Sift Food Labels User Reviews

Name: Sift Food Labels: Scanner
Rating: 4.73348 (1846 reviews)

Sift Food Labels: Scanner

Digital Hearts Collective LLC

💪 Health & Fitness

🍔 Food & Drink

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Sift Food Labels. Based on 1.8K reviews and a 4.7/5 average, it highlights the 4 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this Health & Fitness app.

Positive things

🤩Helpful for dietary restrictions
🔍Provides detailed ingredient information
🛒Useful for making healthier choices
🤓Empowering for users with allergies

Negative things

🤔Limited database of products
💰Paywall for certain diet restrictions
🐛Frequent crashes and freezes
🤯Confusing onboarding and subscription model

Top reviews

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Deceptive

App is presented as free. It requires you to create an account (sharing your personal info) BEFORE you learn that only the first 5 scans are free and then you have to “upgrade”

KatieS10

2 years ago

Doesn’t work

It says ready to scan, but doesn’t give me the option to scan

Kgfhbhh

2 years ago

Onboarding is a hot mess

Leaders, the Onboarding abandonment rate has to be job one.

Traderjoeny

2 years ago

Abandoned Ambitious and Brilliant App 😟

Did the developer sell-out to the Soylent Green Globalists?

S1D2

2 years ago

Not useful unless you pay

This app only gives you 5 free scans a month, and sometimes takes multiple scans for one item.

I would go with the Bobby approved app instead, unlimited free scans.

JustusSki

2 years ago

Froze just after install

Installed the app, said I wanted to use as a guest, said I was “all set” but the screen was frozen. Deleted app and reinstalled and it goes right back to the frozen screen. Unusable.

jeffe101

2 years ago

S.I.F.T. is amazing!!!

It helps me make informed choices when shopping. I can select the healthiest options. Ingredients seem to be getting even worse!!

Janet-knitter

3 years ago

Response from developer

Hi - Thank you so much for the review! We're all about empowering shoppers with the information they deserve and are glad that you're finding the information helpful.

App freezes when I first sign up

I went through the process of downloading app, signing up and verifying email. The app says I’m all set but is frozen and greyed out. I can click on the terms of service and that takes me to another page with the terms of service, so it’s not completely frozen. It just won’t allow me to start using app.

D10067

3 years ago

Irritating

I read in the plan information that there was a 3day free trial. I subscribed to the year plan to try it out and have access to the diets. It charged at the moment I subscribed. This is only a barcode app. I thought for sure I would be able to search the database.

I would really appreciate a refund.

..labgirl..

3 years ago

I love it

They make it so easy to use!

Justinkeepinitreal131!

4 years ago

Sift is amazing!!

I love it!!

HuliaMF

4 years ago

Good for scanning only

Can’t just enter a food name, lime grapes, or hummus.

RVHodges

4 years ago

It’s Junk

It tells you, you can scan 5 items before signing up. As soon as you scan the 2nd item it blockes you. Telling you that you already scanned 5 items. You don’t even get the info of the 2nd scanned item. So, you only get 1 scan before they want your personal info and probably money. I deleted this junk app.

Un Boricua Rebelde

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi -Thank you for your feedback and bringing this bug to our attention. We issued a patch yesterday so it should be working now. Feel free to email if you continue to run into any issues - hello@siftfoodlabels.com. Appreciate you taking the time to let us know!

Whole30

Let me know I sabotage my first day. I appreciate the app tho

DiStuduio

5 years ago

Charges $2.99 per month for each individual thing!

I downloaded this and signed up excitedly because it said you could select the diets you wanted to follow and then it would flag the foods you scan and tell you if they have ingredients that you shouldn’t have. As someone who is vegan + can’t have wheat, dairy or eggs because they make me sick and am also trying to figure out what else is making me sick, I was excited about this. But then after getting the app and signing up I find out that each of those things I would select would be $2.99 per month, which is ridiculous. Deleted app.

Kellymncole

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Kelly - Thanks for the feedback! We try our best to keep the pricing for in app purchases as low as possible. If you're looking to unlock multiple diets then there is an option to unlock all diets for $39.99 for the year which comes out to around $3.33 per month. Best of luck in your journey!

Very frustrating crashes on scan

Was previously working I updated the phone and the update broke it. I have since waited and installed the past 3 updates which did not resolve the issue, also uninstalled the app and reinstalled again it’s been continually happening so I have cancelled my subscription and uninstalled the app permanently. Very disappointed they could not fix a paid app within 6 weeks. Not wasting any more money

debt_monkey

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi - Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback. We are so disappointed that this was your experience with Sift and want to apologize. We are a small team and obviously need to improve how quickly we fix bugs. This one has been challenging to troubleshoot as it's only impacting a small handful of our customers and we believe it to be related to the iOS 15 update - we will continue to work through it, but understand your desire to not wait it out with us. I hope that we can one day earn back your business. Have a wonderful holiday season!

Was a great app until I purchased it.

App was nice. I liked the ease. I decided to buy a diet and ever since then the app opens briefly and crashes. Glad it had a 3 day trial period, this is apparently garbage after you purchase it.

IPSY lova

5 years ago

Not buggy

I have celiac disease so I can’t have gluten. I have tried a few apps like this one, but they are all pretty buggy but this one is not. It has a very large database and works very quickly. Would recommend.

ScientificRebel

5 years ago

Constant crashing

I’ve recently been put on a low fodmap diet due to ibs, and I figured this would be a great place to start. The only problem is that every time I went to scan an item, the app would crash. Every time I selected an item from the menu, the app would crash. The only reason I’m not rating one star is because it’s a really good concept, and there’s also a page that shows recommended foods for your diet, which gave me a good jumping off point.

CatCrackerz

5 years ago

Scan! … Crash … Scan! … Crash

I tried one of the paid diets (low fodmap) and the app stopped working. Crashes every time I scan an item or try and review previously scanned items. Their support page takes you to an email address, no troubleshooting or FAQs.

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