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Best Ingredient Scanning Apps for iPhone (2026)

9 apps ranked S through F · · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Part of Food Scanning.

Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner is the top-ranked of 9 ingredient scanning apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 101,103 ratings.

  1. 1
    Yuka - Food & Cosmetic ScannerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 101,103 ratings · score 98
  2. 2
    Ivy: Processed Food ScannerS
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 8,683 ratings · score 94
  3. 3
    Trash Panda - Food ScannerS
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,966 ratings · score 91
  4. 4
    Bobby Approved - Food ScannerA
    Free · ★ 4.9 · 164,258 ratings · score 88
  5. 5
    Exposr - Food Product ScannerA
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 5,282 ratings · score 88

What belongs in this list

Check what ingredients are in a packaged food product by scanning it with my phone.

Not here: Barcode scanning that only shows a product name or price alone; A general chatbot that could be asked about ingredients alone; Nutrition calorie counting without ingredient details alone; Halal-only or pet-food-only verdicts alone; A food or ingredient glossary without scanning alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

S
YukaIvyTrash Panda
A
Bobby ApprovedExposrOliveFig
B
EWG's
C
Healthy Food
D
None at D yet
F
None at F yet

Compare every app

  1. 1
    Yuka - Food & Cosmetic ScannerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 101,103 ratings · score 98 · best in class
  2. 2
    Ivy: Processed Food ScannerS
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 8,683 ratings · score 94 · best in class
  3. 3
    Trash Panda - Food ScannerS
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,966 ratings · score 91 · best in class
  4. 4
    Bobby Approved - Food ScannerA
    Free · ★ 4.9 · 164,258 ratings · score 88 · excellent
  5. 5
    Exposr - Food Product ScannerA
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 5,282 ratings · score 88 · excellent
  6. 6
    Olive: AI Health & Weight LossA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 40,198 ratings · score 86 · excellent
  7. 7
    Fig: Food Scanner & RecipesA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 16,598 ratings · score 82 · excellent
  8. 8
    EWG's Healthy LivingB
    Free download · ★ 4.1 · 3,540 ratings · score 77 · good
  9. 9
    Healthy Food Scanner - OnForkC
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,441 ratings · score 63 · situational · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best ingredient scanning app for iPhone?
Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner, S tier, ranked #1 of 9, rated 4.8 by 101,103 people.
Which ingredient scanning apps are free?
9 of 9 are free to download: Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner (S), Ivy: Processed Food Scanner (S), Trash Panda - Food Scanner (S), Bobby Approved - Food Scanner (A) and more. 3 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which ingredient scanning app has the best App Store rating?
Bobby Approved - Food Scanner at 4.9 from 164,258 ratings.
How many ingredient scanning apps reach S or A tier?
7 of 9. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.

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