Independent · Regulator-backed · Brand-funded by nobody
Solini scores every product on the shelf against published regulatory data — the actual EFSA opinions, IARC monographs, and ANSES warnings. Food. Skincare. Anything with a barcode. No opinions. No brand influence.
Free, no account required to scan your first 50 products.
Seven regulators, no opinions of our own
Every flag in the app points back to a specific decision — a ban, a warning label, a published classification. Tap any score and you see the receipt.
THE GAP · ISSUE 01
The front of the package is marketing. The ingredient panel is the law. Solini surfaces the gap between the two, on every scan.
FRONT OF BOX"Made with the natural goodness of corn. Excellent source of 8 vitamins & minerals."
Capped at 49. The vitamins are fortified back in after the corn is stripped.
FRONT OF BOTTLE"No more tears. Hypoallergenic. Clinically proven mildness since 1953."
"Hypoallergenic" is unregulated in the US. The EU formulation is different.
FRONT OF BOX"Made with real fruit. Good source of 7 vitamins & minerals. 0g trans fat."
"Real fruit" = 2% pear concentrate. The filling is largely corn syrup.
FRONT OF BOX"Heart-healthy whole grain oats. May help reduce the risk of heart disease."
Genuine whole grain. But the heart-claim only applies to plain Cheerios, not the Honey Nut SKU.
FOOD & PERSONAL CARE
Every score reads the ingredient list the same way whether you scan a cereal box, a face cleanser, a tube of toothpaste, or a tin of tuna.
PURESCORE METHODOLOGY
Three independent components, weighted 60 / 30 / 10. Hard ceilings when something unforgivable is on the ingredient list. The math is published, not opaque.
Nutri-Score grade from the EU public-health authority. A = 100 · B = 70 · C = 40 · D = 20 · E = 5.
Per-additive deductions by risk class. Caution −12, Avoid −25, Hazard −50. Caps if any present.
100 if an official organic certification is on the package. 0 otherwise. No middle ground.
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FEATURE COMPARISON
We genuinely admire what Yuka started. Solini is the next iteration — more sources, deeper citations, both aisles.
BY THE NUMBERS
Open Food Facts & Open Beauty Facts contributors maintain the world's largest open product database. Solini sits on top.
Anything in a major chain — Whole Foods, Target, Walmart, Trader Joe's — comes up instantly by barcode. Niche brands fall back to photo search.
No "verified clean" badges sold. No sponsored scores. No preferred-ingredient placements. Revenue comes only from Premium subscribers.
Cross-referenced against published regulatory decisions. Each carries the specific authority, year, and decision text behind the flag.
COMMUNITY + ALERTS
Solini's community shares reviews and warnings on the products everyone's actually buying. When a recall or regulatory action hits a product you've scanned, you see it next to your coffee — not three weeks later in your feed.
California passed a school cafeteria ban for the 2027-2028 school year. Several states are advancing similar legislation requiring warning labels.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer moved aspartame to "possibly carcinogenic to humans." JECFA reaffirmed the ADI but advised reviewing chronic exposure.
FDA expanded monitoring of PFAS migration from packaging. Look for PTFE or polytetrafluoroethylene in ingredients — both fluoropolymer flags.
We scanned 14 "kids' fruit snacks" at our local Target. Twelve of fourteen scored under 35. Eleven listed Red 40 or Yellow 5. Solini did in 90 seconds what reading every label takes 45 minutes.— internal field test, San Diego, Apr 2026
PRICING
Scanning, scoring, hazard flags, banned-abroad warnings, and the full source citations are all free. Premium adds the convenience layer.
FAQ
Solini cites the specific regulatory decision behind every flag — the EFSA opinion, the IARC monograph, the ANSES warning. Other apps stop at "avoid this" without telling you who decided that and when.
Solini also covers personal care and food in one scoring system. We run a soft cap of 60 for moderate additives and a hard cap of 49 for hazardous ones, so a single bad ingredient can't be redeemed by vitamins fortified back in.
Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts for product identity and ingredients. Nutri-Score for the nutritional dimension. Regulatory cross-reference against FDA, EFSA, IARC, ANSES, JECFA, NTP, and California Prop 65.
USDA FoodData Central, Nutritionix, FatSecret, and Edamam plug in once API keys are configured. The app shows you which sources fired on each scan.
Yes. Unlimited barcode scans, hazard flags, banned-abroad warnings, multi-source citations, save and blacklist — all free, no account needed.
Premium ($19/yr) adds photo search for off-database items, cart-mode multi-scan, weekly digests, friends, and unlimited history. The free tier is intentionally the most useful tier.
No. Solini takes zero brand money. No sponsored scores. No advertised products. No "verified clean" badges sold to manufacturers.
Revenue comes only from Premium subscribers, which keeps us aligned with the person scanning, not the person selling.
Because a single hazardous additive — a substance an authoritative body has classified as carcinogenic, banned in another market, or restricted — is not redeemed by adding fiber elsewhere.
A product with TBHQ, BHT, potassium bromate, or Red 40 gets a ceiling, no matter how many vitamins are fortified in. Same for Nutri-Score D or E. The ceiling is the honesty signal.
Solini falls back to photo search using a vision model that reads the ingredient panel directly off the package.
You can also contribute the product to Open Food Facts in two taps from inside the app — your scan helps the next person scanning the same brand.
Yes. The product database is global and the regulatory cross-reference includes EU bodies (EFSA, ANSES), WHO bodies (IARC, JECFA), US bodies (FDA, NTP, Prop 65), and a long tail of national agencies.
When EU and US formulations differ for the same brand — common in cereals and cosmetics — Solini surfaces both rows and shows the gap.
Scan history is stored encrypted in your account, accessible only to you. We never sell aggregate data to brands or third parties.
You can scan without an account for your first 50 products. After that, an account lets your scans sync across devices.
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