Every fridge inventory app fails the same way: it turns your kitchen into admin. Chiku is built backwards from that. Ten seconds to add a thing, and then the app works for you instead of the other way round.
Open chiku, tap add, and either type a name or tap one of the one-tap chips for the things every household buys forever: milk, bread, eggs, spinach, the usual suspects. Then tell him when to check on it. That is the entire ritual.
The first time you add a food, chiku asks you for the day, because he refuses to invent numbers about your kitchen. Every time after that, he fills in your own answer. Two weeks in, most items are one tap and done.
The main screen is the watch: everything chiku is keeping an eye on, soonest first. Items near their date float to the top with a gentle rescue suggestion. Whole categories exist for the freezer, the pantry, the counter, and the things you take daily, because the fridge is not the only place food hides.
Once a day, at an hour you choose, chiku sends at most one quiet notification if something is coming up. Not five. Not a badge that climbs all week. One. And there is a test button in settings that sends a whisper ten seconds later, so you can always prove to yourself the line works.
The detective’s kit adds household sharing: send your list to a partner or housemate as a file, straight from your phone to theirs. No accounts were created in the making of this feature.
The core is free forever: unlimited items, all the reminders, the widget, the weekly page, the history. One optional purchase adds dinner ideas from kitchens around the world, case notes, household sharing, and extra scenes. It funds a nonprofit.
Curious about the bigger picture? Read why food gets wasted at home, or head back to the home page to meet chiku properly.