Tried a few similar app's but all of them didn't have the range of options that I required. Then stumbled across this one, only been using a short while but very impressed as It has nearly all of the options that I wanted. The ability to share would be the icing on the cake as far as I am concerned.
I don't get how you use the "opened" feature.If I have two same packages, I set it to two packages, but when I open one, it let's me just take one complete package out, not just half of the package... Does that mean that if I have more packages of the same item, I need to add the item multiple times for the "opened" feature to be useful? Also scanning of the barcodes would be way easier to add the items to the list, just a suggestion. Once these are fixed I will be more than happy to buy the pro
Great app and has taken over a previous one that I used which was quite basic. This one has more functions such as having a shopping list, showing items as opened and pre-filling information from previously entered items. It isn't completely a slick platform hence not the complete 5 stars. I wish it were a little less cluttered on the screen and it has a weird thing where the expiry date is displayed as one day less than you enter.
Much promise but some niggles currently let it down. Items are easy to add and I love the fact you can insert your own photograph. It's also great that it autocompletes so if you add something you've added before, it will offer you the previous entry including the photograph used - obv you can override and insert a new one. Nice display with a small photo of each item shown in the list and the ability to collapse/expand different categories - a shame you can only view by category, NOT by storage, so if for example I wanted to view all the things in my fridge, I couldn't. Niggles are some of the AI included which would perhaps be better left out. 1) You have the option of setting a Best Before date on each item or leaving it blank - you can set the number of days in the settings, so I set mine to 90 as I mainly use it for frozen meals and I try to eat them within 3 months. I thought it would be easier to have it automatically set the 90 days and for items I DON'T want it set, I can remove the date when I first add the item. HOWEVER, every time you edit an item, if it doesn't have a BB date on it, the AI jumps in and sets it - in the end I disabled the option and I simply set it manually now. 2) "Opened" - ARRRGGGHHH - once set, you CANNOT remove it and it's a right pain. e.g. I add 3 packs of minced beef - consume 1 pack, suddenly the other 2 packs are now marked as OPEN. There is a small checkbox labelled "open individually" which may help stop this, haven't tried yet, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE allow people to turn off the "opened" setting especially as the AI is setting it in the first place according to sometimes non-obvious rules. 3) Adding to existing "consumed" item. If I have 3 packs of beef, I use 1, it shows as 2/3 remaining. I now buy another pack - I CANNOT set the 2 to 3 - all I can change is the 3 for some weird reason - it now shows as 2/4 remaining when I actually have 3 packs of course. Nice to haves Quantity isn't enough - if I store 4 packs of 500g of Minced Beef, then I'd like to be able to enter both "4" and "500g" somewhere. Currently I'm putting it all in the title, but that's a faff esp as you include g's in the Units column, but that doesn't make sense with your consume AI. e.g. Let's say I enter it as 1500g of Beef and then consume one pack - I have to hit the little + sign 499 times to tell the AI I'm down to 1000g remaining - errr no lol I used to use Food Checklist, but thought I'd give this one a whirl - it's definitely got promise - if the niggles above can be sorted it could end up being the best on the market in this niche.
After some time of using the app, one of our apps started crashing frequently and our inventories got desynchronised. We disconnected one of them, cleared all data locally, and went through the invite/join cycle again. This moved all items to Uncategorized, some previously consumed items reappeared on one of the devices. So we lost some data and are still not in sync. This is plain unreliable, uninstalling.
Very nice app! Works exactly as expected and helps me to manage my day by day food stock as well as my emergency stock. One thing I'd like to see is a minimum/maximum stock level per item. This would help to organize the shopping list when you buy things as batches. And a way to access the online data via standard web browser would be the icing on the cake.
It's a good app for keeping track of your food, prevents waste and also makes it easy to check what's available in the fridge without even having to look there. I still don't have all the staples registered because i've had it for barely a couple weeks, but i definitely enjoy using it, being extremely helpful with keeping track of items that go bad fast.
Incredibly useful! I've now managed to avoid my food going off regularly. I was always forgetting about food in my fridge and It would go off so I couldn't eat it. With this app I can add reminders for when my food goes off and it really helps. One thing I would like to add is that it would be cool if you could have digital receipts so you know how much you've spent in one go. Edit: after using it a while I've realised that once you've saved your expiry date, you can't select when you open it.
This is very helpful! There are a couple of things that could be improved. (1) When I put in a quantity of 1000ml, it strangely converts the quantity to 1.000mL. (2) When I consume part of something on, say, Monday, it will correctly say, on Weds, that it has been open for 2 days. But when I then consume some more on Weds, 'open' reverts to 0 days.
I've just started to use this app and it's going well so far. My main issues are around how you select the best before date, it would be much easier to hit the calendar icon and then month, so you get a pop up calendar to select your date from. When you're recording consumption, it would be much easier to say you'd used half, 2/3rds, etc, or be able to overwrite the quantity instead of scrolling. It would also be very useful to record multiples of items.
