Use it before you lose it.
BestBy tracks every expiry date in your fridge, pantry and medicine cabinet, reminds you before anything goes bad, and shows the money you save.
Free to download. No account, no sign-in. Your dates never leave your phone. 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 shelf sorts 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, so 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
Try Pro free. Keep it if it saves you money.
Unlimited scans, unlimited items, full insights and export. Free download with a limited free plan.
Pro, yearly
Free for 7 days, then about $0.77 a week. We remind you before the trial ends.
Pro, weekly
Everything in Pro, billed weekly. Cancel anytime.
Pro, lifetime
Try every Pro feature free for 30 days. Keep it forever with one payment. Never auto-charged.
StoreKit shows your local price before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in Apple Account › Subscriptions; Lifetime is a single payment. Existing subscriptions remain valid for current subscribers.
Stop throwing away things you paid for
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