Short answers to the questions we hear most often. Longer scoring detail lives on How It Works; data-handling detail is in our privacy policy.
A physician-developed health scanner app. Scan any product barcode and get a 0 to 100 health score based on ingredients, nutrition, and processing level. Works for food, wine, beer, spirits, beauty, pet, household, and oral care products.
Yes. Scanning, scores, ingredient explanations, and the Try This Instead alternative are all free. A premium subscription unlocks unlimited Sage AI questions, top-product leaderboards, and routes 95% of the fee to the charity you choose.
Bryan Edward Long, MD, a practicing physician, together with a small engineering team. Every scoring rule has a clinical rationale and is referenced against peer-reviewed research, USDA FoodData Central, the EWG Skin Deep hazard database, and the EU cosmetic-banned list.
85 to 100 is Excellent: minimally processed, no concerning ingredients. 70 to 84 Good: short ingredient list, at most one minor concern. 55 to 69 Fair: some processed inputs, watch portion size. 40 to 54 Poor: multiple concerning ingredients. 0 to 39 Very Poor: at least one high-concern additive or ultra-processed formulation.
We maintain a curated list of additives with known or suspected health concerns: partially hydrogenated oils, sodium nitrite, BHA, BHT, artificial colors like Red 40, titanium dioxide, carrageenan, aspartame, and so on. Each hit deducts points. The Concern Ingredients card on the result screen names the specific offender and the specific reason it is flagged.
Yes. Whenever a product scores below 60 we surface a same-category higher-scoring alternative with a clear delta like "scores 79 vs 59 — 49% cleaner". Every alternative includes an Amazon buy link carrying our affiliate tag.
Unique to us. For every wine we compute a headache risk from listed sulfites, tannins (via varietal heuristics), histamines (red vs white, fortified yes/no), and sugar level. The result is a low/moderate/high rating with the specific factors named plus a hydration tip. This is not a medical diagnostic, just a personal-pattern helper.
Three revenue lines. Subscriptions: 95% routes to the charity the user selects via every.org; 5% covers payment processor fees. Affiliate commissions: Amazon Associates plus smaller retailer programs. B2B API: tiered at $49, $199, $499 per month for companies building on our scoring. We do not sell user data, run display ads, or monetize scan history.
Yes. Scans are associated with your account so your history syncs across devices, but we do not share that data with advertisers, data brokers, or any third party beyond the minimum needed to run the service (Apple and Google for sign-in, Stripe for payments, Anthropic and OpenAI for the Sage chat when you ask it a question). You can export or delete your account at any time from the Account screen. Full details in our privacy policy.
Anything without a barcode in one of our source databases. We cascade lookups through Open Food Facts, USDA FoodData Central, UPC Item DB, and Amazon's Product Advertising API when available. When a scan misses we log it to a missed_scans queue; as soon as the product appears in any source we push-notify the user that their score is ready.
The barcode scanner uses your phone's camera directly, so that part works offline. Scores are fetched from our API so a network connection is required to see a result. Your scan history is cached locally and is always available.
Continuously. We run nine autonomous nightly agents: a scorer every four hours, a self-healer every six hours, an image quality agent, a category drift agent, a search quality agent, an affiliate validator, and more. You can see the real-time health at /ops.
Android release is in active preparation. The app is built on React Native and the Android build configuration is complete; the Google Play Store listing is being finalised. Join the email list or check back soon.
Tap the feedback button on any screen and tell us what's off. User reports feed directly into the self-healer — wrong-photo reports clear the cached image for re-fetch immediately, and wrong-name or wrong-category reports are auto-applied once two users agree. You can see the queue resolve live on the ops dashboard.
Still have a question? Email bryanwayneinc@gmail.com.