Scan your grocery receipt. ShelfLife dates every item, warns you before it turns, and tells you what to cook tonight to use it up.
$1,500 = what the average U.S. family of four throws out each year, per USDA. $83.88 = ShelfLife Pro at $6.99/mo. Pay yearly and it's $59.99, so you keep $1,440.
Works offline · No signup to try · Export your data any time
This is the actual logic that runs in the app, running in your browser right now. Edit the receipt, add your own items, break it if you can.
Hit Scan receipt and every line becomes a dated, categorised item. No account, no card.
Everything else is a bonus. These are the reasons to install it.
Snap any grocery receipt. It reads every line, strips the brand-name gibberish, works out the category and quantity, and builds your whole inventory in about eight seconds. Manual entry is why every other tracker dies in week two.
Every item gets a shelf life based on what it is, where you store it and how fast your household actually eats. Five fallback layers mean it answers even on a plane with no signal.
Three things expire tomorrow and you have no plan. Rescue Mode gives you emergency recipes, zero-cook fixes and freezer-save instructions for 20+ ingredients. Use-It-Up Stir-Fry. Kitchen Sink Soup.
One invite code and everyone sees the same fridge. Assign items, see who used what, stop buying a third jar of mustard. Food waste is a household problem, not a solo one.
Camera-first onboarding. No account until you've seen it work. Prove it, then ask.
Any grocery receipt, any store, crumpled is fine. Everything on it lands in your inventory with a category and a quantity. No typing.
Not the printed sell-by date. A shelf life for your fridge, your storage habits and your household's pace, refined every time you mark something used or binned.
Alerts before it turns, recipes built from what's about to go, one-tap rescue when you've left it late. Your streak grows. Your bin stays empty.
You bought it, you meant to eat it, it moved to the back of the shelf. That's the entire failure. It's a memory problem with a price tag.
| App | Where it breaks | ShelfLife |
|---|---|---|
| NoWasteManual entry only | You type every item yourself. Most people quit inside a week. | One receipt photo fills the entire inventory. |
| FridgePalBarcode database | Only recognises branded, barcoded products. Loose produce and store brands are invisible. | Estimates shelf life for anything, including items it has never seen. |
| CozZoShut down | Cloud-only. The servers went dark and users' data went with them. | Local-first, syncs when you want it to, and exports on demand. |
Apps like this die and take your data with them. So: every plan, including free, has a one-tap export to CSV and JSON. Your inventory lives on your device first and syncs second. If ShelfLife ever shuts down, you walk out with everything, and we'll publish the export format so another app can read it.
Three days of Pro when you install, no card. Then stay free or upgrade. Both plans keep your data exportable.
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