Use-By: Expiry Tracker
Minh Tran Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Use-By: Expiry Tracker is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Minh Tran. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 20, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 4 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 20
- 2026 · v1.4.0
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About Use-By: Expiry Tracker
No more opening the fridge to find the milk expired a week ago. Food Use-By records the expiration dates of the food in your home and reminds you before it's too late. ADD ITEMS IN SECONDS • Type a line like “Noodles 7 packs 3/22/2027” and the app picks out the name, quantity and expiry date. • Month/year-only dates (e.g. “4/2027”), as printed on many packages, work too. • Pick the unit from a ready-made list: pack, bottle, box, jar, can, bag… Units can be typed in any of the app's 8 languages. • Prefer a form? Tap + to add an item step by step. TIMELY REMINDERS, NOTHING MISSED • Stockpiled items (cooking oil, sauces…): a reminder every month starting 12 months before expiry, so you can use them up in time. • 30 days before, every day in the final week, on the day itself and for 3 days after. • Weekly digest on the day you choose (Saturday by default): time left, amount left and how much to use per month. • At most one notification a day, covering every item that needs attention. Busy? Long-press it and choose “Remind Me in 1 Hour”. • Choose the reminder time and switch each kind of reminder on or off. CLEAN AND EASY • Items grouped clearly: Expired, Expiring Soon, Good. Search to find anything fast. • Long-press an item to Edit, Use 1, mark it Used Up, Discard or Delete, or just swipe. Tapped by mistake? Tap Undo. • Usage history for every item: who used it, how much and when. • Clear out every expired item in one tap. SHARE WITH YOUR FAMILY • Invite family via Messages or another app; everyone adds to and updates the same list. • Choose per person: can edit, or view only while still getting reminders. Invitees see who owns the list. • Create several lists, switch between them from the title, rename them or delete your own. Share each list with different people. • Syncs via iCloud and works offline. YOUR LANGUAGE • 8 languages: Tiếng Việt, English, Русский, Français, 简体中文, Deutsch, 日本語, 한국어. Follows your phone by default; change it anytime in the app. • Choose your date format: day/month/year, month/day/year or year/month/day. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS • Your data lives in your own iCloud. No account, no ads, no tracking, no data collection. • Export everything to a CSV file for Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets. • Delete all data on the device and in iCloud at any time. • Found a bug? Send a report from the app with technical details only, no item names or personal data.
What’s new
Version 1.4.0 · Updated October 20, 2026
Track things that don’t expire: a new “Belongings” category for raincoats, helmets, tools… with no reminders, kept together at the end of your list. Type @ to note where something is (“Raincoat 3 pcs @garage”), view your list By Place, and search with “@shelf”. Rename or merge places in Settings → Places. Add a photo to any item so you know it at a glance. CSV export now includes Category, Value and Place. Family members sharing a list should update to 1.4 to see places, photos and Belongings.
App privacy
The developer, Minh Tran, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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