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Forkin

VS OPEN FOOD FACTS

Forkin vs Open Food Facts — le differenze reali

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.

  • SedeFrance (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)
  • Verificato2026-05-27
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Cosa non fingeremo

Dove Open Food Facts è più forte

Confrontarsi solo sui propri punti di forza è marketing, non onestà. Ecco cosa Open Food Facts fa genuinamente meglio di Forkin oggi — preferiamo che tu faccia la scelta giusta piuttosto che sceglierci per default.

  • 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.

Funzionalità per funzionalità

Affiancati

Ogni riga cita una fonte pubblica. Le righe che non siamo riusciti a verificare rispetto a una fonte primaria sono contrassegnate — preferiamo segnalarle piuttosto che indovinare.

Scansione

Barcode scanning

Fonte· 2026-05-27

Forkin

Unlimited barcode scans on every tier

Unlimited barcode scanning

AR / depth meal scanner

Fonte· 2026-05-27

Forkin

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

No meal-photo or AR scan feature

Nutrizione

Scoring methodology

Fonte· 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

Fonte· 2026-05-27

Forkin

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

No in-app recipe system

Meal plans

Fonte· 2026-05-27

Forkin

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

No meal-planning feature

Shopping lists

Fonte· 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

Fonte· 2026-05-27

Forkin

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

Not applicable (no recipe system)

Sostenibilità

Environmental score

Fonte· 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

Dati e copertura

Product catalogue

Fonte· 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

Fonte· 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

Fonte· 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

Fiducia e sicurezza

EU company & GDPR jurisdiction

Fonte· 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.

Fonte· 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

Fonte· 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

Fonte· 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

Fonte· 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

Prezzi

Paid pricing

Fonte· 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

Piattaforme

Platforms

Fonte· 2026-05-27

Forkin

iOS, Android, web (forkin.io)

iOS, Android, web

Bibliografia

Ogni affermazione, documentata

Questi sono gli URL primari che abbiamo usato per verificare ogni riga in questa pagina. Se una riga è sbagliata, inviaci la fonte pubblica che la contraddice — 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