Yuka vs Fig: General Score vs Dietary Fit

Two popular food apps with different jobs, and where each fits.

In short

Two popular food apps with different jobs, and where each fits.

The core difference

General food apps judge a product against broad criteria, a health score or a diet pattern. A personal-list approach starts from the specific ingredients you react to. For food-triggered skin reactions, that personal angle is usually what matters.

Check it against your own list

A free scanner like Yuka gives a packaged product a general health score, which is a useful broad read, though that verdict is the same for everyone rather than tuned to your skin. Fig is genuinely good for managing a defined eating pattern. To check a product against the specific things that make your skin react, a personal-list app like ClearaScan lets you save your triggers once and scan any product, food, medication or cosmetic, against your ingredient guard list, flagging only yours. It also keeps a Reaction Journal so you can tie a flare back to the product that caused it, a shared Care Circle so family can scan for you, and a Trusted Products list. It is currently in early access. (Disclosure: our editor co-founded ClearaScan, and we are not paid to mention the others.)