Catch
Snap your list. Stock up. Score.
Snap your list. Stock up. Score.
Catch turns the boring chore of writing a grocery list into a game. Point your camera at any list — handwritten, printed, a receipt, a sticky note — and Catch reads it, drops the items into a tidy checklist sorted by aisle, and rewards you with XP, streaks and combos as you shop. Scan a product's barcode and it will tell you whether it is a good buy; the good ones stock a pantry that mirrors how well you eat. No account. No tracking. Your lists and progress stay on your phone, unless you share a list live — what else leaves it is a list photo you choose to scan, which goes to Anthropic to be read and is then discarded, and the barcode or name of a food being graded, which goes to Open Food Facts to be looked up.
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.
Open a list and tap Share. Share live list makes a link: anyone who opens it in Catch sees the same list, and a tick on one phone shows on the others within a second, catching up after a spell offline. No account is involved, but anyone with the link can see and change the list, so send it the way you would hand over a house key. Stop sharing deletes it from our server at once; everyone keeps their copy on their own phone. Send as text sends a plain copy through your messaging app instead. The privacy policy says exactly what a shared list sends.
Settings → Catch Pro → Gift Catch Pro makes a link for a free month of Catch Pro and lets you send it. Your friend opens it on their phone and taps Redeem, and their own app store, App Store or Google Play, does the rest. We keep no record of who sent it or who redeemed it.
Your pantry and your progress do not — they live on your device and there is no account to sync them to. Your lists do too, unless you share one live: a shared list is kept on our server so the people with its link can tick it with you, until you stop sharing. Two other things leave it. 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. Sharing a list live is free too. A new install gets My Healthy Pantry and a few list scans free for its first week, and on the free plan a short ad can unlock a list scan to try. 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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