Privacy Policy

Last updated 31 May 2026

Pantry is built to be private by default. Your meal plans, grocery lists, and recipes live on your device. There’s no account and no tracking. This page explains that in plain language — including the few moments the app uses the network, so nothing is hidden.

What stays on your device

Everything you create in Pantry — your weekly plans, grocery lists, saved recipes, settings, and history — is stored locally on your iPhone or iPad using Apple’s on-device database. We don’t have a copy, and we don’t have an account system, so there’s nothing for us to log in to and look at.

No account, no tracking

You can open Pantry and start using it immediately:

• No email, password, or profile to create.
• No analytics or usage tracking, no advertising identifiers, and no third-party tracking SDKs.
• We do not sell or share your data, because we don’t collect it.

When you import a recipe

If you import a recipe from a web link, Pantry needs to read that page to pull out the ingredients and steps:

• It fetches the recipe’s web page — the same as if you opened the link in a browser. That request goes to whoever runs that website, under their own privacy policy.
• Pantry tries to read the recipe on your device first. Only if that fails does it fall back to our parsing service, sending it just the recipe’s URL (not your lists, plans, or other recipes) so the service can fetch and extract that one recipe and send the result back.
• Our parsing service is used only to return that recipe. It isn’t used to build a profile of you, and it isn’t connected to any account — there is no account.

Pantry also sends a small, data-free “wake up” signal to that service when the app launches, so the first import you do isn’t slow. It contains no personal information.

Syncing across your devices

Pantry keeps your data in sync across your own devices that are signed in to the same Apple Account (for example your iPhone and iPad), using Apple’s iCloud. Your data travels through your private iCloud — it’s handled by Apple under Apple’s privacy policy, stays in your own account, and we never see it. Your plans, lists, and recipes are never sent to our own servers. (Sharing a list or recipe with someone else is a separate, deliberate action you take.)

Reminders and notifications

Any planning or shopping reminders are scheduled locally on your device. We don’t run a notification server and we don’t receive anything when a reminder fires.

Children

Pantry is a general-audience app and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Deleting your data

Because your data lives on your device, you’re always in control: delete individual items in the app, or remove the app to erase everything it stored. If iCloud sync was on, you can also manage or delete Pantry’s data from your device’s iCloud settings.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and revise the “last updated” date above.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Reach us through the contact form on our support page and we’ll help.