A reorder list for small kitchens. Not an inventory app.
Made for one-restaurant, mom-and-pop kitchens. Check what's low, and Running Low splits it into one order per supplier, ready to text or email. No stock levels, no units, no costs, no monthly fee.
Free to use. Pro is a $14.99 one-time purchase, no subscription. No units or prices to enter.
Check what you're low on. Tap QTY if the count matters.
The opposite of inventory software
Inventory apps are built for chains with a back office. A small kitchen doesn't need to know it has 14.5 lb of rice. It needs to know to order rice, and from whom.
That's the whole setup. Quantity is optional too: “Eggs” means your usual order.
The Tuesday-morning order
Most kitchens already have a system: a clipboard, a whiteboard and a group text. Running Low keeps the parts that work and drops the retyping.
Four lists, four retypes, no record
One count, nothing retyped, dated record
Three screens, that's the app
Cold, Frozen, Dry or Paper, and by supplier if you want. Check what's low. Tap QTY and punch in a number only if the count matters.
Type the name. If it's not on the list, one tap adds it, already set to the shelf and supplier you were filtering by.
Copy it and paste it into the text thread you already have with that rep, or email it if you've saved their address. Items two suppliers carry can move between them with one tap.
Names, not SKUs
What your rep sees
Suppliers get a normal text or email from you. Running Low copies each list ready to paste into the thread you already have with them, or emails it with a printable ticket attached.
Made in a small kitchen
“We built this for our own restaurant. Every inventory app we tried wanted our recipes, our costs and a monthly fee before it would help us order eggs. We just needed to know what's low and who to call. So we made that, and nothing else.”[Your name], owner of [Your restaurant]
Pricing
No subscription, ever. You order a few times a month; you shouldn't pay rent on a list.
One in-app purchase, yours to keep. Restore it anytime on a new phone from the same app store account.
Questions
No. You paste the list into your usual text thread with them, or email it. They get orders the same way they do now.
Theirs orders from them. Running Low counts once and splits the list across all your suppliers, including the produce guy who only takes texts.
It's a list of names with checkboxes. If they can send a text, they can count. No accounts, no logins.
No. The app is free. Pro is a single $14.99 in-app purchase that stays unlocked for good.
With Pro, tap Send list to another phone. Running Low makes a small .lowlist file you share by AirDrop, Messages or email. The other phone opens it and imports for free, merging with what's already there.
Nothing changes. Your list lives on your phone, not on our servers, so the app keeps working with no connection to us.
Yes. Everything works offline. Your list never needs the internet.
Never. An item is a name, an optional storage area and its suppliers. That's the whole form.
Because you can see it. In a small kitchen, keeping stock counts up to date takes longer than the order. You look at the shelf, you know you're low, you check it. Running Low remembers who to order from and when you last did.
Yes. Send your list to their phone once. Then split the walk: one person counts Cold and sends those suppliers, another does Dry and Paper.
No. Running Low is only for knowing what to reorder and from whom. If you need food-cost reports, a full inventory system is the better fit.
Your next order is probably due this week