IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for IBS Pal is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

IBS Pal Reviews: Is It Legit?

Name: IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner
Rating: 4.7 (143 reviews)

IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner

AKEN LTD

💪 Health & Fitness

🏥 Medical

Customer Experience

Positive experience47.1% of reviews

Neutral11.8% of reviews

Negative experience41.2% of reviews

~ Based on 17 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 91/100.

This assessment is based on 143 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

91.6% of ratings point to a safe experience

5.6% of ratings suggest some concerns

2.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 143 App Store ratings for IBS Pal.

Is IBS Pal Legit?

IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for IBS Pal is 70/100.

Based on 70 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Great Concept, Bad App

I like that it’s made to log a lot of things including your food intake and symptoms. I HATE that the app is constantly lagging or crashing. I keep up with all the updates but it’s ridiculous that it will constantly freeze and gives me issues when I try to look at my scanned items or history. Paying money for an app that doesn’t work properly feels like a huge loss. Especially for someone who was desperate to find an app that helps with my IBS monitoring.

AAthziri99_rifhb

a month ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks for your feedback. We're sorry to hear you're experiencing these issues, especially when you're relying on IBS Pal to manage your symptoms. We've been actively improving performance and stability, but haven't been able to reproduce the freezing you're describing in our testing. Could you please contact us at support@ibspal.com with your device model and details of when the freezing occurs? We'd really like to investigate this further and get it resolved for you.

Adam

Extremely good and well thought out app. I like how personalised it is to your triggers and tolerables rather than being a general app which isn’t tailored to your gut. Has everything in 1 app which is great.

AAdamkop2822

2 months ago

Great app

I’m newly diagnosed with IBS and am trying low FODMAP for the first time, I’m still in the elimination phase. After struggling for months, for the first time my symptoms have improved after only 5 days of tracking using the app to guide me. I like the barcode scan and meal scan features these are great, but as a person who cooks from scratch, often there are no barcodes on everything i am cooking. I’d like to be able to search for an item and see its FODMAP rating before deciding if i will eat it. The app would benefit from some form of community- somewhere to connect with others with the same symptoms, at the same stage of elimination or to recommend tasty low FODMAP items

SScabbyleg

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for the review, and we’re really glad to hear you’re already seeing an improvement! You can actually search for foods directly in the Discovery page to check their FODMAP rating without needing a barcode. There’s also a dedicated Fruit & Veg section where you can browse FODMAP information and portion guidance. For the community side, our Recipes section is community-based, allowing you to discover recipes shared by others and share your own too. Thanks again for the feedback, and we hope IBS Pal continues to help you through your low FODMAP journey!

Need for partner

Paid for premium and my partner also had on his phone so he could check stuff for me but they’ve disabled access. Needs to be able to have more then one user especially with premium. Also discovery page is rubbish

LHLottie hhhhh

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback. Premium access is linked to the App Store/Google Play account that purchased the subscription, so it unfortunately can’t be shared across different store accounts or devices using another account. This is controlled by Apple/Google rather than something we can override. We’ve also made significant improvements to the Discovery page in version 1.34, including search speed and reliability, so please make sure you’re updated to the latest version. Thanks again for the feedback!

Good but not great

The app is great overall, very helpful for tracking. Since having it for just over a month, it’s now started to get really slow and laggy. The app is up to date, could be because of all the data logged on it.

PPuttnamcountyspellingbee

3 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback, and we’re glad you’ve found IBS Pal helpful overall! We’ve identified the cause of the performance issues and have improvements on the way that should make the app noticeably faster and smoother. The fix is planned for this weekend’s update. Thanks for flagging this and helping us continue improving IBS Pal!

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.

LLalalucyy08

3 months 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

DDandoonaa1996

4 months 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

CCasualSloth99

5 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.

NNhmmom

6 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.

SSapper1968

6 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

ZZ_A202

6 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!

DDRW91

7 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

SShdjdvrid

7 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

AAbdu.Kareem63

10 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

MMahoodi235

10 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.

SJSir Jmaxy

10 months ago