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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.
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Lorianne O.
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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.
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Quiet Chaos
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!
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