Chuw | Food Scanner
Erik Overweter Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Chuw | Food Scanner is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Erik Overweter. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 28, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 37 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 28
- 2026 · v2.4
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About Chuw | Food Scanner
Feel healthier, without the hype. Point your camera at a label, a piece of fruit, a meal you've cooked, or a recipe. Chuw scores it from 0 to 100 and explains exactly how it got there. Try it without an account: five scans a day. Most food apps reduce food to a letter or colour based mainly on nutrients. That does not tell you how processed something is, what has been added, or whether it suits your priorities. Chuw looks at the full picture and shows its working, backed by science. A score that actually helps See one clear score from 0 to 100, broken down line by line. Find out which ingredients helped and which brought the score down. Front-of-pack claims are checked against what is actually in the product. Made for your priorities Choose from six focus areas: gut, energy, heart, brain, hormones, and muscle. Chuw evaluates food against the priorities you choose, rather than a generic average. More than barcodes Scan packaged food, loose produce, a plated meal, or a recipe you found online. If it's food, Chuw can help you understand it. What's in the app • A food diary that updates from your scans • Chuw's own recipes, each with its score, free to browse • Recipes based on what you already have at home • A week planner: dinners for the evenings you cook, lunches you cook once, and one shopping list for the week • A shopping list that scores items as you add them • Shared shopping lists and recipes for your household, updated live • Side-by-side product comparisons • Receipt scanning that scores your entire shop • Insights, with a weekly reflection on what you ate and your weekly score every Sunday Free and Premium Free includes three scans per day, your diary, your goals, Chuw's recipes and your weekly reflection. A new account starts with two weeks of Premium, no card needed. Premium includes up to 30 scans per day, plus making recipes and a week planner, a scored shopping list, receipt scanning, product comparisons, claim checking, and one change to try each week. Premium also covers up to five people you invite, for the shopping lists, recipes, week plan and pantry you share. Plan the week together, or just share the shopping list. Chuw is a wellness app, not medical advice. It uses AI to read labels and may misread or miss information, including allergens. Always check the physical label, especially if you have an allergy. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 2.4 · Updated October 28, 2026
• Scan without an account: five scans a day, and keep them later in a free account • Chuw's own recipes: browse them free, each with its score • Share shopping lists and recipes with your household, and plan the week together if you like • Pantry: what you have at home stays off your shopping list • Week planner: three ideas for each evening, and you pick one • Your weekly score every Sunday evening, and your goals week by week in Insights • A fresh start: a quicker welcome, goals as tiles and a short intro on each page • Your screen stays on while a recipe is open, plus many smaller fixes
App privacy
The developer, Erik Overweter, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: Device ID, User ID
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Health & Fitness: Health
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Customer Support
Used for: Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
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