Meet Eat First — Use food before it goes bad

Food And Drink

Eat First

Use food before it goes bad

What Eat First does

Eat First is the food-tracking app that finally gets the friction out of the way. Every other expiry tracker makes you scan a barcode that fails, scan a receipt that returns gibberish, or type in a date you don't actually know. Eat First does none of that. Tap to add a food from a built-in database of 650+ items, and the use-by date is calculated for you instantly — pantry, fridge, or freezer. Your home screen becomes one simple list: what to eat first, color-coded by urgency. Reminders fire a few days before anything spoils, so leftovers and produce never rot in the back of the fridge again. The average U.S. family throws away nearly $2,900 of food a year — Eat First helps you claw that back. Works 100% offline, with no account, no scanning, and no ads. Add an item, get reminded, eat it in time. Download Eat First and stop wasting food today.

A look inside

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What's inside

• One-tap add — Search or browse the bundled food list and add an item in one tap — no barcode, no receipt, no typing a date.
• Auto expiry prediction — Shelf life is looked up from a bundled 650+ item database and the use-by date is computed from today's date, separately for pantry, fridge, and freezer storage.
• Eat-First list — The home screen is a single list sorted by soonest-to-expire, color-coded green/amber/red so you always know what to cook tonight.
• Spoilage reminders — Local notifications fire a configurable number of days before each item expires — reliable, fully on-device, no server.
• Waste & savings insights — See how many items you used in time vs. tossed and an estimate of dollars saved this month.
• Custom foods — Add your own foods and override default shelf-life rules so the predictions match your habits.

Why we built it

People forget when food will spoil and waste it, but every tracking app relies on broken barcode/receipt scanning or manual date entry to know expiry.

What makes it different

No scanning and no date typing: pick a food and the use-by date is auto-computed from a bundled 650+ item shelf-life database, fully offline — attacking Fridgely's failed scanners and FoodKeeper's reference-only, no-tracking gap.

Who it's for

Built for anyone who values fast, private, on-device software with a calm, focused UX.

In one line: Use food before it goes bad

Try it

See the Eat First app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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