Osaka · coming soon
You can cook.
You just can’t
read the shelf.
Kondate is a bilingual recipe app for Kansai. Every ingredient carries the name printed on the supermarket shelf — 薄力粉, not “all-purpose flour” — and your shopping list is sorted by the aisle you are standing in.
Not in the stores yet — the badges will link to the listings at launch. Leave an email below and you’ll hear once, when there is something to install.
The problem
A translation isn’t a shelf name.
Ask a dictionary for “flour” and you get 小麦粉 — correct, and useless in a Kansai supermarket, where the packet in the baking aisle says 薄力粉. Recipe apps translate the recipe. Kondate carries the word you are going to read off a shelf while standing in front of it, with the aisle it hangs in.
What a translation gives you
小麦粉
komugiko · “wheat flour”. A category, not a product. Nothing on the shelf is labelled this.
What is on the packet
薄力粉
hakurikiko · soft wheat flour, baking aisle 製菓材料. The bag you actually pick up.
Three steps, then you are in the shop.
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01
Pick a recipe
Every ingredient shows its Japanese shelf name, its romaji and its aisle, underneath the English you already understand.
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02
Matched to your store
Pick the branch you actually shop at and the list is matched against what that chain stocks, with anything it does not carry called out rather than hidden.
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Sorted by aisle
精肉, 青果, 製菓材料 — the list is grouped under the signs hanging over your head, so you walk the shop once.
Kansai first, not Japan-generic
Built for the shops you walk to.
Life, Kansai Super and Hankyu Oasis first — the chains in your neighbourhood, not a national average. Kondate does not deliver anything: checkout hands you over to the store’s own net supermarket, which is theirs to run and ours to stay out of.
Offline, and unsigned-in
No account. No signal. Still works.
Every recipe and every shelf name is stored on the phone, because the basement floor of a Japanese supermarket is exactly where the signal dies. Nothing needs an account — sign-in exists only for syncing between your own devices, later.
Coming to Osaka first.
Kondate launches in Osaka before anywhere else — the shelf names are checked against the shops there, aisle by aisle.
, Japan time