How it works
Ten seconds to record and put it away.
Ten seconds to record and put it away.
Then boxom does the remembering.
You do this once, while you are unpacking the shopping. After that boxom works on its own for as long as the jar is in the house.
Everyone in the house sees the same shelf on their own phone, so nobody comes home with a third jar of peanut butter.
Watch it work
Forty-five seconds each.
No commentary, no presenter. Just the app doing the three things you would actually do with it.
1Point the camera at the barcodeboxom knows almost 400,000 products, so most things come up by name before you have finished emptying the bag.
2Read the expiry date out loudNo typing. boxom shows you the date it heard, on a calendar, and waits for you to agree before it saves anything.
3Say where you are putting itFridge, freezer, pantry, the cupboard over the sink. Whatever you call it at home is what boxom calls it.
4That is it - boxom takes overIt tells you while the food is still food, not the morning after. Open a jar and tap Opened, and it starts counting again, because a printed date stops being true once air gets in.
5It writes the shopping list for youTake the last of something and it goes on the list by itself. Sort it by shop, tick things off in the aisle, and everyone in the household sees the same list at the same time.
6Cook with whatever needs eatingboxom reads what is about to go off and suggests dishes that would use it up, from 121 standard Hungarian and Central European recipes. It puts the ones you can start right now first.