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Vegan Inspector vs Open Food Facts: catalog facts
Vegan Inspector	Open Food Facts
Best for: Vegan and vegetarian shoppers checking products in a store	Best for: Shoppers who want to check ingredients and nutrition scores before buying food
Free Free and open source under the GPL 3.0.	Free Free to use and funded by donations.
Android	Android, iOS, Web
Fast barcode scanning with a single result screen Minimal interface with no extra features All 3 strengths for Vegan Inspector Fast barcode scanning with a single result screen Minimal interface with no extra features Open source	Open data covering millions of products worldwide Barcode scanning with Nutri-Score, NOVA and Green-Score All 4 strengths for Open Food Facts Open data covering millions of products worldwide Barcode scanning with Nutri-Score, NOVA and Green-Score Non-profit and independent of the food industry Available on F-Droid as well as the main app stores
Results depend on product data being available for the barcode Android only	Product data is crowdsourced and can be incomplete Coverage varies by country
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-only	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Vegan Inspector vegan-inspector.app f-droid.org/packages/app.vegan_inspector Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Open Food Facts world.openfoodfacts.org Catalog checked September 23, 2026

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