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Forkin

VS OPEN FOOD FACTS

Forkin vs. Open Food Facts – die tatsächlichen Unterschiede

Open Food Facts is the open database that makes most of this category possible — Forkin is built on top of it and contributes back. Forkin adds an app-first experience: AR meal scanning, recipes with reviews, meal planning, recall alerts, environmental scoring, voice cook mode, and on-device offline caching — backed by a sustainable EU company so the lights stay on.

  • HauptsitzFrance (loi 1901 non-profit association, founded by Stéphane Gigandet on 19 May 2012)
  • HostingMain database and API on a community-run OVH dedicated server in France (since 2016); the public product-image dataset is mirrored to AWS S3 eu-west-3 (Paris) under the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program (donated, public data only — no user account data on AWS)
  • Verifiziert2026-05-27
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Was wir nicht vortäuschen

Wo Open Food Facts stärker ist

Sich nur mit den eigenen Vorteilen zu vergleichen, ist Marketing, keine Ehrlichkeit. Hier ist, was Open Food Facts heute wirklich besser macht als Forkin – wir möchten lieber, dass du die richtige Entscheidung triffst, als uns standardmäßig zu wählen.

  • Open data ethos: every product page, every field, the entire database is open under the Open Database License (ODbL) — anyone can audit, fork, or build on it.
  • Non-profit independence: French loi 1901 association, no investors to satisfy, no acquisition risk. The organization is structurally designed to outlast any single app.
  • Scientific contribution: the dataset powers peer-reviewed nutrition research, regulatory work (Nutri-Score), and 200+ third-party apps and websites including Forkin itself.
  • Free forever: there will never be a paywall on the underlying data.

Funktion für Funktion

Seite an Seite

Jede Zeile zitiert eine öffentliche Quelle. Zeilen, die wir nicht gegen eine primäre Quelle verifizieren konnten, sind gekennzeichnet – wir markieren sie lieber als zu raten.

Scannen

Barcode scanning

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Unlimited barcode scans on every tier

Unlimited barcode scanning

AR / depth meal scanner

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Depth-aware AR meal scanner — multi-second 3D scan, gram-level portion estimation

No meal-photo or AR scan feature

Ernährung

Scoring methodology

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Forkin Score — proprietary 0–100 nutritional-quality composite built on the Nutri-Score 2023 v2 base, plus transparent penalties for NOVA processing group, additive toxicology risk (49% cap when any high-risk additive is present), and IARC cancer-risk flags for processed meat (Group 1) and red meat (Group 2A). Component breakdown visible per product; environmental score and plate breakdown shown as separate scores.

Displays Nutri-Score, NOVA, environmental score (from Agribalyse) — community-maintained, no proprietary composite

Recipes

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Community recipes with ratings, reviews, forking, and per-recipe Nutri-Score + env scoring

No in-app recipe system

Meal plans

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Weekly meal plans wired to your diet, allergies, and pantry

No meal-planning feature

Shopping lists

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Shareable shopping lists with scan-to-tick in-store mode and pantry-aware swap suggestions

No shopping-list feature

Voice cook mode

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Hands-free voice-controlled cook mode with audio-narrated steps

Not applicable (no recipe system)

Nachhaltigkeit

Environmental score

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

0–100 environmental impact score (a–e grade) on every food product

Environmental score from ADEME Agribalyse on covered products; coverage varies by category

Daten & Abdeckung

Product catalogue

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

4M+ enriched products (nutrition, environmental score, NOVA, allergens, dietary); top-50k cached offline for instant scans

4M+ products (the open dataset Forkin and most peers are built on); volunteer-contributed by 16,000+ contributors — fields can be sparse or stale per product

Open data approach

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Built on Open Food Facts; enrichments contributed back to the open ecosystem

Defines the standard — entire database is open under ODbL; product images CC BY-SA; powers Forkin and dozens of other apps

Prices & shop database

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

2M+ shops globally (OpenStreetMap-sourced), user price submissions, AI receipt scanner

Open Prices: companion project for crowdsourced prices; smaller dataset, separate UX

Vertrauen & Sicherheit

EU company & GDPR jurisdiction

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

EU-registered company under GDPR enforcement; no US CLOUD Act exposure

French non-profit association under EU jurisdiction — same posture as Forkin

EU hosting & data residency

CLOUD Act exposure on the AWS image mirror is irrelevant in practice — the images are public ODbL/CC BY-SA data anyone can already download. User contribution and account data sit on the EU-only OVH infrastructure.

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

100% renewable EU servers (Germany + Finland); data never leaves EU jurisdiction

Main app and database on a community-run OVH dedicated server in France since 2016. The public product-image dataset is additionally mirrored to AWS S3 eu-west-3 (Paris) under the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program — donated infrastructure for public-domain data only, no user account information lives there

Independence

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Independent EU company; no ads, no data brokering, no acquisition

Non-profit association, donation-funded — unassailable independence; no acquisition risk

Recall alerts

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Push alerts for product recalls (US, Canadian, and French national agencies) matched against your scans and pantry

No push recall alert system in the app

Donation programme

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

5–20% of net revenue donated to partner non-profits each quarter; members vote on causes; public transparency reports

Open Food Facts itself runs on donations — Forkin contributes data + financial donations back to the project

Preise

Paid pricing

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Essential €4.99/mo (€29.99/yr) · Pro €11.99/mo (€74.99/yr) · Supporter & Champion mission tiers

Free, no paid tier

Plattformen

Platforms

Quelle· 2026-05-27

Forkin

iOS, Android, web (forkin.io)

iOS, Android, web

Literaturverzeichnis

Jede Aussage, belegt

Dies sind die primären URLs, die wir verwendet haben, um jede Zeile auf dieser Seite zu verifizieren. Wenn eine Zeile falsch ist, schicke uns die öffentliche Quelle, die ihr widerspricht – hello@forkin.io.

  1. 01https://world.openfoodfacts.org2026-05-27
  2. 02https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Food_Facts2026-05-27
  3. 03https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data2026-05-27
  4. 04https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/news/open-food-facts-incorporates-as-a-non-profit-organization2026-05-27
  5. 05https://world.openfoodfacts.org/who-we-are2026-05-27
  6. 06https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/aws-images-dataset/2026-05-27
  7. 07https://donate.openfoodfacts.org/2026-05-27
  8. 08https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nutriscore2026-05-27
  9. 09https://world.openfoodfacts.org/green-score2026-05-27
  10. 10https://prices.openfoodfacts.org/2026-05-27