The table
| App | Developer | Rating (count) | Price | Barcode scan | Expiry reminders | Shared household | Recipes from what you have | How food gets in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupboard: Grocery Tracker | Vilde Vevatne (us) | 5.0 (1 rating) | Free; free version tracks up to 30 items. Optional Pro subscription | No | No (in-app "use soon" list) | No, one phone | Yes (Pro) | Receipt photo, product photo (Pro), typing, quick-add |
| Pantry Check - Grocery List | Sunroom Labs, LLC | 4.5 (1.6K) | Free up to 200 items; paid tiers for 2,000 and 10,000 items ($1.99 to $29.99 listed) | Yes | Yes | Yes, family sharing | Not mentioned | Barcode, crowd-sourced product database |
| NoWaste: Food Inventory List | KH Creations ApS | 4.2 (758) | Free; Pro $6.99/year, lifetime from $29.99 | Yes | Yes | Not mentioned | Recipes and meal plans | Barcode, receipt, photo |
| KitchenPal Shared Grocery List | iCuisto Pte. Ltd. | 4.5 (715) | Free; Premium $3.99/month, $14.99/year, $29.99 lifetime | Yes (4M+ products) | Yes | Yes | Yes, matched to pantry | Barcode, voice, text |
| Cooklist: Pantry Meals Recipes | Cooklist, Inc | 4.7 (11K) | Free; Pro $5.99 to $9.99/month or $49.99 to $59.99/year (several prices listed) | Yes | Yes | Yes, household | Yes, 1M+ recipes | Loyalty-card import (Walmart, Kroger, Safeway, Wegmans + 75 more) |
| SuperCook Recipe By Ingredient | AMR Systems LLC | 4.8 (22K) | Free, no in-app purchases listed | Not mentioned | Not mentioned | Not mentioned | Yes, its main job | Pick from 2,000+ ingredients, voice |
"Not mentioned" means the app's listing doesn't describe it; the app may still have it. Ratings are US App Store averages and counts, checked Nov 8, 2026. Cupboard's free-version limit is from the app itself.
What each one does better than Cupboard
Pantry Check
Barcode scanning, real-time sync and family sharing, automatic expiration reminders, and a free tier of 200 items against Cupboard's 30. It also tracks prices and running totals on lists. If two people shop for one kitchen, it's the more practical choice.
NoWaste
Expiry reminders, barcode plus receipt and photo scanning, separate locations, and a low price: $6.99 a year for Pro per its description, with lifetime options. It's on Android as well as iPhone and in 11 languages on the App Store. Cupboard is iPhone only.
KitchenPal
The widest feature list: shared grocery lists, a 4 million+ product barcode library, expiry alerts, recipes matched to your pantry, a meal planner and nutrition comparisons. Premium covers family members.
Cooklist
Loyalty-card import is the standout: if you shop at a supported store, your pantry fills itself without scanning anything. It also has the largest rating count of the dedicated pantry apps here (11K).
SuperCook
Free with no in-app purchases listed, and very good at one job: showing only recipes you can make with ingredients you have, drawn from what it describes as 11 million recipes. It doesn't track quantities or dates, so pair it with a list if you need those.
Where Cupboard fits
Cupboard: Grocery Tracker is a grocery inventory for iPhone (iOS 17 or later). It needs no account; your grocery names, notes, photos and cupboard contents stay on your device. You add food by typing, quick-add, a photo of the product, or a photo of the receipt, and every scan becomes an editable draft before it saves. Items are sorted by home and storage place, with what to use soon up front. Pick a recipe and only the missing ingredients go on the shopping list. The free version covers basic tracking up to 30 items; Cupboard Pro, an optional subscription, unlocks receipt scanning, photo autofill, recipe ideas and chat, saved recipe history and unlimited items. It has no barcode scanner, no expiry notifications and no sharing between phones. See it on the App Store.
Apps we left out
AIs sometimes suggest Fridgely. On Nov 8, 2026 its US App Store page (id988016972) returned "not found" and Apple's lookup returned no result, so it doesn't appear to be available in the US right now. We also left out general shopping-list apps that don't track what's at home.