FoodShiner: Pantry Companion

Every feature is well thought out, great iCloud sync, no direct reliance on a server (product lookups require it of course). The ability to backup to a file is greatly appreciated (and stops the app being a walled garden) and not opting the user into anti-features shows the right attitude.

Works great, use it all the time.

The App has been very carefully thought out in terms of its extensive integrated functionality, which is intuitive and wonderfully easy to learn and use. Unlike many Apps that manage food products, it does not require signing up to a service and is not driven by recipes, though the products can still be linked to recipe names through tags. For me, these things are very important. By not being directly driven through recipes, it is capable of managing stock and shopping for any household consumable, not just food items, but also, for example, wrappings, laundry products, cleaning products and personal care products. The creation of shopping lists, their use in shop for logging purchased products and then their transfer into stock listings is simple and elegant. The iCloud sharing facility between my devices and my wife’s devices works very well and is very useful, enabling us both to use the same stock and shopping lists. Furthermore, the export and import facilities work incredibly well - I was able to create a CSV file from my old pantry management App and import all 466 products cleanly into FoodShiner, which was a massive time-saver. A truly excellent App for its purpose and, not only that, the support from the developer is excellent too.

Only just started to use this app but it seems to cover everything I need and is easy to use.

I’ve been looking for an app to keep an inventory of all my food stuffs. I’ve tried a couple of other apps, but this one is perfect for my needs.

Excellent app to record where everything is and when it will expire, and helps me create shopping lists and stop me duplicating things I already have. Wish I'd known about it years ago.

I started looking for a freezer app because I purchased some food labels which had a dedicated QR code; the label supplier had an app but is pretty dreadful. I then searched for an alternative and after several downloads and deletions I finally found FoodShiner - and it is free as I write this review. It does it all or certainly all I need. I can now use either my QR Code labels or the product Bar Codes. So a donation went off to the owner of the app to show my appreciation.

Would give it 10 stars if I could. 😀 function rich with ability to inventory your food in whatever location it is in the house, set status to show an item is open (and how much used if useful) and whether you’ve ending up throwing it away or eating it, set an alert to flag when it’s going out of date (including adjusting date if opening affects life), and push to a shopping list either automatically or manually. Then use the list to check off when bought and move that item to storage. And easy to share with the other half so we both manage it (although it would be great to do a share of all storages/shopping lists in one go rather than share each storage location/list individually). It takes effort to set up (depending on how much food you have) but so worth it. For the first time I was able to check in real time at the supermarket if I had an item already and therefore avoid buying it unnecessarily Plus it’s free, but well worth the ‘tip’ that I paid to them to acknowledge how happy I am with this app. Bravo to the developers and thank you so much for allowing me to get so organised 😂😂

Finally an app that offers desired functionality with no subscription, and it's decently customisable.

Thank you so much. Only downloaded yesterday so am still getting to grips with it. Wanted a database to help prevent forgotten items lurking in a garage chest freezer and wasted. Looked at a few ‘recommended’ apps, but they all seemed to want to gather/sell on data and have links to 3rd parties/tracking across all media. A definite no from me. Then I came across this one. Wow. A breath of fresh air. No tracking, hopefully simple to use and no ‘bells and whistles’. So thank you so much. Seems just what I need. Have only added a few items so far as I want to understand the process before letting loose. But, cautiously, looks brilliant, and if it saves wasted food then should be adopted by everyone.