Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Crashes when I try to share the app with a friend. How else am I going to unlock features in the app?

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   App is not accepting my email address. Your app keeps saying that my email address is invalid. I’ve tried to add my email several times. I also reached out to customer service for help and have not heard back. I will just use a different app.

3. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   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 several items based on the information from this app only to find that an ingredient was left out that I am trying to avoid. When I reach out to customer support, they say that the app is correct. I will not be renewing my subscription. Hopefully another app comes out that is more accurate and reliable.

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Member price misleading. I really enjoy using Yuka and appreciate the work that goes into the app. One small suggestion: the membership page says “Pay what you want,” but the slider appears to have a minimum payment of $10/year and only allows higher amounts. The wording made me think I could choose any amount, including less than $10. Consider changing it to something like “Choose your membership amount” or “Support Yuka starting at $10/year” to better match the available options. Thanks for all the great work on the app!

5. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

   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.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   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.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Horrible. I deleted this app because it’s basically designed to scare you. Most of these long descriptions are just scientific terms for things like baking soda or things that your body can actually digest and the food is completely fine. Now some of the things can be accurate, but 95% of the time it’s not. I was going crazy scanning foods. Don’t believe everything you see on this app just because it has a long scientific name. Many cooking ingredients have scientific names and you just need to search up what they actually are instead of using YUKA to just freak you out because of whatever health risks it says it might have and most of the time is not unless you eat hundreds of pounds of food over and over in large amounts. And the first I have scanned I have eaten before and I’ve turned out completely fine. Now I do like how it recommends healthier foods and items which is great but of the descriptions are just not true at all.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Must pay $15 membership. Not free, $15 membership a year to join. deleting app to avoid additional charges

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   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.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Extremely misleading. This app completely ignores and hides one of the major micronutrients: carbohydrates. Not only does it happily recommend products full of high fructose corn syrup and modified food starch, but also arbitrarily label "artificial flavoring" as moderate risk with absolutely zero explanation. It has completely unjustified and unexplained scales for fat content, again with no explanation and no discerning between saturated fats and unsaturated fats. DO NOT use this app for nutritional decision making, it will basically encourage you to develop type 2 diabetes.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Yeah no... At first i loved this app, i thought the aesthetic was clean and cute and felt this could be a trustworthy app, i used it for awhile until it started being weird, a few weeks in the score on a cosmetic that was once claimed as bad randomly got a higher score?, i shrugged it off at first and thought maybe the formula changed, but this happened multiple times on different products, so i searched it up and apparently they accept payments from these companies to raise their score?, like what?, i immediately deleted the app when i found this out, do not download.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    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, and don't want to buy it yet? Online shopping is huge now. There should be an option to search ingredients without being in person, or upload a photo of the ingredients lists. You can't do that. It's crazy how this hasn't been implemented for years. No features have ever been added and I have been paying membership for 4 years. It's still the simple, basic app from before. I will be finding a different app and I also canceled my subscription.

13. ★★★★★search fails to find what is needed

    Need to pay to search anything. Useless when free alternatives exist

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Trash app. This app is worse than trash. It does a terrible job of evaluating the healthiness of food items. Its (presumably AI-based) aggregation of scientific literature does not properly evaluate reported food risks. Furthermore, it asks for an email address to begin using the app. The email address I provided immediately began receiving all kinds of spam from websites and mailing lists I’d never signed up for. This app should be banned. The creators of this app are terrible humans.

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Adding product not rated. Not user friendly

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No working. The app is out if service

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Pseudoscience garbage. This app was made by people who wear tin foil hats and the crunchy moms.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Fake. It literally give you fake information about products. Why is another question.

19. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

    Not accurate. I simply do not trust this app. It said Petroleum jelly is “bad”. Petroleum jelly is one of the most studied and widely used skin protectants on Earth. Dermatologists have used it for decades. This app can be overly harsh on perfectly reasonable products. App deleted.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Wrong. Misleading information about what is good or bad

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    App lost all my data. Customer service is non existent. 😐. At first I loved this app (5 star review collapsed down to 1 star)… I had bought it so I could do searches… I had a years worth of data saved… when the app updated it lost all my data as well as my paid service. I tried to contact support but not one person responded. Super bummed!!

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not healthy. Continually passing ultra processed food options as healthy. This doesn’t achieve results I want for a healthy eating lifestyle

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Based on pseudoscience. It is not scientifically possible to determine toxicity/risk of a chemical based on its existence. You must know dose, and therefore exposure, in order to determine toxicity. “The dose makes the poison.” Foods and cosmetics in the US are heavily regulated and safe to consume and use.

24. ★★★★★privacy and excessive permissions

    DATA COLLECTION. CAN'T USE THE APP UNLESS LINK TO FACEBOOK OR EMAIL, THERE IS ZERO NEED TO FORCE A SIGN UP. DOWNLOAD OPEN FOOD FACTS FROM THE APP STORE FOR AN EVEN BETTER APP AND NO LOGIN REQUIRED

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Overreacts. It will rate ingredients over the actual ingredient and not the amount in the product. The amount of sodium benzoate in a poppi is not concerning. It will not mess with your reproductive health or your heart. Sodium benzoate will hurt you if you are taking it in a large amount. this is just an example, but it does this all the time.

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Who runs this biased app. This app is not what I thought it would be. The recommendations are trash. Like are they running AI or what?

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Have to be a member to search. Seriously? I have to be a member in order to search products. What if I look at something online before buying it to see if it’s good? Nor do I want to be scanning a bunch of stuff while in the grocery aisle.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Does not work. Does not scan and when it does it’s the wrong product!

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Faulty Ratings. It seems like companies can pay for better ratings. There are so many ingredients on here that are not clean/safe and are posing as “good” on the app. Even a simple google search can show the difference.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Horrible!!. Honestly disappointed. I thought this app was good at first. But I downloaded a different app and it made more sense than this one. This one didn’t even rate syrup?? How could I trust something like that? And it gave me recommendations on this one CeraVe bottle, saying it was 90/100, and I broke out everywhere!? And the other app I had actually made sense and said it was 10/100 which is terrible they don’t give truthful answers. You shouldn’t download an app that doesn’t even give accurate answers.