Putby: Canning & Pantry Log

Putby is a home canning app and food preservation tracker: a safety-first canning log, a living pantry inventory, and a free, altitude-aware safe-processing guide for water bath and pressure canning. Log every batch you can, pickle, ferment, dehydrate or freeze in seconds, and Putby keeps count of what's on your shelf, what to eat first, and which tested process you followed. Put it by — safely. Know what's on the shelf, when you canned it, and that you canned it right. WHY HOME CANNERS CHOOSE PUTBY • The safe-processing guide is FREE and always will be: water bath or pressure canning by food, altitude-adjusted times and pressures, headspace and acidity, and a botulism check that routes low-acid foods to the pressure canner. Every canning time names its USDA source. • It never guesses a canning time. If a jar size has no tested process, Putby shows no number at all. Half-gallon jars are tested for apple and grape juice only, and Putby says so. • Honest billing — cancel anytime in Google Play. No surprise fees, no "watch a video to see the recipe", no card needed for the free app. • Works offline and opens instantly — everything stays on your phone, no account, no cloud. • A living pantry, not a recipe list — know exactly what's on the shelf and what to eat first. FREE FOREVER • Canning log: record a batch in seconds — food, method (water bath, pressure, ferment, pickle, dehydrate, freeze), jar size from half-pint to half-gallon, jar count and a "did they all seal?" check. For foods in the guide, the tested processing time for your altitude appears as you type. • Pantry inventory: jar counts by food, canned-on and best-by dates, and an "Eat me first" banner for anything due within 60 days. Tap a food to eat a jar, put one back, correct a best-by date or delete a batch. • Safe-processing guide for 14 foods: tomatoes, green beans, peaches, jam, pickles, salsa, beef, carrots, corn, applesauce, pickled beets, sauerkraut, apple juice and grape juice — with the botulism check and sources cited. • Jar labels: a printable peel-and-stick PDF sheet with contents, date, batch and best-by, one label per jar. • Fermentation tracker: day-count timers for sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, hot sauce or any ferment, with burp and taste-check reminders on your phone. • CSV export of every batch in your canning log. • Large text, dark cellar mode and high contrast — accessibility is free. • Invite a friend: you both get 30 days of Putby+ free. PUTBY+ (OPTIONAL, COMPUTED ON YOUR PHONE) • Savings: what your canning season is worth, at the store price per jar you set. • Pantry insights: the food you over-produce and what to use up first. • Your preserving-season recap: a plain-language summary of the jars you put by, built only from your own log. • Season planner: what you usually put up in the coming months, from your own history — and what you have run out of. HOW IT WORKS Finish a batch of green beans, open Putby and log it in ten seconds: seven pint jars, pressure canned, all sealed. The canning log shows the pressure and minutes for your altitude and the USDA guide they came from. Your pantry inventory updates itself, the jar labels are ready to print, and in February, when you wonder how much tomato sauce is left, the answer is already in your pocket. Start a crock of sauerkraut and the fermentation tracker counts the days and reminds you to burp it. BUILT FOR HOME CANNING Pressure canning and water bath canning, pickling, fermenting, dehydrating and freezing. A canning app, a canning tracker, a pantry inventory app and a food preservation log that respects the craft — and your shelf. Putby is a companion to tested recipes (USDA, Ball/Bernardin, NCHFP), not a replacement, and not food-safety certification. Always follow a current tested canning recipe; you are responsible for how your food is processed. Feedback? Email [email protected] — we read every note.