Inventory Wolf shut down. Here's the closest alternative.
FOR FORMER INVENTORY WOLF USERS · BY PAT
If you got here from an inventorywolf.com link: that domain now belongs to me. I'm Pat, the solo developer of BeaglePrep, and I have no affiliation with Inventory Wolf or Helcorp Interactive. I bought the domain after it was abandoned so that years of forum posts and bookmarks would stop dead-ending. This page is my honest pitch for where to go next.
What happened to Inventory Wolf
Inventory Wolf was a prepper inventory app for iOS and Android, built by Helcorp Interactive. It was unpublished from the Play Store on February 24, 2024, and the app has since shut down entirely.
It was a good app. People ran their whole food storage through it, and the recommendation threads it used to appear in are still out there. Small apps close for ordinary reasons: the economics of a niche app are thin, and one developer stepping away is all it takes. There's no scandal here, just a shutdown that left its users holding a list inside an app that no longer opens.
If that's you, there are two useful things on this page: how to move your data if you saved an export, and a feature-by-feature look at what BeaglePrep covers of what Inventory Wolf did. There's also a longer comparison on the blog.
If you exported a CSV before the shutdown
BeaglePrep imports CSV, so an old export can come along instead of being retyped.
- Install BeaglePrep free from the Play Store and poke around first. Make sure it fits before you spend anything.
- CSV import is part of Pro, the $4.99 one-time upgrade. Unlock it in Settings when you're ready to migrate.
- Match your export's column headers to BeaglePrep's template (name, quantity, location, expiration date, and so on). The free spreadsheet template shows the exact headers.
- In Settings, open Export & Import and pick your CSV file, or paste the rows straight in. Locations are matched by name, and anything the import can't place stays editable afterward.
No export? Barcode scanning does most of the retyping: point the camera at each item and the name, brand, and size fill in automatically. A pantry of a hundred items is an afternoon, not a weekend.
What carries over
Feature for feature, here's where the things Inventory Wolf users cared about live in BeaglePrep:
- Barcode scan-to-add. Point the camera at a barcode and the name, brand, and size fill in from Open Food Facts and USDA data. Results cache on-device, so repeat scans work offline.
- Expiration and rotation reminders. A heads-up before food, water, or medical supplies hit their dates, plus recurring tasks for things like rotating water.
- Storage locations. Pantry, basement, garage, car, bug-out bag: quantities and expiry tracked per location.
- A readiness number. The Prep Score turns your inventory into days of supply per category for your household size, so gaps are visible at a glance.
- Fully offline, no account. Everything lives on your phone. Cloud sync exists, but it's an opt-in Pro feature, not a requirement.
- Pricing. Free covers up to 75 items and 7 locations. Pro is $4.99 once, for life: unlimited items and locations, CSV import and export, shopping lists, and cloud sync. There is no subscription.
One honest caveat: Inventory Wolf ran on iOS and Android. BeaglePrep is Android today, with iOS coming soon. If you're on an iPhone, the free spreadsheet template works anywhere in the meantime.
Make the move
Your preparedness didn't shut down; the app did. The list is rebuildable, and this time it can live somewhere that works with no server behind it.