Pantry Tracker vs WhatDo?!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pantry Tracker
Manage your kitchen inventory and reduce food waste. Scan receipts to automatically add items, receive expiration reminders, and get recipe suggestions based on what you have. Save money by shopping smarter and avoiding expired food.
- Track pantry and fridge inventory
- Scan grocery receipts automatically
- Expiration date reminders
- Smart shopping lists
- Recipe suggestions from existing ingredients
- Reduce food waste and save money
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Track your food inventory, reduce food waste, and save money with Foodat - the smart pantry and fridge tracker. Stop throwing away expired food. Know exactly what’s in your kitchen at all times. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH FOODAT ◆ Track Your Pantry & Fridge Keep a real-time inventory of groceries across cupboards, freezer, and fridge. ◆ Scan Grocery Receipts Snap a photo of your receipt and automatically add items to your food inventory. ◆ Expiration Reminders Get notified before food expires so you can use it in time. ◆ Smart Shopping Lists Avoid duplicate purchases with lists based on what’s running low. ◆ Recipe Suggestions Generate recipe ideas from ingredients you already have. ◆ Save Money Cut food waste, reduce overspending, and shop smarter. Foodat is free to get started. No credit card required. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://foodat.co/privacy
WhatDo?!
Manage your entire kitchen inventory, from fridge to pantry, with AI-powered recipe suggestions and meal planning. Automate shopping lists, track expiring items, and even engage in fun cooking competitions or kitchen dispute resolutions.
- Inventory tracking (fridge, freezer, pantry)
- AI recipe generation based on available ingredients
- Automated shopping list creation
- Meal planning with AI suggestions
- Smart ingredient substitutions
- Roommate and competitive cooking modes
- Recipe community and sharing
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Cooking apps have been boring for too long. WhatDo?! tracks your entire kitchen and then does something about it. Fridge, freezer, pantry, shopping list, recipes, and meal plans in one place. iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Photograph a grocery receipt and your inventory updates itself. Set auto-rebuy rules so you never run out of the things that matter. When something's about to expire, WhatDo?! already suggested a recipe for it three days ago. WhatDo Chef looks at what you actually have and invents a real dinner on the spot. The weird stuff, the almost-expired stuff, the "why did I buy this" stuff. No grocery run required. Smart Swaps means grandma's mystery recipe with the one impossible ingredient is finally survivable. Mid-cook, tap any ingredient and get AI substitutions ranked by what's already in your kitchen. Plan your week. Fill slots yourself or let the AI generate the whole thing based on what you have, what's expiring, and what your household actually eats. It builds the shopping list too. After you cook, tap "Cooked It" and ingredients deduct from inventory automatically. Roommate Mode has no upper limit. Two people. Ten people. A dorm floor. A frat house running on frozen burritos and optimism. Every item is personal or shared. Shopping lists survive contact with multiple humans. Kitchen codes let anyone join. There is no cap. IronDo Chef turns your kitchen into a competition. A secret ingredient gets revealed, pulled from your actual inventory. Cook against the clock. The household votes on Taste, Creativity, Presentation, and Ingredient Use. Winner gets a trophy. The leaderboard remembers everything. Casual is friendly. Expert is not. Dish Dispute is Kitchen Court. Someone left a mess. File a charge (severity goes up to "Crime Against Humanity"), submit the crime scene photo, and the AI takes over. Suspects are pulled from recent cooking activity. Alibis are collected. Interrogation questions are generated. The kitchen votes. A verdict is delivered. The Wall of Shame never forgets. The Community is a real recipe network. Publish yours. Browse what everyone else is cooking. Save to your library. Build collections. If you rate someone's recipe, the AI interviews you about it and writes a completely unhinged review on your behalf. And because we respect the sacred tradition of the recipe blog, all seventeen paragraphs of personal backstory before you reach the actual ingredients, Blogger Mode generates that for you. On purpose. The Waste Management Center tracks what you threw away, why, and how often. Charts, trends, and category breakdowns. The dashboard your kitchen guilt deserves. Free gets you started with inventory, shopping lists, and AI suggestions. Paid unlocks recipe import, receipt scanning, meal planning, shared kitchens, roommate mode, IronDo Chef, Dish Dispute, community publishing, and themes. Pro adds nutrition, waste tracking, smart cook substitutions, AI recipe images, Blogger Mode, and AI reviews. WhatDo?! is your mom's favorite new kitchen app. It's also the one your college roommates use to settle who ate the last of the shredded cheese. Somehow it's both and we're not apologizing for it. Real kitchens are messy. WhatDo?! was built for exactly that. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.whatdoapp.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: WhatDo?! at 3 against Pantry Tracker's 1. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Pantry Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and WhatDo?! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pantry Tracker against 5.0 for WhatDo?!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Pantry Tracker | WhatDo?! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Garland | DeadBeet LLC |
Customer experience
Pantry Tracker
WhatDo?!
In-app purchases
Pantry Tracker
- Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
WhatDo?!
- WhatDo?! Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- WhatDo?! Pro Annual$49.991 Year
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