Fridge to List: Snap Your Fridge, Get a Grocery List (Gemma 3 + Ollama, All Local)
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built Fridge to List turns photos of your fridge into a grocery list, so you don't have to stand there with the door open writing things down. You upload one to four photos (shelves, door, pantry). A local vision model looks at them and reports only what it can actually see, with a confidence level…
This submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge focuses on a tool called "Fridge to List" that turns photos of your fridge into a grocery list. You can upload one to four photos (shelves, door, pantry) using the app, which then generates a list of items it can see with confidence levels. Any items it can't clearly identify are placed in a "could not tell" list.
The user's usual staples are compared to the items seen in the photos to create an editable checklist that can be copied or downloaded as a text file. The app is built using Gemma 3, an open-weight vision model served by Ollama on a MacBook Air, and is designed to be privacy-focused, cost-effective, offline, and customizable. While the model's limited capacity may lead to incomplete lists, the open-source nature allows for further improvements and customization.
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