1. Reading the label
Point the camera at the ingredient list. The app reads the text live with Apple’s on-device text recognition, and takes the photo by itself once the words are sharp. A long label can be read in parts: move along it and the next photo adds the rest. You can also import a photo or paste the list.
2. Recognising every name
Every word on the label is matched against 34,785 official ingredient names and their common label forms.
- Exact names are used as they are.
- A clear misreading (a letter the camera mistook for a look-alike, two names run together, a plant part left out) is corrected and marked, and you can undo it with one tap.
- Anything less certain (a missing letter, a different number, a name with several meanings) is a one-tap question, never a guess.
- Unknown names stay unknown and are never treated as fine.
3. Your watchlist
A few questions about the products you use, your skin and your hair let the app suggest which ingredient groups to point out: fragrance, drying alcohol, sulfates, silicones and others. It tells you what it picked and why, and you can change it anytime. A group is a preference, never a safety verdict.
Personal Fit
Each ingredient in a report gets one of four labels. They describe your preferences, nothing else.
- Relevant to your goals Its recorded role relates to one of your goals.
- Neutral Neither on your watchlist nor related to a goal.
- On your watchlist It belongs to something you chose to watch for. This wins, even when it also relates to a goal.
- Needs review Not identified yet. Answer the question in the report, or check the name on the pack.
Goals count only where they fit the product: skin goals for skincare, makeup and body care, your hair goal for haircare. A goal counts only when the ingredient’s leading role serves it, so a secondary listing does not (Tocopherol protects the formula; its listing as occlusive does not make it hydrating). With no goals and no watchlist, ingredients get no label at all.
“Relevant to your goals” means the ingredient’s recorded role, such as attracting water, matches what you are looking for. It does not show how well a product works. Saved reports keep a number behind each label so that older reports still open; the app does not show it, and it is not a score.
Why there is no score for a whole product
One number for a whole product reads like a safety grade, and an ingredient list cannot support one. It does not give amounts, and a product’s formula changes how each ingredient behaves. So the report says what it found: what is on your watchlist, what relates to your goals, and what still needs a look.
What it cannot know
A label lists ingredients, not amounts. Order is only roughly by amount, and Parfum can stand for many unnamed scent ingredients. Nothing here is a safety, allergy or medical assessment. If you react to a product, speak to a doctor or pharmacist.