Shopping without a signal
Groceries works offline. Check items off, remove rows, and add custom items even without a signal — your changes save when you reconnect.
What you can do offline
- Check items off. Tap a checkbox and the row crosses out. The check syncs when you reconnect.
- Remove items. Open a row’s ⋮ menu and tap Remove from list. The row drops from the list.
- Add a custom item. Type the name and press Enter. A small queued pill appears next to it until it syncs.
You can also reload the page while offline — provided you’ve opened Groceries once with signal. The app remembers the last version it saw.
The status banner
A line at the bottom of the page shows where you stand:
- Offline, no pending changes — “Offline — your changes will save when you reconnect.”
- Offline, with pending changes — “Offline — N changes pending.”
- Reconnecting — “Syncing…”
- Done, all good — “✓ Synced.” then fades.
- Done, with at least one failure — “Synced with issues — N still pending.” stays until you act on it.
Tap the banner at any time to open the receipt.
The sync receipt
When you come back online, a panel opens to show what synced and what didn’t:
Synced from your last shopping trip
✓ Cheerios, milk, eggs, butter, bread …and 7 more
⚠ Yogurt — couldn’t sync [Retry] [Discard]
[Looks good]
The receipt opens on its own when something needs your attention — a failure, or a queue older than an hour. Otherwise it stays out of the way; tap the banner to see what synced.
For each ⚠ row:
- Retry sends the change again. Worth a try if the server was briefly unhappy.
- Discard drops the change. Use this when the item doesn’t belong on the list anymore — for example, a partner already bought it.
Tap Looks good when you’re done. The page refreshes to pull the latest list, including anything a partner changed on another device while you were offline.
Read recipes offline too
Mirepoix saves recipes for offline reading before you lose signal:
- Open the Menu or Groceries page with signal and Mirepoix saves every recipe on this week’s menu, plus your 25 most recently pinned recipes.
- Open a recipe with signal and that recipe saves too.
So a shopping trip leaves you with this week’s cooking in hand — you can read any of those recipes at the store without a signal.
A saved recipe shows the version from when it was saved. Edit it later, and the change reaches the offline copy the next time you open that recipe with signal.
If you open the app for the first time without a signal
You’ll see a desert-island page that says You’re offline. The app can only show pages it saved during an earlier online visit — on a first-ever visit with no signal, nothing has been saved yet. Open Mirepoix with signal once and it puts the offline set away for next time: this week’s menu, your pinned recipes, any recipe you open, and the pages you visit.
See also
Last updated July 3, 2026