Pharmio vs Supplement Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pharmio
This app provides science-backed insights into your food supplements. It helps you understand ingredients, identify potential conflicts, and track your intake to make informed decisions about your health routine.
- Scan and analyze food supplements
- Identify ingredient overlaps and safety conflicts
- Understand supplement interactions
- Get insights from scientific research
- Track daily supplement intake
- Monitor supplement spending
- Build better habits with reminders
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Your Science-Backed Supplement Intelligence Platform Understand your supplements, avoid unsafe or unnecessary combinations, and make more informed decisions with science-backed insights. Pharmio acts as your personal supplement concierge, helping you navigate complex supplement information using ingredient analysis, clinical research, and intelligent tracking. Why Pharmio The supplement market is crowded, confusing, and often driven by marketing instead of evidence. Pharmio helps you cut through the noise by organizing, analyzing, and explaining supplements in a clear and practical way so you can make better choices with confidence. What you can do with Pharmio - Scan and analyze food supplements you already use - Identify ingredient overlaps, safety conflicts, and dosage concerns - Understand how supplements interact within your personal supplement stack - Get insights based on scientific and clinical research - Track your daily supplement intake over time - Monitor and manage your supplement spending - Build better habits with reminders and intake tracking Who Pharmio is for - People who take multiple supplements and want clarity - Health-conscious users who value evidence over marketing claims - Anyone looking to optimize their supplement routine safely and efficiently - Pharmio does not provide medical advice and does not replace healthcare professionals. Legal - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy Policy: https://www.pharmio.ai/privacy-policy
Supplement Scanner
Analyze supplements for their clinical effectiveness and ingredient quality. Scan labels to get instant scores based on research, compare doses, and explore recommendations for various health goals. Build and track your supplement stacks.
- Clinical effectiveness scoring (0-100)
- Dose and form quality analysis
- Label scanning via camera or barcode
- Browse supplements by 20 health areas
- Nutrient explorer for best supplement per ingredient
- Supplement stack building and tracking
- Personalized supplement recommendations
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BioStacks scores every supplement from 0 to 100 based on published clinical research — not marketing. Scan any bottle to see how its doses compare to human trials, whether the forms absorb, and whether it's worth your money. NO "PRODUCT NOT FOUND" Most scanners hit a wall when a product isn't in their database. BioStacks doesn't. Point your camera at any Supplement Facts label — a new launch, an indie brand, an imported bottle — and we read the ingredients, doses, and forms straight off the label and scores it on the spot. No barcode needed, no dead-ends. Already in our catalog? Scan the barcode for an instant match. HOW THE 0–100 SCORE WORKS Every ingredient is scored on three things, multiplied together: • Clinical dose — your dose is compared against the range used in published trials, not the Daily Value. A 10 mg dose of an ingredient studied at 500 mg scores near zero. Sub-therapeutic "sprinkle" doses are punished, and there's no bonus for mega-dosing. • Form & bioavailability — the chemical form decides how much you actually absorb. Magnesium glycinate scores far above magnesium oxide. Methylfolate beats folic acid. Ubiquinol beats ubiquinone. • Evidence weight — ingredients with strong RCT and meta-analysis support count for more than ones backed only by mechanism or tradition. A separate Safety score — overdoses, interactions, and inactive-ingredient ratings — only pulls the final number down, never up. A clean but under-dosed product is still a bad product, and BioStacks says so. We cover 380+ active ingredients with clinical dose ranges; blends that hide per-ingredient doses score low. Every product shows a per-ingredient verdict like "8% of effective dose — negligible," plus "Underdosed" and "Proprietary blend" flags. LAB TESTING & PURITY Efficacy is our focus; purity counts too. We surface third-party certifications (NSF, USP Verified, Informed Sport) and brand testing practices — heavy-metapurity screening, batch COAs, cGMP — right on the product page, and a fake per-bottle "tested" claim. Does it work — and is it clean? 20 HEALTH AREAS, RANKED BY SCIENCE Find the best supplements for Sleep, Stress & Mood, Skin, Hair, Immune, Digestion, Muscle, Hormones, Liver, Longevity, General Health, Metabolism, and more. Each area has its own clinically weighted scoring — ranked by dose, form and science. NUTRIENT EXPLORER & "BEST FOR" GUIDES Best magnesium for sleep? Best vitamin D? Search 99 ingredient dossiers and the real trials, with PubMed citations. STACK INTELLIGENCE Build a stack by scan or search, then run it through five analyses: Safety (overdoses, risky interactions), Coverage (gaps across your goals, with products to fill them), Dosing (each dose vs. its clinical range, plus weak-form alerts), Value (cost per day), and Optimization. Schedule doses, build a streak, get reminders, and share your stack with a link. Or ask the built-in AI ("Does this actually work?", "Is my stack overdosing?"), grounded in our scoring and clinical data. WHAT MAKES BIOSTACKS DIFFERENT Most scanners dead-end when a product isn't in their database — scan a new bottle and get an error, not an answer. The ones that find it rate brand trust, which won't tell you if the ingredients work at those doses. A certified brand can sell 10 mg when the clinical dose is 500 mg; that rating misses it, BioStacks reads the label and catches it. Every score is grounded in clinical trials and meta-analyses — no marketing, no influencers — just science. DISCLAIMER Every score is grounded in published clinical trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. No marketing claims. No influencer endorsements. Just the science. BioStacks does not provide medical advice. Scores are based on published clinical research for informational purposes only. Consult a healthcare professional before use. Terms of Use: https://biostacks.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://biostacks.co/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Supplement Scanner at 4.8 against Pharmio's 3.0. Supplement Scanner also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). Pharmio's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. Pharmio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Supplement Scanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Supplement Scanner holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Supplement Scanner has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pharmio ships an update every 11 days, Supplement Scanner weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pharmio | Supplement Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PHARMIO, MB | Vladislav Proskurov |
Customer experience
Pharmio
Supplement Scanner
In-app purchases
Pharmio
- Monthly Full Access$12.991 Month
- Yearly Full Access$79.991 Year
Supplement Scanner
- BioStacks Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
- Pro Monthly$12.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$39.991 Year





