A food scanner that learns you — your conditions, your patterns, your body.
Named for my mom, Rae.
Pick anything that applies. We'll personalize every scan for you. This stays on your phone — nothing is sent anywhere.
A nickname for quick recognition on the profile switcher. You can add your own profile later.
This is what appears on any health-report PDF you share with a doctor or dietitian. Optional now — you can add or change it later in Settings.
Your daily summary is written right on your phone — your health details never leave your device. Turn this on for a richer, AI-written version with specific food swaps; that sends the day's food and how you felt to our AI to write it (not stored there). Change it anytime in Settings.
Pick conditions, life stages, or eating patterns — whatever describes the reality you bring to food. Each one you tap shapes how a food gets graded for you specifically. White bread reads differently for celiac than for someone on Mediterranean — the grade respects the difference.
No condition? Tap Just eating healthier above and you're good.
Pick up to 5. These nudge the grade toward foods that support what you're after — heart health, lower inflammation, build muscle, support metabolic health, brain health. Your conditions above always outrank a goal if the two disagree.
Tap any you'd like to keep an eye on — you can change these anytime on the Today screen. Velrae just holds the journal; your doctor reads the numbers.
Optional — skip and add later anytime in Settings → Numbers, or right on the Today screen.
Velrae can grade skincare, haircare, and makeup for the skin, too — want to set that up now?
Pick anything that applies — breakouts, dryness, sensitivity, thinning hair…
Clearer skin, calmer skin, a stronger barrier, aging gracefully…
Optional — change it anytime in Settings → Personal care.
Or help others find this product
A clear photo of the front of the package teaches the app to recognize it next time anyone scans the same UPC.
Hold the UPC steady — we'll grab it automatically.
Tap one to open it again.
Add an ingredient
Tap to select. Adds them as ingredients in this meal.
Type or speak what you ate (or are about to eat) in plain English. We'll figure out the parts and give you a read tailored to your conditions.
— or take a photo of the recipe —
Roughly what kind of restaurant?
Uses Smart Scan (counts toward your 500/month).
Reading your meal…
Usually takes 2-4 seconds.
📚 Community estimate — — people have hit this one
What we identified
⚠️ What we don't know
Tighten the grade by answering
Did this match what you got?
Thanks — your feedback helps the community get better estimates.
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✓ Saved. Patterns start showing around day 14.
Type what you measured and tap Save my numbers. It all goes into your doctor report.
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✓ Saved.
✓ Saved to your Personal Care report.
Your meals and snacks — tap + Log a meal or snack to add a new one.
Things you put on your body — your Personal Care products, by day. Tap I used it on any Personal Care scan to track it here.
Items you bought but haven't eaten yet — tap I had this when you do.
My safe list
Your go-to items — tap Mark safe on any scan to add it here.
Everything you scanned, whether or not you ended up eating it.
The patterns we’ve spotted between what you eat or use and how you feel.
Shopping list, recipe ingredients, or anything else you want to grade.
Tap ＋ New list above to start one. At the store, tap each item to scan and grade it.
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Separate items with a comma; put a number first for quantity (e.g. 2 milk). Change any quantity with − / + on the item.
Scores all the ingredients together as one meal — like grading the whole dish at once.
Last graded: — —
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Sends a readable list anyone can open in Mail, Messages, etc.
For a family member who'll shop for you. The PIN you set lets their app grade items for your body — but your health details stay private; they never see your conditions. No one else can open it.
Moves this list to the Completed section. You can always reopen or reuse it later.
Looks good? Tap below to read the menu.
You're on version —. Tap below to switch to the latest.
Add Velrae Method to your home screen so it works like a real app — full screen, no browser bars, fully offline.
On iPhone — three taps:
Has to be Safari — Chrome and Firefox on iPhone can't install web apps.
You're in Chrome on iPhone. iPhone only lets Safari install apps to your home screen.
Your browser can install this app, but doesn't show an automatic button. Open this page in Chrome or Edge on Android, or Safari on iPhone, and you'll get a one-tap install.
You're running Velrae Method.
Version —
Total scans, new users, and more — owner only.
Research spike — owner only. Photograph the back panel of a cleaning bottle and see exactly what the camera can read off it. Nothing is graded and nothing is saved to your log.
No labels tested yet on this device.
Switch between people. Each has their own conditions, history, and triggers.
Conditions, life stages, eating patterns — anything that should shape how a food gets graded for this profile.
Tap all that apply — you can pick more than one. Tap again to remove.
Pick any food allergens you want flagged. On every scan, Velrae warns you if the label lists one. It reads the label only — always check the actual package, and it can't catch cross-contamination ("may contain"). It can't tell you a product is safe.
What are you working toward, beyond any diagnosis? Goals are gentler than conditions — they nudge ingredients toward foods that support what you're after, but a condition always wins if the two disagree.
Pick up to 5 — these don't replace your conditions, they just sharpen the picture. Tap to add or remove.
Velrae grades skincare, haircare, and makeup for your skin and hair too. Pick what applies and your personal-care scans get personalized — just like your food.
Tap all that apply — nothing saves until you tap Save.
Pick any eating pattern you actively follow. We use these to tag scans and personalize alternatives.
Tap all that apply — you can pick more than one. Tap again to remove.
Elimination + reintroduction. Auto-flags AIP-forbidden ingredients while in elimination phase.
Choose which numbers to follow — blood pressure, blood glucose, or weight — right on the Today screen, where you log them. Tap a number to turn it on; some turn on automatically based on your conditions.
We hold the journal — we never tell you what the numbers mean. Bring them to the person who can: your doctor.
Generate a clinical-style PDF with your symptom history, scan summary, and identified triggers — bring it to your next doctor visit.
Past months (auto-saved)
Auto follows your phone's day/night setting. Or lock it to Light or Dark.
Pick the color that feels like you.
When you scan a barcode, show a small "Per 100g" strip below the grade with sodium, protein, sugar, and saturated fat — pulled from the product label. We never count, total, or judge these numbers — just surface what's on the package. Off if you'd rather not see them.
On the Day Overview screen, show a short read of why your day looked the way it did. Off if you'd rather just see the grades and lists without the narrative.
By default your daily summary is written right on your phone — nothing leaves your device. Turn this on for a richer, AI-written version with specific food swaps; that sends the day's food and how you felt to our AI service to write it (it isn't stored there). You can turn it off anytime.
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Velrae Method includes:
Snap a menu, get personalized picks. Add-on to Velrae Method.
We link your code to this email so we can help if you change phones or hit a snag — and so you get a reply if you reach out. We won't email you otherwise.
One-time purchase. No subscription. These are yours forever, on this device and up to 2 more.
Every food gets a number from 0 to 100 and a letter grade A–F. The grade is personalized to your conditions — same food can grade differently for different people.
Why two people get different grades: White bread might grade C for IBS but F for celiac. The grade respects your specific conditions.
Why some ingredients show as "couldn't recognize": they weren't in our database — they didn't help or hurt the grade. We add more every update.
Why the colors never change with themes: picking a different look changes the menus, not the grade colors. Green always means "good for you."
Shampoo, lotion, sunscreen, and makeup get a Skin Score from 0 to 10 — a purple square instead of the food circle, so you always know which kind of scan you're looking at. Higher is better for your skin, weighed against your conditions.
Same idea as food: every ingredient is tappable for what it is and why it's flagged, and anything we don't recognize is researched on the spot and folded into your score.
Velrae Method is a privacy-first food scanner built for people living with autoimmune and chronic conditions. Every score runs on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere — except the optional OpenFoodFacts lookup when you scan a UPC barcode.
Named for my mom, Rae — who deserves a food scanner that actually knows her.
Questions or feedback? velraemethod@gmail.com
Informational only. Not medical advice. Always work with your doctor or dietitian for dietary decisions related to your condition.
For adults 18 and older. Adults may create profiles to track nutrition for family members of any age, including children. The adult account holder is always responsible for managing those profiles.
The short version: Velrae has no accounts and no logins. Your scans, meals, symptoms, profiles, and reports stay on your phone — we never see them, and we never sell your data. Your conditions stay on your phone too, with one exception we spell out below.
Stays on your device
Everything you track — conditions, goals, scan history, meal logs, check-ins, patterns, lists, and reports. Erase it all any time with Wipe all data below. We can't see it or recover it. One exception: when we ask our AI to identify an ingredient we don't recognise, the names of your conditions go along with the question — see below.
Leaves your device only when you use these
We never collect
Your symptom history, location, contacts, or camera roll. No ads, no cross-site tracking, no user database. We never build a profile of you or link what you scan to who you are.
Questions? velraemethod@gmail.com · the complete policy is always at app.velraemethod.com/privacy.
We compare what's on the label to the FDA Daily Values for adults and children 4+. These are general baselines — your doctor or dietitian may give you different targets for your conditions.
Source: FDA Daily Values reference (2016 update). Last verified against the FDA Nutrition Facts label rule.
Everything lives on your phone — we don't keep a copy. Email yourself a backup any time. The file is encrypted and locked to your email, so only you can open it. If you reinstall the app or get a new phone, restore the backup with the same email to bring your history back.
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Already have a Velrae backup file? Pick it from Files, iCloud Drive, or an email attachment to bring your history back. You'll unlock it with the same email the backup was saved under.
Records every scan (raw OCR text, your edits, what matched). Useful for iterating on OCR accuracy — export and share with the developer.
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Plain-English answers to "what's that for?" — every Settings card explained.
