In testing · iOS, Android and browser

Know what to use next.

Spiso keeps track of what is in your kitchen and puts the food that needs eating at the top. Not a list of everything you own — an answer to what to cook tonight.

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Works offline. No account needed unless you share a kitchen.

Your kitchen

6 items

Needs attention

SpinachFridge · use by today
Chicken thighsFridge · use by tomorrow

Next 7 days

Greek yoghurtFridge · 4 days
SourdoughPantry · 5 days

Later

Frozen peasFreezer · 3 months

The problem

Most food is wasted quietly.

Not in one dramatic clear-out, but a courgette at a time. You buy well, you mean well, and then something turns at the back of a shelf where you can't see it. The failure isn't discipline — it's visibility. A cupboard has no interface.

Inventory apps list

Most tell you what you own. That's a spreadsheet, and it doesn't help at 6pm.

Spiso prioritises

It sorts by what will spoil first, so the next decision is already made.

And it's shared

One kitchen, two phones. What one person uses, the other sees.

How it works

Three steps, then it gets out of the way.

01
Add what you already have
Scan a barcode and Spiso fills in the name, brand and category. Many barcodes carry the date printed on the packet, so it reads that too. Or type it in — three taps for a loaf of bread.
02
Spiso sorts it by urgency
Not an alphabetical list. Food is grouped by what needs attention today, what's due this week, and what can wait. The thing at the top is the thing to cook.
03
Use it, freeze it, or let it go
One tap to mark something used. Freezing pushes the date out and moves it to the freezer. Nothing is judged, and everything is counted, so you can see what actually gets wasted.

Features

Small things that remove friction.

Adding food has to be faster than forgetting about it, or nobody keeps it up.

Dates read from the barcode

GS1 barcodes encode a use-by or best-before date. Where a packet has one, Spiso reads it instead of asking you to squint at the label.

Fridge, freezer, pantry — and your actual shelves

Name the places you really use. Top shelf, door, the drawer that sticks. Filter by any of them.

One quiet reminder, not a stream

Reminders are grouped into a morning and an evening nudge, scheduled on your device. You can change the times or turn them off.

Freezing, opening, part-using

Freeze something and the date moves with it. Open a jar and the clock changes. Use two of six yoghurts and the count drops.

Waste you can actually see

A history of what you used, froze and threw away, so the habit becomes visible rather than vague.

English and Romanian

Fully translated, including dates and reminder copy. More languages if people ask for them.

Shared kitchens

One kitchen, two phones.

A kitchen shared with a partner or a flatmate only works if both people see the same thing. Invite someone and your inventory, shopping list and history stay in step — add milk on one phone and it appears on the other.

Changes travel both ways

Using something, throwing it away, freezing it or deleting it all reach the other person. Edits made at the same time are merged rather than one overwriting the other.

Encrypted before it leaves the phone

A shared kitchen is encrypted with a key held by your devices. What reaches the server is a sealed blob — it can check the size and the timestamp, and nothing else.

Privacy

Your kitchen is not interesting to anyone else.

So it isn't collected. Spiso is local-first: the database lives on your device and the app is fully usable having never spoken to a server.

No account required to use the app.
No advertising, no trackers, no selling of anything.
Shared kitchens are encrypted on your device before upload.
A barcode is sent to Open Food Facts only when you scan one, to look up the product.
Export everything as JSON or CSV whenever you like.

FAQ

Reasonable questions.

Does it work without an account?: Yes. Everything is stored on your device and the whole app works offline. An account is only needed if you want to share a kitchen with someone else.
Do I have to scan things?: No. Scanning is faster and fills in the details for you, but typing a name and a date is always available — and it's the only option for loose fruit and veg.
Is there meal planning or recipes?: No, and that's deliberate. Spiso answers one question: what should I use next. There are good recipe apps already, and most of them are not good at knowing what's in your fridge.
What happens if I stop using it?: Your food list is on your device, and you can export it as JSON or CSV at any time. Nothing is held hostage.
When is it out?: It's in testing now, on iOS and Android, with a browser version too. Ask for early access and you'll get it as soon as it's stable enough to be useful rather than interesting.

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Spiso is in testing. Ask for access and you'll get it when it's genuinely useful, not before.

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