Expiring Things

Bluemirrs 11

About this app

With this app, you can quickly and easily store and retrieve information about your products: quantity, initial quantity, expiration date, purchase and opened dates, container (where the product is stored), price, and notes.

The main usage of this app is to manage expiration dates and quantities, but expiration date is optional, so you can use it also to track location and remaining quantity of products that do not expire.

Functionalities:

• Add products with name, category, initial and remaining quantity, quantity unit, storage location, expiration date, purchase date, opened date, price and notes. Only name and category are mandatory fields, the other are optional.

• Add products choosing from a list of previously entered products.

• Add products by cloning an existing one.

• Add products by scanning their barcode. The first time you scan a new product, you will need to enter its details manually, because the app does not depend on external services to retrieve the product name. Starting from the next time, the app will remember the name of the product, the category, the quantity, the unit of measure of the quantity and the expiration date entered for the last scan.

• View products grouped by categories. Three default categories are provided at app start, but you can delete them and create your own.

• View products grouped by their storage location (called "containers" in the app).

• View products emphasizing their expiration date or their remaining quantity. In the view that emphasizes remaining quantity you can change it without opening the product details page.

• Sort products by name, expiration date, purchase date, opened date or remaining quantity.

• Search products by their name or part of it.

• Receive a notification when a product is about to expire. You receive three different notifications for each expiring product and you can change the timing on a per category basis. You can also choose to receive daily notifications for already expired products .You can set the time of the day at which notifications are fired. Please review your device's battery optimization settings if you don't receive notifications, or contact the developer for help.

• Upload and download your product list to / from Dropbox: in this way you can share the list of products between different devices and different users, provided they login into the same Dropbox account.

• Export and import your data file for backup / restore purpose. You can also send the data file to yourself or other users via Gmail, WhatsApp or other application capable of sending files.

The app is free, displays no ads, and we don't sell your data.

Ratings and reviews

Love it, although frustrating sometimes. I use it for work tracking items that are about to expire. The ability to have a barcode scanner, and then input data for that barcode and having it be saved to the database. Whats frustrating is the buttons/icons at the bottom are so small. So imagine as a left handed person trying to reach the barcode button on the right, not even registering half the time. It would be nice to have the buttons larger and the ability to rearrange them.

As a very forgetful person married to another forgetful person, this app is SO helpful. I hate wasting food, but it's hard to memorize everything in my pantry and freezer (first world problems, am I right?). The first initial inventory takes a lot of time, but it was nice to get an idea of what we have, and it prompted a good cleanout. The only downside is that I have to remember to update the app when I use things up or buy new food, but that's a user problem, not an app issue.

It keeps count of inventory and notifies you when something is nearing it's expiration. It makes my job easier. I don't think it has ever frozen or acted up. I like that info fields can be turned off if you don't want to use them, and that there is a "notes" field for misc. info for each item. Suggestions for helpful features in future versions would be a way to adjust when notifications happen (how many days ahead of expiration), smoother scrolling, and a field for lot numbers. Helpful app.

What's new

Upgraded to target Android SDK 33.