Frostlog · Food & Drink · iPhone
Tap a tile or snap the pack and it is in. Each card frosts over as the food ages, so the oldest pack is the one your eye lands on first, and Coming up says what to cook tonight.
Free for up to 35 items. Pro: $23.99 a year, or $2.99 a month after a 3-day trial.
The chicken was for a Tuesday that never came. Eight months later it is behind the peas, under the bread, and the only way to find out what it is means unpacking the whole drawer onto the counter. Most freezer apps answer this with a spreadsheet: a list, an expiry date per row, and a badge that turns red. That works right up until the list has forty rows, and then it is another thing to read. Frostlog shows age the way the freezer itself does — old food is covered in frost. A pack four days in sits on clear glass. A pack past its window wears a snowcap with icicles. The name stays at full contrast on both, because frost is never the only thing telling you something.
What it does
Each card frosts over as the pack gets older: a dusting, then an icy rim, then a snowcap with icicles once quality has dropped. The days and a plain caption sit right next to it, and a small yeti is pleased with fresh packs and shivers next to the forgotten ones.
Tap chicken, mince or peas and the pack is in, dated today, window counted. Or take a photo: Frostlog reads the food, the name and the dates on your phone, cuts the pack out of the background, and you check it on one screen. Nothing is uploaded.
Every pack in the order its quality drops, the nearest on top — across every freezer you keep. Next to it, What you've saved adds up the food you ate in time instead of throwing out, at average store prices.
Top freezer, drawers, French door, side-by-side, upright or chest — pick the layout, then set up the shelves yours actually has. Kitchen, garage, cabin: each freezer gets its own list.
Share a freezer, and what one of you takes out, the other stops seeing. It runs on iCloud sharing, like a shared photo album: no sign-ups, no codes. Only the freezer you share is shared; the rest stays yours.
One notification on the day a pack passes its best, not a stream of alarms. And a tidy printable PDF of the whole freezer to tape to the door, plus CSV export whenever you like.
How it goes
The empty list is the add form. No welcome tour, no setup screen — the first pack goes in with one tap, or with a photo of the bag.
Asked after the first pack, not before, so the question means something. Skip it and everything works as one list.
Open the app before you plan the week. The oldest packs are the ones under the frost, and Coming up already has them in order.
What costs money
Free for up to 35 items
Pro · $23.99 a year
The monthly plan starts with a 3-day free trial; the yearly one does not. Nothing is deleted when a subscription ends — your freezers, packs and dates stay exactly as they are, and the free list keeps working.
FAQ
No. Tap the tile and the window comes from the USDA FoodKeeper chart — nine months for chicken breast, four for ground beef, twelve for berries. You can change it on any pack, but you never have to. If you photograph the pack and it has a best-by date printed on it, Frostlog reads that too, and the earlier of the two wins.
No — a photo instead. A bag of chicken thighs from the butcher has no barcode and a supermarket own-brand is often in no product database, so scanners fail exactly where freezers need them. A photo works on any bag: Frostlog reads the food, the name and the dates on your phone, and nothing is uploaded.
No. Frozen food kept at 0°F stays safe indefinitely — the windows in Frostlog are about quality, not safety. A heavily frosted card means the texture and flavour have been going downhill for a while, not that anything is dangerous. The app says so on the card itself rather than leaving you to guess.
The free version holds up to 35 items in the freezer at a time. Eat or toss one and the space comes back. If you already had more than 35 before this limit existed, nothing is hidden or locked — you can still see, eat and edit everything; only new packs wait until you are under 35 or on Pro.
It arrives with you. Frostlog mirrors to your own iCloud, which means no account to create and no password to lose — if you are signed into iCloud, the new phone finds the list on first launch. With iCloud switched off the app works exactly the same, just on that phone alone.
Yes, with Pro. Each freezer keeps its own layout, its own shelves and its own list, and you switch between them from My freezers. Coming up deliberately looks across all of them — food going off in the garage is exactly what you would otherwise miss.
Yes, with Pro. Share the freezer and what one of you takes out, the other sees. It runs over iCloud sharing, so there is no account for either of you to make, and it costs the person you invite nothing. Only the freezer you share is shared; your other freezers stay yours.
None, in the free version or the paid one. No banners, no interstitials, no stream of pop-ups. The paid tier exists so that the free one does not have to be paid for by advertising.
Frostlog runs on iOS 26.0 and later. No account and no server of ours. The list lives on your phone and, if you leave iCloud on, in your own iCloud account — where it comes back by itself on a new phone.
Download on the App StoreFree for up to 35 items. Pro: $23.99 a year, or $2.99 a month after a 3-day trial.