Tayib

Tayib is an iPhone halal scanner that checks barcodes and reads ingredient labels with OCR and AI, returning Halal, Haram or Mushbooh verdicts tuned to the user's Madhab. Barcode scans are free; AI analysis is paid.

Tayib is a native iPhone app that checks whether packaged food is halal. The user points the camera at a product barcode or at the printed ingredient list, and the app returns one of three verdicts: Halal, Haram or Mushbooh (doubtful). No account is required to start scanning. The distinguishing choice is how it handles ingredients. Barcode lookups run against a verified database, but when a product is not in that database, the app reads the label text with optical character recognition and analyzes it with AI. That lets it flag items such as pork and lard, gelatin, ethanol, carmine (E120), animal rennet, shellfish, wine extracts and ambiguous E-numbers like E471, which can come from plant or animal sources. For doubtful additives it prompts the user to verify the source instead of guessing. Tayib also lets people set a Madhab (Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki or Hanbali) and tune how strict alerts are for ethanol and Mushbooh items. Rulings on seafood and alcohol carriers differ between schools, so the warnings adapt to the chosen school instead of giving a single generic answer. The app suits observant Muslims who shop for groceries, travel abroad and cannot read local-language labels, or simply want to avoid looking up each additive by hand. The free tier covers barcode scans against the verified database. Paid plans add AI photo and text analysis that works on products worldwide, plus the deeper Fiqh settings, and are offered monthly, yearly or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Among alternatives, the site compares itself with Scan Halal and Zulal, claiming advantages in label reading without a barcode and in Madhab customization. Those comparisons come from the vendor, so they are best treated as a starting point. The site also publishes a blog with guides on ingredients, popular brands, fast food and halal travel, which works as a reference alongside the scanner.