The best pregnancy safe skincare apps, ranked.

Seven ingredient checkers, ranked on how well each one answers a single question: is this product a problem for me, right now, given that I am pregnant or breastfeeding or trying to conceive. Four of them were built for that question. Three were built for a neighbouring one and are very good at it.

Truva is ours, and it is first on this list. The criteria that put it there are printed below the ranking so you can see the choice that produced it, every app has a section on where it beats us, and there is a list further down of the situations where something else here is the better download today. One of those situations is that Truva is iPhone only and its App Store listing is still in review.

Every figure on this page comes from that app’s own site or its own App Store listing, is linked to where it is published, and was last read on 31 August 2026. Nothing here is taken from a third party review.

The ranking, and who each one is for

  1. TruvaOurs

    Someone who wants the answer to change when their situation does, and wants to see which body said so before they act on it.

  2. Little Bean

    Someone who wants a named human behind the rating, and who buys from small brands no product database has heard of.

  3. MamaSkin

    Someone who would rather search a product by name than scan it, and who wants the largest pregnancy specific catalogue published by anyone here.

  4. SafeMom

    Someone who wants one scanner for the whole trolley: skincare, packaged food, supplements and over the counter medicine, while pregnant.

  5. EWG Skin Deep

    Someone who wants the underlying toxicology rather than a verdict, wants to read it themselves, and wants it to cost nothing.

  6. Think Dirty

    Someone building a general clean beauty shelf, for whom life stage is not the question and catalogue depth is.

  7. Yuka

    Someone whose scanning is mostly groceries, who wants one app for the supermarket and the bathroom shelf.

How they were ranked

Five criteria, in the order they were weighted. The first one carries the most weight, and that single choice is what produces the order above. Weight catalogue size first instead and the list reorders, so the figures you would need to do that are all on the page.

  1. Does the answer change with your life stage

    Weighted heaviest, and this is the choice that produces the order below. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, postpartum, trying to conceive and PCOS disagree with each other about several common actives, so an app returning one score for all five is answering a different question from the one you opened it to ask.

  2. Does it name the body behind the flag, on the flag

    A methodology page listing the sources for the method as a whole is not the same as a verdict that tells you ACOG said this, about this ingredient, at this concentration. Only the second one can be taken to a midwife.

  3. Can it answer for the product in your hand

    Either a catalogue big enough to contain it, or the ability to read a label that is not in any catalogue. Both count, and they are different solutions to the same problem.

  4. Who stands behind the verdicts

    A named expert, a published method, or nothing a reader can check. This is the criterion Truva scores worst on and it is not close.

  5. What it costs, and how often

    Once, every year, or nothing. Free is a real answer here and two of these apps give it.

The first criterion is the easiest to claim and the hardest to show, so here it is on this site. Retinol is read once for each profile and does not come back the same on all of them: Not Recommended in pregnancy, while breastfeeding and while trying to conceive, and Safe to Use once you are postpartum and not breastfeeding. The trying to conceive list is its own page for the same reason, because the answer there turns on timing rather than on the molecule. Every app below can be held to the same test.

All seven, side by side

The catalogue column is the one to read carefully. Each app publishes its size in a different unit, products or brands or ingredients, and those are not the same thing. The column reports each figure in the unit that app uses rather than converting between them, because the conversion would be invented.

Seven pregnancy safe ingredient checkers compared, with figures as each app publishes them, read on 31 August 2026
AppLife stages it answers forWhat its rating meansCatalogue, as publishedPricePlatforms
1. TruvaOurs6: Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, Postpartum, Trying to Conceive, PCOS, General UseWhat published guidance says a person in your situation should do about this product500k+ products from the shops you use, and 20,242 ingredients with 13,252 of them carrying a per condition assessment, across 26,467 brandsFree tier. Pro $29.99 once, or $4.99 a monthiPhone. The App Store listing is still in review
2. Little BeanIts App Store listing names IVF and fertility treatments, menstrual cycle and ovulation, pregnancy and postpartum recovery, and breastfeeding and pumpingA risk level on an ingredient: low, medium or highNo published figure. Little Bean says its technology reads the label text and works on 100% of products globally$7.99 to buy on the App StoreiPhone and Android
3. MamaSkinPregnancy and breastfeeding. Its App Store listing adds planning a pregnancyA safety band, from No Known Risks to High Risk115,000+ products across 9,000+ brandsFree to search. The App Store lists Pro Access at $9.99 and $24.99 and Yearly access at $39.99iPhone, Android and a web checker
4. SafeMomPregnancyOne of three words: Safe, Use with Caution, or AvoidSafeMom states a database of over 250,000 ingredientsFree to download with a 7 day free trial. No single headline price is published; the App Store lists in app purchases from $9.99 to $69.99iPhone and Android
5. EWG Skin DeepNone. One hazard rating per product, for everyoneGeneral hazard, calculated from nearly 60 toxicity, regulatory and study availability databases153,685 products across 7,600 brands, including 2,479 EWG VerifiedFreeWeb database
6. Think DirtyNone. One hazard score per productA 0 to 10 hazard score, dirty to clean12,300+ brands rated, 3.4 million products submitted, 66.9 million scansPremium at $28.99 a year, $2.99 a month, or $15.99 for six monthsiPhone and Android
7. YukaNone. One score per product, for everyoneA 0 to 100 score, on food and on cosmeticsYuka publishes a user count rather than a catalogue count: around 8.8 million usersFree core scan. Premium from $10 a year on a sliding scale to $20iPhone and Android

The seven, one at a time

Truva

Ours

Who it is for. Someone who wants the answer to change when their situation does, and wants to see which body said so before they act on it.

Life stages
6: Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, Postpartum, Trying to Conceive, PCOS, General Use
Price
Free tier. Pro $29.99 once, or $4.99 a month
Platforms
iPhone. The App Store listing is still in review

What it does well

  • Truva holds a separate assessment per condition rather than one score per product, so the same retinol serum comes back Safe to Use on a general profile and Not Recommended in pregnancy, because guidance genuinely says two different things.
  • Every Truva flag names the body it came from, ACOG or the FDA or the EU SCCS or the Cosmetic Ingredient Review, on the flag itself rather than on a methodology page.
  • Truva verdicts carry the condition attached where guidance has one, such as a concentration ceiling or an area of skin to keep a product off, instead of a single word.
  • Truva Pro is $29.99 paid once rather than every year, and there is a free tier either way. Little Bean is the only other app here you can buy outright, at $7.99.

Where it stops

  • Truva is ours. The criteria above are ours too, and a reader who weights catalogue size first will not get this order.
  • Truva is iPhone only and the App Store listing is still in review, so if you need something to use this afternoon it cannot be this one.
  • Truva has no named medical reviewer. Little Bean names an in house toxicologist and we do not have an equivalent, which is a real gap on a health topic and not a rhetorical concession.
  • Truva carries a per condition assessment for 13,252 of its 20,242 ingredients, not all of them, so a product built mostly from ingredients outside that set comes back thinner than one built from common actives.

Where these Truva figures come from

  • Truva states 500k+ products, and holds 20,242 ingredients of which 13,252 carry a per condition safety assessment, across 26,467 brands and 6 conditions. Ingredient and brand counts read off our own catalogue on 4 September 2026.See it on our comparison page
  • Truva Pro is $29.99 once or $4.99 a month, with a free tier. Read off our own StoreKit configuration on 31 August 2026.See it on our comparison page

Little Bean

Who it is for. Someone who wants a named human behind the rating, and who buys from small brands no product database has heard of.

Life stages
Its App Store listing names IVF and fertility treatments, menstrual cycle and ovulation, pregnancy and postpartum recovery, and breastfeeding and pumping
Price
$7.99 to buy on the App Store
Platforms
iPhone and Android

What it does well

  • Little Bean names the person behind the ratings. It states that every safety flag is curated by its in house toxicologist, Pauline, which is more than any other app on this list does, ours included.
  • Little Bean reads the actual text on a label rather than looking a product up, so an indie brand with no barcode in anyone's database is still answerable.
  • Little Bean's listing covers stages either side of pregnancy, including fertility treatment and pumping, which most pregnancy apps treat as one undifferentiated block.
  • Little Bean gives a risk level with an explanation rather than marking an ingredient bad, which is the difference between a warning and information.

Where it stops

  • Little Bean publishes no catalogue or ingredient count anywhere public, so there is no way to judge coverage before paying.
  • Little Bean is a paid download at $7.99 with no free tier on the App Store listing, so you cannot try it on your own shelf first.
  • Little Bean's public pages describe flags as curated by its toxicologist and supported by research studies, and do not name which body stands behind a given flag. That is a smaller claim than a citation on the verdict.
  • Pauline is named without a surname or a published credential, so the strongest trust signal on the page is the one hardest to check.

Where these Little Bean figures come from

  • Little Bean states every safety flag is curated by its in house toxicologist, Pauline, and that it identifies risky ingredients as low, medium or high.Read it on Little Bean's own page
  • Little Bean states its proprietary technology reads the actual text on the label and works on 100% of products globally, whether or not the product exists in its system.Read it on Little Bean's own page
  • Little Bean's App Store listing prices the app at $7.99 and names IVF and fertility treatments, menstrual cycle and ovulation, pregnancy and postpartum recovery, and breastfeeding and pumping.Read it on Little Bean's own page
  • Little Bean states it is trusted by 50k+ women and rated 4.9+ across app stores on over 3,000 ratings and reviews.Read it on Little Bean's own page

MamaSkin

Who it is for. Someone who would rather search a product by name than scan it, and who wants the largest pregnancy specific catalogue published by anyone here.

Life stages
Pregnancy and breastfeeding. Its App Store listing adds planning a pregnancy
Price
Free to search. The App Store lists Pro Access at $9.99 and $24.99 and Yearly access at $39.99
Platforms
iPhone, Android and a web checker

What it does well

  • MamaSkin publishes 115,000+ products across 9,000+ brands, and all of it is pregnancy and breastfeeding specific rather than a general catalogue with conditions layered over the top.
  • MamaSkin lets you search that catalogue without subscribing, and says so plainly rather than metering the first useful thing you do.
  • MamaSkin runs a public methodology page naming PubMed, the EMA, the MHRA, ACOG, the NHS, FDA pregnancy labelling and the Cochrane Library, which is real transparency about where the ratings come from.
  • MamaSkin is on iPhone, Android and the web. Truva is on none of the last two.

Where it stops

  • MamaSkin answers for pregnancy and breastfeeding. Postpartum without breastfeeding, trying to conceive and PCOS have to be read as one of those two or as nothing.
  • MamaSkin's methodology page names the source bodies for the method as a whole, not for the individual flag, so a specific verdict does not tell you which body produced it.
  • MamaSkin names no reviewer. The method is described as evidence led, and the person who applied the evidence is not identified.
  • MamaSkin publishes product and brand counts and no ingredient count, so there is no like for like row against an ingredient level catalogue.

Where these MamaSkin figures come from

  • MamaSkin states you can search 115,000+ products across 9,000+ brands, with unlimited catalogue searches and no subscription required to search.Read it on MamaSkin's own page
  • MamaSkin's methodology page names PubMed, the EMA, the MHRA, ACOG, the NHS, FDA pregnancy labelling and the Cochrane Library as its evidence sources.Read it on MamaSkin's own page
  • MamaSkin's App Store listing shows Pro Access at $9.99 and $24.99 and Yearly access at $39.99, and describes safety levels from No Known Risks to High Risk.Read it on MamaSkin's own page

SafeMom

Who it is for. Someone who wants one scanner for the whole trolley: skincare, packaged food, supplements and over the counter medicine, while pregnant.

Life stages
Pregnancy
Price
Free to download with a 7 day free trial. No single headline price is published; the App Store lists in app purchases from $9.99 to $69.99
Platforms
iPhone and Android

What it does well

  • SafeMom has the widest scope on this list. It scans cosmetics, packaged food, medicine and other items in one app, which matters when the questions arrive together.
  • SafeMom returns three plain words rather than a number, which is the right output for a decision made standing in an aisle.
  • SafeMom states it draws on knowledge from hundreds of OB/GYNs and medical professionals, and names ACOG and the FDA among its sources.
  • SafeMom is on iPhone and Android and is free to download, so the first scan costs nothing.

Where it stops

  • SafeMom's own figures do not reconcile. Its site says a database of over 250,000 ingredients and its App Store listing says it works with 500M+ products across three databases. Both are SafeMom's, and we could not tell which describes the pregnancy assessments.
  • SafeMom answers for pregnancy. Breastfeeding, postpartum, trying to conceive and PCOS are not separate answers.
  • SafeMom publishes no methodology page, so the claim about hundreds of OB/GYNs names nobody and cannot be checked from outside.
  • SafeMom's App Store listing shows five in app purchase prices without labelling which tier each belongs to, so there is no price we can quote as the price.

Where these SafeMom figures come from

  • SafeMom states it cross checks a database of over 250,000 ingredients and returns Safe, Use with Caution or Avoid, and that it draws on knowledge from 100s of OB/GYNs and medical professionals.Read it on SafeMom's own page
  • SafeMom's App Store listing states it works with 500M+ products across three databases and covers skincare and cosmetics, food and beverages, supplements and vitamins, and OTC medications.Read it on SafeMom's own page

EWG Skin Deep

Who it is for. Someone who wants the underlying toxicology rather than a verdict, wants to read it themselves, and wants it to cost nothing.

Life stages
None. One hazard rating per product, for everyone
Price
Free
Platforms
Web database

What it does well

  • EWG Skin Deep is a nonprofit resource that costs nothing and publishes its method, which is more transparency than any commercial scanner on this list offers.
  • EWG Skin Deep is the reference layer much of this category is built on, assembled from nearly 60 toxicity and regulatory databases.
  • The EWG Verified mark is a real third party signal, and no in app score is equivalent to it.
  • EWG Skin Deep shows you the evidence rather than the conclusion, which is what you want if you intend to argue with the conclusion.

Where it stops

  • EWG Skin Deep rates hazard in general, and hazard in general is a different quantity from risk for a pregnant person. The two can disagree without either being wrong.
  • EWG Skin Deep has no profile, so nothing about the answer changes when your situation does.
  • EWG Skin Deep is web first. Typing sixty INCI names into a phone in a shop is a different activity from scanning a label.

Where these EWG Skin Deep figures come from

  • EWG states Skin Deep contains 153,685 products across 7,600 brands, including 2,479 EWG Verified products, each rated on factors calculated from nearly 60 integrated toxicity, regulatory and study availability databases.Read it on EWG Skin Deep's own page

Read the longer Truva and EWG Skin Deep comparison

Think Dirty

Who it is for. Someone building a general clean beauty shelf, for whom life stage is not the question and catalogue depth is.

Life stages
None. One hazard score per product
Price
Premium at $28.99 a year, $2.99 a month, or $15.99 for six months
Platforms
iPhone and Android

What it does well

  • Think Dirty has rated cosmetics since 2012 and its catalogue reflects that. On ordinary cosmetics it is deeper than ours and depth here takes years that cannot be bought.
  • Think Dirty's 0 to 10 meter is immediately legible and the app is polished.
  • Think Dirty subscribers can set custom ingredient alerts, which is the closest any general scanner gets to personalisation.

Where it stops

  • A custom ingredient alert needs you to already know which ingredient to watch, which is the problem you opened the app to solve.
  • Dirty and clean are not clinical categories. Salicylic acid is not dirty, and the AAD and most obstetricians still ask you to keep it under two per cent and off large areas in pregnancy, where ACOG lists it among the products that can be used. A hazard meter has nowhere to put a threshold, or a disagreement.
  • Think Dirty renews every year at $28.99, which is roughly what Truva Pro costs once.

Where these Think Dirty figures come from

Read the longer Truva and Think Dirty comparison

Yuka

Who it is for. Someone whose scanning is mostly groceries, who wants one app for the supermarket and the bathroom shelf.

Life stages
None. One score per product, for everyone
Price
Free core scan. Premium from $10 a year on a sliding scale to $20
Platforms
iPhone and Android

What it does well

  • Yuka scans food and cosmetics in the same app, which no dedicated skincare tool on this list does.
  • Yuka's core scan is free, fast, and readable in a shop aisle in a second.
  • Yuka flags endocrine disruptors, allergens and irritants on cosmetics, which is a real and useful signal.
  • Yuka Premium starts at $10 a year, which is cheaper than Truva Pro until roughly year three.

Where it stops

  • Yuka returns the same score whether you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or none of those, because it never asks and so cannot adjust.
  • Yuka's score is a computed rating rather than a citation, so it tells you a product is poor without telling you which authority said so.
  • Retinol is the clearest case. It is a well tolerated active for most adults and the single ingredient most pregnancy guidance tells you to stop. One number cannot hold both, so it holds the first.

Where these Yuka figures come from

Read the longer Truva and Yuka comparison

When not to pick Truva

Six situations where another app on this list is the better choice today. They are specific because a vague concession is not a concession.

What we could not verify

A roundup with every cell filled looks more authoritative than one with gaps, which is why most of them have no gaps. These are the figures we went looking for and could not confirm from the app’s own publications, left out rather than estimated.

Questions

What is the best pregnancy safe skincare app right now?

On the criteria this page uses, which weight life stage awareness first, Truva ranks first and we make it, so weigh that accordingly. If you need something to install today, Truva's App Store listing is still in review and MamaSkin is free to search on iPhone, Android and the web. If you want a named expert behind the rating, Little Bean publishes an in house toxicologist and prices the app at $7.99.

Is there a free pregnancy safe ingredient checker?

Yes, several. EWG Skin Deep is a free nonprofit web database of 153,685 products. MamaSkin lets you search its 115,000+ product catalogue without subscribing. Yuka's core scan is free. Truva has a free tier, with Pro at $29.99 once.

Why do two apps give the same product different answers?

Usually because they are answering different questions. A hazard score describes a product on its own and can be computed once and served to everyone. A pregnancy verdict describes what published guidance says a person in a particular situation should do, which depends on concentration, on whether a product is rinsed off, and on how much skin it covers. Both readings can be correct at the same time.

Which of these apps handle breastfeeding as well as pregnancy?

MamaSkin answers for pregnancy and breastfeeding. Little Bean's App Store listing names breastfeeding and pumping. Truva holds breastfeeding as a separate condition from pregnancy and from postpartum. SafeMom answers for pregnancy. Yuka, Think Dirty and EWG Skin Deep do not distinguish any life stage.

Do any of them answer for PCOS or for trying to conceive?

Truva holds PCOS and trying to conceive as separate conditions alongside pregnancy, breastfeeding, postpartum and general use. Little Bean's App Store listing names IVF and fertility treatments and menstrual cycle and ovulation. The other five apps on this list do not answer for either.

Truva made this list. Why should the ranking be trusted?

It should be checked rather than trusted. The criteria are printed above the table, every figure links to the page the app publishes it on, each app has a section saying where it beats us, and there is a list of the situations where another app here is the better download today. Nothing on this page is taken from a third party review of a competitor.

Truva summarises published ingredient guidance from ACOG, the FDA, the EU SCCS and the Cosmetic Ingredient Review. It has no access to your medical history and it is not a substitute for your doctor or midwife. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and none of the seven apps here is. Every other app is described as it describes itself, with each figure linked to where that app publishes it, last read on 31 August 2026. Truva is one of the seven and is ranked first by the people who make it.

Ask the question the way you actually have it.

Not whether this product is good, but whether it is fine for you, this month, in the situation you are actually in, and which body said so.

Free to scan. Truva Pro is $29.99 once. The iPhone app is in App Store review.

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