Yuka

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. [R33] 5/5 · US best app for grading food and beauty products!: This app has changed my health journey! so helpful in learning what’s good and what has harmful additives. i was truly shocked how bad packaged food really is.
2. [R36] 5/5 · US Yuka App: Awesome app for the health conscious. Really enjoy how it gives details on harmful additives.
3. [R16] 5/5 · US I love Yuka: This is really good that we can see what’s in the thing and stuff they know what’s better
4. [R17] 5/5 · US Awesome: The title alone is enough but if you need more then just get the app. Changed so much on our grocery shopping, buying better products and finding out how bad some items really are. I mean I get marketing but blatant lying and misdirection, geez. Use the app every time we shop and not just for food. Makeup, health products, all of it.
5. [R2] 5/5 · US First time knowing this app: I never knew something like this and it’s so good that is not and add app like a lot much others, it gives you a range of options and prices, I love it!!
6. [R34] 5/5 · US Great App!!: It is so so easy to add products to the app, and when you scan products, it tells you everything about it and is really easy to comprehend! Also, if the product rate’s poorly, it will show you recommendations that are better for you. Go download Yuka now and get the products good for you!❤️
7. [R25] 4/5 · US My review: I love Yuka and it really helps me with my skincare journey and writing products that wouldn’t break me out. There are similar apps to Yuka , but I really do think that this one is the best. I think that’s because in our only tells me what it’s scored wide scores this and let’s be right reviews about products and also shows me what I could buy, and it shows me cheap options. The only th
8. [R30] 5/5 · US Giordie: tbh this app has helped me and more people with many health issues that modern society are having that is mostly because of the food that we eat. I feel like we need to pay attention to that very closely and Yuka has been just the app to that issue! It has been helping me check for recommendations and other choices of food or lifestyle items that will benefit me. From drinking Fanta and
9. [R44] 5/5 · US Quick and easy!: This app is simple, convenient and very easy to use and results are quick too!
10. [R28] 5/5 · US Be HEALTHIER without breaking the bank: Absolutely adore this app. Has helped me make real switches that are achievable and my current financial abilities and is SO FAST and easy to use
11. [R19] 5/5 · US Fun and Easy: This app is super easy to use, and gives good information about the things you find in your house! I was impressed at how seamless adding another product to their records was, and it seems hard to skew the results.
12. [R8] 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…
13. [R39] 5/5 · US An absolute must-have: I use this app constantly - for food, for beauty products. It has changed my purchasing habits and I’m grateful for it every day.
14. [R13] 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
15. [R32] 5/5 · US Loving this app: Love this app i had no idea what was in our food until now! Thanks Yuka
16. [R7] 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
17. [R10] 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
18. [R12] 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
19. [R123] 3/5 · US Inconsistency: Santa Cruz dark roasted … 94/100. Santa Cruz creamy … 72/100? Exact same ingredient profile. Exact same nutrition. lol. Like this app makes no sense whatsoever the scoring system is so fundamentally flawed it hilarious
20. [R46] 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
21. [R103] 2/5 · US Have to pay to search products: Looks like a slick app, but the search option is only available for paid members. With as much online buying as we do, there’s often not a physical barcode to scan - that’s the only free part. You have to pay to look up information about any product that’s not in your hands.
22. [R114] 1/5 · US Not so awesome: It wasn’t quite what i was hoping for like cause what if I wanted to see if a product i did not have to see if it was good you can’t with out paying a yearly fee. I wanted a trial before I agreed to it.
23. [R152] 1/5 · US Need to pay to search anything: Useless when free alternatives exist
24. [R6] 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
25. [R38] 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?
26. [R167] 1/5 · US No working: The app is out if service
27. [R412] 3/5 · GB Camera not working: Was loving this app, but I keep getting issues with the camera not working, please help
28. [R258] 1/5 · GB Misinformed app: This app is totally misinformed. It rated mozzarella de bufsla campana dop poor for being high in fat confirming that it knows nothing about nutrition as the “fat is bad” narrative is based in faulty, flawed, and falsified outdated 1970s research. Conversely, it rated pesticide laden berries (raspberries and blueberries) very good, despite all the contemporary research showing
29. [R314] 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?
30. [R345] 3/5 · GB Outdated advice: I like this for spotting dangerous additives in food. For this purpose it's useful. However, it's outdated in the way it marks food down for high saturated fat and high energy. Saturated fat is now known to be healthy. And we all need calories, so how can something be marked down for being high calorie? That doesn't make it intrinsically unhealthy. Also a very big minus is t
31. [R1] 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.
32. [R72] 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.
33. [R87] 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
34. [R140] 1/5 · US App has not changed or improved for YEARS.: Yuka has still not changed one important issue, and overall has no difference from when I first downloaded this app. I like the simplicity, but there's so much more Yuka can do. You're not able to add items not on Yuka without scanning it; you must have the item in front of you with the barcode to scan and add it. What if I am searching things online, a
35. [R156] 1/5 · US Adding product not rated: Not user friendly
36. [R470] 3/5 · GB Food scanner: Not all products are recognised and relies on individual customers to submit information. Excellent apart from that flaw.
37. [R110] 3/5 · US It’s mid: OK, so it’s good but the only problem is so I have this eczema lotion and I was seeing if it’s good and then I was looking at the recommendations cause it rated poor the recommendations had nothing to do with eczema so some other products that you need for certain stuff was not the recommendations we’re not showing what you need for that type of condition that you have but I’m overall it
38. [R124] 3/5 · US What about allergies and skin types?: A lot of the foods that they recommend me has nuts in it and I'm allergic, that's the main reason why I ate the food that I scanned. Also they recommend me things that probably isn't made especially for sensitive skin or for teenager's skin. Half of the things I buy don't have barcodes on the actual product but on the box and guess what, I threw the box away s
39. [R200] 3/5 · US Needs an option for diabetics: This is a really nice application, but it doesn’t have a setting in food preferences for people who are on a ketogenic diet or diabetic. This is really disappointing because a lot of us need to cut out food foods that are heavy in carbohydrates.
40. [R377] 3/5 · GB Very good app HOWEVER….: This app is great however when it shows alternative products it shows a completely different product for example when it showed alternatives for peri peri lemon and herb sauce , it showed lots of different cup noodles. Please can you consider fixing this?
41. [R31] 5/5 · US Great App, Just Needs a Few Improvements: Could you please fix the following issues? • When the internet connection is poor, offline mode often gets stuck while trying to update. It would be helpful to add an option to skip updates so the app can still be used. • Please add features to clear all scan history with one tap and to clear the app’s cache.
42. [R3] 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??
43. [R5] 3/5 · US Colombia!!: I sent a request to the developer to help with the colombian database but no reply back yet :(
44. [R24] 5/5 · US Yuka quality: Very helpful but we shouldn’t have to pay to unlock info on our health also sometimes recommend totally different products then the ones you scanned
45. [R74] 1/5 · US Use your own judgment for food.: Companies apparently pay to have their scores raised making this a not so trustworthy app and plus most (if not all) food in America is bad and processed and as always eat those ingredients in moderation and you wouldn’t have to worry about such health risks.
46. [R415] 3/5 · GB Yuka offline: I pay for Yuka & although I find the search useful, I want to be when most shops don’t have signal. But my offline version has always been broken even with every update. When I’m on the app it starts loading offline mode & doesn’t always complete, its not a permanent feature with my app so i often run into the problem of not being able to scan things as there’s no signal & then givin