Barcode Scanner

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Just finished the last of something? Tap the scan icon in the List screen's top bar and point your camera at the barcode. The app names the product, picks a category and emoji, and adds it wherever you want — your list, your pantry, or both.

Scan a product

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Tap the barcode scan icon in the top bar of the List screen.
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Hold the camera over the barcode — it reads automatically, no shutter button.
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A result sheet slides up with the product's name, category, and emoji, plus a quantity stepper. Tap Add and you're done.

The app checks its built-in product map first, then looks the barcode up on Open Food Facts — a free, community-built database of around 3 million products.

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Check it, tweak it, add it

Everything on the result sheet is editable before you add:

Name — shorten "Brand X Organic Semi-Skimmed Milk 2L" to whatever you'd actually call it.
Category & emoji — the app's guess is usually right; tap the category chip to change it.
Short name for voice — for long product names the app suggests a short alias, so later you can just say "milk" and voice input finds it.
Unknown barcode? You'll get an empty name field — type the name and it's saved as your own custom item, tied to that barcode for next time.

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List, Pantry, or both

Above the Add button you choose where the item goes: your shopping list, your pantry, or both. Scanning the empty milk carton into your list and logging that you're out of it is one tap.

Always pick the same thing? Set a default under Settings → Barcode scanner: Always ask, Shopping list, Pantry, or Both.

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Scanning the same thing twice?

No duplicates — a re-scan bumps the quantity of the existing item instead. Two scans of the same beans = beans ×2.

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Offline & privacy

Only the barcode number is looked up online — never your list, your location, or anything else. Lookups of common products and anything you've scanned before work offline from the local cache.
No connection? You'll get a clear "No connection" sheet with a retry — or just add the item by name and scan it properly another time.
Product data comes from Open Food Facts, the open community database (data under the CC-BY-SA licence, credited in the app).
The camera is only on while the scanner is open, and images are processed on your phone — nothing is recorded or uploaded.

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