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ANDROID APP / Food

Open Food Facts.

By Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts is a nonprofit that keeps a collaborative database of packaged foods. Its Android app, linked from the official site, opens a shared product record from a barcode, including nutrition and environmental notes shown in the project's app mockup. The press hub calls that app open source, ad-free, and privacy-first. The terms and press pages checked do not state a download price.

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Three phones showing the Open Food Facts app and its logo

The F7 Insight

Open Food Facts turns a grocery barcode into a public record instead of a private loyalty profile. For F7, the Android app is a practical scanner from a French nonprofit, and the press mockup used here is media the project itself marks as Creative Commons.

WHAT MAKES IT INTERESTING

A closer look.

  • 01

    Scan a barcode to open a collaboratively edited packaged-food record.

  • 02

    Read nutrition details and environmental notes such as Nutri-Score and Eco-Score in the official mockup.

  • 03

    Use product photos that contributors place under CC BY-SA, with the database under the Open Database License.

  • 04

    Install the Android app from the Google Play listing linked on the official site.

  • 05

    Read the project description of the app as open source, ad-free, and privacy-first.

Sources & credits

Verified against the sources below. Features, pricing, and availability may change; check the creator’s current information before installing or buying.

Artwork acknowledgments

Official Open Food Facts Android app mockup from the press hub. The hub states that media are CC-BY-SA, and the terms of use identify images as CC BY-SA 3.0. Open Food Facts. Image used unmodified.

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