Never lose money to an expiry date
Scan a barcode or the printed date. BestBy reminds you before food, medicine, warranties and documents run out — and shows you what that habit is worth.
Free to start. No account, no sign-in, no tracking. Requires iPhone or iPad on iOS 26.
How it works
Three taps from shelf to reminder
Most trackers ask you to type everything in. BestBy reads the pack instead.
Scan it
Point at the barcode to identify the product, or at the printed date itself. Text recognition runs on your device.
Confirm the date
Every date BestBy finds is shown for you to confirm. Nothing is saved behind your back, and nothing is guessed silently.
Get reminded
Pick a day, a week, a month or your own lead time. A notification arrives while you can still do something about it.
No date on the pack?
It still knows roughly how long you have
Loose produce, deli items and anything repackaged rarely carry a printed date.
- Realistic shelf-life estimates based on what the item is
- Adjusted for where you store it, and whether it is opened
- Always labelled as an estimate — never presented as fact
- GS1 expiry and best-before codes read straight from the barcode
The payoff
See what you actually save
Swipe an item to record that you used it — or that it went in the bin.
- Money kept out of the bin, counted as you go
- Your save rate and current streak
- The categories where waste keeps happening, so you buy differently
Finding things
Sorted by what matters first
Your vault groups itself by urgency — already expired, today, this week, this month, later.
- Regroup instantly by category, storage location or product type
- Search by name, place or barcode
- Export everything to CSV or PDF whenever you want it
Food
Fridge, freezer and pantry, with shelf-life estimates when there is no printed date.
Medicine
Know before what is in the cabinet quietly stops being safe to take.
Warranties
Receipts and warranties, with a reminder while the claim window is still open.
Documents
Passports, visas, insurance and contracts — before they quietly become invalid.
Private by design
Nothing to sign up for, nothing to leak
Most apps in this category want an account before they will do anything. BestBy never asks for one.
- No account, no sign-in, no password to lose
- No analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no tracking
- Items, photos and reminders stay on your device under iOS file protection
- Text recognition runs on device — photos of your labels never leave the phone
- The only thing that ever leaves is a numeric barcode, and only when you ask for a product lookup
Pricing
Free to start. Pay only if it sticks.
The free tier is a real product, not a trailer: 25 items, 5 scans a month and 30 days of insights.
Free
Up to 25 items, 5 scans each month, reminders, and the last 30 days of insights.
Pro, yearly
Unlimited items, unlimited scanning, full insight history, and CSV and PDF export.
Pro, lifetime
Everything in Pro, bought once. No renewal, no subscription to remember to cancel.
A monthly plan is available too. Prices are shown in the App Store in your own currency; subscriptions renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.
Stop throwing away things you paid for
It takes about a minute to add the first ten things you own.
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