How long would your supply really last?
Germany's Federal Office of Civil Protection recommends keeping supplies for ten days. What that means for a household of two adults and two children is written down nowhere – Notvorrat works it out, keeps track of what you have and reminds you in time to replace it.
An example
Two adults, one child of eight and one of five, target ten days. That comes to 80 litres of drinks, 12.1 kg of grain products, 13.8 kg of vegetables and pulses, 8.6 kg of fruit and nuts.
What the app does
Figures instead of guesswork
The official stockpiling table, converted to the ages and composition of your household – including pregnancy, breastfeeding and pets.
Coverage in days
A single number answers the question that matters. The weakest group sets the limit: 200 kg of pasta without water is zero days.
Your supply, captured in seconds
Photograph the receipt, check the suggestions, accept them – instead of typing in 30 items. A shelf photo captures what is already in the cellar. From iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence; the receipt is sent to Apple without prices and only with your consent.
A reminder before it expires
Every item carries its best-before date. The app speaks up in good time – locally on the device, without a server and without a connection.
Checklists beyond food
First-aid kit, hygiene, power and light, document folder, emergency bag and safety at home – around 70 items based on the official guidance, suited to a flat or a house.
Rotation, not a bunker
Whatever you use up moves to the shopping list by itself. That keeps the supply fresh instead of letting it expire in the cellar.
Where the figures come from
The basis is the ten-day stockpiling table from the emergency preparedness guide of the Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe (BBK), Germany's Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, together with the stockpiling calculator of the Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE), the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food. Both are designed around roughly 2,200 kcal per adult per day.
Scaling by age for children and older people, the vegetarian and vegan variants and the quantities for pets are derived from that and are expressly marked as unofficial in the app.
Not an official service
Notvorrat is privately developed and has no connection to the BBK, the BLE or any other public authority. In an emergency, only the instructions of the responsible authorities and emergency services apply.
What the app does not do
- No user accounts, no registration, no advertising, no tracking.
- No product lookups over the internet – the barcode scanner works entirely offline too.
- No medical or nutritional advice.
Your data stays with you
Everything is stored on the device. If you want to, you can sync through the private iCloud of your own Apple Account. The developer has no access to it and runs no server. Receipts and shelf photos are processed by Apple Intelligence in Apple's Private Cloud Compute, and only with your consent. Reminders are scheduled locally, which is why they still work during a power cut with no connection – rather the point for an app about preparedness.
Notvorrat Pro
Everything that matters for preparedness is free: working out what you need, recording your supply with best-before dates, reminders, all checklists and the backup. A one-off purchase – no subscription – unlocks convenience: the barcode and date scanners, unlimited photo recognition as well as receipts and shelf photos (from iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence; without Pro a few captures are free), iCloud sync, the widget for the home screen, lock screen and StandBy, several advance-warning times, the vegetarian and vegan tables and unlimited checklist items of your own. With Family Sharing the purchase covers the whole family.
Availability
Notvorrat is available on the App Store for iPhone from iOS 18. The app is in German and English; the figures and quantities follow German official guidance.