The app is free to download and scanning is free. Searching products by name and using it offline are part of its paid tier.

Which of these has the most products?

Yuka states 4 million food products and 2 million cosmetics. Fooducate describes its database as hundreds of thousands of products, and Bobby Approved gives no figure in its listing. Test any of them against what you actually buy.

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Yuka alternatives

What is a good alternative to Yuka?

The short answer

It depends which part you want to replace. If the problem is the premium gate on search and offline use, Bobby Approved and Open Food Facts are free and ungated. If the problem is the rating method, Yuka puts 60% of its score on nutrition and Optimally reads the ingredient list first, with the study behind each of its main rules linked. If you want food logging as well, Fooducate does both. Yuka states 85 million users and 4 million food products, so test any alternative against what you actually buy before you commit to it.

If the part you want fixed is the method rather than the price, Optimally publishes its rule table and the study behind each rule.

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Start with which complaint you are actually trying to fix

People leave Yuka for three different reasons, and the right alternative is different for each.

The premium gate. Searching by name rather than scanning, and using the app without a connection, sit behind Yuka’s paid tier.
The method. Yuka’s own listing describes three criteria: nutritional quality, presence of additives, and whether the product is organic. If you think a nutrition-weighted score is the wrong lens, a different score is what you want, not a different app with the same one.
The scope. Yuka covers cosmetics as well as food, which some people want and some find dilutes it.

Bobby Approved

A blacklist rather than a score. The app checks a list of more than a hundred ingredients its creator considers harmful and tells you whether the product passes, highlighting the failing ingredients in red. Free, with 160,000 US ratings at 4.9.

The strength is that it is unambiguous and quick. The weakness is that it is one person’s list, and that a pass or fail cannot express the difference between a product that scraped through and one that is genuinely good.

Open Food Facts

The non-profit open database that a number of scanners, Optimally included, are built on, with its own free app. No paid tier, no advertising, no account needed to look things up, and you can download the whole dataset.

It gives you Nutri-Score and the NOVA processing group rather than an opinionated verdict, so it suits someone who wants the underlying data and is happy to interpret it themselves.

Fooducate

Running since 2010, and the one on this list that is really a food diary with a grading feature attached. If you want to log what you eat as well as check it, that combination is the reason to pick it. 77,000 US ratings at 4.6, free with a premium tier.

Optimally

Ours, so read this with that in mind. It reads the ingredient list first rather than the nutrition panel, applies a fixed rule table, and links the published study behind each of its main rules. The same ingredient gets the same rating every time, which is the specific thing an AI-generated verdict cannot promise.

It is also the newest app here, it has no ratings to speak of yet, and unlike the others on this list it needs a subscription. If the reason you are leaving Yuka is its paywall, this is not the app that fixes that.

Common questions

Is Yuka free?: The app is free to download and scanning is free. Searching products by name and using it offline are part of its paid tier.
Which of these has the most products?: Yuka states 4 million food products and 2 million cosmetics. Fooducate describes its database as hundreds of thousands of products, and Bobby Approved gives no figure in its listing. Test any of them against what you actually buy.

Last reviewed 14 September 2026.