Comparison

Frish vs PolarPantry

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

Head to head
About

Frish

This app uses AI to help you decide what to cook by considering your mood, available ingredients, and expiration dates. It can also help you purchase curated ingredient boxes and manage your refrigerator's contents.

Highlights
  • AI-powered meal suggestions
  • Ingredient box purchases
  • Refrigerator inventory management
  • Expiration date tracking
  • Recipe integration
  • Personalized meal planning
Features
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「今日なにを食べよう」 そんな自然なきっかけから、料理を楽しんで貰いたい。 そのために食材の購入〜献立までを考えてくれる AI を搭載したアプリ、それが Frish です! 機能#1: 食材を購入する 栄養価を保証した食材セット、"FrishBox" が購入できます。 さまざまな種類の BOX から、気になるものをオーダーしてください! AI がユーザに代わって食材を選定してくれるので、たった4ステップで購入が完了します。 機能#2: 冷蔵庫の食材を管理する Frish BOX で購入した食材は、冷蔵庫に登録されて賞味期限が管理されます。 他にも、レシートの撮影や注文メールを転送するだけで冷蔵庫へ登録することができます。 冷蔵庫の食材と賞味期限を献立に活用しましょう。 機能#3: 献立 AI と今日の献立を決める Frish の献立 AI は、次のことを考えて献立を作るのが得意です: - 今日の気分 - 冷蔵庫の中身 - 賞味期限の近いものほど優先 それ以外にも、次のことを考えて献立を提案してくれます: - 旬の食材 - 味のバランス - 和洋中などジャンルの統一 - カロリーや栄養素 - 調理時間や工数 これらを考慮しつつ、インターネット上のレシピを組み合わせて献立を作ります。 今の気分をリクエストしてくれれば、より好みにあった献立も提案できます。 また手持ちの食材とのマッチングや、栄養素、調理に必要な作業を比較しながら決めることができます。 あとは食べたい・作りたい献立を選ぶだけです。 機能#4: みんなで育てる献立 AI 皆さんに使って貰うことで、Frish の献立 AI はどんどん賢くなっていきます。 Frish を通じて、一つでも多く料理する機会が生まれますように。 Happy Cooking!!

About

PolarPantry

Features
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PolarPantry is the shared home for everything in your fridge, freezer, and pantry — so the people who share a kitchen always know what's home, what to buy, and what each other loves. A shared kitchen has no shared brain. You both shop, neither knows what's already in the fridge, and the thing you ran out of never makes the list. PolarPantry turns your hidden inventory into one live, shared view — synced with your partner or family over iCloud — and adds the coordination on top. Why households love it: • See everything at a glance — a photo-card home screen for your fridge, freezer, and pantry, with color-coded expiry (green / orange / red) and a remaining-amount ring from full to almost-empty. • Share one fridge — a single invite shares your chosen locations and the shopping list with your partner or family. You both see and edit the same inventory, kept in sync over iCloud. See who each location is shared with, and stop sharing anytime. • Favorites — a shared memory of what your household loves: a partner's preferred brand, a "tried it, buy again," a note per product. Never forget what they like. • Never double-buy — check your fridge from the store. Save your supermarkets and get a reminder to check the app the moment you arrive. • Fast to add — scan a barcode, photograph a receipt to bulk-add a whole shop, or snap a printed best-before date and let the app read it. • Built-in shopping list — flag a recurring item and it re-adds itself when you run out; check things off in the store, then sweep the cart into your pantry at home. Shareable with your locations. • Your way — 1- or 2-column lists or 2/3/4-column card grids; sort by expiry, purchase date, name, or remaining amount; multiple photos per item; bulk mark-used or delete; purchase history with one-swipe restore; custom storage locations; expiry notifications on your schedule. Apple Intelligence (on capable iPhones): • Recipe ideas from what's expiring soonest, with a chat to refine — "swap the chicken for tofu," "make it spicier" — and add the missing ingredients to your shopping list in one tap. • AI-assisted receipt scanning that cleans each item's name, picks an emoji, and suggests a storage location. • Recipe preferences — dietary rules, allergies, cuisine, skill, cook time — applied to every suggestion. (On iPhones without Apple Intelligence, recipes show a friendly note and scanning uses a non-AI parser. Nothing is locked behind a purchase.) Privacy first: your data lives in your own iCloud account — no maker-run or third-party servers, no separate account to create, no analytics, no cross-app tracking. Apple Intelligence runs on-device. Sharing is over your own iCloud.

Screenshots

Frish4 screens
PolarPantry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Frish at none against PolarPantry's shown. Frish also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). PolarPantry's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Frish ships an update monthly, PolarPantry every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Frish versus PolarPantry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrishPolarPantry
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMenu For Today, Inc.Bluebear.Inc

In-app purchases

None

Frish

No in-app purchases

None

PolarPantry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Frish free?
Frish is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PolarPantry free?
PolarPantry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Frish or PolarPantry have ads?
PolarPantry shows ads; Frish does not.
Which is updated more often, Frish or PolarPantry?
Frish ships an update monthly, and PolarPantry every 2 days. Most recently, Frish was updated on October 10, 2026 and PolarPantry on October 13, 2026.

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