Buy Canadian

Underlabs Inc.

About this app

Buy Canadian is your essential tool for making informed grocery shopping decisions that support Canadian businesses and workers. With increasing demand for transparency in food sourcing, this app helps you identify truly Canadian products at a glance.

What the app does:

Simply scan any grocery barcode and instantly receive:
✔ Country of Origin – See whether a product is made in Canada or imported.
✔ Ingredients Origin – Find out where the raw materials come from.
✔ Package Eco-Score – Evaluate the environmental impact of the packaging.
✔ Product Category – Know exactly what type of grocery item you're buying.
✔ Brand Information – See which company produces the item.
✔ Product Image – Verify that the scanned product matches what you're holding.

All product data is sourced from OpenFoodFacts.org, a trusted and community-driven database dedicated to transparency in food labeling.

Why Choose Buy Canadian?
🇨🇦 Support Local: Help strengthen the Canadian economy by choosing locally made groceries.
🌎 Eco-Conscious Shopping: Make sustainable choices by reviewing the Eco-Score of product packaging.
📷 Simple & Instant: Just scan a barcode, and get all the essential details in seconds.

How It Works:
1️⃣ Open the app & tap Scan Barcode.
2️⃣ Point your camera at the barcode, making sure it’s clear and in focus.
3️⃣ Instantly view product details and decide if it aligns with your commitment to buying Canadian groceries.

No more guessing at the supermarket! With Buy Canadian, every grocery purchase can be a step toward supporting local farmers, producers, and businesses.

📲 Download Buy Canadian now and make every grocery trip a meaningful choice. Together, we can strengthen our economy and stand proud as Canadians.

Ratings and reviews

I checked multiple items around the house, mostly food items. The only information provided to me about the products is "sold in Canada." Or "the barcode was copied to the clipboard," but no other information is provided. Maybe a network issue? Maybe not. So far, I'm not impressed. I will continue to test the app and change my review if it improves. Big storm across Ontario today, so I have the time to play.

I found this extremely frustrating to use on barcodes. Having to go back to the original app screen for each item, instead of going onto the next item seamlessly. Also trying to get a perfect image within the box, when I don't use a tripod when I shop it's why I haven't used the app lately. If it improves I'll change my review.

Love the idea of this app... Love that you can scan barcodes to see if it's made in Canada but I think you have to position them in a certain way in order for the scanner code thing to work... My only issue is I've tried scanning a few things but they wouldn't scan I did them different positions and it did not work.. but when I first tried it I scanned one item and there wasn't very much information on the product

What’s new

Clearer Instructions on how to Scan properly.
Ability to add the Origin of a Product if not displayed.