When getting the smaller flavoring bottles (like 1oz or less) that would have the dropper, there may not be as much of a problem - since it's likely you might use it up pretty quickly. But when getting the larger sizes like 4oz or 16oz, they don't come with droppers on them (any that I know of), and the intention is for big saving on those larger sizes - and also much more likely that they may not be used as quickly. According to Linda(IIRC?) at The Flavor Apprentice, she recommends to move them out of the plastic bottles for longer-term storage. So that's what I try to do. Even with the price of the glass bottles, the savings more than make up for getting the larger sizes - especially when considering that many times the price difference between 1oz and 4oz tend to be as little as $1/$2 more for quadruple the amount. And even MORE savings when going to the 16 ouncer's.
And I'm a reeEAAALLY cheap b-tard, so I just don't at all have it in me to bypass those kind of price differentials for ultimate savings.
Even most of my 'testers' tend to be 4oz sizes.. Sure, there are some I wish I avoided, but the ones I'm glad I got in 4oz FAR outweigh the bad. And I'm finding that even the 'bad' can be used to add good notes/complexity to various recipes. Although for the 'bad' ones, I usually just end up putting them back into the plastic 4oz bottles - and saving the amber-glass for other 'good' ones.
(But yes, for me it's VERY much a hobby. I may still not have any winning recipes yet, but it can be fun trying! Of course I also go through periods where I just want to use a 'backup' recipe type vape when I just don't feel like farting around.)
....So I don't know first hand at how the plastic can affect the flavorings, but I have many 4oz flavorings in amber glass that are over 5 years old by now, and are to-me completely unchanged. So for longer term term storage, I'd really recommend it.
Of course one downside to getting the bigger sizes is that there's no dropper, so some other way is needed to get it out of the bottles, even if mixing by weight.. And that's where my slowly built-up collection of glass syringes and 1.5" 18ga SS dispensing tips come into play - for least waste. (Glass and SS because some flavorings eat through or bloat plastic and rubber. Plus invariably, the plastic syringes either start binding up on me or become 'too loose' - and I don't want to get sucked into a plastic syringe habit, for life.
)The good news is that the glass and SS are so ridiculously easy to clean... They don't hold onto flavors at all, unlike plastic.
There is one other one I know of that tracks inventory, but isn't free (it has a required 'donation', but is advertised as "Freeware"). Wayne from DiyOrDie seemed to want to gravitate towards it. It was one called "Juice Grinder", but I have no idea if it would do what you're wanting to do. Just do a Google search on that.
In the mean time, I'll also try thinking if there's a way to bend this Juice Calculator to do what I think you're wanting it to do, similar to how I bend it to use pre-mixed nic bases.
The hopeful news here is that I think Hotrod has gone on hiatus before and returned. I could be remembering it wrong, but I think he might have just been coming back from a hiatus when I first discovered this calculator. He had some surgery where he had to stop development, and based on prior things he said, I kind of figured he might go on a hiatus after that. Us users can be rather 'pesky' about adding features (including myself
) - and he always quickly responded to them, so I think he understandably gets burnt out.
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). I'm using that feature all the time when doing "exploratory's". Of course it can also be used to 'top off' a current mix as well - and you could benefit from seed-steeping that way.
