PantryPilot — Home inventory for real people

Snap a receipt and let AI track grocery expiry dates and your shopping list

Problem

After finding a cucumber that had been sitting in the fridge for three months, one developer wrote an entire home WMS for himself — batch intake, barcode scanning, expiry alerts, stocktaking, shopping lists and a monthly budget. That says households genuinely hurt on 'when does this expire, what am I missing, how much did I spend', yet most tools are either too heavy or ignore it entirely.

Solution

Built for individuals and families: photograph a receipt or scan a barcode to add stock by batch, with expiry and storage location. Get alerts when items are expiring, expired, or running low; low stock flows straight into a shopping list, with a minimal monthly spend view. Exposed as MCP tools so the user's own AI assistant can read and write inventory.

Users

Households that stockpile groceries and solo dwellers who waste food to expiry dates.

MVP

Mobile only; photo a receipt and parse line items into inventory; add expiry by hand or barcode; push expiry alerts; one-tap shopping list from low stock; no finance, no multi-user permissions.

Revenue

Free tier capped at 50 inventory items; annual Pro subscription unlocks unlimited items, multi-device and household sharing.

Why now

Vision models can now parse receipts cheaply and reliably, so a concept previously reserved for warehouse systems becomes practical for a single person.