ok2eat: Enjoy Fresh,Waste Less
Food & Drink
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
You open your fridge. There's leftover chicken, half a bag of spinach, three yogurts, and that cilantro you forgot about. Which one is going bad first? Most apps make you scroll through an inventory list to find out. ok2eat just tells you.
Open the new Eat Me First tab and your fridge is already sorted: the chicken expires tomorrow, the spinach has two days, the cilantro is gone. Tap any item and you get three recipe ideas that use it — and the four next-most-urgent things alongside it — so dinner uses what's about to spoil instead of what you'd have to buy.
WHAT'S IN ok2eat
· Scan a grocery receipt — Snap one photo, ok2eat reads every line item and adds them to your fridge with smart expiration dates pulled from the USDA FoodKeeper directory (660 foods, free and public at ok2eat.com/shelf-life).
· See what's about to spoil — The Eat Me First tab ranks your fridge by urgency. No more digging through dates.
· Recipes that match your diet — Set dietary preferences (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, low-carb, keto) and allergies (peanut, tree nut, shellfish, fish, egg, milk, soy, wheat, sesame) once. Every recipe respects them.
· Recipes that scale to your household — Tell ok2eat how many people you cook for. Ingredient amounts adjust automatically. No more dividing by 4.
· Track money saved, lbs rescued, CO2 avoided — The Dashboard tab shows what your fridge-tracking habit has actually been worth. Cold-start framing: the average US household wastes $1,866 of food a year. Yours doesn't have to.
· Share your fridge with your household — Partners and roommates see the same inventory, the same shopping list, the same alerts. One household, one fridge.
· Daily email digest — Optional once-a-day summary of what's about to expire.
WHO ok2eat IS FOR
People who already buy groceries thoughtfully but watch some of it go to waste anyway — the half-bag of spinach, the cheese that grew fuzzy, the chicken thawed three days ago that nobody got around to. ok2eat doesn't ask you to plan harder. It tells you what to use next.
WHAT POWERS IT
Expiration windows come from the USDA's FoodKeeper data — 660 foods, fact-checked, sourced. No guessing.
Free. iPhone and at ok2eat.com for a web version
more Ok2eat takes the guesswork out of knowing what’s still safe and good to eat by organizing your fridge and pantry with clear expiration tracking and smart reminders. The intuitive interface makes logging new groceries quick and painless, so staying on top of your inventory actually becomes a habit rather than a chore. Meal suggestions based on what’s about to expire are a genuinely clever touch that turns potential waste into inspired cooking. If reducing food waste and saving money at the grocery store are priorities for you, this app earns a firm recommendation.
Ok2eat takes the guesswork out of knowing what’s still safe and good to eat by organizing your fridge and pantry with clear expiration tracking and smart reminders. The intuitive interface makes logging new groceries quick and painless, so staying on top of your inventory actually becomes a habit rather than a chore. Meal suggestions based on what’s about to expire are a genuinely clever touch that turns potential waste into inspired cooking. If reducing food waste and saving money at the grocery store are priorities for you, this app earns a firm recommendation.
What a great app! I always said I wish I had an app that would tell me what to make with what I had and here it is! I am wasting less food now and making use of more food before it goes bad!
What a great app! I always said I wish I had an app that would tell me what to make with what I had and here it is! I am wasting less food now and making use of more food before it goes bad!
It has helped me tremendously in Managing the Spoilage in my Kitchen, it has already helped me when I purchase items that I thought that I had but didn’t
It has helped me tremendously in Managing the Spoilage in my Kitchen, it has already helped me when I purchase items that I thought that I had but didn’t
Easy way to manage food waste and save money. It’s simple to use, I highly recommend.
Easy way to manage food waste and save money. It’s simple to use, I highly recommend.
Fix: weekly meal plan recipes now respond to taps. You can add ingredients to your shopping list and use the in-stock matching just like every other recipe.
Behind the scenes: faster recipe generation on weekly plans, thanks to smarter caching across cuisines.
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day. — Greg
1.26.2 May 23
Fixes:
- Barcode scan now shows the actual calendar date alongside the days picker — easier to set the "best by" date printed on a package.
- Same item now shows the same emoji in both the Fridge list and item detail. (Cooked leftovers were inconsistently showing chicken vs. bento.)
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day. — Greg
1.26.1 May 21
Plan your full week — pick any cuisines you want, set serving count, get 5 dinners scaled to your household.
Previous plans save automatically. Reactivate any past week in one tap.
Snap items now opens your camera instantly — no more flashing modals. Tips and the daily scan limit are surfaced so you know what works best.
Bug fixes: recipe search returns results across all cuisines, recipe sheets scroll fully (not just the ingredients section), shopping list adds, Settings layout.
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day. — Greg
1.26 May 21
What's new in v1.25:
- Snap a photo of your groceries. New "Snap Items" tile on the Add screen. Point your camera at items spread on the counter (or pick a saved photo) — we identify each one and pre-fill your fridge in seconds. 5 photos per day.
- Receipt scans are faster and more forgiving. Photos shrink automatically before upload — much faster on cellular, and big photos no longer fail. New friendlier loading messages tell you what's happening (no more silent spinner). Errors finally explain themselves: "Connection slow — try again" vs "Try a clearer photo" instead of one vague message.
- Manual search returns results reliably. Fixed the bug where "cheddar cheese" (and other common queries) sometimes returned nothing. ~7x faster too.
- Your version + cleaner fridge view. App version now shows at the bottom of Settings (helpful for support requests). Fridge view drops the duplicate "Heads up" banner and tightens the layout.
Quiet polish under the hood: tile icons + labels updated, better emoji on the new flows, more breathing room above the system gesture handle on newer iPhones.
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day. — Greg, founder
1.25 May 20
What's new in v1.23:
- Forgot your password? Fixed. The login screen now has a "Forgot password?" link — tap it, type your email, set a new password from the link we send. No more emailing support to get back in.
- Quiet bug fixes and polish under the hood.
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day. — Greg
1.23 May 19
• Your fridge knows more food. We added 1,200+ common items (hard
cheeses, cured meats, frozen vegetables, dried beans, canned goods)
so search finds them by name instead of buried under branded SKUs.
Each one has shelf-life data tuned per item — cheddar lasts 6 months,
not 14 days.
• Save your leftovers. After you mark something as used, you'll see
"Save leftovers?" — tap Save and a cooked row appears in your fridge,
good for 4 days. Stops those Tuesday-night "wait, when did I cook
this" moments.
• Use / Order / Toss. Open any item and you'll see three clear actions.
Toss tracks the waste so a future Dashboard can show you what you're
losing month-over-month. Order opens online retailers or adds the
item to your shopping list.
• Move items between containers. Realized something belongs in the
freezer? Transfer it without re-adding — the expiry window updates
automatically.
• Sort your fridge by expiry. New Fridge-tab sort options surface
what's closest to going bad. Pairs with the Dashboard's At Risk
Now tile, which is now tap-through to the right place.
• Polish. Share-sheet duplicate link preview fixed. Upgrade prompt
no longer reappears after you dismiss it. Cheddar finally gets a
cheese emoji.
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read
same day. — Greg
1.22 May 18
What's new in v1.21:
• Share a shopping list. Tap Share on any list in the Plan tab and
send the link to whoever's heading to the store — they can open
it in a browser, no sign-up needed.
• Share a recipe. The recipe sheet now has a Share button next to
the heart. Send tonight's recipe to the person doing the cooking.
• Cleaner expiry copy. Items that expire today now read "Use today"
instead of "Expired" — they're still safe to cook with, and that's
the whole point.
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read
same day. — Greg
1.21 May 16
Better recipe browsing — and your shopping list builds itself.
- Tap any recipe → see exactly which ingredients are already in your fridge. The missing ones are the only ones we add to your shopping list. No more buying spinach you already have.
- "What are you craving tonight?" — pick a cuisine (Italian, Mexican, Thai, and 9 more) and Tonight's recipes filter to match.
- Eat Me First recipes get the same shopping-list flow as Plan tab recipes. Open a recipe, tap missing items, send them to a new list with one button.
- Smarter emoji on fridge items: salmon, cilantro, ground beef. No more generic icons for everything in Protein.
- New version notifications — opt in and get a heads-up when ok2eat updates land in the App Store.
- Quieter manual search: shows the 4 best matches instead of overwhelming you with 10.
- Several small bug fixes around the daily digest email and shared shopping lists.
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day. — Greg
1.19 May 14
v1.18 — Your daily digest now suggests recipes using what's actually in your fridge. Plus a new 6pm "cook tonight" nudge.
- Daily digest, smarter. Instead of generic recipe-site links, you'll see three dish ideas hand-picked for what's expiring in your fridge today. Tap any one to open the full recipe in the app — ingredients, steps, the works.
- Heart recipes you love. Tap the heart on any recipe and it lives in the new Saved Recipes section in your Plan tab. Find your go-tos without scrolling through old digests.
- Smart Cook Night. Tonight at 6pm we'll send one push: "Cook X tonight" with a hint of which items it'll use. Skip the daily "what should I make?" loop. Tunable in Settings if you eat earlier or later than 6pm — or turn it off entirely.
- Shared fridges talk to each other. If you share a household, you'll get a push when your partner adds milk to the Costco list or crosses off an item.
Free on iPhone and the web. Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day.
— Greg
1.18 May 14
v1.17 — Cleaner add flow + a real recovery path if you ever lose the welcome email.
- Multi-add is now front-and-center. "Add a List" sits alongside Scan Barcode and Scan Receipt at the top of the + screen — no more digging.
- Pick where it goes. Manual-add now has a Fridge / Pantry / Freezer picker, same as the receipt-scan and barcode flows. Pick once, the shelf-life lookup adapts.
- Recipe sheets close on tap-outside, or the new X button. No more feeling trapped.
- Tap any ok2eat link from Mail, Messages, or X and the app opens to the right screen. Universal Links wired up.
- Forgot to confirm your email? New "Resend confirmation" button on signup + login. No more starting over from scratch.
- Cleaner emails. Bigger type, sharper headers, the avocado where you'd expect it.
Free on iPhone and the web. Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day.
— Greg
1.17 May 13
v1.16 is the biggest update since launch. Five things.
1. NEW: Eat Me First tab — your fridge sorted by urgency. The thing closest to spoiling is at the top. Tap any item to get three recipe ideas that use it (plus the other four things expiring soonest).
2. NEW: Dashboard tab — see lifetime money saved, pounds of food rescued, CO2 avoided. Live data, recalculated every time you mark something used.
3. Recipes now match your diet. Tell ok2eat once whether you're vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, etc., plus any allergies. Every recipe respects them. Recipes also scale to your household size.
4. Better expiration dates. When you scan a receipt or add an item, ok2eat now stores both the printed date and the USDA shelf-life window — so you stop throwing out yogurt that's still good.
5. Smarter receipt scanning. Items now get categorized into Fridge, Pantry, or Freezer automatically based on the food type. Bread → pantry, ice cream → freezer, no manual sorting.
Plus container labels everywhere, a cleaner 5-tab layout (Fridge / Eat First / Plan / Dashboard / Settings), and a fix for the receipt-scan camera not launching from the Add menu.
If you've been using ok2eat for a while, the Eat Me First tab is the one to open first. Built for the exact moment you're standing at the fridge door wondering "what do I cook tonight?"
Feedback: suppoert@ok2eat.com — read same day.
1.16 May 12
What's new in 1.15:
• Empty fridge gets a one-tap "Scan a receipt" CTA — auto-fill your fridge from a grocery slip in 10 seconds.
• New "Try a sample receipt" — see what the populated experience looks like without needing a real receipt.
• Evening reminders the same day you add items, referencing whichever item is expiring soonest.
• Clearer camera prompt when you scan your first receipt — we explain why we need access.
• Cancel button restored on the manual-add screen.
1.15 May 7
Smart search — type "cheerios" or "almond milk" and we'll find
the exact product. Name, category, and expiry filled in for you.
Macro tracking — calories, protein, fat, and carbs auto-fill
for packaged items. Powered by Open Food Facts (800,000+ products).
Better barcode scans — faster, more accurate, with brand names
and images. Plus a one-tap fix when permissions get accidentally
denied.
1.14 May 4
Better shopping lists, fewer bugs.
- Add many items at once — paste or type a whole list, save in one tap.
- Past lists are saved — finish a Costco run, reuse it next week.
- Bought items collapse to a "Got these" group at the bottom.
- Recently-added chips above the input — one tap to re-add staples.
- Swipe-to-use and swipe-to-delete on fridge items work again.
- Add Item screen has a Cancel button and the keyboard now scrolls
out of the way (with a Done button).
1.13 May 3
Bug fix: the in-app update prompt was firing repeatedly on launch even
for users already on the latest version. Resolved.
1.12 May 2
v1.1.0:
- Multiple shopping lists — keep your Costco, Trader Joe's, and weekday lists separate.
- Pick a date when adding items — type the actual expiration date instead of counting days.
- Open ok2eat in one tap from your daily digest email.
- Shopping list keyboard fix — the input no longer hides under the keyboard.
1.11 May 1
Real testers told us ok2eat had too many taps. v1.0.10 fixes that.
- Swipe right on an item — done, used it all
- Swipe left — gone
- Search bar at the top of your fridge
- Recently-added items can be re-added in one tap
- Receipt scanning is finally where it belongs (right next to barcode scan)
- A "How To" tab and quick first-run tour for new users
Less waste, more savings.
1.10 May 1
v1.0.9 — Sharing + setup polish
- Cleaner sign-up. New users with an invite code now skip straight to entering it instead of being walked through creating a household first.
- Shared shopping list. What one household member adds, the other sees. Same list, same check-offs, on every phone.
- Better invite experience. Sharing your fridge now sends a clean link that walks recipients through joining — no more bare 6-character code in a text message.
- Editable expiry when adding. The Add Item form now lets you set the expiry date directly, with a separate "once opened" shelf life for packaged items. Defaults remember your category.
- Compact categories filter. The fridge home recovers ~100px of vertical space — more of your actual items visible at once.
- Reminders settings consolidated. One card with "Push to phone" and "Email to inbox" toggles, instead of two cards saying nearly the same thing.
- Under-the-hood fixes: manual add no longer crashes when typing in a unit, editing item quantity works cleanly, and the "joined a household but still seeing old items" bug is squashed.
1.09 Apr 29
v1.0.8 — Shared households
• Share your fridge with anyone in your home using a 6-character invite code. Equal access — both of you can add, edit, and delete items, and you'll always see the same inventory.
• New "Plan" tab combines recipe ideas (links to AllRecipes / NYT Cooking / Epicurious based on what's in your fridge) with a manual shopping list and a one-tap "Order N items" button to Instacart, Amazon, or Walmart.
• Containers redesign: Fridge / Pantry / Freezer chips replace the old storage tabs.
• Pick a unit from a dropdown (count, oz, lb, g, kg, fl oz, cup, qt, gallon, ml, L, and more) instead of typing one in.
• Behind-the-scenes fixes: manual-add no longer crashes when adding a unit, in-app update prompt now correctly handles iTunes Lookup version normalization, and several friend-feedback polish items.
1.08 Apr 29
What's new in 1.0.6:
- Daily email digest. Get your fridge summary in your inbox each morning, alongside push notifications. Toggle it on under Reminders.
- In-app update prompts. We'll let you know when a new version ships so you don't have to check.
- Cleaner fridge dashboard. Simplified the stats row up top.
Thanks for using ok2eat.
1.06 Apr 28
v1.0.5
- New avocado app icon
- Items now have separate Amount and Unit fields — track "2 lbs" or "1 dozen" properly
- New "Expired" filter on the fridge — tap to see what needs tossing
- Multi-select on the fridge list — long-press an item to select multiple at once and delete in one tap
- Receipt scans now save reliably, even when an item has a quirky entry
- Notifications redesigned: one daily digest at 9am with everything expiring soon and expired, instead of a separate alert for each item
1.05 Apr 27
Fixed a bug that didn't allow uploads to be processed
1.04 Apr 26
ok2eat v1.0.3 — major update!
• Sign in with Apple and secure accounts
• Barcode scanner with nutrition info
• Receipt scanner that adds items in bulk
• AI-powered recipe suggestions for what's in your fridge
• Affiliate reorder for Amazon
• Push notifications before items expire
• Light theme and refreshed UI
1.0.3 Apr 22
- Sign in with Apple
- Private fridge — your items are now completely private
- Multiple storage sections — add Fridge, Cupboard, Freezer and more
- Share tab — invite friends to join ok2eat
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.02 Apr 15
Bug fixes and performance improvements including private user accounts — your fridge is now completely private and only visible to you.
1.01 Apr 14
Fix: weekly meal plan recipes now respond to taps. You can add ingredients to your shopping list and use the in-stock matching just like every other recipe.
Behind the scenes: faster recipe generation on weekly plans, thanks to smarter caching across cuisines.
Reply to any of our emails with anything broken or confusing — read same day. — Greg
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