Open the Scan tab and choose Scan a grocery list. Frame your list and tap the shutter. Before the very first scan Catch asks whether it may send the photo away to be read — nothing is sent until you say yes, and you can withdraw that at any time in Settings. Then you get a review screen where you can fix anything before adding. No camera handy? Import a photo, or tap Sample to try it.
The other half of the Scan tab points at a barcode instead and tells you straight whether it is a good buy. The verdict comes from Open Food Facts, the free public food database, so the barcode is sent there to be looked up. Add a good one to a list and check it off once you have bought it, and it lands in your pantry.
Tap an item to check it off. Chain quick taps for a combo multiplier and watch your XP bar fill. Finish a whole list for a bonus.
Use Catch on consecutive days to build a streak. A freeze token saves you if you miss a day.
Tap Add item on any list to type items in. Catch guesses the aisle for you.
Your lists, your pantry and your progress do not — they live on your device and there is no account to sync them to. Two things do. The photo of a list you scan is sent to Anthropic to be read, and only after you have agreed to it. And when a food needs grading, its barcode or its name is sent to Open Food Facts, the public database the grades come from — nothing that identifies you goes with it, and Catch answers from what it already knows on your phone whenever it can. See the privacy policy.
Use good lighting, lay the list flat, and fill the frame. You can always edit items on the review screen or add them by hand.
Profile → the gear in the top corner → Reset all progress. It clears your lists, your pantry, your level, your streak and Pip's feeding history — everything except your settings and, if you have it, Catch Pro. There is no undo.
Free to download and free to use. Unlimited lists, aisle sorting, barcode scanning and the grades cost nothing. Catch Pro is an optional subscription that adds My Healthy Pantry and its history, unlimited list scans, saved staples and a per-shop aisle order; the price is shown in the app before anything is charged, and nothing is charged unless you choose it. Manage or cancel it in your App Store or Google Play account.
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