Receipts and Pantry

You scan your grocery receipt after you shop, and Saucepan adds the food to your Pantry. It then tells you what to use first and which of your saved recipes you can cook. How it works.

Tap Scan receipt in Pantry, next to your grocery list. Take a photo or pick one from your library, check the list, and tap Done. Tap a row to remove an item first. Nothing is added until you tap Done.

No. The text is read on your device. If a line is too short to recognize, such as ORG BBY SPNCH, only the text of that one line may be sent to our AI service to spell it out. The image, the store and the totals are never sent.

Tap the row to remove it before you save. Nothing is added to your Pantry until you tap Done.

No. Non-food lines, such as paper towels, are left out.

Yes. A screenshot of a grocery order, such as Instacart or Amazon Fresh, reads the same way as a receipt.

Yes. It reads any printed labels in the photo. One photo of a shelf can replace typing a list. Example: photograph your spice rack, and the jars you own go into your Pantry.

No. You can type or say what you have, and What Can I Make? works from that list too. The scan just saves you the typing. About What Can I Make?

Your Pantry is the list of food you have at home. Receipt scans fill it, and What Can I Make? reads it. Saucepan guesses how fresh each item is, so it can tell you what to use first. See the Pantry.

It uses freshness guesses based on each item's shelf life and when you added it. It is honest about what it does not know. If it is not sure you still have something, it says "check the drawer" instead of guessing.

Yes, if you are in a Cook Together household. Your Pantry joins the household's, like the grocery list. If you are signed in, your Pantry syncs to our servers; without an account it stays on your device.

Receipt scan is part of the Pantry. The pricing page lists what each plan includes and any limits, so check it for the current details.