4M
Food items scored
Most barcodes already covered.
Including 2M+ cosmetics and personal-care products. Submit a missing one, the team adds it within days.
Yuka scans the barcode on food and cosmetics, then gives you an honest 0–100 verdict — based on additives, nutrition and ingredients. No ads, no brand payments, no agenda. Just the score, and a better option if you need one.
Yuka doesn't lecture, doesn't auto-log, doesn't moralise. It reads the barcode, checks the database, and shows you a number. You decide what to do with it.
Open the camera in Yuka, hover over the barcode on any food or cosmetic product. Recognition takes about a second. Works offline if you've subscribed to Premium.
Excellent (green) · Good (light green) · Mediocre (orange) · Poor (red). Tap the breakdown to see exactly which ingredients pulled the score down — and by how much.
When the verdict is poor, Yuka suggests up to three healthier options in the same category. Independent recommendations, no kickbacks. Cheaper picks are flagged. Try it →
"Healthy-looking" packaging is doing real work. Yuka is what cuts through it — at the moment you're holding the box.
If you recognise yourself in one of these, Yuka pays for itself in three trips to the grocery store. If none feels right, we'll tell you which app probably does fit.
Schoolyard snacks, breakfast cereal, kids' shampoo — Yuka flags the additives that pediatric research is most cautious about.
Set personal filters for gluten, lactose, nuts, palm oil. The verdict adjusts to your body, not the average shopper.
The 2M+ cosmetic database tells you the actual risk score per ingredient — without buzzwords, without brand spin.
Yuka doesn't ask you to log anything. Scan when you're curious, walk away when you're not. No streak guilt.
Six small things that add up to one fast feedback loop in the aisle.
Every product is reduced to one number you can read at arm's length, in supermarket lighting, while your toddler grabs the trolley. Scan one yourself →
Including 2M+ cosmetics and personal-care products. Submit a missing one, the team adds it within days.
When a verdict is poor, Yuka surfaces up to three cleaner alternatives — flagged when they're also cheaper, in the same category.
Gluten, lactose, nuts, palm oil, glyphosate residues, endocrine disruptors. Premium filters re-rank every score around you.
Funded by Premium subscriptions and a small catalogue of books and calendars. Methodology is published on yuka.io.
Yuka servers only see anonymised product lookups — so the database can grow. Your shopping list isn't a marketing asset.
Where Yuka wins, where it loses, and where another tool is the right answer. Refreshed when an app meaningfully changes — not on a schedule.
Including a 4-star review because pretending every customer is delighted insults the customer who isn't.
"I scanned my kids' breakfast cereal. The verdict was red. I scanned the box next to it on the same shelf — green. Same price. That was it for me, I've been using it every grocery trip since."
"The cosmetics side genuinely surprised me. A moisturiser I'd been using for three years scored poor — two flagged ingredients. The cleaner alternative they suggested was actually cheaper and on the same shelf."
"It marked my parmesan as poor because of saturated fat — but it's parmesan, that's the whole point. And my favourite Greek yogurt brand isn't in the US database yet. I love the concept, but it's not the verdict-for-everything I hoped for."
Paris, 2017. A reaction to the food industry's worst habit: hiding behind the small print.
The origin story is unfashionably specific. Benoît Martin was reading the ingredients on a box of cereal he'd bought for his kids and realised he had no idea what most of the words meant. He called his sister Julie Chapon and his brother-in-law François Martin. They built the first version of Yuka over a weekend hackathon in 2016.
It launched publicly in 2017. The team made one early decision that has held: brands cannot pay for a higher score, ever, under any structure. Funding comes from Premium subscriptions ($10–$20/year, pay-what-you-want) and a small catalogue of books and a printed calendar. There are no ads in the app. There never have been.
Today the database covers about 4 million food items and 2 million cosmetics, used by roughly 80 million people in 12 countries. The methodology — Nutri-Score (60%), additives (30%), organic (10%) for food, and ingredient risk classification for cosmetics — is published on yuka.io and updated openly when the underlying research shifts.
The trade-off works because the alternative — believing the packaging — is worse. Yuka is what cuts through marketing language at the speed of grocery shopping. It's not a nutritionist. It's a translator for the back of the box. Try the translator →
Free to scan, no account required for first use. Independent for nine years and counting. The next time you're holding a box and wondering what's actually in it — you'll know in under three seconds.
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