CroFresh vs LabelDeck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CroFresh
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CroFresh helps you keep track of anything with an expiration date, so food, medicine, skincare, documents, software licenses, pet supplies, and everyday items do not quietly expire. Create an item in seconds with a name, category, expiration date, optional note, and photo. CroFresh keeps everything organized in a clean list, highlights what is expired or coming due, and lets you search, filter, and sort when your collection grows. Key features: Track expiration dates for food, medicine, skincare, mother and baby items, pet supplies, software, documents, and more. Add photos from your camera or photo library to recognize items at a glance. Save notes for storage details, batch numbers, renewal steps, or anything you want to remember. Set up to 3 reminders for each item, with custom days-before and time settings. See clear status labels for expired items, items due today, and remaining days. Search by item name, filter by category, and sort by date or name. No account required. CroFresh is built for the small things that are easy to forget: groceries in the fridge, medicine in the cabinet, skincare after opening, documents that need renewal, and services that should be cancelled or updated before a deadline. Keep your items visible. Handle them before they expire.
LabelDeck
Print labels directly from your iPhone to ZPL-compatible printers on your local network. Compose, save, and reuse label designs with customizable text and barcodes. Features include network scanning, live printer status, and fill-in-the-blank fields for variable data.
- Network printer discovery
- Live printer status monitoring
- Customizable label design
- Multi-line text and font sizing
- Code 128 and QR barcode generation
- Fill-in-the-blank variable fields
- Label import and export
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Print labels straight from your iPhone to the label printer on your network. LabelDeck speaks ZPL directly to your printer over Wi-Fi. There is no cloud service in the middle, no account to create, and nothing to install on a computer. FIND YOUR PRINTER • Sweep your network and list every label printer that answers • Or enter an IP address directly — for a printer on another subnet, or with network discovery switched off • Detect Settings asks the printer to describe itself and fills in the form, marking which values are measured facts and which are only settings • Live status: ready, out of media, head open, paused, labels remaining • Mark one printer as the default and it is preselected everywhere COMPOSE A LABEL • Multi-line text, wrapped to the printable width • Font size in points, converted against each printer's own print density — the same saved label comes out the same physical size on a 203 and a 300 dpi unit • Auto-Fit picks the largest size that still fits, allowing for a barcode • Left, center, right and justified alignment • Rotate 0°, 90°, 180° or 270° • Code 128 and QR barcodes, sized to fit automatically • 1 to 99 copies • Live preview, and the exact command stream on request before anything is sent SAVE AND REUSE Keep any label you compose and reopen it later to edit. Import labels designed elsewhere — from the printer's own storage, from a file, from the clipboard, or through the share sheet. FILL-IN-THE-BLANK FIELDS Label design software bakes the sample text you typed at design time into the export as fixed data. Normally the fix is opening the file in a text editor. LabelDeck lists every text and barcode value it finds, and you tap the ones that should be variable and name them. Printing then shows a short form of just those fields, remembers the values you used last time, and previews the filled label before sending. Labels pulled from the printer's own storage arrive with their variable fields already declared and named, so there is nothing to mark by hand. Text that no longer fits is shrunk to fit, and the app tells you which field it shrank — rather than letting a long value run off the edge of the label. PRIVACY Your labels, templates and printer list stay on your device. There is no account, no sign-in, and nothing you create is uploaded anywhere. COMPATIBILITY Requires a label printer that accepts ZPL over a raw TCP connection on your local network — including Zebra® ZD and ZT series. Bluetooth and USB-only printers are not supported. LabelDeck is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Zebra Technologies Corporation. Zebra and ZPL are trademarks of Zebra Technologies Corporation.
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Verdict
CroFresh and LabelDeck are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | CroFresh | LabelDeck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 健 陆 | BMP Research LLC |
In-app purchases
CroFresh
No in-app purchases
LabelDeck
No in-app purchases









