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. $59.96 = ShelfLife Pro quarterly at $14.99/qtr. 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 a receipt; every line lands in your inventory, dated and categorized.
Every item gets a shelf life tuned to your storage and pace — even offline.
Expiring tomorrow, no plan? Get emergency recipes, zero-cook fixes and freezer saves.
One invite code, one shared fridge — everyone sees what's expiring.
Camera-first onboarding. No account until you've seen it work. Prove it, then ask.
Any receipt, any store, crumpled is fine — everything lands in your inventory, dated.
Not the printed sell-by — a shelf life for your fridge, refined as you use it.
Alerts before it turns, recipe ideas built from what's about to go. 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 JSON and CSV data export. 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. Waitlist members get first access to launch pricing.
No card, no expiry, no nagging
3 days free when you install — no card
Lowest commitment — skip any week
= $5/mo billed every 3 months
3 days free when you install — no card
Join the waitlistAverage family waste $1,500/yr · Pro quarterly $59.96/yr · you keep $1,440
Join the waitlist and you'll get the TestFlight build before anyone else, and waitlist members get first access to launch pricing.
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