# Clean Food Scanner - Ellē — user reviews > 24 indexed App Store user reviews of Clean Food Scanner by Elle AI, Inc., rated 4.81/5 from 572 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/clean-food-scanner-elle/id6739181297/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/clean-food-scanner-elle/id6739181297.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 141 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Clean Food Scanner? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great user interface and features - 🚀 Genuinely great health app - 👍 Friendly user-interface - 👍 Super easy to use - 👍 Effective app ## Newest reviews (5 of 24) ### 5/5 — Effective app *2025-09-08, version 1.0.2* Very good app. ### 5/5 — Elle is great!! *2025-09-08, version 1.0.2* This has great for grocery shopping while in college! ### 5/5 — Obsessed! *2025-09-08, version 1.0.2* This app makes grocery shopping so much easier. Shopping trips are a breeze now! ### 5/5 — get this app! *2025-09-05, version 1.0.2* I LOVE Ellē!! I find myself checking everything that had a barcode now lol. ### 5/5 — Life hack *2025-09-05, version 1.0.2* I honestly struggle when I’m at the grocery store and need to make healthy choices, packaging is made to be deceiving :/. Elle has made my life 10x easier, best food scanning experience! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — It’s not free *2026-07-27, version 1.3.9* I hate when an app tells you it’s free and the moment you sign up and answer all of their questions they say seven days free and then you have to pay for a subscription. Why can’t they just be transparent from the beginning? ### 1/5 — Not Free *2026-07-24, version 1.3.9* Advertised as free, but it isn’t. ### 1/5 — This is a subscription *2026-07-16, version 1.3.9* No where are you informed that this is a free 7 day trial and then a paid subscription until you already signed up and created an account. I immediately deleted once I saw that. Please be up front. ### 1/5 — It’s a subscription *2026-04-15, version 1.3.1* Just be more upfront don’t waste peoples time with all these information and account just to try to charge 40 bucks for the Yuka app ### 1/5 — Beware *2026-03-20, version 1.2.5* Nowhere did I see a cost. But when you download it suddenly you’re in a 7 day trial! Still don’t see a price ### 2/5 — Too many unknown items! *2026-08-19, version 1.3.9* I have scanned so many unknown “mystery” items that it’s absurd! If the app is new and learning that’s fine but to charge people for a subscription when clearly it’s still lacking a lot of data on food products is a scam. ### 3/5 — Info not accurate *2026-08-26, version 1.3.9* So far I’ve enjoyed the app, however there are some glitches. Take maple syrup for example. Real 100% maple syrup is just that. Maple syrup which is a type of sugar. For some brands it will say ‘Contains Added Sugar’ but then in the product details section under Sugars it will say, ‘no sugar.’ First off there is no added sugar if it’s 100% maple syrup, but yes, it contains sugar because it IS sugar. So this makes no sense. If you are already an ingredient snob and read labels then I’m not sure this app will be beneficial to you. But I got it for $20 for the entire year so I’ll keep it. But I won’t renew. ### 3/5 — Terrible onboarding *2026-08-06, version 1.3.9* The absolute worst experience I’ve ever had just trying to use the app for the first time. I had to click through probably 30 screens of B.S. until it finally made me create an account and forced me to sign up for a plan. Couldn’t even see if I liked the app first. That says to me that you have such low confidence in your product that you have to force a subscription before a try-out. The app itself is pretty nice, but wow that first time user experience left such a bad taste in my mouth that I’m going to uninstall. ### 3/5 — Newbie *2026-07-27, version 1.3.9* Just started using the app. So far seems good but again just started will share additional feedback after using the app for a month. ### 5/5 — Unbiased Peer Reviewed *2026-07-21, version 1.3.9* Finally an App that follows the science ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Simply Honest! *2026-06-04, version 1.3.4* Add this app! The questions related to framing the food profile are pertinent. I’m looking forward to bringing Elle to my next Trader Joe’s run! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-03-27, version 1.2.8* Very very helpful ### 5/5 — Happy *2025-12-25, version 1.1.3* Just happen to come across this app and was like it’s probably no good and will cost idk how much. But I tried it and I love it. Finally, found one that I really like that doesn’t cost anything and actually works! Thank you Ellé. ❤️ ### 5/5 — Best food scanning app *2025-11-10, version 1.0.6* Once people find out about this app you’ll see it everywhere. This app just works better than all the other food scanner apps I tried. Great UI and features. ### 5/5 — eat better, be better, feel better *2025-09-11, version 1.0.3* how else would you know ### 5/5 — Eye opening *2025-09-11, version 1.0.3* Absolutely amazing insight into products that I eat every day - totally changing some things up because of this ### 5/5 — It Works! *2025-09-08, version 1.0.2* Friendly user-interface, genuinely a great health app. Direct info on what you’re looking to eat, right at your fingertips. ### 5/5 — Great App! *2025-09-08, version 1.0.2* I love this app to help me eat healthier!! As I always say, “a healthy body is a healthy mind!!” ### 5/5 — Love it! *2025-09-08, version 1.0.2* Super easy to use—has saved me so much time! --- *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 2026-09-05.*