Takt vs refrigerDATE

Takt is a fresh take on finding your biggest time wasters during your day. Starting, stopping, or switching tracking to another activity is always just one tap. Through simple but effective integration with Live Activities, what you're tracking always remains visible at a glance on your Lock Screen or in the Dynamic Island. Using Takt tracking you can manually or semi-automatically keep an underlying Live Activity running that puts tracking access just a tap away, all day. Review your days in as little or as many details as you want with Takt's Timeline, or export your days, weeks, and months to CSV, JSON, or a clean PDF. Takt is free with up to 3 active Activities and 5 Tags. Want more? A lifetime Full version is available, or subscribe monthly and after 12 payments, even non-consecutively, the Full version unlocks permanently. And we're just getting started. Better Mac integration and Tablet optimization, Siri & Shortcuts, Focus Mode integration, and an Apple Watch companion app are all on the way. Takt Terms available at https://taktapp.net/terms

Stop paying for food you throw away. refrigerDATE turns your iPhone into a food-expiration radar. Scan a grocery barcode and the app identifies the product by name, then flows straight into reading the printed expiration date — even scrunched packaging stamps like JUL1227. No date on the label? Say it out loud, type it, or log the purchase date instead. YOUR WHOLE FRIDGE AND PANTRY, AT A GLANCE Three little calendars sit at the top of your list — green for fresh, amber for expiring within 3 days, red for expired. Tap one to filter. Drag them into any order. It's a stoplight for your groceries. REMINDERS THAT ACTUALLY REMIND You're notified 3 days before an item expires, again the day before, and again the day of — at 9 AM, when you can still do something about it. Optional daily reminders keep nagging (politely) while an expired item stays in your list. A CALENDAR BUILT FOR FOOD Browse everything you own by day, week, or month with stoplight colors on every date. Add any item to your iOS Calendar with one tap — or flip a switch and every dated item syncs automatically. EVERY FRIDGE AND PANTRY YOU OWN Kitchen, pantry, garage, basement, deep freeze, camper — or invent your own locations. Filter with one tap and see what's expiring soon across all of them. ON YOUR WRIST, TOO The Apple Watch app keeps your list on your arm. Check what's expiring from the grocery aisle, add an item by voice, or fix a date from the couch — everything syncs back to your iPhone automatically. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your items live on your device (and your watch). No account, no tracking. Product names come from Open Food Facts, a free, open, community-maintained food database. Scan it. Date it. Never waste it. Items are stored on device; no accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. - Barcode lookups query the Open Food Facts public API anonymously (the barcode number is sent; nothing identifies the user). - Permissions used and why (already in Info.plist): - Camera — scanning barcodes and expiration dates - Microphone + Speech Recognition — dictating a date when the label won't scan - Calendars (full access) — optional "Add all items to iOS Calendar" sync; the per-item editor uses the system UI and needs no permission - Notifications — expiration reminders