Is Pantry free, and what does Pro cost?
Yes, Pantry is free, and there is no trial clock on it. Free covers one person: one receipt scan a week, two meal generations a week, full expiry tracking and the morning digest, with no card required. Pro is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year, billed by Apple with seven days free first, and it exists for one reason, which is to put the whole household on the same pantry. Those are the terms on Pantry’s own plans and FAQ, and they are the same here as they are there.
What Free includes
Free is built around one person and one weekly shop. Scan the receipt once a week, and every item on it lands on a dated list with its own window. The morning digest arrives at 7:30am with what is turning this week and what it is worth. Two meal generations a week turn the shortest windows on the list into a dinner. Anything bought without a receipt can be added by hand.
That is a working expiry tracker, not a demo. Free stays free for as long as you want it, and the design intent is plain: a household should be able to find out whether a photographed receipt beats whatever it does now before paying anything.
What Pro adds
Pro removes the weekly caps and adds the two things a shared fridge needs.
- Unlimited scans and meal generations. The second shop of the week, the top-up run, the market on Saturday, all scanned.
- The afternoon nudge. Lands at 5:30pm and names a meal for the thing about to turn, in Pantry’s standing example: “Your lean beef mince goes off tomorrow. Spaghetti bolognese tonight and it never sees the bin.” Why it lands at 5:30pm has the reasoning.
- Household members. Up to six people on one shared pantry, one subscription. One person pays and becomes the admin. Everyone else joins free by invite and gets the same list and the same digest.
- Priority support.
Who Pro is for
The household. A person living alone rarely needs Pro, and Pantry does not pretend otherwise. The moment a second person opens the same fridge, the free plan’s one-phone list becomes the problem it was built to solve: two people buying milk on the same day, and the mince turning tomorrow known to whoever scanned it and nobody else. Pro is priced as one plan for the house, not one plan per phone, because a shared fridge gets one list.
What $49.99 a year is measured against
The yearly plan costs about what the average Australian household bins in a single week. The Fight Food Waste CRC puts household food waste at $2,500 a year, which works out to about $48 a week. Pro does not need to save the whole week to pay for itself. It needs to save one.
Where to buy it, and how to leave
Pro is not sold on this website, and it cannot be. Purchases happen inside the app through the App Store, after launch, which is also where the seven-day trial starts. This site takes one thing: a place on the waitlist, and people on it get founding pricing when Pantry ships.
Leaving is from your Apple ID settings, in about four taps. No calls, no forms, no retention offers.
Which one to start on
Free. One scan a week is a weekly shop, which is most of what most households need to find out whether the list changes what gets cooked. Move to Pro on the day a second person wants to see it, and not before. Pantry ships to the App Store for iPhone first, on a window rather than a date, and the free plan is the one everybody on the waitlist starts on.