Save the settings that worked.
Freeze Dry Buddy helps you log every freeze-dry batch, remember your best results, and build a pantry you can actually track.
Built with White Pepper Farms, Freeze Dry Buddy turns scattered notes, sticky labels, and memory into a practical freeze-drying workflow. Whether you're preserving garden harvests, family meals, camping food, or long-term food storage, it keeps your best batches easy to find and reuse.
Use Freeze Dry Buddy to:
• Log each batch with the details that matter
Track food, trays, weight, prep notes, time, results, and the settings you used so you know exactly what to repeat next time.
• Save your own freeze-dry playbook
Your history becomes a personal reference library. Search past batches, compare what worked, and stop guessing on repeat runs.
• Build a pantry you can see
Keep a record of what you preserved, what you have on hand, and how your food storage is growing over time.
• Start faster with creator guidance
Get practical recipe cards, settings, and tips from White Pepper Farms so you can move from "What should I run?" to "Here's what I'm doing next."
• Preserve for real life
Great for home freeze-drying hobbyists, small-batch food makers, prep-minded households, campers, hunters, and anyone who wants to waste less food and store more of it well.
Why people use Freeze Dry Buddy:
• Remember the exact settings that worked
• Reuse your best batch notes
• Keep recipes, pantry records, and batch history in one place
• Reduce waste and protect the time you put into every run
• Build confidence with each batch
Whether you're freeze-drying strawberries, eggs, candy, herbs, leftovers, or full meals, Freeze Dry Buddy helps you preserve more with less guessing.
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I’m new to freeze drying, so there’s definitely a learning curve for me, but overall the Freeze Dry Buddy app seems pretty straightforward and easy to navigate. I like being able to keep track of batches and pantry inventory in one place.One thing I would really love to see improved is the pantry option for bag counts. Right now, it seems set up as a simple 1 tray = 1 bag situation, but that doesn’t always work in real life. For example, I had a couple trays that needed 1.5 bags each, so 2 trays ended up making 3 bags total. I couldn’t really find a good way to account for that in the app, so my pantry count is off.Aside from that, it’s been helpful so far, especially for someone just starting out with freeze drying.
Developer Response
I took this to the team a couple of days ago and your suggestion will be in the next update, great call out! -Brandon
I like what I see so far
ShadeeRey
I have literally only just scratched the surface but I like what I see so far. It gave me easy to read setting for the first thing I asked to do (bananas) I had done a few batches before but not as the settings that Brandon suggested. I am excited to dial in my FD and not waste my time.
Review
EMT 237 B
I am so excited for this App, I can’t wait to learn more about freeze drying, etc
Developer Response
We’re excited to have you here! There’s a lot to learn with freeze drying, and we're building Freeze Dry Buddy to make that process easier step by step. -Brandon
High hopes
sjd143
I had high hopes for this app since I just got a freeze dry machine and have been following Whitepepper farms. But after logging batch #2, the app freezes and I can’t navigate away from the pop up. I’ve deleted and reloaded the app and nothing is changing. I’ll keep checking back for a fix because I really wanted this to work
Developer Response
Thanks for giving Freeze Dry Buddy a shot, and congratulations on the new machine. We are genuinely sorry it locked up on you right out of the gate.After you log a batch, the app shows a short celebration popup, and on some devices that popup could fail to close and trap you, exactly as you described. We have tracked it down and a fix is on the way in the next update.We would love for you to stick with us. Please give it another try when the update arrives, and thank you for taking the time to tell us what happened.
The Freeze Dry Buddy Cookbook is now in the app. See the founding edition from your Today screen, read what is inside it, and reserve a copy.
Recipe cards now show the water loss you have measured yourself across your own runs, with the water to add back per 100g dried, and the rehydration calculator uses that rate instead of a single batch.
Brandon's published recipes now run on the exact temperatures he set, and a scanned sweet recipe files under sweet snacks rather than candy.
Version 26.8.14
The developer, BUILT BY FOUNDRY, INC., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
BUILT BY FOUNDRY, INC.
Size
106.6 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
