Olive: Food & Cosmetic Scanner

#13 of 18 in Cosmetic Ingredient Scanner

42 of 100 · reviews
4.8of 5 · store
40,086ratings on the App Store
426reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

Olive bills itself as a food scanner, and some people like the idea of seeing seed oils and finding healthier swaps. But the reviews show unstable scoring: a hot dog gets 100 out of 100, the same product shows a different score in the list versus on tap, and search often fails. On top of that a huge questionnaire of dozens of screens and an aggressive subscription with no clear close button leave people feeling railroaded into paying.

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What people use it for

For anyone watching seed oils and food processing who's willing to tolerate questionable scores for healthier swaps

What reviews praise

The idea of spotting seed oils, healthier swaps for the same money, tuning to personal food restrictions, clean interface

What reviews complain about

Unstable scoring (hot dog at 100/100, different score in list vs on tap), search often fails, dozens of questionnaire screens before starting, subscription pop-up with no close button, can't create an account after paying

What users experience

3 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

products will have one score when scrolling a list of items, then once I click on something the score changes. Kind of misleading and I’m not sure about this app right now.

A lot of the ratings are inconsistent, where a product will have an ingredient and be praised for it then a different product will have the same ingredient and be heavily marked down for it.

Abbott showed me other choices I can make for the same money that is healthier, thank you.