User Guide

Welcome to Stack Ritual. This guide walks you through everything from building your first stack to using reminders, tracking inventory, and reviewing your history.

Quick-start checklist:

1. Sign up at stackritual.com/sign-up
2. Add your first supplements from the Research page or the custom add form
3. Set when you take each one (morning, afternoon, evening, bedtime, etc.)
4. Check items off as you take them each day
5. Optional: turn on email or SMS reminders in your Profile settings

Your stack is the list of supplements and rituals you take on a regular basis. To view and manage it, tap My Stack in the bottom navigation.

Adding items:

• Research New: browse the curated library of supplements with evidence ratings, benefits, and timing recommendations
• Add new supplement or ritual to my stack: use this link below the search bar to add something not in the database, scan a label, or search the database directly

Filtering your list: use the All / Active / Inactive tabs at the top of My Stack to narrow what you see, especially once you’ve paused a few items.

Pausing items: tap the ⏸ button on any item to temporarily hide it from the Today page and stop it from triggering reminders, without losing your settings. Paused items appear in an “Inactive” section at the bottom of My Stack, and you can resume them any time.

Editing: tap the ✏️ icon or the supplement name to edit dose, timing, meal timing (before, with, or after a meal), brand, notes, quantity tracking, and per-serving count. For anything taken less than daily (weekly, monthly, or on a cycle), you can also set an optional start date to anchor the schedule.

Photos of your supplements: Open any supplement from Today and add a photo of the pill plus up to four of the bottle (front, back, sides). Tap an empty slot to take a photo or choose one from your library. The pill photo shows on your Today list so you can match it against your organizer at a glance. Tap it to see all the photos, then swipe left or right to move between them. If there is no pill photo, the first photo you took shows instead. Press and hold a photo tile and drag it to another slot to move it, or onto a filled slot to swap the two. On Pro, a label scan saves the bottle photo for you, and “Read directions from label photo” copies the directions from a back-of-bottle photo into your notes.

Need a clean summary to hand to a doctor or pharmacist? Tap 🖨️ Print summary on the My Stack page to open a printable, doctor-friendly layout: your full stack grouped by time of day with dose and timing, plus a note field for your provider. It’s built to print directly or save as a PDF.

Plus and Pro members can run an AI analysis of their current stack to surface synergies, interactions, timing tweaks, redundancies, and recommended additions. Open My Stack and tap the ✨ Analyze my stack card near the top.

What you get: the analysis page is broken into five collapsible sections.

• Synergies: pairs or groups in your stack that work well together (e.g., magnesium + B6 absorption).
• Interactions: items that may reduce each other’s effectiveness, compete for absorption, or shouldn’t be co-administered. Each one carries an info / caution / warning severity.
• Timing: concrete suggestions to move items to a different time of day for better effect.
• Redundancies: multiple items targeting the same mechanism, in case you’d prefer to consolidate.
• Recommended additions: supplements worth considering, with a one-tap Add to stack button if the recommendation matches an item in our research library, or Search to add if it doesn’t.

First-run safety check. The first time you analyze your stack, you’ll be asked to confirm you understand the analysis is informational, not medical advice. Always talk to your doctor before adding, removing, or changing a supplement.

Re-running. When your stack changes (you add, remove, or edit something), the next analysis is free and the card on My Stack will tell you how many items have changed since your last run. If nothing has changed and you just want a fresh look, you can manually re-run up to 3 times per day.

What’s included. Only items that are active and not paused are sent to the AI. Paused items are deliberately excluded so the analysis focuses on what you’re actually taking right now.

Ask a follow-up (Pro). Have a question about a specific finding? Pro members can tap it to ask a follow-up question and get a direct answer, up to 20 follow-ups per analysis. A counter at the bottom of the page shows how many you’ve used.

Print your analysis. Tap Print 🖨️ near the top of any analysis for a clean, print-ready version with your name and the date, handy to bring to a doctor or save as a PDF.

Sharing a free analysis with someone. Anyone can get one free analysis without an account at stackritual.com/analyze. They can paste their supplements as plain text, however they normally write them, confirm what we read back, and get the same interactions, timing, synergies and redundancies described above. Or, on the Build it tab, they can search our supplement guides and tap items straight into a time-of-day slot, hand-adding anything not in our database, with nothing to confirm afterward since they picked each item themselves. Anything they add from the home page, a supplement page or an expert stack lands in that same list, ready on the Build it tab. Each result gets its own private link that works without signing in, so it is an easy thing to send to a friend who keeps asking whether their stack makes sense. Search engines never index those links.

If they then create an account, everything they typed carries over: each supplement lands in their stack with its dose and timing, and the analysis is saved as their first report. They never have to enter it twice.

The Today page is your daily command center. It shows exactly what you need to take today, grouped by time slot (morning, afternoon, evening, etc.) and, within each slot, by meal timing (before, with, or after a meal), along with your progress and mood slider.

• Check off items as you take them, and the progress bar updates in real time
• Mark done (next to any time slot): check off an entire time slot in one tap
• Mark all done: for when you’ve taken everything for the day
• Log an earlier time: tap the 🕐 next to any “Mark done” button to record that you took a slot earlier in the day, instead of right now
• Last-night catch-up: if yesterday’s evening or bedtime items were never checked off, a card at the top of Today asks whether you took them. Tap Log them to record all of them at the time you set under Profile, or Skip to dismiss it for the day.
• Meal timing groups: within each time slot, items are grouped by whether you take them before, with, or after a meal
• As-needed items appear in their own section. Only tap these when you actually take them
• Next due hint: items scheduled less than daily (weekly, monthly, or on a cycle) show a colored label under the name, like “Due in 3 days” or “Overdue by 2 days”, so you always know what’s coming up
• Mood slider at the bottom lets you log how you feel today on a 1–10 scale with optional notes

Stack Ritual can remind you when it’s time to take your supplements.

Email reminders (Plus and Pro plans): go to Profile → Email Reminders, toggle on, and choose the time slots you want reminders for. Each reminder email includes a “Mark these all done” button that marks the whole slot as complete, no need to open the app. Getting more emails than you’d like? Turn on One summary email per day in the same settings to get a single morning email listing your whole day instead of one per time slot.

Unsubscribe from all emails: the master toggle at the top of Profile → Email preferences turns off every email type at once (reminders, weekly summary, newsletter) in one tap. Your individual settings stay saved underneath it, so turning the master toggle back off restores exactly what you had before.

SMS reminders (Pro plan only): same deal, but delivered by text. To enable, go to Profile → SMS Reminders, toggle on, enter your US mobile number, check the consent box, and save. You’ll receive a one-time confirmation text: reply YES to start receiving reminders. Each daily window (morning, afternoon, evening, bedtime) can be turned on or off independently, so you can opt into just the one or two texts a day you actually want. Reply STOP to unsubscribe, HELP for help, or START to re-enable later.

A short message in every reminder: each reminder email and text ends with one short message. It might be a supplement fact (sometimes about an item in your own stack), a small nudge toward a good habit, or a line from a classic author.

Items taken more than once a day: a supplement set to 2x or 3x daily gets a separate reminder for each dose, labelled “1st dose”, “2nd dose”, and so on. Tapping the link in your morning text marks only the morning dose. Your evening reminder still arrives as normal.

What gets included: reminders cover everything scheduled for that window on your Today page, including items whose timing is set to something like “with meals”. Only as-needed items and less-than-daily items (weekly, monthly, cycles) are left out. Check those off in the app when you take them.

The tap-to-complete link in each reminder is valid only for the day it was sent, and tapping it twice is harmless: it won’t double-count a dose or affect your inventory twice.

Stack Ritual can track how many capsules (or servings) you have left of each supplement, decrement the count automatically when you check off a dose, and warn you when you’re running low.

Setup: tap the ✏️ icon on any stack item → enter the total quantity (e.g., 90 capsules), remaining quantity, and unit (capsules, softgels, scoops, etc.).

Per-serving count: if the label says “Serving size: 2 capsules”, enter 2 in the Per serving field. Each time you check off that supplement, the inventory decrements by 2 instead of 1, so your counts stay accurate.

Low supply alerts: when you’re down to about 2 weeks’ worth, you’ll get an email with a one-click reorder link.

Manual adjustment: tap the colored “remaining” badge on any item to add/subtract or set an exact number. The same panel includes iHerb and Amazon reorder links for that item, so restocking is one tap away.

Log your mood daily on a 1–10 scale with optional notes. Over time, Stack Ritual correlates your mood with which supplements you actually took and surfaces patterns.

Visit the Mood Report (tap the “Done” stat card on the Today page, or go to Profile → Mood Report) to see:

• 7, 30, 90-day mood averages
• Best and worst days
• Supplement correlations (“your mood is X points higher on days you take Y”)
• Trend indicators (improving / stable / declining)

The History page (tap the date link near the top of the Today page) shows a calendar view of your completion percentage and mood for each day.

Tap any day to see exactly what you took, when, and your mood/notes for that day. Useful for reviewing patterns, sharing with a doctor, or reflecting on how a protocol is working.

If you only missed last night’s evening and bedtime items, you do not need the calendar: the catch-up card on Today logs them in one tap, at the time you set under Profile, Last-night catch-up.

Browse 80+ evidence-rated supplements on the Research page. Each entry includes:

• Evidence level (strong / moderate / limited)
• Benefits and common uses
• Timing recommendations (with/without food, AM vs PM, etc.)
• Dose ranges
• Side effects and interactions
• Community experiences

From any detail page, tap Add to my stack to start tracking it immediately. Library rituals like Red Light Therapy open the ritual form, and the Supplement or Ritual toggle at the top of the form lets you file any item the other way.

Not sure which brand to buy? Open any supplement’s detail page and tap + Rate a brand to see or add community ratings for quality, effectiveness, and value, along with written reviews. Ratings roll up into an overall score per brand so you can compare at a glance, with iHerb and Amazon links to buy the one you pick.

Read and share real experiences with supplements from other Stack Ritual users. Every experience is linked to a specific supplement and includes a rating, a title, and notes on their experience, plus optionally how long they’ve used it and where they bought it.

Share your own from Profile → Share your first experience or any supplement detail page.

Pro members can scan a supplement label with their phone camera to auto-fill the name, brand, dose, serving size, and container quantity.

Look for the “📷 Scan label” link at the top of any add/edit form. Take a clear photo of the Supplement Facts panel, or choose one you already have in your library. Claude Vision does the rest.

Love Stack Ritual? You have a few ways to share:

• Casual share: the “Love Stack Ritual? Share with a friend” link in emails opens the native share sheet on mobile or a pre-filled email on desktop
• Refer & Earn: Pro members can earn free months of Pro by referring friends. Find your personal referral link, stats, and progress on your Profile page under “Refer & Earn Free Months”.
• Affiliate program: earn commission on every referral. Apply here. 50% first month, 10% recurring for the life of the subscription.

Stack Ritual has three tiers, with paid plans available monthly or annually:

• Free: up to 5 supplements, basic research library
• Plus ($4.99/mo or $49.99/yr): unlimited supplements, full research library, AI Stack Analysis, email reminders, community experiences
• Pro ($9.99/mo or $99.99/yr): everything in Plus + SMS reminders, click-to-mark-taken texts, priority support

Annual billing saves you roughly two months vs. paying monthly. To choose annual, switch the Monthly / Annual toggle on the landing page’s pricing section or in the upgrade options on your Profile page before subscribing.

Manage your subscription from Profile → Manage billing. Upgrades take effect immediately, downgrades at the end of your current billing period.

Edit profile: tap the ✏️ icon next to your name on the Profile page to update your first name.

Personalize your analysis: under Profile → Personal settings, you can optionally add your biological sex and birthday. Both feed into AI Stack Analysis so its guidance can account for your age band, and your birthday also gets you a banner on the Today page and a note from us on the day.

Last-night catch-up: under Profile, Last-night catch-up, you can turn the morning card off or change the time it logs your evening and bedtime items at.

Share feedback: tap 💬 Share app feedback on your Profile page any time to send a quick star rating and message. We read every one.

Which account am I in? The email address you’re signed in as is shown in the top right of every page. This is worth a glance if you share a phone or tablet with family, or if your device has more than one Google account on it. It’s easy to tap the wrong one at sign-in. If it isn’t your address, tap Sign out and sign back in with the right account.

Privacy: your supplement data is private by default and never shared with third parties. See our Privacy Policy for the full details.

Data export: email hello@stackritual.com and we’ll send you an export of everything we have for your account.

Delete account: same. Email us and we’ll delete within 7 days.

I’m not getting email reminders. Check Profile → Email Reminders is toggled on, check your spam folder, make sure hello@stackritual.com is whitelisted, and confirm your plan is Plus or Pro.

I’m not getting SMS reminders. Confirm you’re on Pro, that the specific window (morning/afternoon/evening/bedtime) is toggled on in Profile → SMS Reminders, and that you replied YES to the confirmation text: reminders only start after that reply. If you previously replied STOP, reply START from the same number to re-enable.

My tap-to-done email link says “expired”. Links are only valid for the day they were sent. Open the app directly to mark items done after that.

My inventory count is wrong. Tap the colored “remaining” badge on the supplement and adjust manually. If auto-decrement is off (in the edit dialog), check-offs won’t touch inventory.

I added a supplement but I don’t see it on the Today page. Make sure you set a timing: supplements without a timing show up in the “Unscheduled” slot, not the time-specific slots.

Something else? Email hello@stackritual.com. We respond within a day.