Pantry Manager vs Homechart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pantry Manager
Manage household items, reduce food waste with expiration reminders, and create smart shopping lists. Sync across devices and share with family. Features barcode scanning and Apple Watch support.
- Expiration date reminders
- Smart shopping list
- Barcode scanning
- Cloud syncing
- Apple Watch support
- Custom categories and locations
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Manages all of your household items with Pantry Manager! Lower food waste with expiration date reminders and a shopping list that matches actual items you own or will buy. Now with Apple Watch support! Never again will you wonder if you have that ingredient when you’re at the store. Open up pantry manager and see if your milk will go bad soon or if you need more AA Batteries. You can even scan a barcode to quickly add items.* --- Create a free Pantry Manager account and sync all of your items in the cloud. Using one account, everyone in your household can add, modify, and delete objects in your database. Need your spouse to pick up a few things on the way home from work? Add those items to your shopping list and have him or her sync the app when they leave. --- With pantry manager you get: • An easy to use interface with great sorting options • Notifications when your food expires • See which items have coupons • The ability to email your shopping list or entire pantry to anyone • A shopping list that relates to real items you have or will purchase • Barcode scanning to quickly add items* • Free Pantry Manager account for cloud syncing • Locally saved photos of your items • In-app purchase for syncing photos** • Icons to quickly see expired and soon to be expired items • App badges to see how many expired items you have • iPad and iPhone version for one low price • Custom categories for your items • Custom stores so you know where you need to shop • Custom locations so you know where your items are • Tags so you can filter your items however you like • Easy to use editing options to increase productivity • Multi-item editing has support for changing categories, stores and locations and more • Add a note to any item for complete control • Export your pantry to CSV format • Access your exported CSV documents and images through iTunes • Custom sort allows you to reorder the list any way you like • Apple Watch support * UPC scanning requires the use of an auto-focus camera. Some devices will not be able to scan UPCs. The current list of known devices is the iPhone 3Gs and newer and the iPad2 and newer. Not every item will be found but users can help add new items. ** Syncing photos require an in-app purchase because it requires significantly more bandwidth and server size. Price and features subject to change. Thank You! MJ Lyco LLC
Homechart
This app helps organize your entire household by managing budgets, calendars, recipes, tasks, health information, and inventory. It offers a privacy-focused experience with no ads and works across all your devices.
- Budgeting and saving tools
- Integrated calendars and events
- Health and allergy tracking
- Inventory and pantry management
- Markdown-based notes and wiki
- Task and to-do list management
- Recipe and meal planning
- Password and secret management
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Homechart manages your budgets, calendars, recipes, tasks, and so much more. Designed for everyone in your household, works with all of your devices. In the cloud or self-hosted. Privacy focused, no ads. Homechart is the only app you need for: Budgeting and Saving - Take charge of your budget using categories and goals. Pay your bills, then pay yourself by distributing your income each month into your categories. Calendars and Events - See everything in one simple view. Homechart aggregates your scheduled transactions, meals, and tasks along with your events. Health and Allergies - Track foods, allergies, symptoms, behaviors and more for everyone in your household. Discover insights and correlations between symptoms and foods. Inventory and Pantry - Always know what's in stock, when your warranties expire, and more. Intuitively catalog everything in your house. Notes and Wiki - Markdown-based notes lets you easily create rich formatted pages. Reference anything in Homechart like budgets, recipes, or tasks to create links from a single page. Planning and To Dos - Conquer your to-do list with easy to use task tracking. Household and personal projects let you delegate work or take on the world yourself. Recipes and Meal Planning - Easy meal planning lets you add recipes to customizable meal times. Sort your recipe collection by rating, last time made, and more. Rewards and Gifts - Provide positive reinforcement for your household members using stamp cards to track achievements or give them rewards. Secrets and Passwords - Protect your household's passwords and secrets. Store encrypted values in personal or household vaults. Shopping and Grocery - Buy only what you need using a simple shopping list manager. Automatically identify items by store and category. Terms of Use: https://web.homechart.app/about/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Homechart at Free against Pantry Manager's $3.99. Homechart also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.6). Pantry Manager's advantage is ratings volume (80 vs 6) and chart position (#196 vs unranked). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Homechart is free to download; Pantry Manager costs $3.99 up front. Pantry Manager sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Homechart sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Homechart holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pantry Manager has 80 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of Pantry Manager's written reviews are positive against 50% of Homechart's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pantry Manager ships an update every 3 weeks, Homechart every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pantry Manager | Homechart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (80 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #196 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MJ Lyco LLC | Candid Development LLC |
Customer experience
Pantry Manager
Homechart
Bugs and requests
Pantry Manager
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes frequently and becomes unstable
- Barcode scanner produces blurry/unreadable images
- Items fail to save or delete properly
- Syncing fails between devices
- App won't open after recent updates
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- Categories don't sync between iPhone and iPad
- Apple Watch app shows login error and becomes unresponsive
- App hangs when editing item names
- Scanner stops working after first few items
- Data disappears from inventory list
- Password reset link disabled
- App opens automatically when phone is unlocked
- Photo syncing issues between devices
- Clicking item picture shows wrong item information
- Slow loading and parsing delays
- Error dialogs appear frequently
- Support contact form has non-functional CAPTCHA
Requested features
18 requests- Meal planner integration with ingredient allocation
- Manual UPC code entry without full product lookup
- Multiple expiration dates for same product
- Offline functionality without data loss
- Fractional quantity support (e.g., 1/2 kg)
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- Ability to edit quantity and expiration date from main list view
- Recipe suggestions based on pantry items
- Android app version
- Web-based access to inventory
- Aisle-based shopping list organization
- Ability to add items to shopping list not in pantry
- Automatic quantity addition to pantry when shopping list items purchased
- Sort by quantity feature
- Support for multiple locations with same item and different quantities
- Improved barcode database for international products
- Continuous/multi-item scanning mode
- Backup and restore functionality
- Better category customization options
Homechart
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pantry Manager
- Sync Photos$0.99
Homechart
- Homechart Household (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Homechart Household (Yearly)$49.991 Year









