Help with Your Food: inventories, sharing, Premium

Food first, but not only. Alongside food you can track medicine, toiletries, cleaning supplies and pet food, anything you want to find again without opening every cupboard.

No. Every field is optional. A name is enough to start; quantity, unit, date, price, note and icon are there when they help you.

Yes. Point the camera at a barcode and the product name and category are filled in for you, which is what keeps an inventory up to date over months rather than days. Loose goods, refills and market produce are added by hand, and that is just as quick.

Sign in with the same account and your inventories come back, because personal sync is included at no cost.

You invite the people you live with, and everyone sees the same stock and the same shopping lists. A change made by one member appears for the others in real time.

They do not. Only one person ever has to buy Premium, and that single purchase covers the whole setup:

• As many inventories as you need. The house, a vacation home, an office kitchen, a camper van, a cellar. Each one stays separate, and you decide which ones are shared.
• Sharing each of them with the people you choose, with changes appearing for everyone in real time.
• Everyone you invite. The people you share with buy nothing at all. They install Your Food, sign in, and the shared inventory is simply there. They do not need Premium, they do not need to know who paid for it, and nothing about their side is limited because they are on the free version.

So a household pays once, not once per person and not once per phone. There is no seat to count and no per-member charge.

The concrete figures, since it is fairer to print them than to say “unlimited” and hope: Premium holds up to 10 inventories, and each one can be shared with up to 10 people. Those ceilings are there so a single account cannot be run as a business system, not to ration what you paid for. A household uses two or three inventories and adds three or four people, so in practice you will not meet either one.

Yes. Syncing your own account across your own devices is part of the free version. Sharing an inventory with other people is what Premium adds.

The free version covers the inventory, dates, reminders, shopping lists, the barcode scanner and personal sync. Premium adds an inventory for every place, unlimited lists, sublists and products, real-time household sharing and full budget tracking.

Two things turned out to be true at the same time, and neither of them is very glamorous.

The first is that running this gets more expensive every year, not less. Servers, store fees, the tools, the accounts that simply have to exist for an app to be published at all: those bills arrive every month whether anyone buys anything that month or not. A single price paid once, years ago, does not cover a cost that keeps coming back.

The second is that people asked for it. A lifetime purchase is the cheapest option over time and the most expensive one today, and plenty of people would rather pay a small amount each month, or once a year, and stop whenever they like. Adding those put the app within reach of more people, not fewer. The lifetime purchase is still there, sitting right next to them, for anyone who prefers to pay once and be done with it.

And the part I would rather say plainly than have you guess at: I build Your Food in my own time, alongside a full-time job. There is no company behind it and nobody funding it. For the app to keep being developed, it has to at least not cost me money to exist. Premium is what makes that arithmetic work, and it is the reason there are no ads in it instead.

The lifetime purchase is a single payment for Premium as this page describes it, with no recurring fee, and it keeps the work that goes into improving those features. It is not an open cheque on everything that might ever be built: anything that costs money every time it runs, such as an outside service or processing done on a server, cannot be paid for once. If something like that ships one day it will be offered separately and priced plainly, and nothing already included in Premium is taken away.

No. There is no advertising in Your Food, in the free version or in Premium.

Yes. Record a price when you add a product and Your Food follows how spending moves by week, by month and by year. Prices stay optional, like every other field, so the budget side only exists if you want it.

Yes. Adding structure, a new place, a sublist, never removes what is already in your inventory.

In the app, under Settings → Account → Delete Account. You do not have to write to anyone or come back to this website. Confirming it permanently deletes everything stored in the cloud for that account, together with the authentication information behind it, and signs the device out.

It cannot be undone, so take anything you want to keep out of your inventory first. The full wording is on the privacy page.