FYI
It’s a paid app. This only for 3 days. Install “Yuka” .. it’s free
Really good but would benefit from some improvements
A really good app with huge potential. Would benefit significantly if it was GPS Geo located so that if you scan a product in a particular supermarket it would provide the most relevant product from that same supermarket chain.
Inaccurate Scoring
I searched for SPAM in the app and found a product listed as ‘Hormel Carne Horneada Spam De Cerdo’ with a score of 100/100. That is unbelievable and makes me question how accurate the app is, especially for processed foods. I thought I found something that will help me buy healthier food, but a 100/100 score for this product doesn’t make sense to me.
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Great app
Very useful so far
Terrible onboarding
Why do you need to know my age, gender, habits, etc in order to scan a code? Useless.
Takes personal data and CHARGES US FOR THEIRS
Don’t claim you have to charge BEFORE the app can be used because YOUR data is so valuable while COLLECTING OUR DATA and charging us to do so.
Data Linked to You:
Health & Fitness
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Sensitive Info
Diagnostics
Data Linked to You:
Health & Fitness
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Sensitive Info
Diagnostics
Find healthier options
This is the best app
Response from developer
Thank you so much! We're delighted Ivy is helping you find healthier options.
Review
This app is honestly very good and works
Useful idea, but far too simplistic
I really wanted to like Ivy and spent some time during my free trial scanning and comparing foods I regularly buy. There is a genuinely useful idea here: the app encourages you to look more closely at ingredients and can highlight things you might otherwise overlook.
Unfortunately, I found the overall scoring far too simplistic to be genuinely helpful. The headline score appears to focus heavily on factors such as processing, refined oils and sugars, additives and flavourings. This can produce rather misleading results. A food containing a large proportion of refined oil, for example, may receive an extremely poor score without considering portion size or how that food fits into someone’s overall diet. Likewise, a nutritious wholemeal product can score poorly simply because it is industrially produced and contains several additives.
I also have reservations about the separate assessments for pesticides, microplastics and heavy metals. These sometimes appear to be based on assumptions about ingredients, processing or packaging rather than measurements of the actual product. In one case, the app stated that the bananas I bought were packaged in plastic when they were actually held together by a simple paper/card band - which was clearly visible in the product photo shown by the app itself. This incorrect assumption was then cited in its assessment of microplastic risk. Presenting estimated risks for individual products in this way can give an impression of greater precision than the underlying information seems to justify.
I found it much more useful to read the ingredient lists myself and consider what a product contains, how much of it I actually eat, how often I eat it and what alternatives are realistically available.
Ivy has made me think more carefully about some of my food choices, so the trial wasn’t without value. However, I don’t feel that its scores and risk assessments provide enough nuance or context for me to rely on the app when choosing food.
For that reason, I will be cancelling my free trial rather than paying £29.99 for the annual subscription.
Unfortunately, I found the overall scoring far too simplistic to be genuinely helpful. The headline score appears to focus heavily on factors such as processing, refined oils and sugars, additives and flavourings. This can produce rather misleading results. A food containing a large proportion of refined oil, for example, may receive an extremely poor score without considering portion size or how that food fits into someone’s overall diet. Likewise, a nutritious wholemeal product can score poorly simply because it is industrially produced and contains several additives.
I also have reservations about the separate assessments for pesticides, microplastics and heavy metals. These sometimes appear to be based on assumptions about ingredients, processing or packaging rather than measurements of the actual product. In one case, the app stated that the bananas I bought were packaged in plastic when they were actually held together by a simple paper/card band - which was clearly visible in the product photo shown by the app itself. This incorrect assumption was then cited in its assessment of microplastic risk. Presenting estimated risks for individual products in this way can give an impression of greater precision than the underlying information seems to justify.
I found it much more useful to read the ingredient lists myself and consider what a product contains, how much of it I actually eat, how often I eat it and what alternatives are realistically available.
Ivy has made me think more carefully about some of my food choices, so the trial wasn’t without value. However, I don’t feel that its scores and risk assessments provide enough nuance or context for me to rely on the app when choosing food.
For that reason, I will be cancelling my free trial rather than paying £29.99 for the annual subscription.
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It's a paid app, ypu cannot even use it without subscription
Disappointing and overpriced. This is a paid app, yet you can’t even properly use it without taking out a subscription. There should at least be a usable free version,. Forcing users into a subscription just to access the basic functionality feels unreasonable. Not worth it. Try Yuka
Money money money
In this day and age, how do you not offer a free version! Woke nonsense
don't waste your time
The app asks you to rate it before you’ve even used it. Then it makes you answer a bunch of questions, only to require a subscription before you can actually use it. A total waste of time. Given the number of high ratings, I have to wonder if they’re legitimate or just to steal your data.
Cant believe the high rating
The app forces you to have an account, and takes a huge questionnaire before asking for money in the end. What a data collection scam
Why?
Just try Yuka, way easier and free
Response from developer
Ivy is built for people who want deeper food data, including additive risk levels, pesticides, heavy metals, microplastics and the studies behind them. We understand that the annual subscription will not suit everyone.
Great app
Great app but I have to pay so I deleted it sorry
My thoughts
I’ve not tried this out yet, but it if it works as good as it says it does then it will be brilliant
Food quality
We have to take back our lives with good food.
Ivy
Ivy is so good very helpful for weight gain 100% accepeted
Poor app
Paid for a year subscription and it won’t let me use anything it’s frozen carnt even get my details into the app
Stop the surveys to then make people pay
I’ve had enough of companies using the same approach: steal idea from a free app, create ad on social, survey after downloading app, free trial, subscription. F off! Message to other users: use Yuka
