FoodEntropy
Pan shinren Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
FoodEntropy is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Pan shinren. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 7, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 7
- 2026 · v1.5.0
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About FoodEntropy
FoodEntropy helps you track the expiry date of everything in your fridge and pantry, and reminds you the morning it's due — so food gets eaten at its best and nothing is forgotten. FEATURES • Home at a glance: a stack of cards — current status, waste stats, and three buckets for expired, due within three days, and still fresh — each with a count and the money on the line. Tap a bucket to open its list. • Quick entry: add a name, purchase and expiry date, with an optional photo from your camera or library. • See expiry at a glance: items are sorted by due date, color-coded red / amber / green for Expired / Within 3 days / Fresh, and show the price you recorded. • Home screen widget: see what's about to expire — and how much money is at stake — without opening the app. • iPhone Duo: unfold it and hold it sideways, and Settings sits next to your cards. On the outer screen it works like any iPhone. • Expiry reminders: a local notification the morning an item is due, so nothing slips by. • Shortcuts, Siri and Spotlight: add an item, mark it used or discarded, extend a date, or find food from Spotlight, all without opening the app. • Waste insights: see your current breakdown and a rolling 30-day waste rate in clear charts. • Track what you spend (optional): add a price and the home screen shows the value of food about to expire — what's at stake while there's still time to eat it. Waste stats include the value of discarded items too. • Flexible actions: extend an item's date, mark it used, discarded, or delete it. • iCloud sync (optional): off by default; turn it on to back up to your own private iCloud so your data survives a new phone. • Dark mode, English and Traditional Chinese. PRIVACY: No account, no server of ours. Your data and photos stay on your device; only if you enable iCloud sync are they backed up to your own private iCloud (which the developer can't access). Free to use, with a one-time purchase to remove ads. Waste less food — starting with remembering to eat it.
What’s new
Version 1.5.0 · Updated October 7, 2026
iPhone Duo - Open your iPhone Duo and turn it sideways: Settings sits on the left and your cards stay on the right, so you can change a setting without leaving the cards. - Closed, and on every other iPhone, the app looks exactly as before. Fixes - If a list was open, opening an item from Siri or Spotlight put the item behind the list, so it looked like nothing happened. Now the list closes and the item opens. Tapping an expiry notification also closes the list and takes you to the home screen. - After changing notification permission in the Settings app, FoodEntropy's settings screen now shows the change as soon as you come back.
App privacy
The developer, Pan shinren, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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