# Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner

> Check What's in Your Products

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1092799236](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1092799236)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1092799236`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Yuca
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (98,877 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-13
- **First published:** 2017-01-09
- **Size:** 205 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yuka-food-cosmetic-scanner/id1092799236)
- **Website:** [https://yuka.io/en](https://yuka.io/en)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://app.termly.io/policy-viewer/policy.html?policyUUID=37f6508a-361a-46a3-b37b-f80dfdef33e1](https://app.termly.io/policy-viewer/policy.html?policyUUID=37f6508a-361a-46a3-b37b-f80dfdef33e1)

## Description

## About Yuka
Yuka is a free app that lets you scan the barcodes of foods and personal care products to see their impact on health. It provides a simple health score, explains nutritional quality, presence of additives, and organic aspects, and presents detailed insights to help you make informed choices.

With 80 million users and a database of 4 million food products and 2 million cosmetic products, Yuka operates as an independent project with objective reviews and no in-app advertising. When a product scores poorly, it suggests healthier, similar alternatives you can consider.

## Rankings

- #3,683 — Overall
- #10 — Essential Health & Fitness Apps
- #22 — Editors’ Choice Apps
- #1 — product
- #3 — environment
- #3 — rating

## Review summary

Users consistently praise Yuka for helping them eat healthier, exposing harmful ingredients, and offering substitutes. They value transparent explanations for ratings and the expanding ability to scan cosmetics. Recurrent drawbacks include occasional barcode UI issues, inconsistent ratings that don’t always consider serving size or quantity, delays rating user-submitted items, and concerns about pricing or subscriptions.

### Pros

- Helps users eat healthier by identifying unhealthy ingredients and additives
- Provides explanations for ratings, enabling users to understand why items are rated
- Suggests healthier substitutes and alternative products
- Raises awareness of hidden chemicals/additives in foods and cosmetics
- Cosmetics scanning feature broadens usefulness beyond just food

### Cons

- Ratings can be inconsistent and may not account for serving size or quantity
- Sometimes rating logic prioritizes ingredients over amount (e.g., sodium content examples)
- Occasional barcode scanning/ UI glitches (e.g., barcode screen going black)
- Delays or lack of ratings for user-submitted items
- Some users are concerned about potential paid subscription models or premium features

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1092799236)