FoodShiner: Pantry Companion 4+

A top class App that delivers in all respects

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.

Love, love, love this app!!!

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much used if useful) and whether you’ve ending up throwing it away or eating it, set an alert to flag when it’s going out of date (including adjusting date if opening affects life), and push to a shopping list either automatically or manually.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 😂😂

I think this will be really useful!

Currently in the process of logging my pantry and freezers. Find the pantry so far. Very impressed. Especially having a large chest freezer I often “lose” things I “know” are there somewhere. At least if I keep this updated, I will be certain there’s a point to rummaging all the way down to the bottom!! I have also disconcertingly discovered how many cans of stuff I had which were way way out of date. (And also how blooming difficult it is to find the expiry dates sometimes!) Thanks for this great app! One thing which would be handy in a future update would be the option to have NO expiry date - pretty sure things like salt never goes off - nor does honey!!

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for your thoughtful review and kind words! 😊 We’re thrilled to hear you’re finding the app helpful for organizing your pantry and freezer—it’s always satisfying to “rescue” those hidden items. As for your suggestion, great news! You can already set items without an expiry date by simply leaving the expiration field empty. That way, products like salt and honey can live on forever in your inventory. Happy organizing! 🐝🧂