Stocked vs PantrySmart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Stocked
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"Stocked: Your Ultimate Long-Term Food Storage Solution! Elevate your pantry organization with Stocked โ the essential iOS app designed for meticulous, long-term food storage. Effortlessly log your supplies, set quantities, and manage storage locations with ease. Receive timely notifications as items approach expiration, minimizing waste. With its intuitive interface, Stocked simplifies tracking and managing your long-term food inventory. Generate detailed PDF reports for easy sharing and printing. Download Stocked now and embark on a journey towards a well-preserved and efficiently organized pantry!"
PantrySmart
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PantrySmart helps you waste less food, shop with more confidence, and keep your kitchen organized from one simple app. Track pantry, fridge, freezer, and household staples with quantities, photos, expiration dates, categories, storage locations, tags, and notes. PantrySmart highlights items that are expired, expiring soon, opened, frozen, low stock, recently added, or missing details, so you can find what needs attention before food gets forgotten. The Today dashboard puts the most useful actions first. See expired items, upcoming expirations, low staples, your next planned meal, and recipe ideas that help you use food before it goes to waste. Quick actions make it easy to add an item, review expiring food, check low stock, open the grocery list, jump to recipes, manage categories, and review sync. Build smarter grocery lists from recipes, restock needs, pantry items, or manual entries. Organize lists by store section or store, check items off while shopping, save recurring lists as templates, and add purchased items back into your pantry when the trip is done. Barcode scanning and product lookup help speed up both grocery and inventory entry. Plan meals and cook from what you already have. PantrySmart combines recipes, weekly meal planning, use-it-up ideas, leftovers, collections, missing ingredients, prep tasks, cooking reminders, and recipe sharing. When you mark a planned meal as cooked, PantrySmart can deduct ingredients from inventory and track leftovers for future meals. Use inventory insights to understand what you have, what you use, and what gets wasted. Log food usage and waste, review consumption trends, track grocery prices, manage price history, export reports, and use restock rules to keep important staples from running out. PantrySmart also includes practical tools for larger households and serious kitchen organization: duplicate detection, custom units, categories, locations, tags, scan history, barcode cache management, import and export, full backups and restores, local sync, sync activity, and conflict review. Key features include inventory tracking, expiration reminders, barcode scanning, grocery lists, grocery templates, recipe management, meal planning, use-it-up suggestions, leftover tracking, cooked meal ingredient deduction, waste logging, price tracking, household organization tools, backups, and widgets for expiring items. PantrySmart is designed for real kitchens: fast enough for quick grocery trips, detailed enough for organized pantries, and focused on helping you use more of the food you already bought.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PantrySmart at Free against Stocked's $1.99. PantrySmart also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 16 months). Stocked's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
PantrySmart is free to download; Stocked costs $1.99 up front. PantrySmart sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stocked asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stocked ships an update every 16 months, PantrySmart every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stocked | PantrySmart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free โ better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 5 weeks โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Gaddy | Nevv Atlantis LLC |
In-app purchases
Stocked
No in-app purchases
PantrySmart
- PantrySmart Pro$4.99









