IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for IBS Pal is 55 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

IBS Pal User Reviews

Name: IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner
Rating: 4.7 (89 reviews)

IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner

AKEN LTD

💪 Health & Fitness

🏥 Medical

Customer Experience

Positive experience41.7% of reviews

Neutral16.7% of reviews

Negative experience41.7% of reviews

~ Based on 12 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is IBS Pal Safe?

IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for IBS Pal is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 89 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.1% of ratings point to a safe experience

5.6% of ratings suggest some concerns

2.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 89 App Store ratings for IBS Pal.

Is IBS Pal Legit?

IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner has limited verification signals. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for IBS Pal is 55/100.

Based on 55 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Don’t waste your money

Not worth it, Been using it consistently for 18 days and still no insights or triggers accurately identified. It asks for your tolerables but then when you add it to your journal it forgets this 90% of the time. The AI analysis is consistently not right. Then when scanning a meal and changing it gluten free bread it often forgets this entirely when you log it to a meal.

Helpful for product scans but that’s about it.

Lalalucyy08

16 days ago

Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We're sorry to hear IBS Pal hasn't met your expectations. Some of the issues you mentioned, including tolerables not always being respected and edited meal scans not always saving correctly, were genuine bugs that have since been addressed. We're also continuously improving our AI insights and trigger detection. While AI is a rapidly evolving technology, it isn't perfect, and we're committed to refining its accuracy with every update. If you're willing to contact us at support@ibspal.com, we'd be happy to investigate your account further and help ensure you're getting the best possible experience.

Lifesaver

Makes life so much easier when worrying what to buy at the shops

Dandoonaa1996

a month ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for your kind review! We're delighted to hear IBS Pal is making shopping easier and helping take the stress out of choosing what to buy. We really appreciate your support and hope the app continues to make managing your IBS a little easier every day. 💚

Waste of time

The onboarding asks a whole load of questions before hitting you with an unskippable payment screen. Waste of 10 minutes. There are other better apps for free

CasualSloth99

2 months ago

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for your feedback. Just to clarify, our onboarding typically takes around 1-2 minutes and helps us personalise recommendations based on your symptoms, triggers and goals. We also offer a free trial, allowing users to try the app before committing to a subscription. For those who continue, plans start at less than the price of a coffee per month. The subscription helps cover the costs of AI, food data, servers and ongoing development, allowing us to maintain a high standard of accuracy and continue adding new features. Many free alternatives focus on just one aspect of IBS management. IBS Pal combines food analysis, symptom tracking, AI insights, meal logging, trigger tracking and more in a single app, helping users avoid needing multiple different apps to manage their IBS. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.

Keeps changing

I really wanted to like this app but it seems to get more difficult to use when tracking food instead of easier. There use to be the option to scan a barcode, not just look it up in store, but also when entering meals. That option is no longer available so the only option to enter meals is to scan your meal or use manual entry. Very recently the manual entry now forces you to enter a weight or it won’t take. I don’t walk around with a food scale in my pocket so I am left guessing. Clearly the app want to force you to use AI tool of scanning meals. I find that tool is not always accurate so I prefer manual entry. Now to medications. There is no medication entry & I occasionally use medication for my IBS. It would be nice to have the information in the app. The app had great potential but with the constant changes making more difficult to use it’s not heading in the right direction.

Nhmmom

3 months ago

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for the feedback, we really appreciate it. Just to clarify, barcode scanning for meals/products in the journal hasn’t been removed, and we’re definitely not trying to force AI meal scans. The barcode option is still there, you just need to scroll across the top navigation bar to access it. We’ve also now added medication tracking to the app as well. For serving sizes, these are required so the app can give accurate FODMAP tracking and AI insights, since portion size heavily affects FODMAP levels. Even an estimate helps improve accuracy a lot. We really appreciate the suggestions and will keep improving the app experience.

OK if everything you eat has a barcode

Whilst the app is good it has it’s limitations. For example I use Gousto recipes and unlike My Fitness Pal which recognise these IBS Pal does not or I can’t make it. I have tried to scan meals and it has not always worked and the AI is far from perfect. It would be great if I had the functionality of food logging of IBS Pal and My Fitness Pal in a single app but neither does everything.

Sapper1968

3 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback, we really appreciate you taking the time to share it. You’re absolutely right that the AI isn’t perfect yet. It can’t always identify every ingredient, especially with mixed meals or where some ingredients aren’t clearly visible. That said, you can manually add or edit detected foods, which will instantly update the IBS rating. You’ll find this on the meal scan page by tapping the “+” to add foods or the pencil icon to edit what’s been detected. We’re also continuously improving recognition and working towards better support for things like meal kits and recipes. Really helpful feedback, and we’re aiming to make it a more complete all-in-one solution over time. Thanks again for using the app 👍

New favourite app

Does what is says on the tin

Z_A202

3 months ago

Doesn’t work

Can’t even get past the payment page - no option to progress without signing up for a free trial that I don’t want to do!

DRW91

4 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback, I understand how that can be frustrating. The app does require a subscription to access features, and there is a free trial available so you can try everything first. We’ve put a lot into building accurate food analysis, tracking and insights, so the subscription helps us keep improving and maintaining that quality. That said, we’re working on making this clearer during onboarding. Appreciate you taking the time to share 👍

Search is broken

Great for scanning foods and tracking, but every-time I tried to search for a food I got the error message. Sadly uninstalled to find an alternative

Shdjdvrid

4 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback and really sorry about this. The search issue has now been fixed. Appreciate you flagging it.

Abdu’s review

The app meets day to day functions and is useful when doing your grocery, I would recommend this to others

Abdu.Kareem63

7 months ago

This app changed my life

This app literally helped me beat ibs I was struggling with ibs my whole life and it was tragic and I seen this on TikTok and said I’ll give it a go and what a change

Mahoodi235

7 months ago

Loading onto the App

I’m trying to load onto the app and create a account however on a phone and I’m stuck on one of the menus, there is no button to click off of it and you can’t scroll down making it hard to see all the options.

Sir Jmaxy