Comparison

Food Intolerances vs Better Without

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

Better Without

Discover a wide range of alcohol-free and non-alcoholic drinks with community reviews and personalized recommendations. Find new favorites and curated lists of beverages and places that serve them.

Highlights
  • Extensive alcohol-free drink catalog
  • Community reviews and ratings
  • Personalized drink recommendations
  • Search and filter by taste, ABV, diet
  • Curated wish lists
  • Food pairing suggestions
Features
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If you're cutting back on booze, cutting it out, or you never really started, you’ve probably encountered one of two problems: Poor alternatives - you’re a prisoner to soft drinks and cranberry juice. Or... Too much choice - every trip to the local alcohol free and non-alcoholic aisle leaves you paralysed with indecision. Better Without exists to solve both problems. Here's how: THE POWER OF CHOICE Say "move over, soft drinks", with an app designed to put the power of choice in the palm of your hands. Hundreds of alcohol free and non-alcoholic drinks at your fingertips, from big brewers and bathtub outfits alike. It's discovery on tap. THE POWER OF COMMUNITY Get real insight from real people, with an app that's harnessing the growing 'drink different' community. Discover the drinks you love, with reviews you can trust. It's that simple. FEATURES: Simple search Find your drinks, your way. Filter by taste, ABV, dietary requirements and more. You can even find tried-and-tested food pairings. Wish lists Curate your own lists of delicious drinks and perfect places. Use them however you like – save your favorites, or plan your next pour. The choice, as always, is yours. Recommendations Tell us what you like, and we’ll tell you when something new arrives that fits the bill. Make sure you’re never caught out of the loop again. Reviews and badges Don’t just tap into the community’s wisdom – contribute some of your own! Review drinks and places, and unlock your badges. Your activity See all your reviews, wish lists and badges, all in one place. For a quick snapshot of your app activity. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Download the Better Without app to find your new favorite alcohol free and non-alcoholic drinks, and the places that serve them. Discovery on tap, free of charge.

Screenshots

Food Intolerances4 screens
Better Without4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Food Intolerances at 4.5 against Better Without's 3.5. Food Intolerances also leads on ratings volume (876 vs 11). Better Without's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Better Without asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Food Intolerances holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Food Intolerances has 876 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Food Intolerances's written reviews are positive against 77% of Better Without'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, Better Without every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Food Intolerances versus Better Without: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFood IntolerancesBetter Without
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (876 ratings) — better3.5 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews75.1% of reviews76.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings876 — better11
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 MB35 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperBaliza GmbHJDS Technology Group Limited

Customer experience

Food Intolerances

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

Better Without

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative36.4%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.1%

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

Better Without

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

Better Without

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Food Intolerances free?
Food Intolerances is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Better Without free?
Better Without is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Food Intolerances or Better Without?
Food Intolerances is rated higher. Food Intolerances averages 4.5 out of 5 from 876 ratings, while Better Without averages 3.5 from 11 ratings.
Do Food Intolerances or Better Without have ads?
Neither Food Intolerances nor Better Without shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Food Intolerances or Better Without?
Food Intolerances ships an update every 2 months, and Better Without every 6 weeks. Most recently, Food Intolerances was updated on November 1, 2026 and Better Without on October 24, 2026.

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