Open Food Facts

Requires an account. Every item i scanned requires that i add missing label information. Then it wants a photo of the item & you must give access to all your photos, and other data. i dont have for the xtra work app requires, and it doesn't need my personal data. Uninstalled after 5 common scanned items. If you have time, & dont care about your data, it should be helpful to have. We do all the work for (them) the app.

It has potential. The whole app is confusing for me though. They want me to add info - which I have no problem doing - but WHAT to add is unclear. I'm not dumb, the directions are ambiguous and they don't give good examples of what they want. For EXAMPLE they ask me to categorize an item with no guidelines on how to formulate the category name. I'm just supposed to search for the category I think it should be in! I need to spend LESS time buying groceries, not more...

A helpful tool for helping me figure out which foods are highly processed vs which are better choices for overall health. While that may be obvious for some foods, it's not so obvious for others. Developers: It would be really awesome to have an app that lets me track what I eat based on NOVA food group category! Or at minimum includes that score in apps like Fitbit, etc.!!

Interesting concept, and lots of useful information. The user interface is a little confusing initially, and when you scan a product, you have to find that product in your scan history to get more details about it (or I am missing something in the confusing and clunky interface). But the clear grading of products makes it easy to complete a grocery shopping trip without having to read a bunch of labels if you are buying products you have not bought before.

Inputting data is tedious and it often fails to update. So you have to enter data 3 or 4 time before it takes. There is no way to view nutrition info by serving. It always defaults to nutrion per 100g, but I have never seen anything measured by 100g in my life. There's a drop down to change to display per serving, but it doesn't do anything. You have to edit nutrition info to see per serving data. As all info is shown in non-existent 100g, using the app is very uninformative and tedious.

Kinda disappointed with the app. Everything I scan it says it doesn't have it in the data base, which makes no sense because these are popular products where I live. I thought it was supposed to look the products up by itself too, but it just keeps asking me for the info and pictures of the products instead. I'm just going to uninstall this because it clearly doesn't work how I was told it would.

The editing interface is fairly good (and the OCR helpful), but the app and website updates pages and uploads photos very slowly. I just lost a newly added item bc after i filled out and saved everything, the 3 images were still uploading "in the background" for 5+ mins, so I navigated away from that page, then when i tried to find the new item on my edit list or scan the barcode again, it said the item did not exist. Needless to say, I won't be wasting more of my time trying to add new items...

Yuka and WISEcode are a better choice in my opinion. This app takes a while to load information on a product if any is available. Sometimes products have missing information so there's no way to determine its value. This app does have the potential to bloom. Keep up the good work.

Great idea but some aspects of the user interface are poor. Swiping left to go back just gives me a blank dead screen. Selection of "more precise" category needs hints and advice.

I've always considered what I ate healthy and was certain I was buying good food. But after scanning most of the food I've got, it turns out I truely didn't know what healthy is. Thanks to this app and how much content, accessibility, and information is free to us. I can now begin eating healthier and picking better options for me and my family without worrying about harmful ingredients. Looks like I've got a new years resolution for 2026! 🤟🏻🖤

- It’d be great if there was an option to highlight shrinkflation on products. Example: 1̶3̶3̶g̶ → 110.4g. - I don’t know why, but when it gives me brand name recommendations based off the pictures, they usually don’t get saved when I add them.

Cannot Manage Account or report problematic items via the app, always diverts to external browser where you have to sign in again & start over. No walk through on ideal process of adding an item to database. Cannot flag an irrelevant, discontinued item or item with lack of details to be deleted.

Great app for telling if a food is ultra-processed. It helps me a lot with my diet :)

The list feature is great for grocery shopping, however it would be wonderful if we could annotate each product privately, for the sole purpose of the list (whatever we use it for). It could be a small text field underneath each list item, to be filled freely with text such as "Take quantity of 4, if not available take other brand, but not the store-brand".

I live in Australia. Maybe this app works elsewhere but certainly not here. Too many products come back blank and adding details while looking for the best choice in the supermarket is very clumsy. Health conscious people tend to already gravitate towards smaller brands and niche products so the real work of getting those products in your database is key to success. Sadly that work is not done yet and there is little incentive for users to do it for you for free.

great app, on a health kick and yoj simply scan and get all the info on products.

Great app! Very useful thus far, very well-done 😇.

Just downloaded this and find it very interesting. We hope to use it to alter our eating habits for the better, although you begin to get a 'feel' for products the more you learn about the food processing process in general. We definitely will be eating healthier in the future with the help of this App. Some food are not recognised, for instance, supermarket own products or new branded items, so it takes time but most big brand or recognised products were found - keep up the enlightenment!

Great app but there are a lot of products it doesn't recognise.

Great idea, bad redesign. This app and the associated website are the best thing to know what you have in the plate in front of you. But the change of interface don't help it. It's difficult to navigate, you can't find the producer details as before, photo "enhancement" is buggy, it hogs on your camera as soon as it's opened (you must kill it to regain control)...