KitchenPal Shared Grocery List 4+

Pantry Organization Made Easy

I used to go to the grocery store and then come back home only to realize that I’d just purchased things that I already had at home. If you’re looking at this app you know that feeling of “Why did I buy X product again when I had three bottles already?!” If you were like me it was because those bottles of ketchup were hidden in the back the deep dark pit my wife lovingly calls “the pantry”. Now that we have this app (which lets us share the inventory between our smart phones) we know exactly what we have on hand (and where it lives in our kitchen) so that I’m not constantly buying new stuff when it’s not necessary. Great app for budget minded folks who don’t like throwing stuff away simply because it got forgot about in the pantry.

Great App - Room to Grow

Overall I am satisfied with KitchenPal. It offers an intuitive UI that’s quick and easy to use. Plenty of filters to show what’s in your pantry. Removing an item will automatically add it to your shopping list, one of my favorite features. Cross-platform let’s my wife and I manage our kitchen and stock. Best of all the app is semi-regularly updated and offers affordable upgrade prices.

A few suggestions I would like to add to the developer:
* Add in iOS Shortcuts scripting. On iOS we can add automation steps using our Shortcuts app. For example a feature to quickly add in a product without having to open the app would be great. Or to retrieve products expiring this week so that I can add those products into an external to-do app (I use Things 3 to manage tasks so having an automation in place to add a task like “Throw out apples” would be awesome!).
* Widgets to display stock levels. Having a widget on my phone would let me quickly see what’s expiring or low-stock.
* Favorite items. Marking an item as a favorite and then having a view to see the stock levels of favorited items would be helpful.
* Having a task to review expiring inventory. Perhaps a push notification to remind me it’s time to review/throw our expiring items.

These additional features could also be a paid subscription service. To automate some of my tasks, I would pay ~5-10 bucks a month so adding in these features could also increase revenue.

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thank you for downloading the KitchenPal app and sharing your feedback with us. :) We also received your email and we are so pleased to hear the ideas you have shared with us. Our team will be checking these suggested improvements. In the meantime, if you have other feedback or questions, please do let us know. Thank you and stay safe!

Overall, I like it

Overall, I would say that the app is a little bit slow, but I know it’s searching a whole database full of different foods. I really like that I can switch to storage for you so I can know that I have pantry items or fridge items. The fridge items are the ones that go off quite quickly. I would like to be able to enter the actual expiration date instead of saying six months one month a year. In one case I had to add an item. It was a store brand dressing and it expires in less than a year but over nine months so I chose nine months just to tell me. I sort of want notifications of expiring through this, but on the other hand, I don’t know how diligent I will be even entering that information. I went through a few applications, and I think this one is the one that’s going to stick. I hope it’s quite the feet to go through my entire pantry and scan everything but at least we can scan, that is a huge bonus.

Developer Response ,

Hi, Jessica! Thank you for using KitchenPal and for your overall kind feedback about the app. :) Regarding the option to enter the actual expiration date of the items, please note that in the scan result page like this (when you scan a product), this will let you choose to add custom expiration dates (and where you want to add the item) which is optional. Please feel free to drop us an email at support@kitchenpalapp.com so we can assist you. :) Thank you!