Food Intolerances vs Expiro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Extensive food list (1,200+ items)
- Recipe calculator
- Food diary tracking
- Detailed intolerance data
- Customizable diet profiles
- Favorites and notes
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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
Expiro
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Are you fed up with feeling disappointed every time you go to eat your favorite snack, only to see that it expired a few weeks ago? Don’t worry…we got your back! Quickly add and track expiry dates of all your products. Set up notifications to never forget an expiry date again! TRACK EXPIRY DATES List all of your products in your kitchen and pantry with their expiration dates! EXPIRY REMINDER A notification will pop up to remind you of your expired product! CUSTOMIZABLE You can customize the daily notification time of your expired products. Download this simple, easy to use, app to keep track of your expiry dates of food and pantry items and never waste food again!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Expiro at none against Food Intolerances's 2. Food Intolerances's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Food Intolerances sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Expiro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Food Intolerances ships an update every 2 months, Expiro every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Food Intolerances | Expiro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (877 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 877 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Baliza GmbH | zDesignz |
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
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- 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
Expiro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Food Intolerances
- Nutritional values$3.99
- PRO version$17.99
Expiro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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