Kyttos A shopping companion iPhone

You already know how to shop. The pack is the hard part.

Before it goes in the basket.

Point Kyttos at the ingredient list. In a few seconds it tells you — in one sentence — whether this product works for you, your child, or whoever you’re standing there buying for.

Not a health score. Not a lecture. The thing you needed under the fluorescent lights.

App Store

Available on iPhone.

Back of a yoghurt pot, showing the ingredient list.

Point at the list

Reading…

Reading the label…

A real pack. A human sentence. No traffic-light score.

Try it like a household

Same yoghurt. Three people at home.

The pack does not change. The sentence should. Tap who you’re shopping for — the way you would in the aisle, with one thumb.

You’re shopping for Leo. Dairy is a hard stop.

A quiet supermarket dairy aisle.

The moment

Fluorescent lights. Tiny print. Someone at home who can’t have milk.

You turn the pot around. The type is smaller than your patience. Google will give you fourteen tabs and still not know that you’re shopping for Leo.

A shopper holding a packet in a supermarket aisle, reading the back of the pack.

Why this exists

Generic apps rate the product. You don’t buy products for a generic person.

Database apps look up a barcode and paint it green or red for “people.” Kyttos reads the list in your hand, against the household you actually have — conditions, allergies, a pregnancy, a child who cannot guess.

If you have histamine intolerance, you already know the allergen box never mentioned you. If you shop for two different people in the same trip, you already know a single “healthy” rating is useless.

This is the missing sentence. Then you put it in the basket, or you don’t.

On the pack, so to speak

Built the way you’d want it after work, in the shop.

Not ten features competing for a screenshot. A few things that have to be true or the app is theatre.

The scanner
Open the camera. Point it at the list. If the pot is curved, the print is tired, or the label is wrecked — type it. Same analysis. The aisle is not a studio.
One sentence, then a reason
Skip this — it has milk. Because of his dairy allergy. No score, no percentage, no wall of text while someone queues behind you. Pull up only if you want the full list.
A household, not a user
Separate profiles under one account. Yourself, a child, a partner, a parent. Switch from the scanner with one tap. Every scan belongs to whoever was active — so you don’t “save” a yoghurt as safe and later feed it to the wrong person.
Histamine, named
Not buried in a generic condition chip. Direct sources, liberators, DAO blockers, and the processing that never makes the ingredients line — aged, cured, smoked, pickled. You set how loud it gets. The allergen box never did this for you. A barcode database can’t.
Pregnant, on purpose
A life-stage toggle, not a condition to apologise for. It watches for the usual label-visible cautions — alcohol, caffeine, unpasteurised dairy — and speaks like a friend. It will not diagnose, and it will not pretend a label knows how you cook fish.
It gets more useful, not less
Every scan is kept. Add an allergy in November and re-check what you bought in March. Safe and avoid lists are per person, for the next time you’re in a hurry. An optional weekly note: what you scanned, what was flagged, one ingredient that actually matters to you. Not a marketing ping.

Read this part

We are not here to grade your groceries.

Kyttos will not tell you that a yoghurt is “73% healthy.” It will not look up a barcode and hope the manufacturer’s database is having a good day. It will not count your calories, ping you about recalls, or turn shopping into a feed.

It reads what’s printed. It places that against the people you shop for. When the label cannot tell the whole story, it should say so — not invent a confident answer because confident answers convert.

If that sounds smaller than the usual app pitch: good. The aisle is already loud enough.

A kitchen table in daylight: a receipt, an open yoghurt, a phone face down.
After the shop: the useful part is that the scan is still there when the household changes.

Take it with you

If you shop for a real household, this was overdue.

Kyttos is on the iPhone, for anyone who shops for a real household. Send a scan to the family chat if that’s how you actually decide.

Download on the App Store

iPhone.