Pantry Assistant

What's new

Every Pantry Assistant release, newest first. Each one says what's new and what we fixed.

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Version 1.0

New

  • A recipe shows which ingredients are already on your list, and a + puts any one of them there.
  • Plan a recipe for any day from its calendar button, or tap Cook tonight.
  • The Pantry Assistant website, with Help articles and this page.

Fixed

  • Adding a child during setup no longer says "Couldn't save that" when it saved.

Version 0.9.1

New

  • Share a recipe as a web page, a picture or a card to print. The person who gets it can save it to their kitchen.
  • Setup is shorter: "What do you have?", then "Who's in your kitchen?".
  • Receipt Scan warns you about a receipt you already scanned, and places more lines on its own.
  • Invite links show a preview card in your messages.
  • The app asks once if you'd like to help improve it, with a switch in Settings.

Fixed

  • Reload leans on what you have when the pantry is thin.
  • A scan that fails on our end says so, instead of asking you to retake the photo.

Version 0.9

New

  • Shelf Scan: take up to 3 photos of a shelf and it updates that zone. Anything it can't name goes under "Couldn't tell".
  • Thaw reminders and Freeze it: the Check-in tells you when to move frozen food to the fridge, and offers to freeze food near its date.
  • Running out no longer fills your list by itself. The Check-in asks which ones you want on it.
  • Cook mode reads each step aloud and calls out the timer.
  • Share your list as text, send a recipe link to the app from any other app, and spot slow cooker dinners at a glance.
  • Setup and joining a kitchen ask about allergies, and you still check labels.

Fixed

  • Cooked takes off the list only the items that recipe added, and a dinner you skip stays skipped.
  • Invite and sign-in links open the app when it's on your phone.

Version 0.8.2

Fixed

  • Joining a kitchen from an invite link opens the kitchen, instead of saying the link no longer works.

Version 0.8.1

Fixed

  • Scanning a receipt while a Put Away is open no longer loses the photo.

Version 0.8

New

  • The new look reaches Recipes, Cook mode, the Pantry, Put Away, the Check-in, Settings and sign-in.
  • Dark mode follows your phone.
  • Layouts made for the iPad.
  • A new scan camera, a menu when you press and hold, and sheets that move out of the keyboard's way.

Fixed

  • Tab labels respond to a tap, and button labels fit on one line.

Version 0.7

New

  • A new look for Tonight, Reload, the Plan, Fill my week and the List, with a kitchen switcher at the top.
  • After a Receipt Scan, you see what happened to the lines, including any it could not read.

Fixed

  • A Starter Recipe you save keeps its picture.

Version 0.6

New

  • Receipt Scan: take a photo of a receipt and its items land in your Put Away.
  • The app asks before any photo is read by AI, and you can change your answer in Settings.
  • Add a photo of yourself, and of the people in your kitchen who don't sign in.

Fixed

  • Pantry dates follow your kitchen's time zone.

Version 0.5

New

  • The daily Check-in: a reminder each day with your planned dinner and a few pantry questions, each already set to our best guess.
  • Bring in a recipe by pasting a link. Its photo and credit come with it.
  • 71 Starter Recipes, each with a picture.
  • Plan your week. The Plan looks ahead at what your pantry will have.
  • Download all your data.

Fixed

  • Tonight shows the dinner you planned for tonight.
  • Ingredients match your pantry foods more often, and a failed invite link says why.

Version 0.4

New

  • Your Pantry, with batches, zones and dates, and Always on hand for the basics.
  • Shopping lists by aisle, shared or private, that work offline. Put Away moves what you bought into the pantry.
  • Your own recipes, and Cooked when you make one.
  • Reload picks tonight's dinner and plans around everyone's allergies, and you still check labels.
  • Sign in with a code or link sent to your email.
  • Setup screens, the Get Started card, and Settings for you and your account.

Version 0.3

New

  • Start a kitchen and see it on every device you sign in on, even offline.
  • Invite people to your kitchen with a link.
  • Updates arrive on their own, and a very old version asks you to update.

Version 0.2

Behind-the-scenes planning and design work.

Version 0.1

Base system.