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Is there a good app for scan food barcodes to log nutrition?

Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.

94
Opportunity /100
95
Demand /100
67
Competition /100
90
Execution gap /100
6
Apps serving it
44
Mined complaints

What users complain about

The most common complaints behind apps that try to scan food barcodes to log nutrition, mined and clustered from real reviews:

Complaint areaTypeMentionsWhat a user said
food database missing items even with barcodemissing-feature2
half of what I eat isn't available in the search even if I use a barcode
lacking food databasemissing-feature2
Database is also lacking
inaccurate food logging even via barcode scanreliability1
It's not accurate, even when scanning the food package barcode
barcode scan returns wrong caloriesreliability1
I scanned eggs the carton say 70 calories but it registers 35
barcode scanning issues for some foodsbug1
there’s a few things while scanning the barcode for certain foods
barcode scan fails or returns unrelated foodsreliability1
multiple everyday items that wouldn't show up when scanned or would come up as something extremely unrelated
barcode scanner fails or returns wrong foodbug1
when you try to scan a food barcode... it doesn’t know them or gives the wrong food
sparse food database requires manual entrymissing-feature1
Noom doesn't have many foods saved in the calorie counting section. I had to manually enter almost everything
barcode scan calorie counts inaccuratereliability1
Whenever I scan an item the calorie is off by 40cal which is huge if your trying to lose weight
no barcode scanning for recipe ingredientsmissing-feature1
the inability to scan labels when adding recipe ingredients
cant enter info for foods not in database after scanmissing-feature1
whenever I scan something most of the time the item is not available on the app and you're not able To enter the info
barcode scanner no longer recognizes foodsmissing-feature1
Scanner doesn't recognize foods that Fitbit previously recognized

Apps that already serve this

AppRatingRatingsPrice
Noom Weight Loss, Food Tracker4.7★865,829Free
Nutrition Coach: Food tracker4.8★87,684Free
Carb Manager: Keto & Macro Log4.8★729,122Free
Cal AI - Calorie Tracker4.8★324,584Free
MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter4.7★2,334,433Free
Lose It! – Calorie Counter4.8★758,188Free

Should you build it?

Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 94 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.

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