Vegan Pocket - Is it Vegan? Reviews

So “free w/ in-app purchases”? Sorry, but I couldn’t launch VeganPocket without a subscription. It immediately asks to start a 3-day, free trial. That’s the shortest free trial I’ve ever heard of. On top of that, I got VeganPocket to find out if something was vegan. I definitely felt that this item wasn’t and wanted to verify.

So, fire up VeganPocket , sign up for a subscription… as we all know, “Free trial” means subscription. It’s on you to cancel. Anyway, I scan the product and it asks me “Do you think this is vegan?”. Now, I understand that it’s crowd-sourced, but to expect someone to pay money to be like “What do you think? Three other people don’t think that it is.” is offensive. I can go on Reddit for crowd opinion without any verification and NOT pay $4.99/wk! (Default Subscription).

What stinks is that I’m sure there’s some value here that warrants a 4-star rating, but I’ll never see it. I’m immediately turned off by this ham-fisted subscription model and an app that asks me what I think when I’m looking for answers. Only my therapist can answer my questions with questions. Again, I bet there’s some hard work and value here, but VeganPocket has already ruined its chances with me.

VeganPocket definitely scans things like it’s supposed to and it has helped me identify some vegan stuff when I needed help, as well as given helpful advice for new vegans, but somewhere along the line I found out I needed to back up my phone or possibly restore it and when I re-downloaded VeganPocket on my iPod to test to make sure I could restore The purchase of my subscription instead of having to pay for a new subscription altogether at the same time I am paying for an existing subscription, I didn’t see one. Also, there was no two month free trial. It charged my account immediately. I looked for some kind of support/customer service team to notify about this and couldn’t find anything. This is making me second guess my decision to subscribe to VeganPocket.

Scanned 2 items after pressing the carrot and VeganPocket asked me to enter product name and brand plus whether or not I thought it was vegan. Now VeganPocket simply states “Looking for your product...” with a small spinning animation when I press the carrot. It no longer allows me to scan anything. No apparent functionality. Also, another reviewer states that VeganPocket is to simply add products to their database, but does not tell us which app is meant to tell us which products are vegan or not. Overall, pretty worthless and disappointing that this was on Apple’s app of the day section in VeganPocket Store.

I downloaded this to try out the scanner feature. After opening VeganPocket , it offered me a 2 month free trial and then a paid subscription after that. So I did it to try it out but it charged my account right away for the year subscription, so I did not get to try it out first. Then, the scanner DOESN'T WORK! Every time I scan an item it either crashes or says "Looking for your product..." and apparently never finds it because the screen never changes after that. Very disappointed and I would like my money back but the develop says subscription are non-refundable!

I thought there would be actual recipes and dietary information. There is nothing helpful about VeganPocket. The recipes that appear in the main menu don’t even seem real. They show a picture of soba noodles and carrots and then list the ingredients as enriched macaroni and other items that don’t match the photo. There’s a link to “more recipes” that doesn’t work. When you scan items it has you rate them yourself and the items simply disappear. You can’t even see the nutritional content as is common practice with any other app I have ever used for scanning ingredients. Beyond disappointing!

I like VeganPocket.. but I think it needs to be updated. There’s A LOT of thing that’s aren’t on VeganPocket and you as the user would have to add and when asked if I think a product is vegan I can’t even get a visual of what you’re talking about and I can’t see the ingredients which is a HUGE PART of knowing whether or not the product is or isn’t vegan. Add these few things and you’ll had one hell of an app that’ll help beginners!

I'm recently vegan and love to use VeganPocket because it is very convenient but I feel like it could be improved. As I do also have a food tracker app, those apps have all of the nutritional information available when you scan the barcode, I tried scanning an item with milk products in it and it doesn't give a definite yes or no, just a vote. It's a great idea and the voting is great for products with bar codes not yet logged into VeganPocket , but I would most preferably like a definite yes or no if it is vegan or not.

When I opened VeganPocket it said sign up for a free trial, and when I did it automatically charged me $55 for the annual membership. Currently working with Apple to get a refund. I did check VeganPocket out but everything I scanned just came up with a voting tool “Do you think it’s vegan?” And showed how many people thought the product was vegan....didn’t actually show any ingredients or say whether it was vegan or not. Seems like VeganPocket is just a “how many people think this product is vegan” voting tool. Doesn’t give any factual information about the product.

I just spent $20 on a yearly subscription for an app that doesn’t do everything it’s advertising and now I want my money back! This is a rip off and I do disappointed that I wasted my time and money on this. This is not going to be beneficial to anyone try to translation to Vegan. There are literally 2 recipes on here and they repeat like 3 times and the link on the first page doesn’t even have work. There’s no contact support to get help either so I’m writing this review in hopes of getting my $20/yr back. I will NOT be renewing this subscription next year.

Downloaded VeganPocket and when I opened it, it offered a two month free trial. Didn’t want one so I tried tapping out of it but the confirmation for the trial with the fingerprint kept popping up so I decided to exit. Pressed the home button but didn’t know the confirmation would pop up and accidentally subscribed. But the funny thing is, I didn’t even get a free trial. It charged me right away for around 20 dollars. Requested a refund right away with apple, obviously. But when I went to at least check out VeganPocket , it sucked anyways. Unusable.

OK EVERYONE, VeganPocket is to have you HELP the creators by letting them know what's vegan or not. so whenever you scan an item it asks you if it's vegan it's asking so they can put it in their database. there's a completely separate app for scanning items to see if they're vegan for you. please read the description before you leave a review, thank you.

Wish it were a zero.

VeganPocket said that you could try it for a free trial but it billed my account $20 for the next year. Unscrupulous. Furthermore,It is merely peoples opinion as to whether a product is vegan or not. A third of the items I scanned I had to form my own opinion and they’re using that in their database now for other people to gauge whether or not the product is valid. What’s to prevent the owners of the products from going in and liking all of their things as vegan and giving skewed results.

I want my money back.

Please keep updating. I just downloaded VeganPocket as I am knew to vegan food and need help finding vegan items. I downloaded, and scanned just a couple of items I had around, and none of them were recognized. I also can’t enter them myself and label it vegan or not, because I don’t know vegan ingredients and such yet. VeganPocket could be wonderful for beginners if items were in the database

$20 a year for an app that only has three recipes? And can’t identify a single food product out of the thirty (30!!!) I tested? Not to mention that my initial purchase went through, but did not provide access to VeganPocket ? I had to buy it twice! I am a Chef, certified nutritional consultant, and health coach. I would NEVER advise my clients to use this. One of its pages even states that vegans should be eating fish for omega-3 support?!? VeganPocket is supposed to provide nutritional support for VEGANS. Incredibly sloppy, poorly thought out, and just PATHETIC. Don’t waste your money.

It’s a great idea and it would be very helpful if the products I want to know are vegan were in their database. I think I’ve gotten a definite answer if a product was vegan once or twice and I attempt to use VeganPocket often. If it’s not in the database, it then asks you if the product is vegan. How am I supposed to know? I came to VeganPocket for clarification. If I’m looking it up to see if it’s vegan anyway, then why do I have VeganPocket?

Running an iPhone 7 on iOS 11.2.2, all I got when selecting the “carrot” on the main page was a simple camera app. When held up to a number of product barcodes in my own home, nothing scanned. The only options on the screen were [Done], which took you back to the main screen without scanning the product, and the “flash” option to turn the camera flash on. Otherwise, no other options and no scanning took place as it should. I hope the DEVs fix this soon, because the concept is great.

- A QA Analyst

I downloaded VeganPocket in hopes that it would help me on my new journey towards becoming vegan. There is nothing on VeganPocket that is advertised and the features don’t work. You scan the product and it just loads, and then nothing.
VeganPocket said you could get a free trial and I was automatically charged for this. I cannot find anyway to contact the developer or customer support and am writing a review in hopes of getting a refund.
Don’t waste your money on this scam.

Don’t be fooled by the huge amount of high ratings. VeganPocket doesn’t work. I attempted to scan all sorts of common things and no results ever comes up. Also from the looks of it.... 1) I’m not the only one. 2) when it did work in the past for other people it was really just a crowdsourcing app for a binary decision of yes/no for vegan status. 3) you will get charged like $20 immediately and it’s not easy/possible to get refunded. Avoid this one.

It just sits on the loading screen and never advances from that after scanning the simplest of items. Like come on! If I’m paying for this, then it need to have a much larger database and MUCH faster processing. And not have the customer have to do the WORK of manually putting stuff in to your database for you! Especially considering we’re paying for it. We don’t work for VeganPocket or it’s developer so why should we have to do the apps job for it??? Makes no sense.

I recently purchased VeganPocket thinking it was gonna be an actual vegan product app and was excited about the free trial they offered. Needless to say they lied about the free trial and it doesn’t even tel you whether a products is vegan or not. It just asks you to vote for whether you “think” it’s vegan or not. What a complete waste of money. THE GOOD NEWS!!! Is that any one who bought this game can get a refund, just message apple and file a claim. Got my money back this morning.

My boyfriend and I (who have different phones and different versions of the operating system) both downloaded VeganPocket as it was the first one suggested on VeganPocket Store for our search for “vegan”, and every time both of us tried to open the camera to scan an item, it crashed. VeganPocket could be great, but we won’t ever know. Not worth downloading - there are plenty of great apps out there that don’t have this issue.

I started the seven day free trial and when VeganPocket didn’t do what I needed, I cancelled the subscription that same day. I then notice I get charged for VeganPocket two days later, not even seven. I tried requesting a refund because there shouldn’t have been a charge to begin with. But apparently an error not on my end wasn’t reason enough. So $30 for an app that I used for at most five minutes and cancelled the free trial (I would say) well in advance.

If you want to use the free version, don’t bother. VeganPocket claims you can use it but in practice it won’t actually let you. It claims to give you a free scan per hour but VeganPocket glitches out when you bring up the scanner, kicks you out, and when you bring it back up it tells you that you’ve used your one free scan for the hour - come back in 60 minutes. Basically pay $20 or don’t use it.

I was really hoping VeganPocket worked, every product I scan it says not found ! Is so frustrating, I'm just googling the food instead, I was hoping VeganPocket can make things easy but instead it's more of an app where you enter the products more than anything, I understand is free but it's still not doing what it says it would. So zero stars for this one, still looking for a decent vegan app. Thanks for your time

Scanned an item, app crashed. Scanned a different item and it ASKED me if I thought it was vegan or not... I thought that’s what VeganPocket was supposed to do?! So I assumed that item wasn’t in a database yet and was gathering crowd info instead. Gave it another shot and scanned a different item, same question.... went to try again... and I’m locked out for an hour for scanning unless I paid money. Deleted VeganPocket within a minute of downloading.

For an app with a 4 star rating it’s absolutely horrible, it doesn’t actually tell you if it’s vegan or not it just gives you a check mark and it’s not exactly helpful it also doesn’t know basic food brands like a popular brand of vegan bread. Honestly if you want to use a quick and easy app that tells you if it’s vegan use VeganPocket is it vegan? It’s not any better but it’s more useful than VeganPocket.

I think VeganPocket would be very helpful, if only I could figure out how to scan. I know you click the scan button, then hovered over the scan Thing. But I just have her there forever, and it never scans. I put it right in the box, eat even tried seeing if it would only work with the Flashlight on. Still no. If people at your department could tell me how to do this I would give you five stars. Thanks

I can press the "scan" button and it opens the camera but holding a barcode up to it does nothing. I've tried tapping all over the screen, I've made sure the barcode is clear and easy to see, and in good lighting. I've tried different products with different barcodes. It just doesn't scan.

Other apps I use are successful at scanning barcodes so I know my phone isn't the problem.

As a new vegan this helps out a ton and it prompts me to do my own research when there are no votes. To the developers thank you so much for helping me on my vegan journey.