Ingredient scanner · cosmetics + food

Read the label.
Know what's inside.

Point your camera at any product — a moisturizer, a snack bar, a shampoo. Ingreview pulls every ingredient off the label, explains it in plain language, and tells you what matters — for your skin, your diet, and what you avoid.

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A note on language. Ingreview is a label-reading assistant, not medical advice. Evaluations are based on label text, public sources, your preferences, and community experience. For pregnancy, allergies, or dermatological conditions, please consult a professional.

How it works

From a blurry photo of an ingredient list to something you can actually use.

Most labels are tiny, curved, multilingual, and packed with INCI names. Ingreview was built to handle exactly that — locally, on your phone.

01
Snap

Snap the label

One photo of the ingredients panel. No barcode required — long-tail brands work too.

02
Extract

OCR & cleanup

On-device text recognition. AI fixes OCR mistakes — you can review and edit before analysis.

03
Match

Match the ladder

Ingredients are matched against CosIng, SCCS, EFSA and your personal profile — and the scan tells you how many didn't match.

04
Decide

See the breakdown

A clear attention level — never a moralistic label. Plus alternatives if you want them.

From the app

The real screens, straight from the app.

Rendered by the app's own automated test suite, with sample products. What you see here is what the app draws.

Ingreview scan screen in dark theme: the camera framing a product's ingredients panel, with label and barcode modes and an unlimited-scans badge.
Point the camera at any ingredients panel — the text is read on your device.
Ingreview analysis screen for a sample sunscreen: a high attention level, watchlist notes on two ingredients, a matched 5 of 5 ingredients row, and zero declared allergens.
One attention level per product — with every flag itemized underneath, never a moralistic verdict.
Ingreview alternatives screen: sample products with lower attention levels, ranked for the user's profile, with the not-medical-advice notice at the bottom.
Lower-attention options ranked for your profile — filtered by what you exclude.
Personalization

Your profile, not somebody else's.

Tell Ingreview about your skin, your diet, your allergens, and how you live. Every scan you ever do — past and future — is read against that profile.

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Selin's profile
3 modes active · 4 ingredients avoided · 12 alternatives saved
Edit
Skin type1 selected
Oily Dry Combination Sensitive Acne-prone Rosacea-prone
Avoid in my products4 active
Fragrance Essential oils Alcohol denat. SLS / SLES + add
Lifestyle & ethics2 active
🌱 Vegan only
🐰 Cruelty-free only
🌊 Reef-safe (sunscreen)
Diet & allergens3 active
Gluten Milk (incl. lactose) Tree nuts Soy Shellfish + add
Life stage1 mode
👶 Baby & toddler safety
🤰 Pregnancy mode

A single attention score can't know whether you have eczema, whether you're pregnant, whether you keep tree-nuts out of the house, or whether you've sworn off fragrance after a reaction. Ingreview asks — and then quietly applies it to every product you'll ever scan.

  • Filters you'll actually use

    Skin type, skin concerns, food allergens, diet, ingredient avoidance, lifestyle and life-stage modes.

  • Every past scan re-evaluates

    Add "Gluten" to your avoid list, then open a snack you scanned last month — it's read against the new list, not the old one. No re-photographing anything.

  • Family profiles, baby mode, pregnancy mode

    One household, many skins. Switch profiles and Ingreview reads a product against the one you picked.

  • Yours, used only with consent

    Your profile is used only with your explicit consent — synced to our EU servers when you're signed in, on-device when you're not. We use anonymized signals to improve the dictionary — never tied to you, never sold to a brand.

The evidence ladder

One ingredient. Five separate layers. Never mixed into a single misleading score.

Most apps reduce a complex molecule to a number out of 10. Ingreview keeps the layers separate — so you can see why something is flagged, not just that it is.

01

Regulatory

Banned, restricted, or use-limited per official frameworks.

EU · EFSA
02

Scientific evidence

SCCS opinions, EFSA evaluations, peer-reviewed studies, dose context.

SCCS · NIH
03

Personal sensitivity

Matched against your skin, diet, and allergens — not anyone else's.

YOUR PROFILE
04

Community experience

Aggregated, anonymized user reports. Experience, not evidence.

COMMUNITY
05

Reference data

Which reference categories the catalogue actually holds for this entry — reported, not scored.

OUR RECORD
INCI · CAS 5392-40-5
Citral
Citrus aroma · in perfumes and citrus-flavored snacks & drinks
Medium attention
Regulatory
Declaration required
Named on the EU declarable list above 0.001% (leave-on).
Scientific
Sensitizing potential
SCCS opinion · oxidation increases reactivity.
Personal
On your avoid list
Fragrance is in your sensitive-skin profile.
Community
Redness most reported
Community experience, not evidence.
Reference data on this entry, source by source Tap any layer to expand →
Why Ingreview

Built for understanding, not for fear.

A different posture on a familiar problem: explain, contextualize, personalize — never moralize.

Camera-first, not barcode-first

Long-tail brands, drugstore unknowns, that bottle your sister-in-law bought in Italy. Anywhere there's a label, Ingreview reads it.

Five-layer evidence ladder

Regulatory, scientific, personal, community, and the reference data we hold. We show you each layer — and never blend them into one single score.

Profiles that mean something

Skin type, food allergens, diet, baby mode, pregnancy mode — every analysis personalizes around you, not a generic user.

Community, kept separate

Star ratings and sensitivity reports are experience, not evidence. They get their own layer next to the regulatory and scientific ones — and are never mixed into them.

We say what we couldn't read

If the label was blurry, or some ingredients didn't match the dictionary, the scan says so and shows you which ones. Where your device reports no OCR confidence at all, it says "not measured" rather than inventing a number.

Plain language, every entry

"Cocamidopropyl Betaine" doesn't tell you anything. "Gentle cleansing surfactant." "Carrageenan, a seaweed-derived thickener." Every ingredient — cosmetic, food, household — rewritten in plain language.

Community

Built with users who actually care about what's on their shelf.

Every scan, rating, and sensitivity report makes the next person's decision a little easier. No advertisers, no sponsored ingredients.

28k
CosIng · 28k+ ingredients mapped from the EU cosmetic ingredient database
100%
On-device OCR — the photo stays on your phone; only the extracted text is sent for analysis
5×
Evidence layers: regulatory, scientific, personal, community, and the reference data we hold
0$
Sponsored ingredients. Ever. Funded only by Premium subscribers.

Official sources, known allergens, personal sensitivities, and community experiences — shown as separate layers, so you can weigh them yourself instead of trusting one opaque score.

FAQ

Honest answers to the questions you'd actually ask.

Got something we haven't covered? hello@ingreview.app

Why don't you give a single "safety score" like other apps?

Because it's misleading. An ingredient's effect depends on concentration, formulation, application area, and your individual sensitivity. We show five separate layers — regulatory, scientific, personal, community, and the reference data we hold — so you can see why something needs attention, not just that it does.

Does it work without a barcode?

Yes — that's the whole point. Ingreview reads the ingredient panel itself, so long-tail brands, niche imports, and products unlisted in databases all work. Barcode lookup is supported as a faster path when available.

Do you share my scan history or profile?

No. Your profile is used only with your explicit consent — it syncs to our EU servers when you're signed in, and stays on your device when you're not. Aggregated, anonymized signals (a product being scanned, a sensitivity tag) help everyone — but they're never tied to your identity, sold, or shared with brands.

Is Ingreview medical advice?

No. We're a label-reading assistant. We explain what's in a product, surface known regulatory and scientific context, and respect your preferences. For pregnancy, allergies, or any dermatological condition, please consult a professional.

What languages do you support?

Turkish and English today. German, Spanish, and French are planned. INCI inputs work regardless of label language.

What's the difference between free and Premium?

Free gives you unlimited scans, the full evidence ladder, community ratings, the ingredient glossary, and your recent scan history. Premium adds product search by name, side-by-side comparison, unlimited history, and family profiles.

Do you take money from brands?

No. No sponsored ingredients, no paid placements, no affiliate links inside scan results. Ingreview is funded entirely by Premium subscribers — that's the only way trust holds up over time.

Cosmetics, food, or both?

Both — if it has an ingredient list, Ingreview can read it. Cosmetics, personal care, food, beverages, supplements, household products. Each category uses the right reference frameworks (CosIng/SCCS for cosmetics, EFSA for food additives) so the evidence stays appropriate.