“Free trial is a scam — I was told I was getting a 3 day free trial, however when I signed up, I was immediately charged $28 for an annual subscription with no free trial, and Apple denied my dispute request. Complete scam.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 508 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★40,202 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
223 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Olive: Healthy Food & Cosmetic Scanner - Premium Yuka Alternative & Ingredient Checker. Your Personal Guide to Living Healthy
Looking for a food scanner, cosmetic scanner, and ingredient checker that helps you eat healthy, avoid toxic additives, and find cleaner alternatives? Olive is an all-in-one barcode scanner, food checker, cosmetic checker, AI health companion, and holistic health app that makes healthy living easier. Instantly scan products to reveal gluten, seed oils, synthetic additives, allergens, toxins, endocrine disruptors, processed sugar or preservatives. Whether you’re vegan, managing food allergies, avoiding seed oils, cleaning up skincare, or trying to feel better, Olive helps you make healthier choices. Free trial available. Subscription required.
◆ FEATURES OF OUR FOOD & COSMETIC SCANNER*
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 3.47.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.47.0, updated 2026-09-27.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (3.7% of 508 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall with no way past it
A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.
What we saw: Paywall with no way past it: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 508 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 508 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 508 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“They take your money! — I download the app and I was offered a 14 day free trial, have used the app twice and a today a week later I got charged over $50 for an annual subscription!!! Im so upset they tricked me and took my money I want…”
““Free” paid trial — Charged me for free trial with no refund after cancelling membership, tried to fear monger me into signing up again by claiming the day after the “membership” expired by sending a notification that something scanned…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.47.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.