HalxStockedA Halx Studios product · iPhone
Know how many days of food you actually have.
HalxStocked keeps a cupboard of tins and dried goods — an emergency reserve, everyday spares, or both — and scores it in calories against a target you set, with water counted separately. It tracks every pack's printed date, tells you what to eat before it turns, and builds a shopping list from what's leaving and what's thin.
- Price
- One-off purchase · no subscription
- Platform
- iPhone
- Account
- None — opens straight onto your cupboard
- Your data
- On your iPhone, synced via your own iCloud
Days, not a list
Set who is in the household and how many days you want covered. The app scores the cupboard in calories against that and gives you one number. Water is counted separately in litres, because a tin of beans is no help when the tap stops.
Nothing quietly goes off
Every pack carries its printed date. Best-before and use-by are treated differently, because they mean genuinely different things — a use-by is a hard stop, a best-before on dried pasta is a suggestion. The app works out a review date from the category and tells you what to eat next.
Getting things in
Scan a barcode and the name, brand and calories fill themselves in. Photograph the printed date and it is read on the device — then offered for you to check, never applied behind your back.
Keeping an eye on somebody else's cupboard
If you help look after a parent, a relative or a neighbour, share their cupboard and you can see it from your own phone — how many days of food, what is going off, what has run low — without ringing up to ask and without taking it over. They add a tin and you see it; you add one on a shop run and they see it. It is their cupboard and their iCloud, and nothing is recorded about anybody: the app tracks food, not people.
Readable when it matters
Somebody managing their own cupboard with failing eyesight is exactly who HalxStocked is for, so staying usable is a feature here, not a footnote.
- Every screen works at the largest accessibility text sizes, laying itself out again rather than truncating.
- Nothing is carried by colour alone.
Also inside
A few more things it does
Emergency kit checklist
A checklist that follows the UK government's Be Ready campaign — torch, radio, first aid and the rest. Things to have, not stock to count.
Share the cupboard
Invite someone from Settings and you share the same cupboard through your own iCloud. They do not have to live with you — it works just as well across town as across the kitchen.
Export your data
A JSON file of your cupboard whenever you want one — to keep a backup or move on.
Buy it once, and it stays on your phone.
A one-off purchase — no account, no subscription, nothing more to buy. Nothing you put in the app is sent to Halx Studios.
Product details from a barcode come from Open Food Facts, a free database maintained by volunteers, used under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Calorie figures are community-maintained and indicative, not authoritative nutrition data. openfoodfacts.org