5Strands vs SuppCo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5Strands
Manage your health test results with this app. Analyze reports, track progress, and gain self-awareness for personal growth. It also supports pet health, focusing on their well-being to strengthen the human-animal bond.
- Manage health test results
- Analyze detailed reports
- Monitor progress
- Self-awareness tools
- Pet health management
- Enhance human-animal bond
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The 5Strands app helps you track the foods you eat, the environmental factors you're exposed to, and your symptoms so you can identify patterns and make the lifestyle changes needed to feel more at home in your body. Stop second-guessing and give yourself the tools to make more confident choices every day. --APP FEATURES-- Scan Your Food: Use the built-in scanner to instantly check ingredients at home or on-the-go. Easy Calendar Tracking: Log your daily meals, surroundings, and symptoms so you can recognize patterns over time. Access Your Test Results Anytime: Filter your results by severity level to make smarter food and environmental choices anywhere. Find New Recipes: Browse curated recipes that help you avoid your food intolerances. Upgrade Your Test Results: Purchase digital upgrades to expand your results beyond food intolerances and environmental sensitivities without sending a new hair sample. Personal Wellness Score: Scoring is based on your results, so you can track your progress over time. Access New At-Home Tests: Explore more tests to further refine your daily diet and lifestyle choices. Gain Community Insights: Connect with others, ask questions, and share your own experiences. You're not just tracking. You're actively learning what works for your unique body. Download the 5Strands app and make meaningful lifestyle changes today!
SuppCo
Manage and optimize your daily vitamin and supplement regimen. This app helps you build a personalized plan, track your intake, and receive expert recommendations based on your health goals. It also provides independent quality ratings for over 500 supplement brands.
- Personalized supplement tracking
- Smart scheduling and reminders
- Nutrient intake analysis
- Supplement stack algorithm
- Independent brand quality ratings
- Supplement research and recommendations
- Expert-built supplement protocols
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Stay on top of your supplement routine with SuppCo, the ultimate companion and tracker for managing and optimizing your daily supplement & vitamin regimen. With a proprietary database over 160,000 supplements, SuppCo provides detailed insights to help you build, track and maintain a supplement plan that aligns with your health goals. PERSONALIZED SUPPLEMENT TRACKER: • Add the supplements you take and build your stack. • Get a smart schedule and set daily reminders so you never miss a dose. • View overall nutrient totals and how well your products support your health goals. • Track your intake so you can see how it affects your performance. STACK ANALYSIS ALGORITHM: • Get your supplement routine rated and analyzed by our proprietary algorithm. • Access recommendations on what nutrients are recommended for your age and sex, which brands you can trust, how to improve your dosages, and more. INDEPENDENT SCORING OF 500+ SUPPLEMENT BRANDS: • Our TrustScore quality rating system shows you quality ratings for 500+ brands based on 29 key attributes ranging from certifications to proprietary ingredients to testing benchmarks and manufacturing standards. • Check your supplement TrustScore, and swap brands that don't hit the mark with brands you can trust. ADVANCED SUPPLEMENT RESEARCH: • Find the best products in a given category based on our TrustScore quality rating, price per serving, and key considerations like certifications and form factor. • We are not affiliated with any supplement brand and bring you real supplement search in a world of confusing information. 80+ SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOLS FOR TARGETED HEALTH GOALS: • Not sure what to take to hit your goals? Access expert-built plans with nutrient recommendations to achieve your health goals. • Find every supplement plan, all in one place, ranging from essential plans for women and men of every age group to gut health, stress, longevity and more. Terms of Use: https://supp.co/about/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 5Strands at every 5 days against SuppCo's every 6 weeks. 5Strands also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (81% vs 61%). SuppCo's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (30K vs 149). 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
Both are free to download. 5Strands sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and SuppCo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SuppCo holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SuppCo has 30K ratings behind it against 149, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of 5Strands's written reviews are positive against 61% of SuppCo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
5Strands ships an update every 5 days, SuppCo every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5Strands | SuppCo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (149 ratings) | 4.8 (30K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews — better | 60.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 149 | 30K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #83 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Affordable Allergy Test, LLC | Supple Stack Inc |
Customer experience
5Strands
SuppCo
Bugs and requests
5Strands
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SuppCo
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to save multiple supplement stacks
- Option to manually specify supplement contents
- Crowd-sourcing to ensure data accuracy
In-app purchases
5Strands
- 5Strands VIP$4.991 Month
SuppCo
- SuppCo Pro Membership1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- SuppCo Pro Membership$39.991 Year
- SuppCo Pro Membership1 Year trial$59.991 Year
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- SuppCo Buying Club Membership2 variants$119.991 Year









