Dinner, from what's already in your fridge.
Photograph your fridge. leftovr fills your kitchen, flags what spoils first, and builds tonight's dinner from it.
We'll email your invite as soon as a spot opens, usually within a few days.
Baby spinach
Feta
Free-range eggs
Cherry tomatoes
Chicken breast
Pasta
The app that already knows what's in your kitchen.
leftovr is an iPhone app that turns the food you already own into dinner. Photograph your fridge or pantry — or scan a grocery receipt — and leftovr fills your kitchen, ranks everything by what should be eaten first, and generates recipes from those ingredients only.
Page last updated 6 November 2026 by the leftovr team.
Shelves in. Dinner out.
Three steps, one of which you already do every time you shop.
Snap your shelves
Photograph your fridge, a shelf or the counter, up to three shots. A receipt or PDF e-receipt works too, adding 20 to 30 items at once.
Baby spinach
Best today
Cherry tomatoes
This week
Cheese
Fresh
Your kitchen keeps track
Everything lands on shelves with gentle freshness windows, "best today", "this week", never scary expiration countdowns.
Cook what you have
Recipes built from what you have, starring whatever should be eaten first. Cook one and those ingredients leave your kitchen automatically.
Five ways to fill your kitchen: pantry photo (up to three shelves at once), receipt photo, PDF e-receipt, barcode scan, or manual add. Barcode and manual add are free and unlimited, forever.
We throw away more food than we think. And more money with it.
What the average American family of four throws out in food every year.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Share of the U.S. food supply lost at the retail and consumer level, by USDA's estimate.
Source: USDA, 2010 estimate
About this much of the food thrown out at home was still edible. It just was not used in time.
Know what you have. Know what to cook.
Know what to eat first
leftovr ranks your food by how soon it'll spoil and puts the at-risk items front and centre — so you use the spinach before it wilts, not after.
Recipes from what's actually in there
Every idea is built from the food you already own and leads with the items that need using. Open one and the steps are right there.
Four kinds of app. One of them subtracts.
Most kitchen apps add work: you type what you have, or you plan meals and then go shopping. leftovr starts from the food already in your house.
| leftovr | Recipe apps | Pantry & expiry trackers | Meal-plan apps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Getting food in | A photo of your shelves, a receipt, a barcode, or by hand | You type the ingredients in every time | Usually barcode, one item at a time | You pick the meals first, then shop |
| Knows what goes off first | Every item ranked by freshness, every day | No | Yes — as a list of dates | No |
| Recipes limited to what you own | Yes — required ingredients come from your kitchen | Yes | Rarely | No — the plan comes first, the shopping list after |
| After you cook | Those ingredients leave your kitchen automatically | Nothing changes | You tick items off by hand | You tick items off by hand |
| Shared household | Up to three people, one synced kitchen | Rare | Rare | Sometimes |
| Money saved vs. tossed | Tracked by week, month and year | No | Sometimes, as one total | No |
Categories, not brands: app features change often. This is how the four common approaches work as of November 2026 — check any app yourself before you switch.
Free to start. Honest from there.
Your first scan — pantry photo or receipt — and first recipe are on us. Manual add and barcode scan stay free, always. Go unlimited when you're ready.
- Your first scan, pantry or receipt
- Your first recipe generation
- Unlimited manual + barcode add
- Your kitchen, kept current
- Unlimited pantry and receipt scans
- Unlimited recipes, expiry-ranked
- Daily "what to cook" suggestion
- Weekly insights
- Everything in Premium
- One shared kitchen for the home
- Up to 3 people, synced
- Shared shopping + insights
The honest answers.
Tonight's dinner is already in your kitchen.
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