Alternatives to Yuka
A mobile app that scans food and cosmetic products and rates their health impact. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Yuka
A mobile app that scans food and cosmetic products and rates their health impact.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Yuka.
Open Food Facts
A collaborative open database of food products with a barcode scanner app for ingredients and nutrition.
Open Food Facts is free, open source and non-profit, scoring food with Nutri-Score, NOVA and Green-Score, but its crowdsourced data can be incomplete and it does not rate cosmetics.
Fooducate
A diet tracking app that scans packaged foods and grades them by nutritional quality.
Fooducate grades packaged foods by ingredient quality with a barcode scanner and adds diet tracking and a web version, but it does not scan cosmetics.
ZOE
A gut-health nutrition app that scans foods and gives personalised eating advice.
ZOE scans foods for gut-health insights backed by its own study, but it is a paid membership with prices not shown upfront and does not cover cosmetics.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
MyFitnessPal
A calorie and macro tracking app with a large food database, meal photo scanning and voice logging.
MyNetDiary
A calorie counter with a staff-verified food database, barcode scanning and up to 108 nutrients per food.
Lose It!
A calorie counter and weight loss tracker with barcode scanning and photo food logging.
Cronometer
A nutrition tracker that logs food, exercise and biometrics down to individual vitamins and minerals.
Foodvisor
A nutrition app that logs meals from photos and offers personalised diet plans.
Yazio
A calorie counter and intermittent fasting tracker with food logging, recipes and fitness tracker sync.
