Know what's really in it

Scan a barcode or the ingredients list itself, and get a straight answer about gluten - including the "may contain traces" warnings that other apps bury or skip.

Coming soon to the App Store

Free to use. No account. No ads.

The GlutenTrace start screen, Check a product, with buttons for scanning a barcode or an ingredients list
A GlutenTrace result screen showing a red Contains gluten verdict for a Dr. Oetker pizza, with WEIZENMEHL marked in the ingredient list

What it does

Scan the barcode

Looks the product up and tells you whether it contains gluten, may contain traces, or carries a regulated gluten-free claim.

The GlutenTrace check-a-product screen with options to scan a barcode or an ingredients list

Or scan the ingredients list

Photograph the label and your phone reads it on the device. Works on any product, even one no database has heard of. Nothing leaves your phone to do it.

A GlutenTrace result reading "Nothing found in what we read" after reading a label photo

See which ingredient

The gluten source is marked in the list, so you can see why - in ten languages, including the German and Italian labels that turn up in European shops.

An ingredient list where the German word WEIZENMEHL is marked in red as the gluten source

Why we built it

We are a family with celiac disease close to us. The apps we tried told us a product was "safe" without telling us how they knew - and treated a voluntary "may contain traces" warning as if it meant something precise. It does not. So we built the app we wanted: one that shows its work, and says plainly when it does not know.

(Celiac disease is spelled "coeliac" outside the US - same condition.)

Read what "may contain traces" actually means

Free, always

  • Unlimited barcode and ingredient scans
  • The safety verdict, with the reasoning behind it
  • Which ingredient is the gluten source
  • Submitting missing products to the database
  • Your last 5 scans

What Pro adds

  • The full ingredient list, with the gluten marked
  • Product photo on every scan
  • How old the data is, and a warning when it is stale
  • Unlimited scan history
  • All the articles from the family behind Renmel

Pro supports a family-run project. No ads, and we do not sell data.

A GlutenTrace Pro result screen with the full ingredient list, the gluten source marked, and the date the data was last updated

Where the data comes from

Product data comes from Open Food Facts, an open, community-maintained database, used under the Open Database License. Product photos are used under CC BY-SA. Ingredient lists change and databases lag behind - so the app tells you how old its information is, and says when it does not know instead of guessing.

openfoodfacts.org