Notvorrat – Emergency Supply

Germany's Federal Office of Civil Protection recommends a ten-day supply. What that means for a household with two adults and two children is written down nowhere. Notvorrat works it out, keeps track of your stock and gets in touch before anything expires.


COVERAGE, ALWAYS IN VIEW

One number answers the real question: how long will my supply last? The weakest group is always the limit, and the app names it – 200 kg of pasta without water is zero days.


BUILT FOR SHOPPING IN GERMANY

The figures come from the official German recommendation – this app is for people who live and shop here, including those who moved to Germany and would rather use it in English. Quantities stay in kg and litres; the receipt scanner reads German receipts.


LOG YOUR SUPPLY IN SECONDS

Nobody enjoys typing in 30 items. Photograph your receipt and Apple Intelligence turns it into suggestions with group, quantity and pack size. A shelf photo captures what is already in the cellar; single packs work by photo, barcode or date scan. You check every suggestion before it is saved.

Receipt, shelf photo and photo recognition need iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence. The first two are analysed by Apple in Private Cloud Compute; from a receipt only item lines without prices are sent.


WORKED OUT FOR YOUR HOUSEHOLD

Adults, children by age group, older people, pregnancy and breastfeeding, pets. Children count proportionally by energy requirement; drinking water stays at 2 litres per person per day, whatever the age.


A REMINDER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

Every item gets its date – best before or a hard use-by date, because those are not the same thing. The app reminds you in good time, shows what is due on the app icon and repeats expired items daily until dealt with. All scheduled locally, no server, no network. Twice a year it asks you in for a supply check.


PREPAREDNESS BEYOND FOOD

Around 70 entries across six checklists: medicine cabinet, hygiene, power and light, documents, emergency bag and safety at home. Medicines, batteries and the fire extinguisher check carry their own expiry date and are reminded too. Generators appear only for a house.


ROTATION, NOT A BUNKER

Anything you use up goes onto the shopping list if you want, with the gap between requirement and stock. It moves into the Reminders app, shareable with the family.


NO ACCOUNT, NO DATA COLLECTION

No registration, no advertising, no tracking, no server of our own. Your data stays on your device, through your private iCloud if you want. Date scan and photo recognition work entirely on the device. Nothing leaves it without your consent: receipts and shelf photos to Apple, a barcode to the product database.


MORE FEATURES

• A short emergency guide, even without a network
• Export and restore a backup
• A preparedness period of 3 to 28 days
• Dark mode, large text and VoiceOver


NOTVORRAT PRO

Everything that matters for safety is free: the requirement calculation, stock with expiry dates, reminders and the app icon badge, the supply check, all checklists and backups. A one-off purchase – no subscription – unlocks convenience: barcode and date scanner, receipts, shelf photos and photo recognition without a limit (free: one receipt, one shelf photo, five photo captures), iCloud sync, the widget, several reminder lead times at your chosen time, the vegetarian and vegan tables, unlimited custom checklist entries.


PLEASE NOTE

Notvorrat is a private, independent app and is not connected to the German Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food or any other authority. It reproduces their publicly available recommendations. The age-based scaling, the vegetarian and vegan variants and the quantities for pets are derived from them and marked in the app as not official. In an emergency, only the instructions of the responsible authorities apply. The app is no substitute for medical or nutritional advice.