Product guide

How to use Sofra

A walk through every screen, from your first sign-in to your profile — and the simple daily habit that makes it all work.

Getting started

Sign in & set up your household

1 · Sign in

Open Sofra and sign in with Google, or create an account with your email. It takes about five seconds — no lengthy onboarding.

2 · Create or join a household

A household is your family's shared space — everyone in it sees the same meals, plans, and insights. Create a new one (name it, e.g. "The Rajwades") and you become the admin, or join an existing household with the invite code a family member shares.

3 · Set your meal types

In Profile → Meal preferences, choose which meals you plan — lunch and dinner by default; add breakfast or snack if you like. This shapes what "Today's meals" shows.

The screens

Everything, screen by screen

Sign in screen

Sign in

Your first screen — get in and start in seconds.

  • Sign in with email & password, or one tap with Continue with Google.
  • Forgot password? sends a reset link to your inbox.
  • New here? Sign up takes you to create your account.
Create your account and household

Register & set up your household

Create your account with your name, email, and password — and name your household in the same step.

  • A household is your family's shared space; everyone in it sees the same meals, plans, and insights.
  • Name a new household to become its admin — or leave it blank and join an existing one with the invite code a family member shares.
  • Prefer Google? Continue with Google works here too.
Home screen

Home

Your kitchen at a glance, the moment you open the app.

  • A warm greeting and your "meal memory" tagline up top.
  • This month metric cards — home-cooked %, outside meals (dine-out + takeout), unique dishes, outside spend, kids tiffins. Tap any card to dive in, or the share icon to post it.
  • Today's meals — lunch, dinner (and kids tiffin) with cuisine thumbnails.
  • Dishes you haven't made in a while — your forgotten favourites, resurfaced.
  • The + button logs a meal in seconds.
Calendar screen

Calendar

Your family's meal history and plan, week by week.

  • Each day shows its meals with source colours (home, takeout, dine-out).
  • A Today marker keeps you oriented.
  • Toggle Show kids tiffin to add and view a separate kids track per day.
  • Tap any slot to add or edit a meal.
Plan screen

Plan your week

The magic: an auto-generated week built from your own cooking history.

  • Tap Generate and Sofra fills the week — avoiding dishes you made recently, mixing cuisines, and respecting your dine-out limit.
  • Turn on Include kids tiffin to plan the kids' menu from their own dishes.
  • Edit any suggestion, then Accept to save it to your calendar.
Confetti celebration when a plan is accepted

A little celebration

Accepting a week's plan is a small win — so Sofra marks it with a burst of confetti before your plan lands on the calendar.

  • Fires the moment you tap Accept plan.
  • Your generated week is saved to the calendar for the whole household.
  • A gentle reminder that planning ahead is worth celebrating.
Insights screen

Insights

Honest patterns about how your family eats and spends.

  • Swipe the range — this week, this month, last month, last 3 months, all.
  • Home vs. outside ratio and spending trend.
  • Top restaurants, cuisine variety, and a ranked most-cooked dishes list — counts follow the range you pick, and you can tap any dish to open it in your library.
  • A dedicated kids tiffin card with variety and repeat-alerts.
  • Tap share on any insight to post a branded card.

Add a meal

Choose the source (home, takeout, dine-out) and who it's for (family or kids tiffin). For home meals, add the main dish plus sides for a full thali. For dine-outs, list the dishes you ordered and rate each with stars — Sofra remembers what to order (and what to skip) next time. Cuisine, cost, and notes are optional.

Dish Library

Every dish your family has ever made, searchable and filterable by cuisine, favourites, or "not made in 30+ days", and sorted by how often you cook it. Star your favourites; tap a dish to see how often and how recently you've cooked it. Open it from a "this month" card and the counts are scoped to that period; open the full library for all-time totals.

Restaurants

Everywhere you've dined out or ordered from — visits, spend, and last visit. Tap a place to see the dishes you've ordered there with your star ratings. Switch to All for a compact, scannable list even with hundreds of restaurants.

Profile & Settings

Your identity, household name and invite code, and family members. Settings holds appearance (auto / light / dark), reminders (daily / weekly / monthly), and account controls. Meal preferences and auto-plan rules live in Profile.

The one daily habit

Log your meals as you go — it takes seconds. Within a week or two, your dashboard, insights, and auto-plans come alive. That's the whole trick: Sofra is only as smart as the memory you give it, and giving it that memory is nearly effortless.

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