The freeze-drying advisor, not another tracker

The machine says done. Your strawberries don’t agree.

PreserveAdvisor walks you through the checks a freeze dryer’s own beep can’t do for you — a crack test on the thickest piece, an interior cold-spot check, a reweigh until the weight actually holds — so you know a batch is done because you checked it, not because a timer ran out.

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Plan. Check. Log.

PreserveAdvisor isn’t a countdown timer — it’s the loop around a batch, from before it goes on the trays to after it’s sealed on the shelf.

Before the trays load

Plan

Pick the food, and PreserveAdvisor gives you a tray-time estimate for that specific load, plus the oxygen-absorber size to seal it once it’s dry — sourced from tested freeze-drying references, never guessed.

Per-food tray-time estimates, not one generic cycle for everything
Oxygen-absorber sizing by jar or bag volume
A confidence tier on every number — and a flat "we don't know" when the data doesn't support a guess

Mid-cycle, or after the beep

Check

The machine’s own "done" signal is a timer, not a moisture reading — it can’t actually tell you a batch is dry. Check walks you through the signals that can: a crack/snap test on the thickest piece from more than one tray, an interior cold-spot check, and a reweigh-until-stable to confirm the weight has actually plateaued.

Crack/snap, cold-spot, and weight-plateau checks, in the order that catches a false "done"
Add a photo for a read on top of your own checks
Never calls a load finished on the machine’s cycle-complete alone

After it’s packaged

Log

Log the finished batch and, if something went wrong, PreserveAdvisor helps you find out why — under-drying, a packaging delay that let moisture back in, an oxygen-absorber problem, or a seal that didn’t hold — instead of leaving you to guess at the next one.

Failure-cause diagnosis: drying, packaging delay, absorber, or seal
Add a photo of the finished batch
What you'd do differently carries forward to your next batch of the same food

A shelf you can actually trust

Once a batch is packaged, PreserveAdvisor keeps track of what’s actually on the shelf — not a vague expiration guess, an honest record of what you put up and how.

Every jar and bag you log stays visible: what’s in it, when it was packaged, and what to use next — so nothing gets pushed to the back and forgotten past the point it’s good.

Use-by dates come from the same sourced references as everything else in the app. PreserveAdvisor won’t print a shelf-life number it can’t back up.

What was put up, in what packaging
Opened or still sealed, tracked per item
Honest use-by dates, sourced — not invented
See what to use next at a glance

Seven categories, real cycle data behind every one

Fruit to prepared meals — each food’s tray time and prep notes come from tested references, not one setting stretched to cover everything.

Fruit

Berries to stone fruit

Strawberries · Blueberries · Mango · Pineapple · Apples · Peaches & more

Vegetable

Garden to root cellar

Tomatoes · Peppers · Broccoli · Corn · Peas · Potatoes & more

Meat & seafood

Cooked, sliced & cubed

Beef · Ground beef · Chicken · Turkey · Ham · Shrimp · Steak

Dairy & egg

The trickier loads

Milk · Shredded cheese · Scrambled eggs · Sour cream · Yogurt drops · Ice cream

Liquid

Juices & purees

Orange juice and other pourable loads

Prepared meal

Full dishes, one tray

Lasagna · Soup · Casserole · Rice dishes

Candy

The one everyone tries first

Real cycle data for it too, not just fruit and jerky

Pricing

Every account starts with a shared free pool across Plan, Check, and Log. A subscription removes the limit.

Free

A shared free-use pool across Plan, Check, and Log
Full pantry tracking, synced to your account
Full tray-time and oxygen-absorber tables, every category

Pro

$39.99/year

or $4.99/month

Unlimited Plan, Check, and Log
Photo reads on Check and Log
Your full batch history and pantry, always on hand