Is the Yuka app free? Yes — here's what's free and what £15/year adds

Last reviewed: 10 June 2026

Published 10 June 2026 • App Guides • 6 min read

We're NutraSafe — we make a competing food scanner, so this isn't a neutral source. But the question deserves a straight answer rather than a sales page, so here it is, with every Yuka fact drawn from Yuka's own UK App Store listing and the date we checked it.

Yuka's pricing below was verified against its UK App Store listing on 10 June 2026. We only quote prices that appear on the app's own listing. If Yuka changes its tiers, the contact page reaches us and we'll update this.

Quick answer

Yes, Yuka is free for the thing most people want it for. Scanning a barcode and seeing the 0–100 score costs nothing, indefinitely. Yuka Premium is £15/year — the in-app purchase list shows £10, £15 and £20 yearly options because Yuka lets you choose what you pay — and it adds three things: a search bar, an offline mode and unlimited scan history. The scoring itself is identical on both tiers.

What you get without paying

The free tier is the full scan-and-verdict experience: point the camera at a barcode, get the 0–100 score, see the breakdown of additives and nutritional quality behind it, and browse suggested alternatives from Yuka's catalogue. There's no scan cap and no trial clock — the free tier is permanent, not a teaser. Yuka's catalogue is primarily French in origin (the app was founded in France in 2017), and UK coverage has grown, though own-label ranges from UK supermarkets aren't guaranteed to be there.

What Premium costs and what it adds

Yuka's UK App Store description quotes £15/year for Premium. The in-app purchase list shows three yearly amounts — £10, £15 and £20 — because Yuka runs a choose-what-you-pay model within that range. Premium adds, per the listing:

A search bar — look up a product by name without having the packet in front of you.
Offline mode — scans work without signal, useful in supermarkets with poor reception.
Unlimited history — the free tier keeps a limited scan history; Premium keeps all of it.

Worth being clear about what Premium doesn't change: the score. Free and Premium users see the same 0–100 number on the same products. You're paying for convenience features, not better analysis.

What Yuka doesn't do on any tier

None of this is a criticism — Yuka is a scan-and-verdict tool by design — but it's the part people usually discover after a few weeks, so it belongs in the pricing answer:

No daily food diary. Yuka tells you about the packet; it doesn't keep a record of what you actually ate across the day or week.
No vitamin and mineral tracking. There's no view of your intake against UK NRVs.
No NOVA classification. The 0–100 score is Yuka's own framework, weighting additives and nutritional quality — it doesn't badge foods against the NOVA processing groups that drive the ultra-processed-food conversation. Our UPF app comparison covers which apps do.
No reaction or symptom logging. If you're trying to connect foods to bloating or skin flare-ups over time, that needs a diary-based tool.

If you're weighing Yuka against other scanners

We've written the longer comparisons separately, with each app's pricing verified the same way: the side-by-side Yuka comparison, the wider food scanner round-up tested with 50 products, and a look at the Ivy food app's cost and the free alternatives — Ivy being the scanner most often weighed against Yuka in 2026.

Where our app fits

Since you're reading this on our site: NutraSafe is free to download, and the free tier covers the barcode scan with the headline processing grade and up to 25 logged foods a day. NutraSafe Pro is £3.99/month (iOS, monthly only) and unlocks the full additive analysis, vitamin and mineral tracking against UK NRVs, allergen warning detail on scans, AI Coach, AI meal scan and reaction-pattern analysis. The structural difference from Yuka: we're a diary as well as a scanner, so the app can answer "what did this week look like?" rather than only "what's in this packet?". Full breakdown on the pricing page.

Common questions

Is the Yuka app free?

Yes. Scanning barcodes and seeing the 0–100 score is free, with no time limit. Yuka's UK App Store listing (June 2026) describes a paid Premium tier at £15/year that adds a search bar, an offline mode and unlimited scan history — but the core scan-and-score loop costs nothing.

How much is Yuka Premium in the UK?

Yuka's UK App Store description quotes £15/year for Premium. The in-app purchase list shows three yearly amounts — £10, £15 and £20 — because Yuka lets you choose what you pay within that range. All figures checked against the UK listing in June 2026.

What does Yuka Premium add?

Three things, per Yuka's own listing: a search bar (look up products by name without scanning the packet), an offline mode, and unlimited scan history. The scoring itself doesn't change — free and Premium users see the same 0–100 score.

What doesn't Yuka do on any tier?

Yuka is a scan-and-verdict tool by design. It doesn't keep a daily food diary, doesn't track vitamin and mineral intake against UK NRVs, doesn't classify foods against the NOVA processing groups, and doesn't log food reactions over time. If you want any of those alongside the scan, you'd pair Yuka with a tracking app — or use one app that does both.

Try our app for yourself

Scan a UK barcode in NutraSafe and you'll see the processing grade, the full ingredients list and every E-number with what it does in the food. Free to download, with up to 25 logged foods a day on the free tier. NutraSafe Pro (£3.99/month, iOS, monthly only) unlocks the full additive analysis, vitamin and mineral tracking against UK NRVs, allergen warning detail, AI Coach, AI meal scan and full reaction-pattern analysis.

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We're a tracking tool, not a clinic — if you're investigating food reactions, the diary is something to take to your GP or dietitian.