# IBS Pal: FODMAP Scanner — user reviews > 13 indexed App Store user reviews of IBS Pal by AKEN LTD, rated 4.71/5 from 134 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ibs-pal-fodmap-scanner/id6749382445/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ibs-pal-fodmap-scanner/id6749382445.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 110 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2026-05-31* 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 **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-04-18* 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! **Developer response:** 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 👍 ### 1/5 — Loading onto the App *2026-01-03* 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. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback and really sorry about this. The search issue has now been fixed. Appreciate you flagging it. ### 2/5 — Don’t waste your money *2026-07-23* 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. **Developer response:** 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. ### 2/5 — Keeps changing *2026-05-19* 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. **Developer response:** 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. ### 3/5 — OK if everything you eat has a barcode *2026-04-27* 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. **Developer response:** 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 👍 ### 3/5 — Search is broken *2026-03-28* 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 **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback and really sorry about this. The search issue has now been fixed. Appreciate you flagging it. ### 4/5 — Good but not great *2026-08-19* 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. **Developer response:** 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! ### 5/5 — Lifesaver *2026-07-04* Makes life so much easier when worrying what to buy at the shops **Developer response:** 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. 💚 ### 5/5 — New favourite app *2026-04-26* Does what is says on the tin ## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Abdu’s review *2026-01-15* The app meets day to day functions and is useful when doing your grocery, I would recommend this to others ### 5/5 — This app changed my life *2026-01-15* 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 ### 5/5 — Simple and easy to use 💯 *2025-08-08* Best Ibs tracker app ⭐️5 stars --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*