The quickest way in is Continue with Google — it creates your household on the spot, with no code to enter. You can also sign up by email, but that path needs a signup code (it stands in for verifying your address).

Get Hillside from the App Store — search “Hillside” or tap that link, and it installs like any other iPhone app.

Prefer not to use the App Store? Hillside also runs as a web app you can add to your Home Screen — a full-screen icon, no browser bars, with pull-to-refresh:

1. In Safari, open app.hellohillside.com.
2. Tap the Share button.
3. Tap Add to Home Screen.

On Android, use Add to Home screen from Chrome's ⋮ menu.

Type, say, or paste into the Log on Home — “out of milk,” “taco night Thursday” — and Hillside files each one where it belongs. Back from the store? Snap the receipt right there and the whole shop is logged at once.

On iPhone you can add to Hillside hands-free — without opening it, or even unlocking your phone. Say “Hey Siri, add to Hillside” or “Hey Siri, capture in Hillside,” then say whatever's on your mind — “out of milk,” “soccer Saturday at 9.” Siri hands it straight to Hillside, which pulls it apart and files each piece where it belongs, just like the Log.

Forward an email, BCC a receipt, or send a quick note to your household's Hillside address — you'll find it in your household settings. It's captured just like the Log: pulled apart and filed where each piece belongs. For your privacy, only messages from a household member's own email are accepted.

Got a note you keep coming back to — a kids' reading list, gift ideas, restaurants to try? You don't have to open it. Say the thing in the Log and Hillside finds the matching list and drops it on the end, tidied into a clean line.

1. Make a note and give it a clear title — “Kids' reading list,” “Gift ideas,” “Restaurants to try.”
2. Later, just say it in the Log — “add The Wind in the Willows to the kids' reading list.”
3. Hillside spots your reading list and adds it to the end, cleaned up — no opening the note, no scrolling to the bottom.

Don't add things one at a time — brain-dump everything you've already got. Open the Log and say or type it all in one go: “rice, pasta, olive oil, a dozen eggs, milk, the good coffee, two onions…” Hillside splits the rundown into separate items and stocks your list, so you're set up in one sitting instead of ticking off a hundred boxes.

Snap the receipt right in the Log and the whole shop is marked as in stock at once — your list reflects what's actually home, no ticking off item by item. No scanner, no copy-paste: Hillside reads the photo on the spot.

1. Open the Log on Home.
2. Tap Take Photo to snap the receipt, or Choose Photo to pick one from your library — you can also paste or drag a photo in.
3. Hillside reads it into the box and the button turns into Log receipt ↑.
4. Glance over the items it pulled out, untick anything you're not keeping, and tap Log receipt ↑.

Don't worry if the scanned text looks messy in the box — that's just the raw read, and Hillside tidies it into a clean, checkable list before anything is logged. The photo is kept with the entry, so you can open it later and see where each item came from. Prefer text? Pasting the lines straight in still works too.

Open your household settings and switch on the evening reminder. Once it's on, Hillside emails you at the end of each day with what's due tomorrow — and anything that's slipped past. It's off until you turn it on, and every reminder has a one-tap unsubscribe.

Connect Hillside to Claude once, then just ask — by voice or text — and it reads and updates your household for you:

1. In Hillside, open your household settings.
2. Under “Claude connector,” tap Generate token to get a connector URL.
3. In the Claude app, go to Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector.
4. Paste the URL and save.

Now just ask — “what's on the list?”, “we're out of butter.”

Your family shares one household — the shopping list, notes, to-dos and history live in it, and everyone sees the same thing on their own device. To add someone:

1. Open Settings → Members.
2. Tap Generate invite.
3. Send them the link (good for 7 days).

They open the link, set a password, and they're in — same household, their own login. Invites are for joining a household that already exists; to start a fresh one, use Continue with Google on the sign-up page.