Ingred vs Banana App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ingred
Scan cosmetic or food labels with your camera to identify potentially harmful ingredients and additives. Access a comprehensive database of cosmetic ingredients and food additives, including those derived from palm oil and vegan options.
- Scan labels with a photo
- Identify harmful cosmetic ingredients
- Query food additive database
- Palm oil ingredient detection
- Vegan additive information
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Check with a photo of the label for ingredients of cosmetics or food can be harmful to your health. Query the database of food additives and ingredients in cosmetics. List of cosmetic ingredients in personal care products, harmful to health, taken from sources such as the Red Ecoestética www.ecoestetica.org, Odile Fernandez www.misrecetasanticancer.com, http://estrelladelasnieves.es, http: // ecolisima.com, http://www.naturalsensia.com, http://wikibelleza.es and others. List of suspected food additives based on data collected from various entities such as the EU, WHO, FAO, JECFA. Technical Service of the National Consumer Institute, Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, the Joint Committee of FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives ... etc. Taken from http://xananatura.blogspot.com.es, http://www.nomasaditivos.com and http://www.food-info.net. Names of ingredients derived from palm oil extracted from www.aceitedepalma.org. Information on vegan additives provided by The Elated Vegan.
Banana App
This app connects food donors like supermarkets and restaurants with verified clients in need, such as low-income families and individuals. It facilitates the timely donation of edible, albeit not aesthetically perfect, food items.
- Food donation platform
- Connects donors and clients
- Donates edible food items
- Verified client applications
- Time-sensitive donations
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The Banana App provides DONORS (supermarkets, groceries, produce stands, restaurants) a time-sensitive platform to donate items that are considered not aesthetically-pleasing for market display or sale but still edible and in good condition. Items will be given directly to verified CLIENTS (low-income family, homeless individuals) upon successful application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ingred at 59% against Banana App's 0%. Ingred also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 43 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ingred holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ingred has 254 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Ingred's written reviews are positive against 0% of Banana App's.
Ingred ships an update every 6 weeks, Banana App every 43 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ingred | Banana App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (254 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 254 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 43 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raul Vadillo | The Be Good Project Foundation |
Customer experience
Ingred
Banana App
In-app purchases
Ingred
No in-app purchases
Banana App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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