A quick guide to getting started with Kiff.

Quick guide

Kiff allows you to manage two types of food, food you buy in the supermarket and dishes that you cook or buy and their leftovers.

Differences between food and leftovers

Kiff uses your device's notifications to remind you to eat your food. You have three types of alerts that you can configure to your liking: Shelf life alerts, expiration alerts and what over alerts.

Food alerts

The app or notification badge, let you see how many groceries or leftovers are about to expire or stop being fresh without opening the app.

What does the app badge mean?

General

Unpackaged items generally do not have a best-before or expiration date printed when we purchase them. Use the `Shelf life` field to set the time (in days) that these products can be stored in the refrigerator or in the pantry.

How to add non-packaged products?

In general, packaged products have usually an expiration or best before date printed on the label or product packaging. When you register this type of product, you can set the preferred consumption date or the expiration date, activating the Expiration date option and entering the date in the Consume before field.

How to add products with an expiration date?

Some packaged products spoil after opening them and the manufacturer usually indicates this on the package label. Use the Shelf life field to indicate how long the food can remain open.

How to register products that go bad after opening?

Freezing food is a great way to extend its shelf life so you can use it later. When we freeze a product, the expiration or best-before dates no longer make sense, since food can generally stay frozen for longer.

How to add products before freezing them?

Sometimes we cook for the whole week; other times, we can overcook, leaving us with leftovers. Whatever is the case, Kiff helps you control those leftovers, so they don't spoil.

How to add leftovers?

Register

Food tracking allows us to know for how long a food, meal or prepared dish has been open or stored in our refrigerator or pantry.

What is food tracking?

Food tracking can be enabled while adding a new food or at the food detail view. Kiff will start counting the days from the moment we register the food or start tracking.

How does it work?

The tracking functionality allows us to know the time that a food, meal, or prepared dish has been open or stored in our refrigerator or pantry.

What can I use it for?

This option is especially useful for non-packaged products that don't have an expiration date, such as fruits and vegetables or dishes cooked at home. This way, we can know the time elapsed since they arrive at our house or when we have cooked them.

What is 'Start tracking' option for?

You can start tracking from a past date while adding a new food or at the food detail view.

How to start tracking from a past date?

Tracking

Pinning a food allows you to place it at the top of the 'Food' or 'Leftovers' list.

What is it?

To pin an item can be useful when we want to monitor food closely. Pinning allows us to have it in view at the top of the application above the rest of the food and leftovers.

When a product is going to stop being fresh or about to expire, Kiff automatically pins it and it will appears at the top of the application so you can quickly identify it.

How does automatic pinning work?

To remind you to eat the food that will no longer be fresh or is about to expire, Kiff needs your permission to send you notifications.

Enabling notifications

Kiff groups all notifications and alerts for all your food at the same time of the day. By default, at 9:00 in the morning.

Notification schedule configuration

The watch over function is useful if a food that is being tracked, does't have an expiration date or shelf life or does not have notifications enabled. When you haven't used the app for a while, Kiff will send you a generic message to check your fridge or pantry.

Food watch over

Shelf life reminders are the notifications that you will receive when a product is about to stop being fresh or is going to spoil after opening it.

Food shelf life reminders

Food expiration reminders are the notifications you will receive when a product is about to expire.

Food expiration reminders

Notifications

Sometimes we can overestimate or underestimate the shelf life or make a mistake when adding it. We can always modify said data without losing the rest of the information about the food.

How to extend the shelf life of a tracked product?

There are products with several individually packaged units (packs) that share the same shelf life and expiration date. It can be a hassle to register each unit separately, mainly if the pack contains many units.

How to manage multiple units of the same product (packs)?

There are foods that we buy or cook on a regular basis. Once consumed, we may be tempted to remove them from the application, having to re-register them in the next purchase or the next time we cook them.

How to use a product as a template?

Below you can find a table of recommended shelf life for each type of food or leftover. You can use this data as a reference, but we recommend that you always look at the food to ensure that it is in perfect condition before consuming it.

Food and leftovers shelf life guide

Tips

Known bugs or issues

To purchase, install, and run Kiff, your device must be running a supported version of iOS (Apple Inc.'s mobile operating system for the iPhone).

Minimum app requirements

In iOS, notifications are disabled until the user gives their permission. The first time you enable the notification option for food, Kiff will ask if you want to receive them.

Notifications do not work

Kiff uses the emoji library available in each iOS version. We understand that sometimes there may not be an icon that faithfully represents the food or dish that we are registering on the app.

How can we help you?

General

Register

Tracking

Pin

Notifications

Tips

Troubleshooting

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