Comparison

Alcomo HACCP vs QMSpot

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Alcomo HACCP

Streamline your gastronomy business's food safety documentation. This app digitizes HACCP compliance, from temperature checks to cleaning logs, reducing administrative tasks and ensuring proof of standards for authorities. It supports automatic monitoring with temperature sensors and offers custom checklists for internal processes.

Highlights
  • Digital HACCP process documentation
  • Customizable checklists
  • Automatic temperature monitoring with sensors
  • Allergen management
  • User management with access rights
  • PDF report generation
  • Offline and online functionality
Features
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The Alcomo HACCP app supports gastronomy businesses in documenting the legally required self-monitoring in accordance with HACCP standards and good hygiene practices. Control points such as goods receiving, temperatures of refrigeration equipment, heating of products of animal origin, or cleaning can be easily recorded digitally. New: Temperature sensors can now be integrated for automatic monitoring with alerts for deviations. More than 750 businesses in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria already rely on the app to efficiently implement food safety standards. It is also successfully used in other European countries, such as England, France, and Belgium, where it is appreciated for its versatility. With its digital documentation, the app significantly reduces administrative workload. It ensures that no checks are forgotten and securely archives all records. If needed, these documents can be quickly presented to authorities as reliable proof of compliance with hygiene and safety standards. Features: • Digitally document HACCP processes • Easy to use and quickly configurable app • Checklists for • cleaning • temperatures of refrigeration equipment • temperatures at food serving • heating • quick chilling • receipt of goods • quality of frying oil • delivery service • traceability • retention samples • training • reheating • thermal disinfection • pest control • storage monitoring More checklists and functions will be added continuously. • Custom checklists for internal processes • Integration of temperature sensors for automatic temperature recording • Limit values of the parameters are preset and deviations are displayed. • Corrective actions are documented (suggestions are available in the app) • Documentation is accessible anytime via the app and online as a proof of compliance • Integrated allergen management • User Management: Logins for employees with customized access rights • Notifications: Receive user-specific reminders for pending tasks and keep your HACCP documentation up to date. • Manage tasks to ensure that nothing is forgotten (to-do list) • Create PDFs of the checks and the cleaning schedule • Online management via dashboard (Alcomo Cockpit) • Manager feature for businesses with multiple locations • Document management: Store and manage documents such as HACCP manuals, audits, and work instructions. • Data can be synchronized onto a secure server in Switzerland • Multiple devices can be used and synchronized • Can be used online and offline (synchronization requires an internet connection) • Capture photos as proof and for traceability purposes • News and updates about food safety, hygiene and HACCP • Info buttons with explanations • Multilingual: DE, FR, IT, EN • Integration of external delivery services To use the app, you need a login. Alcomo customers can use their existing login for the Alcomo HACCP App. Further information can be found on our Alcomo website. External delivery services can document temperature checks of food delivery at the customer's premises. They can use the Alcomo app without a subscription. The deliveries are sent via QR code. In this case, the app only allows temperature checks during delivery. The test version works without a login, and you can explore the app’s basic features. While not all functions are available, the essential ones are usable. Due to limitations, the data cannot be used as evidence.

About

QMSpot

Features
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QMSpot is a modular hygiene and quality management software for the central implementation, monitoring, optimisation, analysis and archiving of operational processes as well as critical control points in your company. Available at any time, on all devices and also for your type of industry! - Food industry & catering - Retail business & Offices - Production companies, construction & crafts - Pharmaceutical/chemical companies & pharmacies - Logistics & Transportation - Schools, Child Care & Public Service - Clinics & Nursing Homes - Cleaning Services & Facility Management - Trade fair and event organisers QMSpot enables you to easily keep track of all important parameters, such as recurring checklists, cross-site audits and evaluations, permanent sensor monitoring, systematic device management and the creation or recording of staff training and training statuses. The Modules: MY - Administration module including document management and emergency management With the MY module you can manage all important information such as reported defects, location data, contacts, contact data, administrators, users as well as your own emergency management. With the help of the central document management, you can allow access to and share company documents system wide. This gives you access to all your data anytime, anywhere. Selective task distribution allows you to assign tasks to individual users or entire groups and to schedule them as well. CS – Checklist System With this system, you can digitally display all operational checklists, whether cleaning lists or more complex processes such as lists of goods received, along with validation of the recorded data. Thanks to the CS module, you can provide your employees with cleaning schedules, work instructions and procedural instructions to help them carry out their tasks. All completed checklists are always automatically archived as a report and are available to you at any time for evaluation, comparison or external controls. AS – Audit System With the QMSpot audit system, you simplify and standardize all processes in your company, before, during and after an audit. Our AS module serves you as a multifunctional tool for statistics, reports and evaluations. You yourself determine the test criteria within your audit, store work instructions as well as procedural instructions and define CCP's (Critical Checkpoints). Use saved templates or use the data from the previous audit as the basis for the current capture. ST – Sensor System With the QMSpot sensor module, you can collect a wide variety of sensor data and measuring points from different manufacturers in your company. Whether temperatures, fluid levels, humidity, CO2 values of rooms, refrigerators, cold stores, dishwashers, counters or other IoT devices, with our ST module everything is within your grasp. The sensing and data acquisition can be done by different solutions: by permanent and automatic monitoring with G5 IoT sensors, by W-Lan sensors and/or Bluetooth beacons or by manual acquisition of single measuring points. TA – Training Management The TA module maps both your training status and that of your employees. And not just that. As an entrepreneur, you can create and manage the hygiene, BG and employee training courses that are relevant to you. The required training documents and participant lists are available at the push of a button. DM – Device monitoring Thanks to the device monitoring of QMSpot, all relevant data of your devices in operation are permanently recorded and documented. If a critical situation arises, you receive immediate notification and can act without losing time. Whether dishwasher, refrigerator, freezer, oven, deep fryer, steamer, bain-marie, coffee machine, etc., with our DM module you can monitor your appliances seamlessly and always be in full control.

Screenshots

Alcomo HACCP4 screens
QMSpot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Alcomo HACCP at fortnightly against QMSpot's every 2 months. Alcomo HACCP also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alcomo HACCP ships an update fortnightly, QMSpot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Alcomo HACCP versus QMSpot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlcomo HACCPQMSpot
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlcomo AGmaxINtime GmbH

In-app purchases

None

Alcomo HACCP

No in-app purchases

None

QMSpot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alcomo HACCP free?
Alcomo HACCP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QMSpot free?
QMSpot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Alcomo HACCP or QMSpot have ads?
Neither Alcomo HACCP nor QMSpot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alcomo HACCP or QMSpot?
Alcomo HACCP ships an update fortnightly, and QMSpot every 2 months. Most recently, Alcomo HACCP was updated on November 2, 2026 and QMSpot on November 7, 2026.

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