FoodShiner: Pantry Companion 4+

This app makes it possible to easily keep track of foods, quantities, and expiry dates. Not only does it mean I no longer lose things at the bottom of my freezer, but when I’m at the grocery store, I know 100% whether I’m out of something or not. Less wasted food, better planning!

One tweak I’m really hoping to see in an update is the ability to choose the quantity when using the “move” function. For instance if I have 10 chicken breasts in the chest freezer, I’d like the option to move 4 of them to the fridge freezer. Currently, I have to delete them from one and re-enter them in the other location. (“Consume” allows you to choose the quantity, so I’m really hoping that “move” will follow suit!)

Setup shared freezers with my wife but only changed I make, as owner, are reflected on both. If my wife makes a change or addition, that change is not made on my side. Could be great app but needs 2 way synchronization.

i have trouble feeding myself everyday because of my adhd. unless food is directly in front of me, i’ll forget to eat entirely.

i started to keep photos of food in my camera roll to show myself what i have in the kitchen and remind myself to eat. but this was really messy and i couldn’t really add info to the photos.

this is SO much easier and simple. whenever i get groceries, i enter items into the app as soon as i put it away. when i open something or use something up, i make sure to enter it in. now when i know i should eat but can’t find the energy, i open the app and look at what i have. this helps my executive functioning get going.

i still have days where i forget to eat but knowing what i can eat and deciding not to eat is still SO much better than when i didn’t know what to eat, didn’t want to go check, and just gave up on eating.

a few things i’ve noticed and have suggestions for —
- it’s kind of clunky to share with people in your household. you have to share each storage space and each list individually. it’s clunky but not totally unusable. i wish you could just share a “home” and then all the spaces or lists in that home is shared.

- i wish there was a tagging system! there is a category system where you can categorize things into vegetables, dairy, snacks, etc. you can even make your own categories. but! you can’t put something in multiple categories. i want to be able to tag things as a kind of meal like “breakfast” or as part of a recipe like “deli sandwich”. then if i’m looking for what to eat for breakfast, i just have to filter by its tag. if i’m checking to see if i have everything to make a deli sandwich, i just have to filter by its tag.

- i wish it was easier to add unique products. you have to go through the motions of searching something in the database before you can click to add a unique product. and if you happen to type something that’s already in the database, there is no option at all but to click that search result. like if we could have FoodShiner’s database along with our own personal database that the user populates, that would be really cool.

- i LOVE the stats feature. i kind of wish there were more robust stats like which space gets thrown more? consumed more? what item runs out really fast? that kind of thing.

5/5 all the way though! please donate to the creators! ❤️