second timers, and ingredient checklists.
Universal Web Recipe Importer
Import recipes from food blogs and websites in one tap with automatic ingredient, instruction, and photo extraction.
Live Recipe Sharing & Web Links
Share recipes and shopping lists via interactive web links and QR codes with step timers, serving scaling, and high-resolution photos.
Pantry Allergen Tracking & Cross-Contamination Alerts
Flag allergens in your pantry inventory to automatically cascade high-visibility caution symbols across recipes, ingredient prep lists, and hands-free cooking sessions.
Account & Data Deletion
Take full control of your culinary data: delete cloud backup snapshots, unlink Google Sign-In, erase local device data, or request permanent server data removal.
Servings Scaling & Sub-Recipe Multipliers
Scale recipe quantities dynamically for dinner parties or meal prep, customize baseline servings, and master compounding sub-recipe multipliers.
Online Grocery Ordering & Supported Stores
Shop your grocery list directly inside built-in supermarket WebViews across 8 supported retailers, step through items with one-tap search, and manage regional stores in Settings.
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