NoWaste - Food Inventory List Reviews

Pro version

StyxMaker

Next to useless. When I mark foods as eaten they aren't taken off the inventory. Most the items I tried to scan aren't in their database.

Spent the time to enter freezer inventory, and when you go to use, does not remove the item. What a waste of time. I usually don't write reviews, but this time waster, which I thought would help my family, really upset me. If I could give zero stars, I would.

This app needs a lot of work

ghegner

I wrote out a really long comment but then Apple deleted it and I don't feel like typing it out again. Long story short there are three issues that NEED to be fixed before this app is worth paying for. I wish that I could get my money back actually. I would love to talk to the developers directly. The skinny of it is though, 1) I bought the membership and spent a whole day inputting my freezer, fridge, and pantry only to find out I needed to set up a profile first. So now I don't get any of the member benefits (like syncing and moving food between lists) and I don't have time to re-input all that info. 2) You HAVE to input an expectation date which is annoying. There should be an opt-out function. And 3) the quantity function is useless because there is no way to control the quantity unless you go in and edit the item which takes too long. There are other annoying aspects of the app, but those are the major ones.

Great once you get the hang of it

Vinvin4123

A little confusing at first but now that I think I have it figured out I love it.

Love it

Kristensma

Hi Kasper. I don't know if you remember me. You helped me get the app working last week. I wanted to let you know I'm Loving it. It's a strange thing, it's not only helping me with my shopping (which is great), it's actually making me less wasteful. I'm much more conscious of what needs to be used so it doesn't get thrown out...something I'm normally Horrible about. So thank you so much for that.

Great Customer Support

ivagljiva

I have the full paid version of this app for an IPad mini. It is very easy to use and convenient for keeping track of my food items. But I was most impressed with the excellent customer support; back when I first got it and had a few issues figuring out how the offline/online users worked, I emailed them and got very prompt, helpful responses. For those who are considering the app, this is how it works: you add food items to one of three locations (Pantry, Freezer, Fridge). Each item has the following attributes: name, quantity/weight/note, category (i.e., poultry, vegetable), expiration date, shelf. It suggests text from previous responses to reduce typing if you are adding items that you have added before, and there is also a way to restock an item instead of adding all the same info again. There is also a barcode scanner to automatically add packaged items, though this is dependent on a user-populated database. You can search your items for a specific one or sort by expiration date, name, or category. Swiping left or right on the item indicates whether you used it up or had to throw it away, and the app keeps track of these statistics. You get a notification when food is close to or past expiration. You can create a shopping list, and there is a way to sync with the app on other devices if others in your household have it, too. Altogether very well done. I am rating this app 5 stars because it has all the basic functionality that I need as a food inventory, but I do have a few ideas on how it could be even better. It would be nice to be able to create and name more than one shopping list, to create additional pantries or freezers if you need them (as opposed to typing out the location in the Shelf or Note attribute, which is time-consuming), to have a Date Frozen attribute for Freezer items, and to have duplicate items (i.e., Quantity is >1) appear as separate entries so that when you use up only one you can just swipe the entry to delete instead of reducing the Quantity. It would also be great to be able to add both a Quantity and a Note, and the scrolling when manually adding a food item could be a bit smoother (hitting the arrows up and down to skip sections sometimes doesn't skip all the way to the next set of arrows).

Just what I was looking for, almost!

angelabeyer

I love the ability to know what I have by freezer, fridge, and pantry. Easy item entry and editing. I wish I could swipe or somehow add items directly to a shopping list as they are used up and need to be replaced. And then that when I mark something on a shopping list as purchased it would go back into freezer, fridge or pantry.

not exaclty what I was looking for

Exairline

already deleted it I just did not have the modifiers I was looking for seemed limited in its capabilities as strictly a groceries tracker it might work very well, but I was looking for something that i could change bins, etcetera. It also took a long time to scroll through the window to enter all the information. It did work much better than most of the programs in this Genre

A little complicated

Gusgus791

I may just be to old for this application, but it seems a little over complicated. I would much prefer the item with the amount I have with a plus or minus on the side.

Great way to keep track of food

missterrific

I'm really bad at keeping track of food. I would buy something I'm really interested in incorporating into a dish and then forget about it, especially nonperishables. With this, I can keep track of the food and make something delicious to use (because I still want to make healthy and delicious meals). Very useful!

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