YOUR KITCHEN, BETTER ORGANIZED
Use what you have.
Enjoy what you cook.
Track expiry dates, discover recipes and plan your meals with Vencito.
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Vencito 
Illustrative app viewMORE IDEAS, LESS WASTE
From what you have to what you cook.
Over 1,500 everyday dishes, with approximate nutrition information.
Approximate values per serving. Amounts, brands and preparation affect the results.
A LITTLE PLANNING, MORE PEACE OF MIND
Your week,
a little easier.
Choose recipes, plan your meals and add missing ingredients to your shopping list.
Get organized with Vencito →
Choose a day to see what is missing.
SEE HOW IT WORKS
From a photo to a timely reminder.
See how to scan packaging and add a product in Vencito.
Features ↓Scanning in this video is an illustrative simulation.
How it works
From the store shelf to your fridge, in three steps
Snap a photo
Of the package, with the date in view. Or point the camera live: it reads the barcode and the date at once. You can add more photos: product, barcode and expiry date.
Vencito fills in the rest
It reads the date, suggests a name and category, and looks the barcode up on Open Food Facts and its cosmetics and other-products databases. You review and save.
Get reminded in time
One notification a day, at the hour you choose, with what is about to expire: by default 30, 15, 7, 3 and 1 day before.
Try it here
Type what the package says
This is a simplified version of the app’s date reader. It understands the formats printed on packages and prefers the expiration date over the manufacturing date.
Expiration date
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—Features
Made for the pantry, the fridge and the medicine cabinet
Date reader
EXP 14/02/27, 25-08-2026, 25 AUG 2026, 08/2027, EXP 04/27… It tells expiration from manufacturing dates and reads packages in six languages.
Barcodes
Live scanning or from the photo, with EAN, UPC and QR codes. Open Food Facts (and its cosmetics and other-products databases, such as over-the-counter medicines) fills in name, brand and category.
What should I cook today?
Recipes from what you have, starting with what expires soon. Its own catalog of over 1,500 common, easy dishes from several countries, with photos and in your language, for breakfast, snacks, lunch and dinner, with a cooking mode and saved recipes. It works offline.
Meal plan
A calendar with one suggested recipe per day, using what expires first. Swap any recipe, remove it or add another, and add what the week is missing to your list.
Shopping list
Write down what you need to buy, add what a recipe is missing with one tap, or let it add what you run out of. Tick what you bought and share the list as text.
Several homes
Keep the products of more than one home and pick which one to see, or see them all together. Reminders and the widget combine the expiry dates of every home.
More features (26)
Everything one tap away
Products, Recipes, Shopping and Plan in a bottom bar; Settings stays at the top. Same on iPhone and Android.
Add many in a row
Continuous scanning: barcode, date, done. If a date isn’t read with confidence, the app asks you to confirm it before saving.
Quick add
Over a hundred common products with photos, to add what you bought with one tap: milk, eggs, bread, fruit… It suggests the ones you use most first and estimates the expiration of each product.
Statistics
How much you consumed, what share you used on time, what you threw out and what you rescued at the last minute, with your waste-free streak, a six-month chart and a comparison with the previous period. “Throw out” records what went bad; “Delete” corrects an entry mistake.
Use up by scanning
Point at the barcode or QR of the product you used and one unit of the one that expires first is deducted. Move on to the next without touching the screen.
Load your grocery receipt
From a photo (camera or gallery) or a PDF: it reads the lines, ignores taxes and payments, estimates each product’s expiry and, if the receipt prints the barcode, looks up the real name.
Cook with ChatGPT
On a recipe, share the photo and instructions in one tap: pick ChatGPT, send it, turn on voice mode and it guides you step by step, with the servings you chose.
No expiration date
For things that don’t expire or have no date: saved on their own, without reminders.
Live scan
In a single frame it reads the barcode, the expiration date and the product name. Each value is only confirmed once it repeats, to avoid blurry misreads.
Multiple photos per product
Keep a photo of the product, one of the barcode, one of the expiry date and as many as you like. They show up in a swipeable gallery.
Widgets
On the Home Screen and Lock Screen, with what expires next. Tap a product to open it in the app.
Status at a glance
Expired, expiring soon and upcoming, with a summary on top and a thumbnail for every product.
Swipe to consume
Swipe to use one unit or remove the product. If you make a mistake, shake the iPhone to undo, or tap “Undo” on Android.
iPad and tablets
List and detail side by side, in any orientation; on iPad also with multitasking and, with a keyboard, ⌘N adds a product. Android tablets get the same two-pane view.
Six languages
Spanish, English, Portuguese (Brazil), French, Italian and German. Switch instantly in Settings.
Accessible
Works with VoiceOver and large text sizes. Each product is read in full: name, status and date.
Siri and Shortcuts
Ask “What expires this week?”, add a product or mark one as used with your voice.
Actionable notifications
Mark “Used” or “Snooze” right from the notification, without opening the app.
Opening date
Once opened, a package expires sooner (milk, mayonnaise…) based on how many days it lasts.
Consumption history
Every unit you use is logged, by month, marked “on time” or “already expired”.
Duplicates
Finds repeated products and merges them, letting you pick which one stays.
Backup
Export and import everything in one file, with or without photos: products, history, homes and shopping list.
Search and filters
Search by name and filter by category and location: pantry, fridge, freezer…
Family vote
Pick 6 recipe options and share one image on WhatsApp to vote. The winner is added to today's plan.
Diet filters
Icons and filters by diet on recipes: vegetarian, gluten-free and more.
Stats by location
See where (fridge, freezer, pantry…) most of your food goes to waste, and which recipes you add to the plan most.
Recipes
A peek at the catalog
Over 1,500 common, easy dishes from many countries, each with its own photo. Here are a few.
See more dishes from the catalog
Milanesa napolitana
· 40 min
Baked beef empanadas
· 55 min
Chivito
· 25 min
Red chilaquiles
· 25 min
Lomo saltado
· 25 min
Pabellón criollo
· 50 min
Arepas with cheese
· 25 min
Chilean corn pie
· 60 min
Spanish potato omelet
· 35 min
Oyakodon
· 25 min
Chicken souvlaki
· 30 min
Chana masala
· 30 min
Ropa vieja
· 60 min
Sopa paraguaya
· 50 min
Stovetop mac and cheese
· 30 min
Fluffy pancakes
· 20 min
Recipes are suggested from what you have and what expires first.
Privacy
Your data stays on your phone
Vencito has no accounts, no servers of its own, no analytics and no ads.
All on-device
Products, photos and settings are stored on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone. On Apple devices, if you turn on iCloud sync, they are also in your private iCloud (the developer has no access).
Read on the device
Text in photos and barcodes are read on the device: with Apple's recognition on iPhone and iPad, and with Google's ML Kit on Android.
One optional piece of data leaves
To look up a product, only the barcode number is sent to Open Food Facts, its sister databases and, as a last resort, GTINSearch. You can turn it off.
Local reminders
Notifications are scheduled by the phone itself. They don't go through any server.
FAQ
Common questions
How much does it cost?
It’s free, with nothing locked.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Only the barcode product lookup needs the internet.
Does it work on Android and tablets?
Yes. There are versions for iPhone, iPad and Android, tablets included, with the same six languages. Data doesn't sync between an iPhone and an Android phone: you move it by exporting and importing a file from Settings.
Can I move my data to another phone?
Yes. In Settings you can export a file with all your products (with or without photos) and import it on another device.
What if the date shows only month and year?
The app uses the last day of that month, which is how packages are meant to be read. It understands both 08/2027 and EXP 04/27.
Can I keep more than one photo per product?
Yes. Besides the main photo you can add one of the barcode, one of the expiry date and up to 8 more. Swipe through them on the detail screen; they are included when you export.
Another question or a problem? Contact support.
A SMALL CHANGE EVERY DAY