# Pantry & Fridge: FridgeBuddy

> Track food stock & expiration

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1500190823](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1500190823)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1500190823`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Charles-Adrien Fournier
- **Category:** Food & Drink
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (206 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.32.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-13
- **First published:** 2020-02-29
- **Size:** 43 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pantry-fridge-fridgebuddy/id1500190823)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://cafournier.com/fridgebuddy/privacypolicy](https://cafournier.com/fridgebuddy/privacypolicy)

## Description

**FridgeBuddy** helps you manage food in your pantry, fridge, and freezer while reducing waste and saving money. Scan barcodes, photograph your fridge or receipt, and keep your inventory updated with Siri support.

Track expiration dates, receive customizable alerts, organize food by storage location, and quickly turn inventory items into a shared shopping list. FridgeBuddy also includes household sharing with iCloud, home screen widgets, Nutri-Score and Green-Score details, CSV export, and statistics showing your consumption and food waste.

## Rankings

- #103,605 — Overall

## Review summary

Pantry inventory, FridgeBuddy is praised for organizing inventories, expiration tracking, photo support, barcode entry, and cloud syncing with a friendly UI. However, multiple reviews point to slower scans and data fetch, lack of multi-user sharing, inconsistent barcode scanning, a destructive trash behavior, and limited customization. These persist as the top friction points despite strong core features.

### Pros

- Helps organize pantry/fridge inventory, making grocery planning and reducing food waste easier.
- Barcode/scan features (camera-based entry) plus photo support for items.
- Expiration date tracking (including opened-date tracking) helps manage perishables.
- Cloud sync (iCloud) across devices and a shopping list feature.
- User-friendly interface and easy-to-use design.

### Cons

- Slow performance: scanning and data fetching can lag for seconds, making full pantry entry tedious.
- Limited multi-user sharing: no easy family account or cross-user sync; hard to collaborate or share inventory.
- Barcode scanning reliability issues: occasional misreads, scanning false positives, some UPCs not recognized, requiring manual entry.
- Trash/delete UX: items disappear when trashed; users want to recover or move them to a shopping list instead.
- Limited customization: core categories are not editable and default sorting options are limited.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1500190823)