# Chuw \| Food Scanner — Scan any food, know the score

> Scan any food, know the score (iPhone/iPad app by Erik Overweter.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chuw-food-scanner/id6793871600 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Erik Overweter](https://appshunter.io/developer/6793871602)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Food & Drink
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 32 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch
- Released: 2026-08-20
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Chuw | Food Scanner?

Understand your food. Feel good about every chuw.

Point your camera at a label, a piece of fruit, a meal you've cooked, or a recipe. Chuw scores it from 0 to 100 and explains exactly how it got there. Try your first scan without creating an account.

Most food apps reduce food to a letter or colour based mainly on nutrients. That does not tell you how processed something is, what has been added, or whether it suits your priorities. Chuw looks at the full picture and shows its working, backed by science.

A score that actually helps

See one clear score from 0 to 100, broken down line by line. Find out which ingredients helped and which brought the score down. Front-of-pack claims are checked against what is actually in the product.

Made for your priorities

Choose from six focus areas: gut, energy, heart, brain, hormones, and muscle. Chuw evaluates food against the priorities you choose, rather than a generic average.

More than barcodes

Scan packaged food, loose produce, a plated meal, or a recipe you found online. If it's food, Chuw can help you understand it.

What's in the app

• A food diary that updates from your scans
• Side-by-side product comparisons
• Recipes based on what you already have at home
• A week planner: dinners for the evenings you cook, lunches you cook once, and one shopping list for the week
• A shopping list that scores items as you add them
• Shared shopping lists and recipes for your household, updated live
• Receipt scanning that scores your entire shop
• Insights, with a weekly reflection on what you ate

Free and Premium

Free includes three scans per day. A new account starts with two weeks of Premium, no card needed. Premium includes up to 30 scans per day, plus recipes and a week planner, a scored shopping list, receipt scanning, product comparisons, claim checking, and one change to try each week. Premium also covers up to five people you invite, for the shopping lists, recipes, week plan and pantry you share. Plan the week together, or just share the shopping list.

Chuw is a wellness app, not medical advice. It uses AI to read labels and may misread or miss information, including allergens. Always check the physical label, especially if you have an allergy.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chuw Premium | $2.99 | per month |
| Chuw Premium | $29.99 | per year |


## Is Chuw | Food Scanner safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Chuw | Food Scanner.

## Is Chuw | Food Scanner legit?

Chuw | Food Scanner has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Chuw | Food Scanner is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3 — 2026-10-23

• Share shopping lists and recipes with your household, and plan the week together if you like
• Pantry: keep track of what you have at home, so it stays off your shopping list
• When a recipe adds something that's already on your list, the amounts add up
• Week planner: three ideas for each evening, and you pick one
• Tap "Cooked?" and a planned meal goes in your diary with the recipe's score
• Insights: see your goals week by week
• New accounts now get two weeks of Premium, no card needed
• A cleaner header with a Home button, plus many smaller fixes

### 2.2 — 2026-10-16

• Comparing imporved
• NEW: Plan recipes for the week
• Offline support

### 2.1 — 2026-10-12

• Clearer Insights
• Tap the (i) on a health goal to see what supports it
• Photo scans that can't give a score now say why and let you retry
• Visual fixes
• Smaller fixes

### 2.0 — 2026-10-10

- Diary, Shopping List, Recipes and Insights now have their own pages
- Redesigned Home and results, new icons, smoother motion
- Insights: pick a period to see trends, movers and macros
- Faster barcode scans, with clear next steps when a scan needs more detail
- A new drawn tour and simpler sign-in
- Plus many smaller fixes

### 1.2 — 2026-09-12

• Fixed various minor bugs and improved overall stability.
• Performance optimizations for a smoother, faster and more consistent experience.

## Apps similar to Chuw | Food Scanner

| App | Rating | Price | Category |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Milk Buddy: Breastfeeding App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/milk-buddy-breastfeeding-app/id6781997444) | — | Free | Health & Fitness |
| [ND Sportplanner Nippon-Do](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nd-sportplanner-nippon-do/id6474740097) | — | Free | Health & Fitness |
| [Gamerensport App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gamerensport-app/id1478883069) | — | Free | Health & Fitness |
| [Flow Lab. Melbourne](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flow-lab-melbourne/id6453475847) | — | Free | Health & Fitness |
| [FemmeGym Amsterdam](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/femmegym-amsterdam/id1018241579) | 5.0 (10) | Free | Health & Fitness |
| [BeQuit: Quit Smoking](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bequit-quit-smoking/id6747272046) | — | Free | Health & Fitness |

## Related topics

[nutrition scanner free](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/nutrition-scanner-free) · [free food scanning app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/free-food-scanning-app) · [free food scan app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/free-food-scan-app) · [food app scaner](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/food-app-scaner) · [health food scan app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/health-food-scan-app)

---

*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-24.*