Know what you eat. Your food. Your rules.Know before you buy.Scan. Check. Decide.Ingredients, made clear.Shop with more confidence.Works offline. Always ready.
Scan a food product and explore its ingredients against the preferences, intolerances and interest areas you choose. Less label hunting, more confidence in what you eat.
Labels are hard to decode.
Ingredient lists are long, unfamiliar, and hard to compare with what matters to you.
So shopping turns into guesswork.
Rereading labels, looking ingredients up, still unsure at the shelf.
FoodBuddy checks it in seconds.
Scan or search a product — matching ingredients are highlighted, each with its reason.
FoodBuddy is an educational ingredient exploration tool. It does not determine whether a food is safe for you and does not replace medical advice. Always verify the product label.
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Everything you need to eat with more confidence.
Ingredient Scanner
Turn long ingredient lists into something readable.
Barcode & Product Lookup
Look up packaged foods and open the full detail view.
Personalized Profile
Nine interest areas, each with its own sensitivity level.
Ingredient Breakdown
See exactly which term matched, and how it was identified.
Category Search
Browse foods and ingredients by category, no scan needed.
Works Offline
The full database sits on your device. No signal required.
How it works
Simple. Fast. Personal.
Set your profile
Choose the intolerances, allergens and ingredients that matter to you.
Scan or search
Point the camera at the ingredient list, or search the product database.
Explore the result
See which listed ingredients matched your selected interest areas — and why.
Help shape FoodBuddy
Verified buyers help steer the roadmap.
Every verified purchase issues one Supporter Code. In-app voting is planned but not live yet — for now, use your code to send feedback by category below.
What FoodBuddy does — and what it deliberately doesn’t.
What FoodBuddy can show
- Read the ingredient list you scanned, or pull it from the product database.
- Compare those listed ingredients with the interest areas you switched on.
- Show which term matched and how — direct match, keyword-identified, or unverified.
- Surface alternative names an ingredient can appear under on a label.
- Work fully offline against the database stored on your device.
What FoodBuddy cannot determine
- Decide whether a food is safe for you.
- Diagnose, treat, prevent or assess any medical condition.
- Replace the physical label — packaging and recipes change.
- Guarantee the database matches the product in your hand.
- Substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare professional.
Every claim on this site is traceable.
Where the product data comes from, how ingredient matching works, what a match means — and just as importantly, what a missing match does not mean.
Understand more. Guess less.
Start free. Upgrade when FoodBuddy becomes part of your everyday shopping.
Free
Enough to try it in a real supermarket.
$0
- Limited scans per day
- Full category search
- Basic ingredient exploration
FoodBuddy Flex
Full access, billed monthly. Cancel any time.
$9.99 / month
- Unlimited scans
- All nine interest areas with sensitivity levels
- Full scan history
- Detailed ingredient explanations
FoodBuddy Plus
For everyday shopping, not the occasional check.
$89.99 / year
or $8.99 / month
- Unlimited scans
- All nine interest areas with sensitivity levels
- Full scan history
- Detailed ingredient explanations
- Offline database updates
- Supporter voting on the roadmap
Web purchases are processed securely by Paddle, our merchant of record. In-app purchases are billed through Google Play. Cancel any time.
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Set your profile once. Then scan the next thing going into the trolley — or the pack already in your cupboard.
Important — please read
FoodBuddy is intended for general educational and informational use only. Product, ingredient, and database information may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or differ from the physical product. FoodBuddy does not determine whether a food is safe for an individual and does not provide medical, diagnostic, dietary, or treatment advice. Always read the physical product label and manufacturer information. If you have an allergy, intolerance, medical condition, or uncertainty about a food or ingredient, consult a qualified healthcare professional. We are not a medical advisor — and we do not try to be.