Great Customer Support
I have the full paid version of this app for an IPad mini. It is very easy to use and convenient for keeping track of my food items. But I was most impressed with the excellent customer support; back when I first got it and had a few issues figuring out how the offline/online users worked, I emailed them and got very prompt, helpful responses.
For those who are considering the app, this is how it works: you add food items to one of three locations (Pantry, Freezer, Fridge). Each item has the following attributes: name, quantity/weight/note, category (i.e., poultry, vegetable), expiration date, shelf. It suggests text from previous responses to reduce typing if you are adding items that you have added before, and there is also a way to restock an item instead of adding all the same info again. There is also a barcode scanner to automatically add packaged items, though this is dependent on a user-populated database. You can search your items for a specific one or sort by expiration date, name, or category. Swiping left or right on the item indicates whether you used it up or had to throw it away, and the app keeps track of these statistics. You get a notification when food is close to or past expiration. You can create a shopping list, and there is a way to sync with the app on other devices if others in your household have it, too. Altogether very well done.
I am rating this app 5 stars because it has all the basic functionality that I need as a food inventory, but I do have a few ideas on how it could be even better. It would be nice to be able to create and name more than one shopping list, to create additional pantries or freezers if you need them (as opposed to typing out the location in the Shelf or Note attribute, which is time-consuming), to have a Date Frozen attribute for Freezer items, and to have duplicate items (i.e., Quantity is >1) appear as separate entries so that when you use up only one you can just swipe the entry to delete instead of reducing the Quantity. It would also be great to be able to add both a Quantity and a Note, and the scrolling when manually adding a food item could be a bit smoother (hitting the arrows up and down to skip sections sometimes doesnt skip all the way to the next set of arrows).
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NoWaste - Food Inventory List, v2.7.1