Read the small print on any food package.
Point your camera at an ingredients list. Food Scanner reads it, works out what each ingredient is even when the label is in a language you don't speak, and explains it in plain words.
How it works
- Photograph the labelThe ingredients panel, the additives, the nutrition table — whichever part you want to understand.
- The text is read on your phoneRecognition runs on the device. No photo is uploaded, and it works with no signal at all.
- Ingredients are matched across languagesSucralose, 수크랄로스, スクラロース, Sucralosa and E955 are one ingredient. When a name can't be matched with confidence, the app says so instead of guessing.
- You get plain language, with sourcesWhat an ingredient is, why it's in the food, and what official bodies have published about it — with the source named and the date it was reviewed.
What it will not do
Food Scanner does not score your food or tell you whether something is good or bad for you. Labels rarely state how much of an additive a product contains, so a confident verdict would be a guess dressed up as advice.
What it does instead is show you what's actually written on the package, what is known about it, who published that, and — just as importantly — where the evidence runs out.
Languages
The interface is available in Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Right-to-left layouts are supported.
Price
Free. The app is supported by advertising and has no subscription, no account and no login.