Your kitchen, your data.
Know what you have. Buy what you need.
Your data lives on your own devices, and there is no Larder cloud, no server holding it. Barcode lookup and recipe import stay off until you switch them on.
- Runs on your own devices
- Receipt to pantry in seconds
- Save 4% and it is free (EPA, Apr 2025)
Larder is in early access and not sold in any store yet.
The open fridge at 6pm
The average 4 person household wastes about $2,913 of food a year (EPA, Apr 2025). That is about $56 a week, gone. Not just spoiled leftovers. Duplicates you rebought because you forgot you had them. Produce that went soft before you cooked it. The "we will use it someday" purchases that never happened.
And the cost is not only dollars. It is the 6pm moment. The fridge open, four people hungry, nobody able to reckon what is actually in there. It is buying milk three times in a week because no one remembers who finished it.
There are grocery list apps and spreadsheets. Almost nothing treats the kitchen like what it is: inventory. And almost nothing touches your family's food data without making it their business.
Know what you have. Buy what you need.
Larder is the family grocery app that knows what you have, so you buy what you need. It treats your kitchen as inventory to be known, not a list to be typed, and it keeps every bit of that knowledge on your own devices.
Know what you have.
Paste or photograph a receipt and every line becomes a pantry row with name, quantity, unit, price, and inferred category. Real receipts, fixture verified 43 of 43 on a Costco golden fixture. Barcode scanning with Open Food Facts, 3M+ products, opt in, cached locally. Pantry Rescue: photograph your shelves on first run and start with a real starter pantry. Named spaces with first in first out badges keep Garage Freezer #2 honest. One search covers products, recipes, locations, and lists.
Buy what you need.
Smart shopping lists from recipes, patterns, and low stock signals. BUY, MAYBE, SKIP recommendations from the on device engine. Cook a recipe and the pantry really empties.
Waste less, spend smarter.
USDA FoodKeeper shelf life data, 93 foods, warns you before food spoils. Budget page from real receipt spend, by category, per trip. Coupons and was price savings are captured as recorded numbers too. Price history from your own receipts shows what things usually cost at your stores. The footer never becomes food: subtotal, tax, tip, and savings route to the trip record.
Cook with confidence.
Recipe import from the web into a clean local card. Cook from your pantry. Cooking Mode with hands free voice advance. Picky eater profiles per family member.
Whole family, zero friction.
Kitchen kiosk on an old iPad or Mac: big buttons, kid logging, voice. "We finished the milk" takes two seconds. Family sync over your own Wi Fi. Away from home, an end to end encrypted relay keeps it private. Print lists, save PDFs, export CSV or JSON always.
Your family's data lives on your family's devices
Your family's data lives on your family's devices. Private, and yours.
There is no Larder cloud. No Larder account. No server holding your data. Not "we choose not to look," there is nowhere for it to be. The two helpers that touch the internet, barcode lookup and recipe import, stay off until you switch them on.
No telemetry. No ads. No accounts. Encrypted backup with keys you hold. Your data is never hostage. Export everything anytime as CSV or JSON.
Larder comes from The Orion Companies, a firm owned and run by operators. We built it the way we would want it for our own families.
Building now
Larder is alive. Here is what is next.
- Building now iOS app and TestFlight family beta in progress.
- Building now Android version in progress.
- Building now Payments and licensing rollout in progress.
All items carry the "Building now" badge. No dates. No buy now.
One price. Your data stays yours.
$100 a year, or $10 a month if you would rather spread the payments. Annual saves $20. No free tier, no ads, no data selling. Your subscription funds software, not servers.
Save even 4% of the $2,913 the average 4 person household wastes a year and Larder is free. The math: 4% of $2,913 is $116.52, more than the annual price. One avoided takeout order a month covers it.
Join the early list
Larder is in early access and not sold in any store yet. Email us and we will write to you, a handful of notes as we get closer, nothing else. No spam, no selling your address, no account required.