Coming soon
Food and skincare, checked
Scan a barcode or photograph an ingredient list and get a grade you can check. When it doesn’t know something, it says so.
Coming soon to iPhone. Not on the App Store yet.
The scale
A to D follow Nutri-Score. F is Nutri-Score E, or any rule you told it never to break — and then it says “Not for you”. When there isn’t enough data, it shows “?” instead of a guess.
Most food apps fill the gaps. If a product isn’t in their database, they guess a score. Conscious Eyes doesn’t. It tells you what it couldn’t find and offers the honest alternative.
WhenThe barcode isn’t in Open Food Facts.
ItGives no grade. It switches to the ingredient scanner so you can read the packet instead.
WhenThe product database can’t be reached.
ItSays so — “No internet connection reached the product database” — rather than claiming the product doesn’t exist.
WhenA shop’s opening hours aren’t recorded.
ItShows “Hours unknown.” Not open, not closed — unknown.
WhenYou scan a shampoo or a face cream.
ItGives no overall grade. Food has Nutri-Score behind it; nothing equivalent exists for cosmetics, so a letter would be guesswork.
The app
It works at the shelf, with the packet in your hand. Everything it tells you comes from the label in front of you or from an open database.
Point the camera at a barcode and Conscious Eyes looks the product up in Open Food Facts, the open food database. You get a letter grade, a score out of 100, and a plain list of the reasons behind it — the added sugar, the sweeteners, the palm oil, and the things that are actually fine.
Photograph the ingredient list and Conscious Eyes reads it on your phone. The text recognition runs entirely offline — the photo never leaves your device.
German text is translated before it is graded, negations included. “Ohne Zuckerzusatz” is read as no added sugar, not as sugar.
Conscious Eyes finds food shops around you using OpenStreetMap, measures the distance from your own GPS position, and works out whether each one is open right now from its recorded opening hours and your phone’s clock.
Scan a shampoo or a face cream and Conscious Eyes reads its INCI list. It names the EU’s 26 declarable fragrance allergens if they are there, flags anything you told it to avoid, and warns about the two now banned outright.
It does not grade cosmetics, and it says so on the screen.
Tell Conscious Eyes about allergies, intolerances and your diet. Anything that breaks one is marked “Not for you” with the ingredient named. Add what you’d rather avoid — sugar over a limit, sweeteners, palm oil, salt, caffeine — and you get a clear warning on any product that has it.
Line up to three products side by side — scores, sugar, protein, salt, saturated fat, red flags. Every column shows the barcode and ingredient list it was graded from, so you can check the verdict rather than take it on faith.
When something grades poorly, Conscious Eyes looks for a better one in the same category. For a supermarket’s own brand it only suggests that chain’s own products, so it’s in the shop you’re standing in. Every suggestion is checked against your allergies first.
Loose fruit and vegetables have no barcode, so Conscious Eyes gives you what to look for by hand — how a ripe tomato should feel, what a tired broccoli looks like.
Every grade comes with its reasons, so you can see why and argue with it. The data underneath is open, community-run and public.
Your dietary profile, your scan history and your shopping list stay on your phone and are deleted with the app.
Where it stops
Conscious Eyes reads published ingredient lists. It cannot know about traces, factory cross-contamination, or a recipe that changed since the list was written. Always read the packet before eating or using anything you are allergic to.
Conscious Eyes is not medical advice and not a substitute for a doctor, dietitian, midwife or pharmacist. It reports what is on a label, nothing more.
Conscious Eyes isn’t on the App Store yet. If you’d like to know when it is, or you have a question, get in touch.