Smart Expiry Tracker vs ExpiryMeter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Expiry Tracker
Manage product expiry dates and reduce waste with this intuitive app. Record item details, receive timely notifications for expiring or expired products, and organize your stock efficiently. Advanced features like barcode scanning and data export are available.
- Record product details (name, expiry, batch, quantity)
- Receive expiry notifications
- Organize stock by category, brand, location
- Barcode scanning for quick entry (PRO)
- Add product photos (PRO)
- Export data to Excel (PRO)
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Reduce your losses and avoid wasting expired products with Expiry Control, the ultimate solution for managing the validity of your items simply and effectively. This intuitive app offers a range of powerful features to ensure you never let a product expire unused again. With Expiry Control, you can: Record essential details of each product, including name, expiration date, batch, and quantity, for precise stock control. Receive intelligent notifications about products about to expire or already expired, enabling proactive and efficient management. Keep your stock organized in one place, with an elegant design and easy navigation, for a seamless user experience. Speed up the registration process using the PRO function to scan barcodes and fill in information automatically, saving time and effort. Facilitate product identification through photos, available in the PRO function, making visual recognition quick and intuitive. Customize your stock organization by category, brand, and purchase location, with the PRO function, for even more refined management. Export your data for analysis or backup in an Excel file, with the PRO function, providing a comprehensive and flexible view of your information. Expiry Control is available for free download and use, offering a comprehensive solution for your product validity management needs. To enjoy all the advanced features and remove ads, you can opt for an affordable subscription to the PRO version. Don't waste any more time! Download Expiry Control now and discover the best way to keep your products always within their expiration date and ready for use.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ExpiryMeter at none against Smart Expiry Tracker's 21. ExpiryMeter also leads on ads (none vs shown). Smart Expiry Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Smart Expiry Tracker sells 20 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. ExpiryMeter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smart Expiry Tracker ships an update every 4 days, ExpiryMeter every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Expiry Tracker | ExpiryMeter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Douglas Nunes de Mattos | Francisco Lara Ruiz |
Customer experience
Smart Expiry Tracker
ExpiryMeter
In-app purchases
Smart Expiry Tracker
- Remove ads$0.991 Month
- 1 Month$2.491 Month
- PRO Monthly7 Days trial$2.491 Month
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- 3 Months$2.993 Months
- PRO7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- PRO$4.991 Month
- PRO7 Days trial2 variants$5.991 Month
- PRO 3 months7 Days trial$6.993 Months
- PRO7 Days trial$7.993 Months
- PRO 3 months7 Days trial$8.993 Months
- A Year$9.991 Year
- PRO7 Days trial$9.993 Months
- A Year$10.991 Year
- PRO7 Days trial$13.993 Months
- PRO Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- PRO7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- PRO Annual$29.991 Year
- PRO7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- PRO7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- PRO$5.99
ExpiryMeter
No in-app purchases
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