Comparison

Expiration_Date vs ExpiryMeter

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Expiration_Date

Track your food inventory and get timely notifications for expiring items. This app helps you reduce food waste and save money by keeping you informed about what's nearing its expiration date. Features include AI-powered tips and syncing across devices.

Highlights
  • Food inventory tracking
  • Expiration date notifications
  • AI-powered tips
  • Widget support
  • Cross-device syncing
Features
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Manage your food expiration dates and reduce waste. THE PROBLEM Food expires. You forget. Money wasted. WHY CHECKING THE LABEL ISN'T ENOUGH Dates are on every package — but nobody opens the fridge to check them one by one until it's too late. THE SOLUTION Expiration Date tracks your food inventory and keeps you ahead of what's expiring — with notifications, widgets, and AI-powered tips. Simple. Synced. No more wasted food. Support: vibecoder.company@gmail.com

About

ExpiryMeter

This app helps you manage food expiry dates and create prioritized grocery shopping lists. It uses a color-coded system to quickly show what needs to be eaten soon and allows for easy list sharing.

Highlights
  • Track food expiry and best-before dates
  • Color-coded expiry status
  • Prioritized grocery shopping lists
  • Add notes and icons to items
  • Notifications for food expiring soon
  • Share shopping lists
  • Duplicate past purchases
Features
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ExpiryMeter is a free app for iPhone and iPad, available in Spanish and English, very simple and intuitive, and packing two functions: • EXPIRYMETER: To keep under control the Expiration or the Best-Before dates of the food you have at home. • GROCERY SHOPPING LIST: To keep updated your running Grocery Shopping List, prioritized and always at hand. These two functions match two simple gestures proposed by United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization to help reduce food waste. Every year more than a billion tons of food are thrown away, wasting a third of the food produced for human consumption. Halving food waste by 2030 is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN. EXPIRYMETER This first function allows you to manage the list of food stored at home. It sorts food by their Expiry or Best-Before dates and shows the number of days left until that date. In addition, a color code allows to see, in a quick glance, if the food Expiry or Best-Before date has already been exceeded, or how far it is. Its operation is very simple: — Add food to the list: Tap + and write its name, the Expiry date or the Best-Before date and the quantity purchased. Choose a food icon and add a note if you wish. — Food details: It shows every detail of each food, and the background color points out if it has already expired (red). Or if it will expire in the next 7 days (orange), between 8 and 15 days (brown), between 16 and 30 days (green) or after more than 30 days (blue). — Edit the data of a food: Tap on the tab of the food to be modified. — Remove food from the list: Tap 'Edit' or swipe the food card to the left, and press 'Delete’. — Sort the Shopping List by 'Date', by 'Food type' or by 'Name': Tap on the 'Menu' and choose one of the options. — Add a food to the Grocery Shopping List, from the ExpiryMeter: Swipe the food card to the right, touch ‘To buy', and that food will be automatically added to the Shopping List. — Duplicate a food that you already have in the ExpiryMeter: If you have repurchased any of the foods that you already have in the ExpiryMeter, swipe the card of that food to the right and tap 'Duplicate'. — Activate Notifications: Tap on the 'Menu' icon and choose whether you want to activate or deactivate notifications. With 'Notifications on', at 8:00 in the morning a 'Food to eat soon' alert will appear in the event that there are less than 4 days left before the Expiry or Best-Before date of any food. — Share the list: Tap on the 'Menu' icon and select 'To share'. GROCERY SHOPPING LIST To keep your grocery shopping list always updated, prioritized and at hand. Keeping the list updated is simple and intuitive: — Add to Shopping List: Tap + and write the name of the product to buy, and add a note if you wish. And choose an icon for the food type to sort the shopping list by 'Food type'. — Do I have to buy it right away?: Tap on one of the three buttons, depending on the purchase priority: High priority (dark blue), medium (blue), low (light blue). — Edit the details of any product: Just tap on the product. — Remove food from the list: Tap 'Edit' or swipe with your finger the food card to the left, and press 'Delete’. — Mark on the list the products already 'purchased': You can mark on the list the products as you are buying them. Swipe the product card to the right, and a blue validation icon will appear with a question mark; touch it and the 'Already purchased' mark will appear in the blue circle of that product. Or tap on the product card and press 'Yes' in the 'Already purchased?' section. — Remove the products marked as 'Already purchased': Tap on the 'Menu' and choose the option 'Remove the purchased'. — Sort the Shopping List by 'Purchase Priority' or by 'Food type': Tap on the 'Menu' icon and choose one or the other option. Initially, the list is sorted by 'Purchase Priority'. — Share the Grocery Shopping List: Tap on the 'Menu' and select 'To share' option.

Screenshots

Expiration_Date4 screens
ExpiryMeter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ExpiryMeter at none against Expiration_Date's 1. ExpiryMeter also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.1). Expiration_Date's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 8 months). On price, review sentiment and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Expiration_Date sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ExpiryMeter asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Expiration_Date ships an update weekly, ExpiryMeter every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Expiration_Date versus ExpiryMeter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpiration_DateExpiryMeter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (57 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.6% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings57 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.116.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeung-Un HamFrancisco Lara Ruiz

Customer experience

Expiration_Date

All ratings57 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive46.6%
Neutral17.2%
Negative36.2%

ExpiryMeter

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Expiration_Date

One-time1
  • Pro$2.99
None

ExpiryMeter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Expiration_Date free?
Expiration_Date is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ExpiryMeter free?
ExpiryMeter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Expiration_Date or ExpiryMeter have ads?
Expiration_Date shows ads; ExpiryMeter does not.
Which is updated more often, Expiration_Date or ExpiryMeter?
Expiration_Date ships an update weekly, and ExpiryMeter every 8 months. Most recently, Expiration_Date was updated on September 8, 2026 and ExpiryMeter on September 7, 2026.

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