How we are different

Everyone else stops at the shelf.

Ingredient scanners judge a product in the abstract. Symptom trackers log your body but guess at the cause. Clear Label is the only one that closes the loop: it scores each product for your body, from your own symptoms, with a confounder-adjusted engine no scanner or diary runs.

YesPartialNoEvery Yes for Clear Label is live today.

Capability	Clear Label	Yuka	Fig	Trash Panda	Bobby Approved	EWG	Spoonful	mySymptoms	Bearable	Zoe	MyFitnessPal	Noom	Levels
Barcode scan	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	P	Y	P	N	P	Y	Y	P
Ingredient and label OCR	Y	P	P	P	P	N	P	N	N	N	N	N	N
Additive flagging	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N
Score personalized to you	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	Y	N	N	Y
Symptom, food, and context log	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	Y	P	P	P	P	P
Confounder-adjusted attribution	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	P	P	N	N	N	N
Timeline linking food to symptoms	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	Y	P	N	N	N	N
Gut biome view	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	Y	N	N	N
Lab import	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	P	N	N	N
Ask AI about your own data	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	P	N	P	P
Clinician-ready report	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	P	P	N	N	N	N
Community	Y	N	N	N	N	N	P	N	N	N	Y	Y	N

Marks reflect each product's live, publicly described capability. Competitors do some of these things well; the point is the loop from scan to symptom to attribution, which is the column on the left.

Ingredient scanners

A verdict on the product

What they focus on

Scanners like Yuka and Trash Panda are fast and independent. Point at a barcode and you get one clear read on the product itself: its additives, its flags, the same answer for everyone.

Where we go further

That answer stops at the package. Clear Label runs the same scan, then keeps going. My Score re-scores the very same product for your body, learned from what you log and how you feel, and it weighs how much of an ingredient is present, not just whether it is on the label. A day’s FODMAP load reads as a dose that stacks across everything you ate, because for many people the amount is the whole story.

We keep the habits the best scanners got right. We show our work, so a flag arrives with its reason and evidence tier instead of a mystery grade, and a community catalogue keeps coverage fresh as members submit the products we are missing.

Symptom trackers

A diary of the body

What they focus on

Trackers like Bearable log a whole life at once: mood, sleep, medications, symptoms. mySymptoms goes deep instead of wide, a decade of granular, ingredient-level logging for power users. Between them they prove people will keep a diary, and that the diary holds real signal.

Where we go further

Reading that signal is where it gets hard. Instead of matching same-day pairs, Clear Label compares each of your symptom windows against your own quiet windows, breaks meals down to the ingredient, and reports a per-ingredient odds ratio with a confidence interval. A correlation in your own logs, never a diagnosis.

mySymptoms is the depth benchmark, and it shows the price of that depth: you build every meal by hand and read the statistics yourself. Clear Label removes both. A scan decomposes a product into its ingredients automatically, and the engine runs the analysis and narrates it in plain language, with an advanced evidence view there when you want it and never required. A tracker’s breadth is not wasted here either: context you log around a meal, such as a drink, enters the engine as a covariate so it is not mistaken for the food.

Nutrition apps

Calories, glucose, and metabolism

What they focus on

Apps like Zoe and the calorie and glucose trackers answer a different question well: energy, weight, and metabolic response. Zoe even personalizes to your body through an upfront lab kit.

Where we go further

None of them attribute a symptom to an ingredient. Clear Label leaves calories out entirely and spends its attention on what an ingredient does to you. Capture stays free, there is no kit or wearable to buy, and the chronic-gut users some of these apps turn away are the ones we serve deepest.

MyFitnessPal put its barcode scanner behind the paywall. Clear Label keeps capture free forever and charges only for interpretation: the scan, the log, and the score cost nothing, and the deeper analysis is what the paid tiers buy.

The loop is the product.

Scan the label, log how you feel, and let the engine find what a scanner never could: which ingredient, at what dose, is doing this to you. Your raw data stays free forever; the paid tiers buy the interpretation.

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