# Grocy

> Household management for groceries, stock, chores and expiry dates

Category: Self hosted apps (https://aiarabicdev.com/self-hosted)
Canonical page: https://aiarabicdev.com/self-hosted/grocy
Tags: home, inventory, groceries, chores, php

Grocy tracks what food and supplies you have at home, when they expire, what to buy next and which chores are due. It is MIT licensed, built with PHP and SQLite, and works well with a barcode scanner on a phone.

## Facts

- Licence: MIT
- Language: PHP
- Cost: Free and open source
- Self hostable: yes
- Added: 2026-10-25
- Last checked: 2026-10-25

## Links

- Website: https://grocy.info
- Source: https://github.com/grocy/grocy

## An inventory for your home

Grocy calls itself an ERP beyond your fridge. You record products as you buy and use them, and it tells you what is running low, what expires soon, and builds a shopping list. Recipes can check whether you have the ingredients, and there are trackers for chores, tasks and batteries.

It suits organised households that want to waste less food or keep track of supplies, and people who enjoy scanning barcodes. If nobody in the house will log what they use, it will not stay accurate.

## What running it costs

It is a PHP application with an SQLite database, so it runs on almost anything with very little RAM. Backing it up means copying the data folder. Community apps and a barcode scanning companion exist for phones.

Keep it on the home network or VPN. The real cost is time: setting up products, locations and units takes an evening, and the data is only useful if everyone keeps logging purchases and consumption.

## Reach for it when

- you want to know what is in the pantry and what expires soon
- you want shopping lists built from what is actually missing
- you track household chores and recurring tasks

## Watch out for

- it only works if everyone logs purchases and usage, which takes discipline
- the interface is dense, and the initial setup of products and units takes time
- it is mainly built by one developer, so features arrive at that person's pace

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