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What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Yuka 2/5 · US Buyer beware. I don’t trust it.: I loved it at first. Especially since it gave “good” alternatives. However. I noticed something. The same exact product would be listed more than once. One would say ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ and the next would like say ‘bad’ or ‘poor’. The same exact product. No I don’t trust anything the app says. And I paid for the year last month so I could search. Didn’t notice th
2. [R7] Yuka 1/5 · US Bad advice: Literally gave a food a 0 when the serving size literally had much lower than daily required values of fats, minerals, and sodium. Yet it gives mainstream chips 50+ for many variants when those are the worst of the worst. This app has no context for anything else you’re eating. Most things it says are bad are actually needed in moderation. Update: they responded with “we measure every
3. [R10] Yuka 2/5 · US Alright: Some of this is incorrect. It put ghee in 40s and beef hotdogs in 0. I’m no simpleton. That don’t match up
4. [R13] Yuka 1/5 · US Horrible: I scanned a few products, that it rated low… but it recommended worse products to me. It’s important to know which additives are good and bad, and this app clearly doesn’t know. 100% wouldn’t recommend
5. [R3] Yuka 3/5 · US Colombia!!: I sent a request to the developer to help with the colombian database but no reply back yet :(
6. [R6] Yuka 3/5 · US It’s okay: Only can scan with qr code and 80 percent of the items You want to see are healthy or not aren’t registered in the app you can’t search anything up unless you have premium which you need to pay for and all ingredients with high protein that you want to see if healthy or no are not scanned unless they’re 19 grams of protein or less
7. [R8] Yuka 4/5 · US No longer rating some items: I love using this app but noticed it no longer rate detergents of any type- what happened??
8. [R12] Yuka 3/5 · US Helpful but hard to contribute: It’s easy to find items and see the score. Good for seeing if a product has any issues. I get a lot of products with simple ingredients that are not registered. I was trying to add vanman’s beef tallow soap that has only four ingredients. I had to take a picture of the ingredients and the app could not validate. Very frustrating since there wasn’t another way to a
9. [R4] Yuka 1/5 · US Frustrating App: This app makes you sign in every time you open it. Half the time after you sign it makes you sign in again. Too frustrating.
10. [R14] Yuka 4/5 · US Amazing app but…: The app is amazing. I use it all the time except for when It won’t work. I mean like the app won’t load. Can’t be downloaded or used on WiFi or cell. So Yuka. You need to fix something. This has gone on since I started using it over a year ago. Would be a 5 star review if it worked more often
11. [R16] Yuka 1/5 · US Mandatory refer to unlock the app: Why do I need to refer the app to a friend in order to unlock 99% of the app. Waste of time.
12. [R9] Yuka 3/5 · US Amazing! But some things to know…: Yuka is great! I love how you can scan an item to see the good or the bad about it, I like how you can see the better option for foodsor beauty products, but it could be better with a meal planner, or a tracker on what you have been eating and what you should eat off a menu or what’s the best option is. Overall, I give this app a 6.5/10!
13. [R15] Yuka 3/5 · GB Filter for cruelty free/vegan: Fantastic app, it really does help us make better choices about what we eat or use on skin. I do think a way to improve the cosmetics side would be for it to have a filter for vegan/cruelty free products or even just confirm if a product is cruelty-free/vegan. It’s great at showing alternatives however you cannot see which brands test on animals or if it’s a vegan/cr
14. [R20] Yuka 5/5 · US This is app is super: This app is amazing I would definitely recommend this app. It has definitely helped others and it’s not being sold out to some companies. If I had to add one cool feature. It would be able to pick your favorited items and it picks a balance food plan for you. Maybe a member feature but I really hope yuka can add this. Anyways super good app recommend.
15. [R36] Yuka 3/5 · GB Almost very good: This could be excellent but when scanning Huel, for instance, it gives you the stats per 100g, why not the whole bottle as it’s a meal replacement that would make sense…
16. [R22] Yuka 1/5 · US Too many errors: I wanted to like this, but there are so many errors due to the open source database. Users can submit information on products, but it doesn't seem like there is much (if any) oversight to avoid duplicate entries or mistakes. I would even go so far as to speculate companies are submitting their own products and leaving out any "bad" ingredients to boost their rating. I have ordered
17. [R24] Yuka 3/5 · GB False info: I think it’s dangerous to provide a negative rating or review to a product that is high in calories or saturated fats. Some foods that are high in these are very good for you eg nut butter, organic butter, etc. also, it didn’t pick up the palm oil in 2 nut butters I reviewed. Where’s the dangerous rating there?
18. [R27] Yuka 3/5 · GB Strange suggestion: Generally a good app but I wish the scans could say how ultra processed the food is. Also this morning my son scanned some organic fair trade Café Intención coffee beans and they got rated 40/100 whilst the app then recommended Nescafé Azera Americano ?!? Are you sure you are not sponsored / fully independent. A bit odd if you ask me.
19. [R28] Yuka 1/5 · US No user privacy controls: When you upload a barcode, they force their recommendations on your page. If you want to remove a recommendation? You have to delete your entire scan. Had to delete all of my scans so it didn't keep pushing the same garbage.
20. [R52] Bobby Approved 5/5 · US Life Changer!: We’ve been looking to eat cleaner and healthier and this is definitely a truth telling app! Not only flags products that are not clean, but provides the rationale as to why.
21. [R53] Bobby Approved 3/5 · US Curious: Miss a lot on the additives and their toxins to us.
22. [R55] Bobby Approved 5/5 · US My fav go to app: Living healthy thanks to this app.
23. [R56] Bobby Approved 1/5 · US Fear mongering social media influencer without any nutrition credentials: This guy has no education, training, or certifications in nutrition or food science. Anti seed oil claims without evidence aren’t helping anyone eat healthier. No thanks. Deleting app and will use something evidence-based.
24. [R65] Think Dirty 1/5 · US User-driven database, but you pay: Was free, now they make you pay to use/search items. Why contribute when you have to pay? Makes no sense to have to pay for access to a database whose majority of items’ ratings are user-driven. Will be using & contributing to EWG from now on. Another “for-the-users,” “by-the-users” app bites the dust for shareholders.
25. [R66] Think Dirty 5/5 · US Love it: Very helpful when making product decisions
26. [R67] Think Dirty 3/5 · US Bugs need to be fixed: Most of the products I scanned either didn’t show up or were the wrong thing. I think this is probably a new app and a lot needs to be done. But thank you for thinking about the consumers.
27. [R68] Think Dirty 1/5 · US $$$: Money is all you want. You say you can search for free but that is not the truth, keyword search is only if you pay. Don’t say it’s free when it doesn’t function without paying.
28. [R79] AI Calorie Tracker by Yazio 1/5 · US Garbage: Your app is so annoying, buy a subscription, BUY, look at the tips, constant pop-ups! I will never download this crap again. · translated
29. [R80] AI Calorie Tracker by Yazio 5/5 · US I love it so much: There are many pros and also cons, but above all I love it so much and definitely recommend!!
30. [R81] AI Calorie Tracker by Yazio 3/5 · US RPP propaganda, unsolicited and terrible advice, lots of unnecessary ads that waste time. · translated
31. [R82] AI Calorie Tracker by Yazio 2/5 · US The game is bad: Taking pictures of food for money, most products are not on the menu. · translated
32. [R93] Olive 1/5 · US Money grabber: They don’t care about your health only money Yuka is way better free at least and gives you information not in exchange for your money/ credit card
33. [R94] Olive 5/5 · US Going Green with Olive: Best healthy eating app I’ve used thus far. Others have had limited information or limited on what items could be scanned. That’s not the case with Olive!
34. [R95] Olive 3/5 · US Over it.: Just incase anyone wants to know don’t ever forget you did a free trial and then end up spending 30 dollars because Apple likes to take money out of wallet late at night so you can’t do anything. And no you cannot get a refund I’ve tried 2 times. I don’t understand it. So if you have adhd like myself. Don’t start the free trial unless you wanna spend that much to i don’t even know what i
35. [R96] Olive 1/5 · US Slow and Buggy: Feels that I got scammed. After I did a free trial, they charge me a full year of subscription even though I was just one day late and cancelled immediately. After I paid, the app became super slow and took almost one day to open the app to scan. I don’t recommend it at all. Try something else.
36. [R107] OnSkin 1/5 · US horrible app: doesn’t work,bad quality and shows up wrong items when scanned i would recommend yuka instead of this
37. [R108] OnSkin 5/5 · US ꈍ◡ꈍ: Nice
38. [R109] OnSkin 3/5 · US On skin app: It’s needs to in prove on the free trial if it’s not free don’t say it’s a free trial please that annoying
39. [R110] OnSkin 1/5 · US Disappointed: Very annoyed with the scanner. I can no longer scan the barcode of a product.
40. [R19] Yuka 1/5 · US Crashes when I try to share the app with a friend: How else am I going to unlock features in the app?
41. [R26] Yuka 5/5 · US What a great TOOL: The YUKA App … I started with the free version but after using it so much I went for the paid subscription. It has changed how I shop for my food and later…cosmetic type items like sunscreens! The big reason for me to do a paid subscription is that I can manually search for the ratings of a particular product by hand vs needing to scan a bar code. I find if an item I am trying
42. [R17] Yuka 5/5 · US What a great tool!: I read the ingredients on the boxes, but never really know how well an item scores until I scan it on Yuca. Thank you guys for making this available…
43. [R11] Yuka 5/5 · US I love Yuka: Mi hija me paso ésta aplicación y ha sido lo mejor que me puede haber pasado, puedes chequear tus productos y saber que realmente estás pagando por lo que contiene el producto y no por una marca, se los recomiendo a todos Uds . I love YUKA