Yuka vs Fig: Scores Versus Verdicts
Yuka is the most downloaded food scanner by a wide margin, and it is genuinely good at what it does. It just does not do the thing people on a restricted diet need, and the difference is worth being precise about.
| Yuka | Fig | Aisleful | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it returns | A score out of 100 | Fits / does not fit your profile | Fits / depends / does not, with the number |
| Based on | Nutrition, additives, organic | Your diet profile | Your rule and your threshold |
| Knows your daily limit | No | No | Yes — you set it |
| Useful for allergens | Flags additives, not your allergens | Yes | Not at launch — deliberately |
| Price | Free with paid tier | $39.99/year | $19.99/year planned |
| Available today | Yes | Yes | No |
Where we lose
Yuka is free, fast, and has an enormous user base for good reason. If you want a general sense of whether a product is a reasonable thing to eat, it answers that better than we will. It cannot tell you whether a bar fits inside 20 g of net carbs, because it does not know that you are keeping to 20 g. That is not a flaw in Yuka; it is a different product.
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Common questions
- Is Yuka good for keto?
- Not directly. Its score reflects general nutritional quality and additives, not your carbohydrate limit — a high-scoring product can be entirely wrong for keto.
- Is Yuka accurate?
- Its scoring method is published and consistently applied. Whether you agree with the weighting is a separate question from accuracy.
- What do I use for a numeric diet rule?
- Today, a tracking app plus reading labels. That combination is what this site is testing whether to replace.
Competitor pricing and free-tier limits were checked on 2026-08-31 from public listings and can change without notice. If something here is out of date or wrong, we would rather know.