Freezer and fridge inventory app for iPhone and iPad

Know what's in every freezer and fridge.

Keep a list of everything in your freezer, fridge and pantry. Photos, barcode scanning and expiry reminders help you eat food before it goes off and waste less. No sign-up, no ads.

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Pork chops with two packages, each with its own frozen date and expiry
The ColdSpot start screen: a To take out card, All items and four Cold Spots
No account needed
No ads, no tracking in the app
Your data stays in your iCloud
Available in 8 languages
See it in action

Twenty seconds, three good reasons.

Everything you keep cold, in one place
The chicken is saved: reminders for the whole household
Scan it. Even the wine.
Freezer inventory features

Everything cold, in one clear list.

Track what's in every freezer and fridge, see what to use first, and keep the whole household on the same page.

Cold Spots

Freezers, fridges, the chest in the garage or the one at the cabin. The app opens on your Cold Spots; tap one to see what's inside.

1 free, unlimited with Premium

Barcode scanning

Scan a package and the product name fills in from Open Food Facts.

Photos you can zoom

Snap a photo of every item and open it full screen to read the label. Categories keep things sorted.

Expiry at a glance

Color-coded badges show what is fine and what to use soon.

✓ 10 mo 14 days left

Expiry reminders

Get a heads-up before items expire, plus an optional summary every few days.

3 items free, all with Premium

Packages

One item, several packages, each with its own count, frozen date and expiry. Taking one always uses the oldest first.

Premium

Remind me to take out

Thaw dinner in time. Pick tonight, tomorrow morning or your own time, and choose who in the household gets the reminder.

Premium

Share with your household

Invite family with a link or QR code and see everyone by name. Changes sync through iCloud on iPhone and iPad.

Premium

Activity log

See what was added, changed and used, and by whom in a shared inventory.

Premium

Backup and restore

Export everything, photos included, to a single file you keep.

Scan label

Barcode not found? Photograph the label and pick the name from its words, read right on your phone.

Quick − and +

Take one out or add one straight from the list.

Dark mode

Easy on the eyes in a dark pantry or late at night.

The Overview with totals, items to use this week and a category breakdown
Food expiry overview

See what to use this week.

The overview counts every item across your Cold Spots, flags what expires soon and breaks it down by category. Open it from Settings whenever you plan the week's meals.

Use soon
Items that need eating first, right at the top
Search
Filter by Cold Spot or find any item by name
Grid view with photos

See what's inside before you open the lid.

Switch any Cold Spot to the grid and every item shows its photo, count and expiry. Perfect for the jam shelf in the cellar or a freezer full of look-alike bags.

The Cellar in grid view: jars of apricot, blackberry, blackcurrant and blueberry jam with counts and expiry
Add food with a barcode scan

In the freezer in seconds.

Take a photo, scan the barcode or tap a quick-add suggestion. Pick a Cold Spot, answer “Frozen on” with Today, a date or Don’t know, and set the expiry with one tap. Got a full freezer already? Add existing items skips the question so you can enter everything fast.

  • 1Scan or snap a photo
  • 2Choose Cold Spot and category
  • 3Frozen today, and 1, 3 or 6 months to expiry
The New item screen with barcode scan, photo, quick-add suggestions and expiry shortcuts
Product Not Found, with Scan Label and Type It Yourself
Pick the Name: the words from the wine label as buttons, with Château Belle Brume 2021 picked
Scan label and barcode memory

Scan it. Even the wine.

Barcode not found? Photograph the label and ColdSpot reads it right on your phone. Tap the words that make up the name, or let Apple Intelligence name it for you. Once you've saved it, the barcode is remembered, and with Premium every phone in the household fills it in on the next scan.

  • Label read on your phone, nothing uploaded
  • Category and Cold Spot suggested from what you already have
  • Wine, beer and juice usually land in Drinks
The Wine cooler with Château Belle Brume 2021 under Drinks
Filed under Drinks, in the wine cooler.
A Remember to take out notification on the home screen: take out chicken fillets
The Remind me to take out sheet with Taken out, time and date, and a choice of package
A Taken out notification: chicken fillets, 2 packs, was taken out
Thaw and take-out reminders

Dinner, thawed in time.

Set a reminder on any item for tonight, tomorrow morning or a time you choose, and pick which package. In a shared household, remind just yourself or everyone.

  • Tap “Taken out” right on the notification
  • Snooze for an hour or until tomorrow
  • A “To take out” strip at the top keeps it in sight
  • Choose how many: take out two of five portions
An expiry reminder on the lock screen: chicken fillets expire on Oct 27
Expiry reminders land on your lock screen. Set a take-out reminder for everyone, and when someone takes it out, the rest of the household is told.
iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo

Made for every screen you own.

On iPad and the unfolded iPhone Duo, the tabs move to a sidebar and the item opens right beside the list. Fold it shut and you're back to the familiar phone layout, exactly where you left off. Keyboard shortcuts included.

Sidebar on big screens Item beside the list ⌘N new item · ⌘S save
ColdSpot on iPad: the sidebar, the Left freezer list and Pork chops open beside it
ColdSpot on the unfolded iPhone Duo: All items with Apricot jam open beside the list
ColdSpot on the folded iPhone Duo: the Cold Spots start screen
Pricing

Free to start.

Upgrade to Premium when you need more. Try it free for a month, or buy it once with Lifetime.

Free
Everything you need for one freezer.
  • Up to 15 items
  • 1 Cold Spot
  • Barcode scanning and photos
  • Packages and frozen dates
  • Expiry alerts for the 3 items that expire first
Premium
1 month free
For the whole house, and the cabin.
  • Unlimited items and Cold Spots
  • Expiry alerts for every item, plus the summary and take-out reminders
  • Share with your household by QR code or link. Everyone who joins gets Premium too
  • Activity log
  • Backup and restore
  • Apple Family Sharing: up to 6 family members, no extra cost
  • Household barcode memory: scan once, every phone knows it

Premium is an auto-renewable subscription, yearly or monthly, or a one-time Lifetime purchase with no subscription. New subscribers get the first month of the yearly plan free. Prices are shown in your local currency in the App Store. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel it in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use · Privacy Policy

Your food. Your iCloud.

The ColdSpot app has no accounts, no ads and no analytics. Your inventory lives on your device and, if you turn on sync, in your own private iCloud.

Read the privacy policy