Food labels are written to satisfy regulators, not to inform people in a grocery aisle holding two cereal boxes. The information is technically all there — in six-point type, per-100g columns, and ingredient names that need a chemistry degree. Etiqa Health exists to translate.
What it does
Point your camera at a product and Etiqa returns an EtiScore with the reasoning in plain language: what drags the score down, what earns it back, and how the product compares against the alternative next to it on the shelf. It launched on the iOS App Store with a catalog of 55,000+ products from Panamanian supermarkets — local brands, not just imports — and is live today on iOS and Android.
Built bilingual, on purpose
Most labels on Panamanian shelves are in Spanish, so an English-only scanner would miss the point. The Etiqa 1.1 release brought full nutrition panels and ingredient insights in Spanish — the same English-and-Spanish posture the studio itself operates under. The product changelog lives on the Etiqa blog, where every release gets written up.
Why the score is explainable
A bare number teaches nobody anything. Etiqa always shows its reasoning in plain language — what drags a score down, what earns it back — because the goal is that after a few weeks of scanning, you need the app less, not more. The scores are informational, not medical advice, and we keep that line clear on purpose.
Why a systems studio ships consumer apps
Because shipping is the proof. Taking Etiqa from product spec to App Store release exercised every skill we sell to client engagements — and a studio that ships its own products end-to-end doesn’t have to ask you to take rigor on faith.