CHANGELOG
What's new in Plenty
Everything we have shipped, newest first.
- Improved
Smoother barcode scanning
Scan food on more browsers, with a steadier camera preview.
- Barcode detection now works on browsers without built-in scanning support
- Fixed camera preview startup
- Camera resources are released when you leave the scanner
- Fixed
Account, sharing and gift safeguards
Improved protections around accounts, kitchen invites, payments and gifts.
- Strengthened kitchen invitation codes and sign-in redirects
- Improved payment checks and updated vulnerable dependencies
- Gift email resends use the recipient saved at checkout
- Gifts without a recipient email are shared by copying their link
- New
Cross groceries off as you add them
Adding food to your kitchen now helps keep your shopping list up to date.
- Photo, manual and barcode entry offer to cross off matching shopping items
- Choose which matches to remove and which to keep
- Voice entry offers a prompt to cross off a matching item
- New
Manage your sign-in details
Update your account email and password from profile settings.
- See your current email and verification status
- Request an email change with a confirmation link
- Change your password from the account settings
- Improved
Finish part of a single item
Keep the rest of an item in your kitchen when you only use a portion.
- A half button beside Finished opens the portion picker
- Choose a quarter, half or three quarters of a single item
- See what remains, with introductory tips explaining partial use
- New
Kitchen and shopping offline
Keep your kitchen and shopping list handy when your connection drops.
- View previously loaded kitchen and shopping data offline
- Pantry and shopping changes queue locally until you reconnect
- An offline notice shows pending changes, with confirmation after syncing
- Improved
Easier profile settings
Find account settings and preferences more easily.
- Profile settings are organised into tabs with clearer spacing
- Administrators have a dedicated Admin Hub
- Fixed profile crashes and improved access to issue reporting
- Improved
Yearly plans and quicker upgrades
Choose your billing cycle and get access sooner after checkout.
- Switch between monthly and yearly plans
- Yearly billing saves roughly a third compared with paying monthly
- Subscription details refresh after checkout
- Improved payment verification and subscription reconciliation
- New
Choose your own navigation
Keep the pages you use most close at hand.
- Choose which menu tabs to show or hide
- Reorder tabs, including by dragging them
- Preferences apply to mobile and desktop navigation
- Scroll hints make overflowing tab strips easier to discover
- Fixed
More reliable AI and recipe pictures
Fewer interruptions when scanning food or finding recipes.
- Fallback providers and paced retries help when AI services are busy
- Fixed duplicate photo additions and repeated recipe requests
- Fixed missing recipe images
- Existing recipe pictures are protected from concurrent replacement
- New
Update your kitchen when logging meals
Link meal ingredients to your kitchen and choose what was used.
- Meal review suggests matches with food in your pantry
- Adjust ingredient links before saving
- Choose to keep an item, use one unit or finish it when logging the meal
- New
Reminders to use food soon
Spot the food that needs attention and turn it into your next meal.
- An inventory banner highlights items to use soon or check for spoilage
- Navigation badges show how many items need attention
- Jump straight to recipes from the reminder
- Enable a daily browser reminder when opening Plenty on a supported browser
- Improved
Clearer public pages and free-plan details
Get a clearer view of what Plenty offers and what is coming next.
- Public changelog and roadmap pages show updates and future plans
- Refreshed homepage and clearer pricing information
- Free plans keep unlimited pantry items, with monthly AI, voice and photo allowances
- Improved
Faster, clearer meal logging
Log repeat meals quickly and refine estimates with less effort.
- Log meals on past dates
- Reuse frequent meals in one tap, with Undo
- Frequent meal suggestions take the time of day into account
- Follow-up answers preserve the existing estimate and pantry names help identify ingredients
- Improved calendar sizing and clearer usage labels
- Improved
Recipes from what you already have
Find a meal from saved recipes before asking for fresh inspiration.
- Saved recipes are matched against the food in your kitchen
- Choose whether suggestions may include missing ingredients
- Request new ideas when you want them, with duplicate titles filtered out
- Improved
Find food by shelf life
Separate fresh food from long-life staples and find items quickly.
- Switch between All, Fresh and Long-life inventory tabs
- Filter by category with item counts
- Search your inventory and see clearer category labels
- New
Calories and macros for Plus and Pro
A dedicated nutrition page brings your daily and weekly picture together.
- Plus and Pro subscribers can use the Calories page; free users can preview its features
- Track daily targets and protein, carbohydrate and fat totals
- See weekly trends and logging streaks
- A nutrition summary on Home shows your progress today
- New
Connect your own AI account
Use your own provider key for Plenty AI features without Plenty usage allowances.
- Connect Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq or OpenRouter
- Keys are stored encrypted, checked and removable from your profile
- A working personal key bypasses Plenty AI usage allowances; your provider charges separately
- Improved
Better photo entry and clearer prices
Use photos from your gallery and understand where suggested prices come from.
- Upload food and meal photos from your gallery
- Price labels distinguish your history, local category prices, estimates and rough guesses
- Refresh uncertain price suggestions before saving
- New
Shared shopping list
A list that fills itself from what ran out and what your recipes need.
- Add several items at once by typing them with commas
- Suggestions from things you ran out of and buy often
- Add a recipe's missing ingredients in one tap
- Tick items off and move them straight into your kitchen
- Improved
Partial amounts when something is finished or binned
Say how much you used or threw away instead of all-or-nothing.
- Type exact amounts, with grams and millilitres handled properly
- Half and all shortcuts, plus a live view of what is left
- Money saved and thrown away now counts partial amounts
- High-contrast mode in profile settings
- Fixed
Sign-in and syncing fixes
No more bouncing between onboarding and the app.
- Fixed sign-outs and repeated onboarding on the home-screen app
- Steadier sign-in on slow phone start-ups
- Fixed an error when marking an item as thrown away
- New
Calorie diary with a month calendar
Log meals by photo, typing or talking and see the whole month at a glance.
- Meals estimated from a photo, a sentence or your voice
- Day-by-day calendar with a detailed view per day
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack slots inferred automatically
- Send an inventory item straight to your calorie log
- Improved
Install Plenty like an app
Add it to your home screen on any phone, with step-by-step help.
- Clear instructions for iPhone and Android
- Proper icons on Chrome, Firefox and Safari
- Opens straight into your kitchen instead of the homepage
- Improved
Recipe pictures and a faster app
Recipes look the part, and everything loads quicker.
- Generated images for recipe cards, cached after the first time
- Analytics only load after you accept them
- Noticeably faster start-up and lighter pages
- Improved
Spanish and German, plus profile characters
The whole app in three languages, with pickable kitchen characters.
- Full Spanish and German translations, not just the menus
- Eight hand-drawn characters you can pick and tint
- Choose the focus point of your own profile photo
- New
Prices that learn from you
Plenty estimates what each item cost, and you correct it once.
- Automatic price estimates per item and country
- Edit and confirm prices while reviewing your inventory
- Your confirmed prices become the suggestion next time