Best Before - Food Tracker

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.

This seems like an app with a lot of potential. I was not able to create an account and tried some of the trouble shooting steps in the comments. They did not work for me. The other downfall is the barcode scanner is actually a picture you take rather than a scan of the UPC. I fear this would take up too much room on my phone in the end. Keep developing and you'll have a 5 star app soon! Thanks!

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.

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.

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.

No more pantry ghost food, I now have a complete list of absolutely all my hardly seen pantry/ fridge products that I would otherwise forget exists! the idea that I can be notified several days BEFORE my food expires is a great peace of mind! Gives me time to think up recipes to use it up. Also entering data into the app isn't that bad, take a CLEAR PHOTO of the barcode and most of the time the app will find the item! If it can't then manually enter it, wish I could pay to remove ads.

Great app for keeping up with what's in your pantry, fridge, freezer, and more. It lets you know when food is about to expire and when food that has been open is going bad. You have to manually type in each item. For this, I gave it a 4 star. It really needs a scan feature to make adding items much faster.

I tested a few similar apps today. This one meets my expectations way more than the other highly rated apps that I tried so far. I just love it. I just wish I could change the way the icons are shown in the home screen or maybe use smaller fonts.

Good, easy to use customisable inventory with a linked shopping list. I'm already using a different shopping list app and it's better than the one integrated in Best Before for one main reason - it lists the items ordered by category so that when you're in the store everything on one aisle is together. Seems strange that BB doesn't do this as it seems like an obvious feature and the categories are already there in the app. Add this and it's a 5 star app 🙂

I downloaded this app today. Overall it is the best app of the ones that I have tested. Positives so far are that the database for food items seems to be quiet extensive. I have-not had to enter a product name manually yet. Downsides, I would prefer that the app use barcode scanner instead of a picture, or have the option to choose between the two. A scanner requires one action on my part and is nearly instant, whereas a picture requires at least 3 actions from me. The extra 4-5 seconds to take a picture, resize and save, add up quickly and the inventory intake process begins to feel tedious. Also, best buy or expiration date scanner/picture reader would be delightful, and reduce entry time. And yes, both because some foods come with a barcode and others with a printed date.Lastly, it would be helpful to be able to add a product category when I am in the entry window for a product. As is, I have to save the product entry, exit, create a product category, and then open the product entry and add it to the product category. Ideally each product entry would require no more than 3 clicks from me, and take no longer than 3 seconds, to get the product entry created with expiration and category. The app should be nearly non-existent to the user in their inventory process, meaning it does its job so well that the user can focus on the inventory project instead of the inventory tool. As I stated, this is the best food inventory app that I have tested. The limitations of the app are common across the board for food inventory apps. However, I think that this app is the best candidate to slim down the inventory process and make itself super sleek for the user. ***Update: Option to set a date for the default "purchase date", or remove. Ninety-nine percent of the products I will enter were not purchased the same day as entry. Or option to not populate that field. Same for expiration date field, ability to manually set an auto populate default expire date for items entered, and that date would not change on entered times if default is manually changed.

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.

An excellent app with one niggle for me - frequently, when I select a specific best before date, the number of days is one less and that changes the specific date - I then add one to the days to rectify the date. ETA The date issue appears to have been resolved 28/04/22

Can't simply add a Product to Shopping List from Product page? So I must type out my shopping list every time, from memory or toggling back & forth to see what Products to type on list?? Only way to put a Product onto Shopping List is to "Trash" it?? I don't wait until I'm completely out of a food to get more at the store. I shop while I'm out, or before I'm at home hungry without something I need. This sadly doesn't work for me, & I wasted all that time carefully typing in Products. Uninstalled

This app meets almost all requirements I had, and is easy to use. The only thing that I miss is a faster way to add food to the shopping list without 'consuming' it in the product list. In any case, this is definitely the best app I tried so far in this area.

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

Very nice app, went pro already. Could you perhaps add a backup option where we could save the database for ourselves? Any format would do, but it'd be extremely nice if it was like a CSV or something known and editable on a PC, eventually with an import option. Auto-Backup to Google Drive would be even nicer :) Thanks a lot!

Tried out many different apps like this and none could do all that this one does! Only request would be to key in the date. Stuff that expires in 2022 takes a lot of clicks to scroll through the calendar.

A fantastic tool once you start using it! It is of course a bit inconvenient to record all your shopping but helps prevent waste and forgetting to buy things.

3 STARS ✨... I gave 3 stars for a reason, and that's bcuz you have to do so much texting and filling out info on this APP, you can spend a lot of time and only have 4 or 5 items on the list which can take an hour or two if you're not aware of the time ... I don't think I'll be using this APP for long⁉️