You're standing in a store aisle holding two nearly identical bottles. One of them was great. The other was a regret. You just cannot remember which. Or you're at a restaurant, staring at a menu, wishing you could recall the dish you loved three months ago — and whether the place was even the same one.
Receipts pile up in email. Photos sit unsorted in your camera roll. Spreadsheets never get updated. The memory of what you bought, ordered, rated, and would buy again is scattered across too many places to be useful in the moment you need it.
Purchase History is our answer: a photo-first purchase and visit memory. Snap a product or a dish, confirm what the AI suggests, add a rating and a short review, and the next time you see it again you can look up "have I bought this before?" — with your own notes attached. Today we're launching it on the web as an installable app you open in your browser.
A moment in the aisle
Picture this: you're in the grocery aisle again, holding two nearly identical bottles of hot sauce. Last month one of them made dinner sing and the other sat unused in the fridge door. You open Purchase History, snap the bottle in your hand, and your own note pops up — "smoky, buy again, 8/10" — from the bottle you actually liked. You put the other one back.
Two nights later you're at a neighborhood restaurant you half-remember. As you sit down, visit memory logs the place from your phone. You photograph tonight's plate when it arrives, confirm the dish name the AI suggests, and leave a short review: "too salty, skip next time." Three months from now, when the same place is on the calendar again, you won't be guessing from a blurry camera-roll photo — you'll look up the visit and order something else.
That is the loop: capture once in the moment, remember with your own words, and look it up when you're standing in the aisle or reading a menu. You do not need a perfect archive on day one. Capture the things you care about — the grocery item you keep debating, the coffee drink you finally nailed, the restaurant dish worth traveling for — and the library gets useful fast because every entry is something you chose to remember.
What you get
Purchase History is built around a few capabilities that work together rather than as bolted-on extras:
- Photo recognition — Snap products and dishes. AI suggests a description so you can confirm and save what you bought or ordered without typing a novel.
- Ratings and reviews — Keep a personal score and short notes on everything you try, so "pretty good" becomes searchable memory instead of a vague feeling.
- Have-I-bought-this lookup — When you see something again, look up past purchases with your ratings, reviews, and notes attached.
- Places and visits — Log restaurant and shop visits from your phone location, including nearby places, visit windows, menu scans, and ordered items.
- Household sharing — On the Household plan, invite up to five members so the family's purchase and visit memory lives in one place.
- Codex MCP plugin — Connect via a Google-authenticated MCP plugin so AI tools can work with your purchase and visit history when you want them to.
For people who already live in AI coding tools, the Codex MCP plugin is optional but powerful: once authenticated with Google, compatible agents can query and work with the same purchase and visit history you maintain in the app, without exporting CSVs by hand.
How it fits real life
Most "memory" apps ask you to become a diligent diarist. Purchase History leans on the photo you were going to take anyway. The recognition step removes blank-page friction. The lookup is the payoff: standing in front of a product or menu with your own past judgment available in seconds.
Visits close the other gap. A great dish without the restaurant name is only half a memory. Logging places — and tying orders to those visits — means you can answer "where was that?" as easily as "what was that?"
Household sharing is for the practical case where one person does most of the grocery shopping and another remembers half the preferences. Shared history beats three conflicting group chats.
Plans and pricing
Two simple monthly plans:
- Personal — $1.99/mo: 50 analyses per month, 5 GB storage, 1 member.
- Household — $4.99/mo: 250 analyses per month, 25 GB storage, up to 5 members.
An analysis is used when photo recognition runs on a capture. Billing and cancellations go through the Stripe Customer Portal after you subscribe in the app.
Try it
The product page is live at stoicsoft.net/purchase-history/. The app itself is on Cloud Run at purchase-history-reraqndqsq-uw.a.run.app — sign in with Google, add it to your home screen from the browser if you want, and add your first photo. Source and issues live on GitHub at BorisBesky/purchased-items-database.
Start on Personal if you are solo. Switch to Household when you want a shared pantry and restaurant memory for the people who actually shop and order with you. Either way, the landing page walks through features, plans, and docs before you jump into the live app.
If you have ever stood in an aisle second-guessing yourself, or wished a restaurant visit came with a searchable memory of what you ordered, Purchase History is built for that moment.