Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
An answer at the shelf, in seconds.
Pure Scan reads a barcode and grades what is actually in the product. Additives, dyes, seed oils, packaging risk and brand ownership, returned fast enough to be useful while you are still standing in the aisle.
The problem
Nobody reads an ingredient label in a supermarket
The information is already printed on the package. It is just unreadable in practice: eight point type, chemical names most people cannot parse, and a decision that has to be made in about four seconds while holding a basket.
An app only helps here if it is faster than putting the product back on the shelf and moving on.
What we built
The parts that mattered.
Barcode scanning built for speed
Camera to verdict in seconds, because anything slower loses to simply not bothering.
A grade, not a data dump
Ingredients are assessed against a rulebook and returned as a verdict with the reasoning underneath, so the answer arrives before the detail.
Additive and packaging detection
Dyes, preservatives, seed oils and packaging risks surfaced explicitly rather than buried in a list.
History and a browsable catalog
Every scan is kept, and everything already graded can be browsed by score, so the app gets more useful the longer it is used.
See for yourself
The fastest way to judge the work is to use it.
Result
Live on the App Store, rated 4.8.
This is one of the best or I should say the Best Food scanner there is, if you want to know what's in your food you need this app.
More work
Other things we have shipped.
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