Halal Food Scanner & Check
Haram or Not? Scan Ingredients
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Other halal scanners guess when the ingredients are unclear. This one tells you it's unsure, and exactly what to check. No ads, no account.
Halal check for any food in seconds. Point your camera at the barcode — or straight at the ingredients list — and know if it's halal, haram or doubtful (mushbooh) before it goes in the basket.
No account. No typing. No menus to learn. The camera is the app.
A halal scanner for Muslims doing the weekly shop or travelling abroad: is it halal or not? See which ingredients, additives and E numbers are halal, haram or mushbooh — and why.
HALAL OR HARAM — AND HONEST WHEN IT'S NOT SURE
Other halal scanners guess. That's how pork gelatin ends up marked halal. This halal checker gives you four honest answers, not two:
HALAL
Every ingredient we could check is permissible.
HARAM
Contains something that isn't. We name the ingredient and explain why — like cochineal (E120), a red colouring made from insects.
UNCERTAIN
An ingredient could be plant or animal and the pack doesn't say. We flag it and tell you what to check next.
NOT CHECKED
The product isn't in our records yet, or the photo wouldn't read cleanly. We say so plainly. A gap is never shown as a pass.
E NUMBERS AND ADDITIVES, EXPLAINED
Gelatin (E441), carmine (E120), E471 emulsifiers, shellac (E904), lard, rennet, whey, alcohol in flavourings — every flagged ingredient comes with what it is, where it can come from and what the pack would need to say.
WHERE THE VERDICT COMES FROM
The barcode scan and the ingredients scan only find the ingredient names. The halal ruling comes from a sourced, auditable reference table of E numbers, additives and common ingredients, cross-referenced against bodies like IFANCA and the European Halal Certification Institute. The ruling is never an AI's guess.
YOUR HALAL STANDARD
Choose how strict the app is about flavourings: follow the major halal authorities (tiny alcohol traces from making flavourings are fine, as ruled by the OIC Fiqh Academy, MUI and Malaysia's fatwa council) or Strict (any flavouring stays uncertain until the maker confirms).
ASK THE MANUFACTURER
When only the maker can answer, tap once and we write to them for you — and tell you when they reply.
WHAT YOU CAN SCAN
Packaged food, drinks, sweets, snacks and groceries. No barcode, or an import with a foreign one? Photograph the ingredients and the app reads them. When one shopper photographs the ingredients, the next one gets the answer straight away.
TRAVELLING?
Shopping in Japan, Korea or anywhere abroad? The ingredients scan reads the list even when it's in Japanese.
SIMPLE AND PRIVATE
• No ads
• No login or account
• Your scan history stays on your device
• In English, Arabic, French, German, Malay and Indonesian
Spotted a mistake? Report it in one tap and we'll fix it for everyone.
Best-effort guidance from sourced references — not a religious ruling or certification. When in doubt, check the packaging or ask someone knowledgeable.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://halalfoodscanner.app/privacy
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The developer, Ahmed Ashour, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
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- User Content
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Information
- Seller
- Ahmed Ashour
- Size
- 60 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, Arabic, French, German, Indonesian, Malay
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Supporter +1 $23.99
- Supporter $11.99
- Supporter +1 $3.99
- Supporter +2 $5.99
- Supporter +2 $35.99
- Supporter $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ahmed Ashour