Picky: Food Ingredient Scanner
Taner Sezer Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Picky: Food Ingredient Scanner is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Taner Sezer. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 6, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 41 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 6
- 2026 · v1.2.0
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About Picky: Food Ingredient Scanner
Picky tells you what's really inside your food. Point your camera at a barcode and get a clear answer in seconds: looks clean, heads up, or skip it. WHY PICKY • One tap, one answer. Green, amber or red, no scores to decode. • Every flag explained. See exactly which ingredient triggered it and why it matters, in one plain sentence. • Your rules, not ours. Turn off what you don't care about, switch on your allergens. • Ingredients highlighted. The full ingredient list with the problem items marked in color. • Nutri-Score A–E and calories for 100 g, a portion or the whole pack. • Family profiles. Set allergens for each person and choose who you're shopping for. • Cleaner picks. Better products from the same shelf that pass everyone's filters. NO BARCODE? TAKE A PHOTO Picky reads the ingredient list and the nutrition table from a photo, right on your iPhone, and shows only what it could read clearly. WHAT PICKY FLAGS • Artificial dyes (Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1 and more) • High-fructose corn syrup • Hydrogenated fats • Seed oils (canola, soybean, sunflower, corn...) • Palm oil • Artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame K) • Controversial preservatives (BHA, BHT, TBHQ, nitrites, benzoates) • Gut-irritating additives (carrageenan, polysorbate 80, CMC) • Sugar in the top three ingredients • Ultra-processed foods (NOVA 4) • Heavy-metal risk by food category (rice, dark chocolate, high-mercury fish and more), with the source • MSG and artificial flavors (for information) YOUR ALLERGENS Milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, gluten, fish, shellfish and sesame. Anything you select is always flagged in red. Mark an allergy as serious and "may contain" warnings are flagged in red too. WORKS WITH LABELS IN ANY LANGUAGE Picky reads ingredient data from Open Food Facts, a free database of millions of products worldwide. Imported product with a French or German label? Picky still understands it. NO ACCOUNT No account, no sign-up. Your filters, family profiles and scan history stay on your iPhone. Available in English, Turkish and 23 European languages. Picky is for information only and is not medical advice. Always check the package, especially if you have a food allergy.
What’s new
Version 1.2.0 · Updated October 6, 2026
• Picky AI's take: a short comment on each product, written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence • New look: light, dark or system appearance and three color themes • Nutri-Score A–E and calories for 100 g, a portion or the whole pack • Photo reading of ingredients and nutrition tables, on your iPhone • Family profiles: allergens per person, choose who you're shopping for • "May contain" warnings and a serious-allergy setting • Processing level (NOVA) and heavy-metal risk by food category, with sources • Cleaner picks from the same category
App privacy
The developer, Taner Sezer, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics
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