Food & Drink
Pantry Snapper: Meal Planner
Simple offline pantry & expiry tracker
iOS for iPhone and iPad
- $2.99 one-time purchase
- No account
- No ads or app telemetry
Screenshots
3 images · iPhone 6.7"
iPad
3 images · iPad Pro 12.9"
Most food waste is quiet: a bag pushed to the back of the fridge, a date you meant to check, groceries you forgot you already had. Pantry Snapper is a pantry, fridge, and freezer tracker for keeping ahead of that. Adding an item takes seconds — scan a barcode entirely on-device, snap a photo and let on-device OCR read the name and date, or type it in.
What sets the guidance apart is the USDA FoodKeeper data behind it: storage windows for over 400 foods across pantry, fridge, and freezer, with the important distinction between a quality date and an actual safety deadline kept clear rather than blurred into a single scary number. You can log an opened-package date, filter to what to use soon, get reminders before things turn, and see honest waste-and-savings insights on what you used versus tossed.
Beyond tracking, it will build a shopping list from what's low or expiring and hand it to Reminders or Notes, put an Expiring Soon widget on your Home and Lock Screen, and answer a Siri Shortcut asking what expires this week.
It is local-first: barcode scanning and OCR run on your device, no account, no analytics, no ads, and no network needed for everyday use. Storage times are quality estimates, not safety guarantees.
About Pantry Snapper: Meal Planner
Give the groceries you own a plan. Meal Queue connects named meals to counted pantry items, shows shortages across queued meals and updates inventory only when you confirm what you cooked.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Open Pantry → Meal Queue. Name a meal, choose its planned day and add optional notes.
2. Choose an active pantry item and a whole-unit quantity, then add it to the meal. Adding the same item again replaces its draft quantity.
3. Save the plan. Each line shows units needed for this meal, units on the shelf and reservations across all queued meals. A shortage blocks consumption until plans or stock are corrected.
4. After cooking, choose Review and mark cooked, review the item quantities and confirm Consume reserved units. Partial consumption keeps the remaining stock active and creates a used-history record.
5. Use Settings → Create full backup to include queued and cooked meals, pantry photos, shopping items and preferences. Restore replaces current data after confirmation; older backups without meal plans clear existing plans.
Add pantry, fridge and freezer items manually or with the existing barcode, photo and storage-guide tools. Keep package wording, storage location and reminder context alongside meal planning.
WHAT TO KNOW
Units are the inventory counts you entered, not grams or recipe servings. Plans do not automatically buy, reserve physical food, schedule meals in Calendar or change reminders. Dates provide planning context, not food-safety decisions. Follow package and storage instructions. Removing cooked history does not restore consumed stock. Cooking cannot be undone in Meal Queue.
Built for iPhone and iPad. No account required for this workflow.
A Shadowfetch app. Published on the App Store by Robert Corbin.