Open Food Facts - Product Scan 4+
Get the Nutri-Score & EcoScore
Open Food Facts
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
News: We invented the collaborative scanning app in 2012. As we turn 10, we’re reinventing it from the ground up!
This app lets you find food that's good for you and good for the planet by scanning their barcodes.
You will get personalised health & eco-impact info for 3,5M foods.
Set your food preferences without ruining your privacy
A scan that truly matches who you are
Green: the product matches your criteria
Red: there is a problem
Gray: Help us answer you by photographing the products
Compare in a few seconds those 3 different tomato sauces left on the shelf.
Get a tailored comparison of any food category
Food criteria you can pick
Environment
Health
Additives & Ultra processed foods
Salt
Allergens
Nutri-Score
Eco-Score
Scan, find & compare more than 3,5 million food products
Choose products that are good for you
- The Nutri-Score grade, from A to E : Nutritional quality
- The NOVA group, from 1 to 4 : Avoid ultra-processed foods (Group 4)
Choose products that are good the planet
- Food causes over 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions
- The Eco-Score grade, from A to E : a synthesis of 16 environmental impacts
Contribute to Food Transparency
- Open Food Facts is made by everyone, for everyone!
- In short, we're "the Wikipedia of food", as the press nicknamed the project. Open Food Facts has also enabled the creation of over 150+ apps like Date Limite, Yuka or FoodVisor.
- Use it to make better food choices
- The app is also collaborative. If the product is missing, contribute pictures and data to get the Nutri-Score, food processing level (NOVA) and Eco-Score.
- Make a difference today by photographing a product from your kitchen.
- Open Food Facts is a non-profit project made by thousands of volunteers from around the world. Why don't you join us ?
Decipher food labels
We decipher products labels for you. You'll find:
- Nutrition: The Nutriscore (nutritional score), nutrients, fat, transfat, carbohydrates, sugars, fiber, protein, salt & sodium.
- Environment: The Ecoscore (including carbon footprint (CO2 emissions), packaging (as well as recycling instructions), environmental labels (organic, quality etc.), and origins of ingredients)
- Other: brands, allergens, labels (bio, gluten free, vegan, vegetarian, halal, kosher...), traceability information (packaging codes, origins, food factories)
- On wines and beers, you'll find the alcohol content.
- We collect prices to document shrinkflation, inflation and more
Our grades are science-based, and Open Food Facts is helping science!
- We don't make up things. We rely on peer-reviewed science.
- The Nutri-Score has been created by the independent French team led by Professor Hercberg.
- The NOVA groups on food processing have been designed by the international team of Professor Monteiro.
- The additives synthesis is based on reviews by EFSA on exposure levels on food additives.
- The Eco-Score is based on ground breaking data by ADEME, the French environmental agency, adapted for the world.
- The Open Food Facts community is collaborating with research teams across the planet for research that benefits all.
Your food, your data. Privacy-friendly app.
- You can use the app anonymously
- Your food data is yours, and is never sent online
Set up allergen alerts on products
- Do you have a Milk, Gluten, Eggs, Soybeans, Nuts, Fish, Celery, Mustard, Sulphites, Peanuts, Sesame seeds, Crustaceans, Molluscs or Lupin allergy ?
- Speed up your shopping with an initial screening with Open Food Facts.
- Be careful that the info and the detection may not be 100% accurate. Always double check by yourself, with the packaging.
More
Web version: https://world.openfoodfacts.org
Questions, feedback : mobile@openfoodfacts.org
Works with cosmetics, pet food and more
Lets you collect prices
What’s New
Version 4.19.0
We’ve been busy making Open Food Facts even better! This update brings exciting new features and improvements to help you discover and contribute to food knowledge:
- Enhanced Product Editing: Enjoy a smoother experience with improved layouts, multi-lingual support for product names, better and faster nutrition input, and helpful text for all fields. Plus, we’ve added Robotoff AI to help with nutrition extraction!
- Prices - More Ways to Contribute: Easily add prices with a new shortcut and see previously added prices when adding new ones. We now use a more precise location search for relevant results. Explore products with a “top price products” page.
- Settings - New “data quality” section in the contribute section. Stay Connected: Find us on Mastodon, TikTok, and BlueSky!
- Open Products Facts serial numbers: A new “eraser” feature lets you remove unwanted serial numbers on your photos for Open Products Facts.
- User List Management: You can now export (everyone) and import (DEV mode) your product lists.
- Refreshed Interface: We’ve converted some warnings to a more user-friendly format and improved the layout in several areas.
- Bug Fixes: We’ve squashed several bugs to improve performance and stability, including issues with translations, image loading, and more.
- New “Contribute to your country” section, and many new translations (App side, and client side, with a shoutout to :flag-gr: ) and a “Product unknown” mode on products without any photos (don’t worry, it’s quick)
Ratings and Reviews
See AllWonderful but could easily be 5
I’m so impressed by the developers who created an open source food database that’s free. It has amazing data in it. However, it needs some polishing. Ceating an account is unnecessarily glitchy. You can’t get an ampersand for the email address because it gives a phone keyboard for the account ID. I found a workaround by using the microphone feature of your phone. Then it gave me a regular keyboard for some reason. Small things like that should be easy to fix. Then I would not hesitate to change my rating from 4 to 5. I guess it might be difficult to test the fix since one only registers once.
Amazing resource, Easy to use app
After reading the book “Ultra Processed People” by Chris van Tulleken I was on a hunt to identify where to find info on what’s Nova 4 or not, and this app made it way easier than I thought would be available. It’s quick to scan and tell you what matches your mandatory categories and even when the product is not in the database, it’s quick to take a pic and have the app transcribe it and categorize it for you!
The nutritional information is a bit more manual to enter, so if you’re using the app for that purpose it wouldn’t be as nice of a solution, and some improvements could be made, but for a crowdsourced resource, it’s exceptional.
The main downside is I look like a bit of a crazy person scanning everything at the store!
Better than Yuka & Fig
OpenFoodFacts is free and community built. Fig makes you pay to scan food products, which as someone who has food allergies I think is ludicrous. OpenFoodFacts has worldwide information and details on more products than Yuka. My only complaint is that the app version for OpenFoodFacts is a bit slow, so I prefer the website version. This app seems really promising and I'm excited to help add to the food database.
App Privacy
The developer, Open Food Facts, 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Open Food Facts
- Size
- 80.2 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afar, Afrikaans, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Catalan, Chechen, Chuvash, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Ndebele, South, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Russian, Sangro, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Serbian, Sesotho, Setswana, Shona, Sichuan Yi, Simplified Chinese, Sindhi, Singhalese, Siswati, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2012-2025 Open Food Facts
- Price
- Free