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Rating: Cosmetic Ingredient Scanner

Reveal it - Product Scanner

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Behind the product-scanner facade people hit manipulation: the app asks for five stars before you have used it even once, which also explains the fake high store rating. Then comes a long intrusive quiz about income and personal data, forced consent to receive a product, and only then a paid subscription. The scan barely works and invents results: it finds ingredients that are not there in 100% almond butter.

12real score
4.4store star
518ratings
About the rating

The 4.44 store against a 1.42 text average with only 8% five stars is a giant gap, and the reviews themselves expose the mechanism: the app demands five stars before you use it. That is direct proof of an artificially inflated rating.

Strengths

What users love

  • The idea itself of checking a product before buying
  • For a few the scan worked
Weak spots

What users hate

  • Demands five stars before use
  • Intrusive quiz about income and personal data
  • Hidden charges with no free access
  • Scan does not work
  • Invented ingredients

Who it is for

Essentially no one, too much manipulation and unreliable results to trust

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