# MyKitchenRadar

> MyKitchenRadar is a family kitchen app that tells you how many days each food at home will last, like “rice: about 6–11 days”, and reminds everyone before it runs out. Made by SyntyAxis. Not released yet: Coming soon for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Android after that. Free core app. One optional Family plan. No ads.

Key facts:
- Not released yet. iPhone, iPad and Mac (one universal app) come first. Android comes after the iOS 1.0.
- Set up the family once: how many people, ages, diet (veg, non-veg, egg, Jain, halal), food culture (pick one or more).
- First guess: typical daily use for that food culture × the family's size and ages. Example: a Tamil family of 4.
- The app shows a range, never a fake exact date: "about 6–11 days". "finishes today" for red items.
- It asks now and then "How much rice is left?" with one tap: Full / Half / Low / Out, or an exact amount. Each answer teaches it how this family really eats, and the range gets tighter.
- One status rule everywhere: red = today or 1 day, amber = 2–6 days, green = 7+ days. Always with words, never colour alone.
- Perishables (milk, curd, greens, tomato) also have a freshness clock: "Use first".
- Spices and snacks without a date show "last bought 6 weeks ago".
- Occasions (guests, festivals, parties) speed the countdown up.
- The countdown runs on the phone, offline, free per use.
- Today screen: a small radar dial (rings = by tomorrow / this week / later) and "Next to finish", sorted by days left.
- Item detail: days-left range, stock-over-time chart, quick check, "always keep" level, last bought, order links.
- Buy list: grouped "Needed by tomorrow" / "This week", suggested amount, who added it, shopping day.
- Order links: open the item searched in a shop app. India: Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart, BigBasket, Amazon. US: Instacart, Amazon. Shops shown depend on the country.
- Adding stock: starter kitchen (about 40 usual items for your food culture), typing, bill photo (reads the grocery bill on the phone), barcode, photo of an unknown item.
- Reminders: 8:00 morning digest ("3 things are running low"), urgent alert for something about to finish (18:00 the evening before, and at digest time on the day it finishes; per NotificationPlanner in the step 1 build), buy list the evening before shopping day, use-it-first for perishables.
- Cooking: 3–5 dish ideas from what is in stock today, in the family's cuisine; "ask for a recipe"; menu to the cook; lunchbox; weekly plan; leftovers; "I cooked this".
- Family sharing: the same kitchen on every phone in the family (invite link).
- Widgets and Siri: small widget "Low: milk, curd"; medium widget with the top 4; "Hey Siri, add milk to Kitchen Radar".
- Reports: used, bought and spent per item, monthly spend, food-saved card.
- Ask the app: chat about your kitchen.
- 41 cuisines (families can pick more than one) and 17 languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Portuguese, Swahili. Right-to-left (Arabic) supported.
- iPhone, iPad and Mac, light and dark mode, largest text sizes.
- Free core, plus one Family plan (price not decided; never show a price). No ads.
- Store name MyKitchenRadar. Home-screen label Kitchen Radar. Domain mykitchenradar.com.
- Made by SyntyAxis (syntyaxis.com), a software studio.
- Contact: support@syntyaxis.com. Every page also has a Markdown copy at its URL + index.md.

## Main pages

- [MyKitchenRadar questions and answers](https://mykitchenradar.com/faq/): MyKitchenRadar is a family kitchen app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It tells you how many days each food at home will last, like "rice: about 6–11 days", and reminds everyone before it runs out. It is not released yet. The core app is free with no ads, and there will be one optional Family plan.
- [A shared family shopping list that knows what is running out](https://mykitchenradar.com/features/family-shopping-list/): A shared grocery list for the whole family that adds what is about to run out, sorted Needed by tomorrow and This week, ready the evening before you shop.
- [A kitchen and pantry inventory app that counts down what you have](https://mykitchenradar.com/features/kitchen-inventory/): A pantry and kitchen inventory app that counts down what you have. Start from about 40 usual items, check with one tap, see how many days each will last.
- [Grocery reminders, widgets and Siri for your kitchen](https://mykitchenradar.com/features/reminders-widgets-siri/): An 8:00 digest of what is running low, an alert the evening before something finishes, the buy list before you shop, plus home screen widgets and Siri.
- [What to cook today, from the food already in your kitchen](https://mykitchenradar.com/features/what-to-cook-today/): MyKitchenRadar suggests 3–5 dishes to cook today from the food already in your kitchen, in your family's cuisine, and sends the menu to whoever cooks.
- [Know how many days your food will last.](https://mykitchenradar.com/): A family kitchen app that shows how many days rice, milk and atta will last and reminds everyone before they run out. Coming soon for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- [How the kitchen countdown works](https://mykitchenradar.com/how-it-works/): MyKitchenRadar multiplies typical daily use for your food culture by your family's size and ages. It shows how long each item will last as a range, such as "Rice: about 6–11 days". Red means today or 1 day, amber 2–6 days, green 7 days or more. Now and then it asks how much is left, you tap Full, Half, Low or Out, and the range narrows.
- [A kitchen app for Indian families that counts down rice, atta, dal and milk](https://mykitchenradar.com/indian-kitchen/): MyKitchenRadar is a family kitchen app that tells you how many days your rice, atta, dal, oil and milk will last and reminds the family before they run out. Its first guess comes from Indian survey data for your food culture, scaled to your family's ages. It handles veg, non-veg, egg, Jain and halal diets and works in English and 9 Indian languages. Order links open Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart, BigBasket or Amazon with the item already searched.
- [MyKitchenRadar in 17 languages and 41 cuisines](https://mykitchenradar.com/languages-and-cuisines/): MyKitchenRadar works in 17 languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Spanish, French, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Portuguese and Swahili. Arabic runs right to left. Each family also picks one or more of 41 cuisines (the app calls them food cultures), which set the starter kitchen, the first countdown guess and the dish ideas.

## Tools

- [How long will your rice, atta, dal, oil or milk last?](https://mykitchenradar.com/tools/how-long-will-it-last/): Enter the food, how much you have and who eats at home, and the estimator shows about how many days it will last, as a range. For a Tamil Nadu city family of 4 (2 adults, a child of 8 and a grandmother of 70), 10 kg of rice comes out at about 10–16 days. Rice and atta use what Indian households actually ate in MoSPI's 2023-24 survey. Dal, oil and milk use ICMR-NIN's 2024 recommended amounts. It is a first guess, and the full method is below.

## Guides

- [How long will a bag of rice last?](https://mykitchenradar.com/guides/how-long-will-rice-last/): For a family of 4 (2 adults, children of 8 and 5), a 10 kg bag of rice lasts about 10–17 days at the Tamil Nadu city average. At the All-India city average it lasts about 16–26 days. For one adult man at the All-India city average, 10 kg lasts about 51–84 days. These ranges use what households actually ate in MoSPI's 2023-24 survey and the countdown method of the MyKitchenRadar app.
- [How much atta do you need per month?](https://mykitchenradar.com/guides/how-much-atta-per-month/): One adult man in an average Indian city household eats about 4.0 kg of atta (wheat) a month. In urban Punjab it is about 7.0 kg and in urban Rajasthan about 9.7 kg. At the All-India city average, a family of 4 (2 adults, children of 8 and 5) uses about 13 kg a month. A 10 kg bag lasts them about 18–30 days. In urban Punjab they use about 23 kg, and the bag lasts about 10–17 days. These figures come from what households actually ate in MoSPI's 2023-24 survey.
- [How much cooking oil per month per person?](https://mykitchenradar.com/guides/how-much-cooking-oil-per-month/): ICMR-NIN's 2024 guidelines suggest about 30 g of cooking oil and fat a day for a sedentary man and 25 g for a sedentary woman. Visible fat should stay within 20–50 g a day, depending on energy needs. 30 g a day is 0.9 kg a month, a little under 1 liter. For a family of 4 with children of 8 and 5, the guideline adds up to about 3 kg (3.3 liters) a month. A 5 liter can lasts them about 35–68 days. These are recommended limits, not measurements of what families use.
- [How much dal do you need per month?](https://mykitchenradar.com/guides/how-much-dal-per-month/): ICMR-NIN recommends about 85 g of raw dal and other pulses a day for a sedentary man and 60 g for a sedentary woman (Dietary Guidelines for Indians 2024). That is about 2.6 kg and 1.8 kg a month. For a family of 4 with children of 8 and 5, the guideline adds up to about 8.1 kg a month. A 5 kg stock of dal lasts them about 13–26 days. These are recommended amounts. India's household survey report does not publish how much dal families actually eat.
- [How much milk does a family need?](https://mykitchenradar.com/guides/how-much-milk-does-a-family-need/): India's ICMR-NIN guidelines (2024) recommend 300 ml of milk or curd a day for adults. Children, teenagers, pregnant and breastfeeding women and people over 60 get 350–400 ml. For a family of 4 with children of 8 and 5, that adds up to 1,350 ml a day, about 9.5 liters a week or 40 liters a month. The US Dietary Guidelines 2025–2030 give 3 cups of dairy a day for adults and 2½ for young children. If all of it is milk, a US family of 4 needs about 4.8 gallons a week. Both are recommended amounts, not measurements of what families drink.
- [How to keep track of groceries at home](https://mykitchenradar.com/guides/how-to-keep-track-of-groceries-at-home/): To keep track of groceries at home, track only the staples your family uses every week, not everything in the cupboard. Give each staple an "always keep" level, check it by eye as Full, Half, Low or Out, and keep one shared list the whole family can add to. Write the buy list the evening before shopping day, so it shows what is low that week and not what was low last week.
- [Monthly grocery list for an Indian family of 4](https://mykitchenradar.com/guides/monthly-grocery-list-india/): A monthly grocery list for an Indian family of four covers rice and atta, dal, oil and ghee, spices, milk, vegetables, fruit and breakfast items. The average Indian city dweller uses about 4.2 kg of rice and 3.6 kg of wheat products a month (MoSPI HCES 2023-24). Four people therefore use about 17 kg of rice and 14.5 kg of atta and other wheat. A Tamil Nadu city family of four is closer to 26 kg of rice, and a Punjab city family uses about 25 kg of wheat.
- [Pantry staples list](https://mykitchenradar.com/guides/pantry-staples-list/): A basic pantry staples list covers grains and pasta, flour and baking, dried beans and lentils, canned goods, oils and condiments, spices, and coffee and tea. Most keep for months unopened. USDA FoodKeeper gives white rice and dry pasta 2 years, dried beans 1–2 years and cooking oil 6–12 months. How much of each to keep depends on how fast your family uses it, so set your own "always keep" level for each item.

## Company

- [About MyKitchenRadar](https://mykitchenradar.com/about/): MyKitchenRadar is a family kitchen app made by SyntyAxis, a software studio. It tells a family how many days each food at home will last and reminds everyone before it runs out. Its first guesses start from public data, and then it learns from each family's own answers.
- [MyKitchenRadar support](https://mykitchenradar.com/support/): Write to support@syntyaxis.com. MyKitchenRadar is not released yet. It is coming soon for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Android comes after that.

## Optional

- [Website privacy](https://mykitchenradar.com/privacy/): How mykitchenradar.com handles data: no cookies, no analytics, no ads, no forms. The estimator runs in your browser. The app policy comes before release.
- [Website terms](https://mykitchenradar.com/terms/): Terms for using mykitchenradar.com: guides and the estimator are general information, not advice. The app terms are published before the app is released.