FoodSelect vs Nutri
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FoodSelect
Easily scan food barcodes or ingredient lists to understand the health effects and benefits of each component. Get a clear color-coded rating for ingredients and discover over 200 unique health benefits foods can offer.
- Scan ingredients from barcodes or text
- Search for ingredients
- Color-coded ingredient health ratings
- FoodSelect Score calculation
- Health benefits information
- Ingredient drawbacks
- Extensive ingredient database
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Imagine you are visiting a grocery store. You are walking through the deli section, looking for something to eat at home during the week. You know that some food producers use unhealthy additives to make their food look or taste better or last longer, so you are checking the ingredients on the packages to make sure you avoid these toxic foods. You come across a package of turkey with ammonium phosphate on its ingredients list. You think it might be an okay thing to put in your body but want to know for sure, so you do a quick search and start reading an article about ammonium-based ingredients. Before long, you notice you have been standing there for 2 minutes trying to decide whether or not this food is going to cause harm to your body. You want to move on with life and not waste any more time, and, slightly annoyed, you throw the turkey into the cart and continue shopping. Because of the difficulties of properly vetting foods while shopping, you bought deli meat containing an ingredient known to cause digestive issues. FoodSelect solves this problem. By quickly pointing your camera at the barcode or ingredients list on food packages, you will immediately see what ingredients have undesirable health effects and what they are. FoodSelect has health effects information on every ingredient you will see in a grocery store. It flags them with a color (red, yellow, or green) to indicate how healthy each ingredient is for you. Furthermore, you can use FoodSelect to choose foods that provide the health benefits you want in your life. Our data contains over 200 unique health benefits that foods can offer, from enhancing cognitive function and athletic performance to preventing cancer. This is where FoodSelect stands out from other ingredients scanning apps – no other app provides the range of information on health benefits that FoodSelect does. FoodSelect is developed by healthy eaters for healthy eaters. The data we compile on ingredients is the continuing result of months of reading scientific articles on the health effects of each individual ingredient. We consider many people’s desired health outcomes, and therefore record a wide range of health effects that covers most of the aspects of health a person might care about. Because FoodSelect was developed by people who care deeply about their diet and want to use the app for their own health also, you can expect the quality of information that comes from sincere effort and personalized motivation. Features of the app: • Scan ingredients from barcodes or text • Search for ingredients from a list of every ingredient you can find • Ingredients flagged with green, yellow, or red depending on their health outcomes • FoodSelect Score calculated based on a score for each ingredient as rated by careful consumers • Health benefits of each ingredient • Drawbacks of each ingredient • Complete coverage of possible ingredients – We doubt you will find an ingredient that is not represented in our database We leave you with the idea that deeply influences our philosophy on food: Food can either be the best medicine or the slowest form of poison. Make it the first one.
Nutri
Scan product barcodes to instantly view ingredient information. It categorizes main ingredients with icons and dominant colors, while listing smaller components separately. Access a vast database for detailed product analysis.
- Barcode scanning
- Ingredient categorization
- Icon-based ingredient display
- Dominant color backgrounds
- Large product database
- Free to use
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-100% free -product data is checked against a database with over 2 million entries containing EAN,UPC and other barcodes -ingredients making up more than 10% of a scanned item are categorized as main ingredients and displayed with a corresponding icon if one is available -main ingredient backgrounds are shown as the most dominant color of their respective icons -ingredients under 10% are categorized in the swipeable "other" tab, which is the size of all ingredients under 10% added together -product data is checked against a database with over 2 million entries containing EAN,UPC and other barcodes -ingredients making up more than 10% of a scanned item are categorized as main ingredients and displayed with a corresponding icon if one is available -main ingredient backgrounds are shown as the most dominant color of their respective icons -ingredients under 10% are categorized in the swipeable "other" tab, which is the size of all ingredients under 10% added together
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FoodSelect at 100% against Nutri's 50%. FoodSelect also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.3) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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.
FoodSelect holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of FoodSelect's written reviews are positive against 50% of Nutri's.
| Parameter | FoodSelect | Nutri |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) — better | 3.3 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.7 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Larkins | Teo Udovcic |
Customer experience
FoodSelect
Nutri
In-app purchases
FoodSelect
No in-app purchases
Nutri
No in-app purchases









