Scan a barcode or the ingredient list. Checkly explains every ingredient and tells you what suits you.
Makeup, skincare, hair and body products. Setting up takes about a minute.
Choose from twenty ingredient groups, among them fragrance, essential oils, drying alcohol, silicones, parabens, talc and animal-derived ingredients. How you describe your skin only suggests a few; it never changes a score on its own.
Point the camera at the barcode. If the product isn't in the database, switch to Ingredients and read the list on the pack, or pick a photo or a screenshot of it.
A Checkly Score from 0 to 100, a band (Excellent, Good, Mediocre or Poor), a written headline, and every ingredient explained, with what you asked to avoid flagged first.
Most makeup isn't in any open database yet, so Checkly reads the list itself. Everything else follows from that.
Point the camera at an ingredient list and Checkly highlights, live, the ingredients you asked it to watch for. It works on any product, in a database or not.
Then it tells you how much it recognised, so a curved tube that was hard to read is never passed off as a full reading.
Pick a photo or a screenshot of an ingredient list, from a shop's product page or a friend's photo, and get the same highlighted reading and score as a scan in the shop.
The image is read on your phone and never uploaded.
Tap any ingredient for what it is and what it does, why Checkly flagged it, the source that rests on, and roughly how much is in there, judged by its place in the list.
No scare words and no promises about your skin. A reason is a reason, with its evidence.
Keep what you own. Checkly counts down each product's period after opening, the open-jar symbol on the pack, and can remind you before your mascara is due to go.
Reminders are scheduled on your phone. No server is involved.
Compare two products and see how alike their ingredient lists are, weighted by position: what they share, what differs, and what each contains from your avoid list.
It compares formulas. It says nothing about shade, finish or wear.
And a story-sized share card for any result.
The score is worked out on your phone the moment the ingredient list arrives, from the same inputs every time. The same product and the same answers always give the same score. No AI writes a verdict.
EU law lists ingredients above 1 % in descending order, so an ingredient near the end of the list counts for less than one near the start, and the reason says so.
A group on your avoid list counts harder, is flagged before anything else, and holds the product to Mediocre at best. You asked Checkly to flag it, so it can't come out looking fine.
Each flag carries its tier: Regulatory, where a binding EU restriction applies; Sensitivity, where it is widely reported to irritate some people; or Preference, where it is permitted and you asked Checkly to flag it.
Many makeup products aren't in any open database yet. When the barcode draws a blank, Checkly reads the ingredient list instead — from the pack, or from a screenshot.
Approximate figures, checked against the live Open Beauty Facts database on 28 September 2026. It gains and corrects products every day.
Checkly only scores what it recognised. If too little of the list could be read, it gives no score and asks for a retake. A score read from the label is capped at 74 and lists every word recognised, because an ingredient the camera missed is one Checkly couldn't count.
A product with no ingredient list on file is identified and shown, and Checkly says plainly there isn't enough to judge, rather than implying an all-clear. Food, pet food and household products are recognised and not scored.
No account, no login. Checkly never asks for your name, email address or date of birth.
No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Checkly collects no data about you or how you use it.
The camera and your photos are read on the device. Barcode and text recognition run on the phone; images are never uploaded.
Only the barcode number goes out. It is sent to Open Beauty Facts to look the product up, with nothing attached.
Reminders are local notifications. Scheduled on your phone and delivered by iOS, with no push server.
No money from brands. A score is never for sale, and there are no sponsored results.
Scan the next thing you're about to buy, or the things you already own.