Home Food Storage App Reviews

So let me start by saying I'm a bit of a food hoarder, so I love this app! Sometimes I forget what I have on hand while shopping which is why I have multiple bags of obscure items, well no more. I love the fact that I have everything inventoried by location, including toiletries and medications. I also have the expiration dates and what I paid so I can comparison shop. I would highly recommend this app for anyone prepping for emergencies or anyone who tends to forget what they have in the house.

This needs a way to auto sync inventory between devices for safamily. Also, interface needs to be improved. I need to know what I'm out of or scan something. The stats don't matter to me. Not intuitive. Does not account for different brands of same type of product eg Alfredo sauce.

Just purchased. After only 15 or 20 minutes, I can tell this app is great. Sure, there might be a little details here or there that could be improved, but, as an organizational fiend, I can vouch for a very strong framework here. Refinement will likely come in time. I'm very pleased with the organization, attention to detail, and logic of this app. Especially when considering it's probably a small-ish company/market. Other reviewer's recommend going to the website. Definitely helpful, but not necessary. -Does have ability to (manually) sync to other devices. CHEERS!

This is an awesome app for cataloging your preps. I recommend it to all my preppers. FB Puget Sound Preppers.

I love this app. I've tried a few others but this is the best that I've found so far. My only problem is at times it's hard to customize the quantity that I need, sublocations and remembering food and store names.

It’s easy to use, and let me know what I need to get stocked up. I love the barcode scanner that is awesome.

Love this app! I would like to see a category for the number of serving a can has added to the list of specifics. The freeze dried, dehydrated and canned food all have different weights to them. A better tally I would think would be in the number of servings a can holds. Weight is important too and needs to be considered as well. I know in the options you can chose either weight or servings. Both are important elements to consider. After using this app for a few years now the numbers don’t seem to change. I’ve been at 39% prepared forever it seems. I would like to see areas as to where I can get past the 39% rank. Water you can’t store a year or more for a family of say 4. There is just not enough space. What about water filtration equipment would that make a difference? Are tents & sleeping bags accounted for, clothing or other things that would make life easier in a disaster mode? Where are those categories?

I'm very impressed with this app. I've used several of them, but this is the best by far. I won't be using any others. It does take a few hours to learn. But it's more than worth it.

After working with the app to organize our boat I’d have to say I’m impressed with how intuitive the app laid out. I love being able to scan something and just press the + or - to increase and decrease quantity (other apps you have to click in the product after scanning and then change quantity) nice time saver. I haven’t figured how to backup to iCloud which would be nice. I keep getting the prompt I click to follow instructions but can’t sign in to iCloud. I like it defaults to my iPhone device storage because on a sailboat I’m more often away from an internet/cell signal. I hope to see in the future the ability to search brands. So far if I search a product by brand I haven’t seen it find the product but instantly by product name. Thanks

Love the calculating of need based on person and the ability to make lists. Great app for our new to food storage family ;) Would love to see a connected database with the barcode scanner, similar to those in weight loss apps like my fitness pal, nearly every product o scan pops up and I'd love that feature here.

I’ve only had this app for a few days... so I’m hoping it will give me suggestions on what To prepare based on what i have on hand. The scanner works great, little consuming enter expiration dates... wish it would populate that as well!!!! But overall it’s a great app...

I spent several hours going through my pantry with this app and it was a great aid in cataloging what we have on hand. After a little effort I was able to get it to sync with my wife's phone through Dropbox. If you what to be prepared for any kind of emergency, food storage wise this is a great tool!

Complex, but then managing all the things you need to is complex. Bar code scanner works, but doesn't do anything other than record a number. Make the whole thing simpler by using bar codes to identify products across all storage locations. Also, connect to the internet to download and auto-populate all relevant data. This would save a LOT of input time.

One of the best home food inventory apps. Buy list and updates are right on target for preppers. Exportable data for printing if grid goes down.

I love this app! It was (almost) exactly what I was looking for. I tried several other inventory apps because I wanted to organize my food storage. Everything I found was geared either towards a small business, or a home inventory - which would be very useful for reporting and insurance claim, but not so great for a rotating inventory. The ONLY thing I wish I could do with this app is scan my own barcodes and assign them to an item. For example, storage I bought at the LDS church cannery doesn't have barcodes. I would like to print my own to put on the cans and take inventory that way. As it is, I have to type each one in. Which definitely still works, so it's not a huge deal. Overall, I am very happy with it!

This is a great app for tracking multiple locations of items, and where the best prices are. It appears the designers are responsive to suggestions, so mine is: when I am inputting an item price and where I bought it, there isn’t an auto-fill or suggestion drop-down for frequently used places. That box uses last saved entry, which is only useful when I am entering multiple items from a receipt. Overall, I am very pleased with the functionality of this app. The menus take a little getting used to, but I love the customizable features.

So nice to keep track of what I have on hand. Makes shopping so much easier. I can just check how much I have while at the store rather than guessing how much I have at home. Does take some time to input everything but well worth it.

Just started using today. Don't know all the capabilities yet but would love to be able to print the entire inventory, not just the shopping list. Need to post paper copy to individual storage areas so that items can be marked off as used. Have a Large family who all access food items. Add this function and this will be a 5 star app in my opinion! Also love previous reviewer's comment about adding own items. Great idea!

This just keeps getting better and better. Very helpful and very useful!!

I found this app and couldn’t be happier. We have a very large family and therefore stock up when there are sales. As organized as I try to be, there always seems to be something that gets missed or we find we have to hurry up and use. Now I can look at this app and see everything we have and anything that is soon to expire. I have added all my pantry items and have been able to add to the list the same items with different dates that I store in the basement. It is very easy to “move” items around from one location to another when I restock the pantry from the basement. The original intent of the app seems to be to help people stock up for a period of months determined by the user and by the amount they anticipate their household will need. I customized that portion to show items vs weight of things because I don’t worry about do I have enough food for 6 months. I wanted the app so I could better know what we have stocked up on and what dates were for things. I also renamed groups in ways that made since to me. The app originally is set out by things like food groups. I made categories for things like breakfast items and then under that made healthy cereal, sweet cereal, oatmeal, etc. Another one was for pasta dinner things. We eat a lot of pasta, so it made more since to me to see all the types of pasta and various sauces in the same category. Take a little time and play around with the app and you will see ways you can use it too. You may want it for the original intent, but if not, it is really customizable for anything you might need it for. I hope to add freezer items soon and will update a review when I see how that works.

Bought it but don't plan to use it. It has too much information I don't need.

For those who are having problems with the app... Perhaps get creative with how you use the fields. Experiment with where things show up... The brand field is, for example, a perfect place to put unit prices of items... Then it shows up nicely in the item listing. Put the store you purchased at in the name field after the name of the item... NAME: Beans, Pinto, Dry - COSTCO BRAND: 25# $12.99 ($.52/#) Enter listings like this for beans at your other favorite stores... Then when you search beans in order to add to your shopping list, you can easily see which store has the best price. Add that one to your buy list. Then in your shopping list the item name comes up, which means you can see what store you're planning to go to to buy that item because you put it in the items name. IIn this way... I not only use this app for inventory, I use it for my price book and shopping list! Brilliant!

I have tried several apps for Pantry storage so far this one meets my needs, have tried more expensive ones that did not work as well and free ones. I have found several features on the app that were not spelled out very well on the description when I bought it but I am glad that they were part of the app. Allows for multiple storage areas and keeps track of purchase history and many other features. The issue that I did have was trying to delete a food type that I entered wrong. Went to the web site to read the help but still had issues, sent the developer an email and he responded in a timely manner, and after several emails the issue was resolved. There was no issue with the program just me trying to figure it out.

Mostly useful. Easy to add items and track. I would like to see a way to log multiple expiration dates. I am still new at using this app but I find some calculation parameters are easier to use than others. Some are less accurate. I like the templates that prompt prepping suggestions. Overall, a very good app.

This is the only food storage app I've used, but it seem like it does everything it needs to do, including customized entries and ability to export to a spreadsheet. Only improvement would be to be able to type in quantities instead of scrolling through a number dial. Gets annoying when you're entering anything over 10. 😉

Let’s me enter data exactly how I have it stored, and gives me list features to help me plan my next steps. Love this app!

Manual transfer between devices on same local network only renders effort to log inventory a waste of time.

This is the best app for tracking food storage. It can handle a wide range of items and is very flexible in what can be tracked. Features such as barcode scanning make item entry much easier, and syncing with other devices using Dropbox or iCloud is a plus.

I have used this App for years and love it. I just wish there was a built in way to perform an inventory reconciliation or at least print from the lists and by location to make it easier to do manually.

I use this app more than any other. If you are into food storage to any degree, this app will make your life easier. I find the app easy to use. My only complaint - the Below Goal shopping list isn't arranged in any order that makes sense to me. I still give the app 5 stars!

This app wasn't really what I was expecting. I liked the idea of having an inventory for my kitchen, and also having the ability to distinguish between adults and children. However this app is over complicated because of the options it provides however it does not actually give you an easy to understand idea of what is in your kitchen or basement or pantry. It seems that it is mostly useful for event planning or church function or after a disaster.I wouldn't recommend this app for somebody trying to use it for day today inventory management of your food items.

This is an excellent app for managing food storage. I think that the only improvement I would make is all for the deletion of food storage areas between categories. For instance, I recently remodeled my kitchen/pantry, and many of the site options that I previously used no longer exist, yet I have no way to delete them

Works well and is very easy to enter in inv.

Thanks for helping me keep track of my storage!

This app is OK. It could be a little more user-friendly and it needs to be able to sync between members of the family. If you can't sync with the members of the family then the inventory is not correct.

I really like this app. I'd tried paper inventory systems and they were just tedious and always got put away somewhere that I couldn't find when I needed it. This scanned in a very large percentage of my pantry and the ones I had to enter myself were easy. It's very customizable so I've inventoried out other emergency supplies in it too, not just food and water. Figuring out how and where to massage all of the factors for its calculations is a bit tough at first but I think I've got it now. More documentation somewhere would be nice. Agree with other reviewer, the wheel when entering quantities is annoying but I understand the use of the wheel, as a developer myself.

So far so good was extremely easy to setup and use. Will re-review if anything changes

I almost never pay for apps, but this was well worth a couple dollars. If you want to do what it's geared for, which is prepping for emergencies for a family, it's pretty much perfect. I just needed a simple way to track food inventory & make sure we weren't letting things expire. With some customization, which isn't that hard once you get used to the app, it's working really well. Do not get an app which won't let you make an easy back up! This one does… Just a couple of clicks & you've emailed yourself a text file. Done and done. I do wish there were more items in the database, as I've had to add about 50% of my stuff. I've also scanned two items where the barcodes were incorrect, but I don't find a simple way to suggest a correction. The only other things on my wish list are that the dbase included photos, the scanner could read QR codes, that I could customize or filter reports, and that I could customize the 3 top-level categories. All that said, this app is already saving me money as I avoid letting valuable supplies expire or run out. Thanks to the creator for all the hard work that clearly went into it!

If you are looking for an app to easily track what you have on hand in the freezer/fridge/pantry this is Not the droid you're looking for.

At first i was a bit skeptical about this app. I had tried other apps similar and had problems finding foods to add to my lists. This app does it all. You just scan the item and add the quantities. I love the location, expiration date and buy features the best!

This is an emergency preparation manager that’s trying to appeal to pantry/shopping needs. When you indicate you bought an item it doesn’t add it to the pantry.

Not at all what I thought I was. Hard to list items. Scanning them you still need to input information. Not a good app to keep a list of food items on hand. Sorry I spent my 1.99.

The first app I've ever used that I feel is deserving of 5 stars! This app is close to ideal and meets a significant need. I will recommend this to all my neighbors. Trying to decide if we have the discipline to subtract daily inventory usage...but can definitely see the benefits of doing so. Have a few questions still but I am very happy! I appreciated the quick response to my email technical question. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to upgrades.

Needs reminders for rotating studs

I am so glad to find this app! Very intuitive and customizable. I used a different app for years but it crashed a year or so ago and the developer is absent. It was easy to update my food storage and pantry- the barcode database is huge! My one ‘want’ would be to be able to delete an item by scanning the barcode. That would making rotation a breeze! It’s still my new favorite app!!

Pretty good app so far, best part is definitely just scanning bar codes. But need to have calorie information. For example, if it can find all the Mountain House data it should also include the total calories. Worth the cost though.

I've only been using this for a week, but so far I am pleased with the process of uploading our food storage inventory. The % bar is helpful for a quick glance and the categories always by with the ability to edit and add new ones seems just about right.

Yeah

I found this app very useful once I took the time to go to its website and review the directions. Know that the app is very structured, which limits your ability to hop directly from place to place. Sometimes you just have to cancel out of an action to get to the nav bar on the bottom if you've changed your mind. On the other hand, if you move the frittata from the freezer to the fridge, you have multiple ways to so note this in the app. My advice is to avoid the temptation to enter in the contents of your pantry willy-hilly. Play with the app with a few items, add a category or two, delete things you don't need.I'm not a survivalist, so I really pared the stock list down... Syncing between my iPad and my iPhone puts my inventory in my pocket when shopping, which is helpful.