Kettle
Lives in your family group chat, tracking groceries, plans and reminders by text.
Kettle is an SMS-based assistant that joins a family's group chat (or a private one-on-one) to track pickups, plan dinners around dietary preferences, fill a grocery cart, and send reminders until someone confirms they're done. There's no app or dashboard — you just text it, and messages to it privately stay private while family-wide updates go to the group. It costs $19/month for the whole family after a 7-day free trial.
What holds up
- +No app or dashboard needed — it works entirely through text messages you already use.
- +One flat $19/month covers the whole family, not a per-person fee.
- +Private messages to Kettle alone stay private from the rest of the family group.
Mind the limits
- −US-only phone-number setup (205 area code) — unclear if it works for other countries.
- −Depends on everyone in the family actually texting it — a holdout breaks the shared list.
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