Comparison

Food Intolerances vs Ingred

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

Head to head
About

Food Intolerances

This app helps individuals manage restricted diets due to food intolerances, sensitivities, or allergies. It provides an extensive food list, detailed data, and tools like a recipe calculator and food diary to track dietary intake and assess tolerance.

Highlights
  • Extensive food list (1,200+ items)
  • Recipe calculator
  • Food diary tracking
  • Detailed intolerance data
  • Customizable diet profiles
  • Favorites and notes
Features
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■ Latest Awards • Healthline.com: Best Allergy Apps of the Year 2020 • Focus Money 2019: "Best App" in the health category • MeinAllergiePortal – Digital Health Heroes Award 2018 & 2021 The app Food Intolerances helps you if you have to stick to a restricted diet after being diagnosed with food intolerances, sensitivities or allergies. It offers you an extensive food list with more than 1,300 foods, tables with comprehensive data and detailed comments for assessing the tolerance. The most important applications are histamine intolerance, mastocytosis, a low FODMAP diet for IBS, fructose malabsorption, sorbitol intolerance, lactose intolerance, salicylate intolerance or gluten sensitivity. Our app has been reviewed by the medical jury of MeinAllergiePortal and was awarded the Digital Health Heroes Award twice. ■ The best app for your needs • Configure the app to fit your specific needs • Check your favorite meals with the recipe calculator • Track your diet with the food diary and export detailed analyses as PDF • Add your own notes and manually adjust ratings where necessary • Add foods to your list of favorites • Filter and sort by various criteria ■ Low FODMAP diet and IBS • Fructose intolerance • Lactose intolerance • Sorbitol and other sugar alcohols • Oligosaccharides (e.g. fructans and galactans) • Total FODMAP content ■ Histamine and tyramine intolerance • Content of histamine, tyramine and other biogenic amines • Histamine liberators and DAO inhibitors • Problematic medicines and food additives ■ More intolerances and allergies • Salicylate or Aspirin intolerance • Benzoic acid and benzoates • Balsam of Peru allergy • Nickel allergy and nickel content • Oxalic acid and oxalates • Additional profiles for gluten, wheat, corn, soy, yeast, sulfites, dairy, egg, fish, meat, pork, beef, honey, treenuts and nightshades ► Free version • Basic information for 8 out of 15 intolerances • Access to our food database with more than 1,300 entries • Detailed articles about food intolerances • Search function with barcode scanner • Shopping list • Creation of five recipes • Creation of five entries in the food diary • Personal notes, ratings and favorites • Free blog with interesting articles* • Direct link to Wikipedia articles • Dark Mode • No internet connection required ► PRO version (in-app purchase) • Access to all information and data • Filter and sorting function • Recipe nutrition calculator • Unlimited number of entries in the food diary • Access to all 15 sensitivities and additional 14 allergens • Adjustable portion sizes • Assessment of the total sugar content • One time purchase, no subscription ► Nutritional values (in-app purchase) With an additional in-app users of the PRO version can unlock 46 nutritional values. • General nutrition facts • Vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9 (folic acid), B12, C, D, E and K • Minerals and micronutrients (e.g. iron, zinc, calcium, magnesium, ...) • Recommended daily intake • Omega-6/Omega-3 ratio, glycemic index and glycemic load • Alcohol content • Calculation and tracking of nutritional values ■ About us At Baliza, we have been developing nutritional apps that provide tailored nutritional recommendations to people with special dietary needs since 2011. Our award-winning apps are helpful guides that combine carefully researched information from scientific sources with all the capabilities offered by modern smartphones. You get all of our apps as a fair one-time purchase without a subscription. * https://www.baliza.de/en/blog/index.html

About

Ingred

Scan cosmetic or food labels with your camera to identify potentially harmful ingredients and additives. Access a comprehensive database of cosmetic ingredients and food additives, including those derived from palm oil and vegan options.

Highlights
  • Scan labels with a photo
  • Identify harmful cosmetic ingredients
  • Query food additive database
  • Palm oil ingredient detection
  • Vegan additive information
Features
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Check with a photo of the label for ingredients of cosmetics or food can be harmful to your health. Query the database of food additives and ingredients in cosmetics. List of cosmetic ingredients in personal care products, harmful to health, taken from sources such as the Red Ecoestética www.ecoestetica.org, Odile Fernandez www.misrecetasanticancer.com, http://estrelladelasnieves.es, http: // ecolisima.com, http://www.naturalsensia.com, http://wikibelleza.es and others. List of suspected food additives based on data collected from various entities such as the EU, WHO, FAO, JECFA. Technical Service of the National Consumer Institute, Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, the Joint Committee of FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives ... etc. Taken from http://xananatura.blogspot.com.es, http://www.nomasaditivos.com and http://www.food-info.net. Names of ingredients derived from palm oil extracted from www.aceitedepalma.org. Information on vegan additives provided by The Elated Vegan.

Screenshots

Food Intolerances4 screens
Ingred4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ingred at none against Food Intolerances's 2. Ingred also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Food Intolerances's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 59%) and ratings volume (877 vs 255). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Food Intolerances sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Ingred asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ingred holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 877 and 255 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Food Intolerances's written reviews are positive against 59% of Ingred's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Food Intolerances ships an update every 2 months, Ingred every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Food Intolerances versus Ingred: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFood IntolerancesIngred
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (877 ratings)4.7 (255 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.1% of reviews — better59.1% of reviews
Number of ratings877 — better255
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB8 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperBaliza GmbHRaul Vadillo

Customer experience

Food Intolerances

All ratings873 ratings
Positive88.3%
Neutral3.1%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews305 reviews
Positive75.1%
Neutral6.6%
Negative18.4%

Ingred

All ratings249 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive59.1%
Neutral6.4%
Negative34.5%

Bugs and requests

Food Intolerances

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Tyramine option locked
  • Doesn't save custom intolerance settings
  • Flashing purchase prompts, can't access paid version

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add lectins
  • Include cups/spoons measurements
  • Add oxalate and additive info
  • Allow adding personal intolerances
  • Integrate with food diary apps
Show 5 more
  • Add a search function
  • Include a user guide
  • Ability to print/view problem foods list
  • Option to mark specific intolerance issues per food
  • Add low fiber, low fat, etc. filter options

Ingred

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Food Intolerances

One-time2
  • Nutritional values$3.99
  • PRO version$17.99
None

Ingred

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Food Intolerances free?
Food Intolerances is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ingred free?
Ingred is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Food Intolerances or Ingred?
Ingred is rated higher. Food Intolerances averages 4.5 out of 5 from 877 ratings, while Ingred averages 4.7 from 255 ratings.
Do Food Intolerances or Ingred have ads?
Neither Food Intolerances nor Ingred shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Food Intolerances or Ingred?
Food Intolerances ships an update every 2 months, and Ingred every 6 weeks. Most recently, Food Intolerances was updated on November 10, 2026 and Ingred on November 11, 2026.

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