ComfiSkin vs Ingredio
Ingredio labels each ingredient in your food and cosmetics safe or hazardous, and pays for itself with ads and small in-app purchases. ComfiSkin explains what each ingredient does, checks the product against your skin, and has no ads at all.
Data Not Collected
Data collected
- Approximate location
- Device IDs
- Photos
- Name and email
The short answer
Ingredio runs on ads and in-app purchases: reviewers describe being asked to watch a video after a couple of scans, and there’s a paid “Remove Ads” option. Its App Store label says it collects no data, while its Google Play listing says it collects your approximate location, device IDs and photos. And its simple safe-or-hazardous labels have confused users.
What that means: ads in your way, a privacy story that depends on which phone you own, and labels that can alarm you about the wrong things. ComfiSkin has no ads, collects nothing, and explains ingredients in plain words.
Side by side
| ComfiSkin | Ingredio | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get after scanning | What each ingredient does, and whether the product suits your skin | Each ingredient labelled safe or hazardous, the same for everyone |
| Ads | None | Yes, says Google Play2 |
| What it costs | Nothing | Remove Ads $0.99, Premium $3.99, guides and extra saves $1.99 each1 |
| Data collected | None: your notes stay on your phone | “Data Not Collected” on iPhone; location, device IDs and photos on Android1,3 |
| Scans food labels too | No | Yes |
Scan, watch an ad, scan again
Ingredio is free to download, with ads and a handful of small purchases: Remove Ads for $0.99, Go Premium for $3.99, and Detoxification Guides and Unlimited Saves for $1.99 each.1 Google Play marks it “Contains ads”.2 A developer reply on the App Store explained that users are asked to watch an ad so they can keep using the app for free, and reviewers noticed.5
“App only allowed me two scans then ask to watch video”
“it should have offered the full pricing upfront”
ComfiSkin has no ads and no purchases. Scan as many products as you like, and the answer is the first thing you see.
What that means for you: in a busy shop, an advert stands between you and your answer. In ComfiSkin, nothing does.
Two privacy labels, two different stories
On the App Store, Ingredio’s privacy label says “Data Not Collected”.1 On Google Play, its data safety section says it collects approximate location and device IDs for analytics, and photos, name, email and user IDs for other purposes.3 An ad-supported app collecting nothing at all would be unusual, so it’s hard to know which label to trust.
ComfiSkin doesn’t need two stories. It shows no ads, so it has no reason to collect anything about you, and your skin profile, shelf and notes stay on your phone.
What that means for you: what Ingredio collects seems to depend on which store you downloaded it from. With ComfiSkin, the answer is the same everywhere: nothing.
Safe or hazardous isn’t the whole story
Ingredio labels each ingredient safe or hazardous, based on its own scoring of chemical databases.4 Two words can’t capture how much of an ingredient is in a product, or whether it suits your skin, and users have found the results puzzling.
“Apparently parabans are ok but apparently water is hazardous.”
ComfiSkin explains what each ingredient is there to do, puts the ones you avoid first, and gives you a verdict for your skin rather than a label for everyone.
What that means for you: a “hazardous” label can frighten you off a perfectly good product. ComfiSkin tells you why, and whether it matters for you.
What to do if you use Ingredio
- Don’t act on “hazardous” alone. Look up what the ingredient does and how much of it is likely to be there.
- On Android, check its location permission and turn it off if you don’t want it shared.
- Scan your products in ComfiSkin. No ads, no data collected, and an answer for your skin.
Sources
- Ingredio on the US App Store: in-app purchases and App Privacy label. apps.apple.com
- Ingredio on Google Play. play.google.com
- Ingredio on Google Play, data safety section. play.google.com
- Ingredio website and its statement of 24 February 2017 describing its hazard scoring. ingred.io, ingred.io
- Apple’s public feed of US App Store reviews of Ingredio, read 11 October 2026. itunes.apple.com
More comparisons
Scan without the ads
What each ingredient does, and whether it suits your skin. Nothing collected.
- Free, all of itNo plans, trials or paywalls. Every feature, for everyone.
- No sign-upNo account, no email, no password to lose.
- No ads, no trackingNothing about you is sold, shared or followed around the web.
- Your notes stay on your phoneWith a password-protected backup that only you control.
- Never asks for your faceIt reads the label, not you.
- Answers for your skinYour skin type, concerns, avoid list and routine, every time.