Kiff

The food expiration tracker for groceries and leftovers

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The food expiration tracker for groceries and leftovers

5 followers

Manage your fridge and pantry with Kiff and always eat your food in its best state. Because food loses its nutritional capabilities after keeping it for too long, and if spoiled, it can be a risk for your health. Waste less, save money, and help the planet.

Launch tags:iOS•Health & Fitness•Cooking

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This sounds like a great app. Is it or will it possible to just scan the product bar code to be sure of finding the right product? Ideally that would get the expiration date too since they can sometimes be hard to find.

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6yr ago

Kiff

Maker

@ianmayman Hi Ian, another excellent question 🤔 That would be awesome, but sadly barcodes don't contain the expiration date. They only store the Universal Product Code. They tell us what product, manufacturer, and package size. All units from the same product share the same barcode regardless of their expiration date. You can buy two bricks of milk at the same supermarket with the same barcode but different expiration dates. Although you can get more data from the barcode, through 3rd party databases, it is usually more general, like nutritional info or the product's category. We have tried using computer vision to recognize the expiration date printed on the label. Still, you have to find the date and point the camera towards it. The experience is poor, and it's more inconvenient than filling the date manually. We'll keep digging.

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6yr ago

@nereski Thank you, still is it possible with the Kiff app to identify the item by scanning the barcode? This would be quicker even without the expiration date.

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6yr ago

Kiff

Maker

@ianmayman No at the moment. The minimum info you need to add a new item is to set a name and select an icon. It's quite fast, and this way, we keep the same flow for packaged and no packaged food, like leftovers or fruit and vegetables. And this also gives you more freedom to add different names to your food instead of those written on the label.

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6yr ago

This is a brilliant Idea. Going to war on wastage. I'm really interested in where you got your data from? Like how long milk will last once opened. Really neat and attractive product. Great work!

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6yr ago

Kiff

Maker

Hi @alex_gorman, Asier here, maker of Kiff. That's an excellent question. In this first version of the app, you need to set the shelf life yourself. On most of the packaged products, the manufacturer usually indicates this on the label. Not only for how long they last, but also how to store them once opened. For example, our milk carton says: Once opened, keep in the refrigerator, and consume within three days. But we are working on a suggestion system to help you pick each product's best shelf life, for packaged and non-packaged products, like fruits and vegetables. There are multiple data sources. Usually, each country has its own food safety office. In the United States, the FDA, USDA & CDC have their database for food storage recommendations and might collide with Europe's advice, for example. We are now gathering the best info we can find and taking extra care to build this feature. Because we don't want people to throw food too soon—the food might not be in its best state, but that doesn't mean it's harmful—causing unnecessary waste. We will ship this feature as a free update later this year. Meanwhile, you can check our shelf life guide as a reference here: https://kiff.app/support/tips/fo...

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6yr ago

@asier Fantastic. It is important that people don't get overly worried and throw away their food too soon. Your sending a great message into the world. I'll look forward to all the updates in the future.

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6yr ago

Kiff

Maker

Hey folks 👋 We are Nerea and Asier, indie developers, and makers. It's been a tough year for all of us, and stocking groceries in the middle of a pandemic while working for home has been quite challenging. As days blend, we lost track of when we did buy or cook something. It did happen a lot to us. Especially after cooking for the whole week, we didn't remember how long the leftovers were stored in the fridge. Today we're stoked to launch our first iOS app ever: Kiff, a food tracker for your groceries and leftovers. - 🤦‍♂️ Track expiration dates, and don't throw food away because you didn't remember to eat it in time. - ⏲ Know for how long something has been open or stored. - 🥑 Consume your fruits and vegetables at their best, avoiding eating them last minute. - 🤔 Remember when you stored those leftovers in the fridge or frozen your food. Here are five links to redeem a free copy of Kiff on the App Store for those fast fingers out there. Grab one while they last! https://kiff.app/t/?c=Y7R9K63HMREE https://kiff.app/t/?c=4EFKJ9NFF64M https://kiff.app/t/?c=6LW6WWMY4AJN https://kiff.app/t/?c=ANH64AXLXHWA https://kiff.app/t/?c=Y7XTXHPE64W7 If you weren't lucky to get a free copy, to celebrate the launch, the app is now 25% off. This offer will be available until the end of the month. We hope this app will make your life a little bit easier. We have some exciting new features coming down the roadmap that we are eager to share. It's been quite a ride, and we have learned a lot while building the app, the website, and the whole process of launching it. We will be here for a while, replying to all your questions. So please leave us feedback or ask us anything you want to know in the comments below. 👇

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6yr ago

Grok

Super cool idea! Is it just for things stored in the fridge? Does pantry take in account local environment? (We're in Florida so its quite humid)

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6yr ago

Kiff

Maker

@lauren_place Hi Lauren, you can add food regardless of where you store it (fridge, freezer, or pantry). Sadly, it doesn't know how you store your food or your pantry's (temp or humidity) conditions. Kiff assumes you're keeping them in the best condition possible. It's near impossible for us to know the relative humidity or temperature of your kitchen or cupboard without external hardware. But we are working on giving you the best advice possible for storing and preserving your food in the next releases.

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6yr ago

Air of Time

Design is very elegant, both on the app as well as your website. Congrats on the launch and great job :) One question: Is it possible to take photo of the shopping cart, and it automatically shows all the products with their expiration date empty? For fresh produce it's hard to tell the expiration date, so the app can assume some data without user input. One amazing thing from this process could be that users can check what they have in fridge next time they're out shopping, or remembering what they need at home. Patterns on food consumption + nutritive value (gained or lost) could be an amazing by product of this as well :). Excited for Kiff

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6yr ago

github-pewpew

Brilliant! This is going to help us saving a lot of fruit from expiring. Glad to hear you're working on some automation to make it even easier to use.

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6yr ago

Kiff

Maker

@adrianmg Thanks, Adrián! The automation, along with Siri shortcuts, will be key for a seamless experience. We're really looking forward to releasing the next version. 😊 Till then, enjoy the V1 and hope it saves a lot of fruit 🍓 along the way!

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6yr ago

Nice product. Wonder if you guys could also work on people actually getting in the habit of entering expiration dates (since it seems the pre-requisite for an app like this to work).

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6yr ago

Kiff

Maker

@zerotousers Well, creating a habit is quite a challenge, and it needs a lot of will power. But Kiff doesn't rely only on expiration dates to work. They are entirely optional. You can use the app to track the food you cook, leftovers, or the groceries you buy, like vegetables and fruits. Those don't have an expiration date. When you add them to Kiff, you can start tracking them and know how long they have been on the fridge or pantry. But if you enable the shelf life option, Kiff will also notify you before they are about to go bad. Say you cook something, and you want to eat it in the next two days. Add it to Kiff, set 2 days in the "Shelf life" input, and start the tracker. Kiff will remind you to eat it before the two days go by. There isn't a "correct" way of using Kiff. You can set expiration dates and/or track food with or without a set shelf life. What suits you best. Of course, the automation and suggestion features we are working on will make this process a bit easier. We have a whole section with examples under the "Register" topic if you want to dig more in this feature: https://kiff.app/support/registe...

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6yr ago

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