Use By Date vs Beautable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Use By Date
Never let food or medicine expire again. This app sends timely reminders before items go bad, helping you save money and reduce waste. You can add items, record expiry dates, take photos, and categorize them for easy management.
- Expiry date reminders
- Item categorization
- Photo capture for items
- Customizable notification times
- Add custom item categories
- Search functionality
- Detailed notes for items
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Tired of your food going bad? Forgot when your loaf of bread expires? With this app, you get notified before your food or medicine goes bad! You can use it for fruits, milk, medicine, memberships, meat, vitamins or vegemite, or more! Anything that has a shelf life, or an expiry date, can be added to Use By Date and you will save money and aggravation because your phone will give you a reminder ahead of time. You can take photos of your food so that you can see it to help remember. Some valuable features: - Reminder notification pops up on your phone at your specified time up to 7 days before the item expires - Take a photo of your dish or item - Record the expiry date - Categorize your items, such as food or medicine - Add new categories of items - Search for specific items - Include notes for more detail, such as where you purchased the item and for how much You will save money using this app. Throwing out the tuna salad you made 3 days ago because you forgot to eat it costs more than the price of this app!
Beautable
Never use expired beauty products again. This app helps you track the opening and expiry dates of your cosmetics, sending timely reminders to dispose of them. Keep your beauty routine safe and effective.
- Track opening and expiry dates
- Receive disposal notifications
- Manage cosmetic product shelf life
- Ensure safe beauty product usage
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If you save a product's opening date or expiry date, Beautable notifies you when to dispose of it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beautable at 100% against Use By Date's 0%. Beautable also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months). Use By Date's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Beautable holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Use By Date's written reviews are positive against 100% of Beautable's.
Use By Date ships an update every 12 months, Beautable every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Use By Date | Beautable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Portable Databases | Jihyun Son |
Customer experience
Use By Date
Beautable
In-app purchases
Use By Date
No in-app purchases
Beautable
No in-app purchases
