Comparison

Food Intolerances vs uForage

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

uForage

Discover fresh, local food sources, from wild edibles to roadside stalls and micro-farms. This app aims to reduce food waste and end hunger by connecting communities with accessible food options.

Highlights
  • Find wild growing food
  • Discover roadside stalls
  • Connect with micro farms
  • Locate local growers and bakers
  • Reduce food waste
  • Access free food sources
Features
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uForage is a free community food map. It shows you what's growing near you right now: roadside stalls, backyard fruit trees with too much fruit, small growers, honey, eggs, and wild food you walk past every day without seeing. Search for what you actually want. Eggs, lemons, herbs, honey. Results are sorted by what's closest to you, with directions to get there. Got more than you can eat? List your surplus in under a minute. Someone nearby is already looking for it, and your excess goes to a neighbour instead of the compost. Not sure what something is? Point your camera. uForage uses image recognition plus a community of real people to help identify wild and backyard food, with safety and spray warnings on listings. Foraging worldwide. uForage connects to a global database of more than 1.6 million wild food locations, so the map works whether you're in the Northern Rivers or northern Italy. Detail on non-Australian wild food listings requires a subscription. Why we built it Food should be accessible to everyone regardless of income. Community food networks are more resilient than supply chains, and we learned that the hard way during the 2022 Northern Rivers floods, when the roads were cut and the shelves were empty and the people who were okay were the ones who knew their local growers. uForage is free to use, built by two people in Murwillumbah, and mapped by the community that uses it. Winner, Business NSW Regen Connection Accelerator. As featured on ABC, NBN News and 7NEWS.

Screenshots

Food Intolerances4 screens
uForage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Food Intolerances at 4.5 against uForage's 2.8. Food Intolerances also leads on ratings volume (876 vs 6). uForage's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, 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. uForage asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Food Intolerances holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Food Intolerances has 876 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 75% and 75% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Food Intolerances ships an update every 2 months, uForage every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Food Intolerances versus uForage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFood IntolerancesuForage
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (876 ratings) — better2.8 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews75.1% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings876 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB98 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBaliza GmbHAchiapa Nuvoli Family Trust

Customer experience

Food Intolerances

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

uForage

All ratings6 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative10.0%

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

uForage

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

uForage

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Food Intolerances free?
Food Intolerances is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is uForage free?
uForage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Food Intolerances or uForage?
Food Intolerances is rated higher. Food Intolerances averages 4.5 out of 5 from 876 ratings, while uForage averages 2.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Food Intolerances or uForage have ads?
Neither Food Intolerances nor uForage shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Food Intolerances or uForage?
Food Intolerances ships an update every 2 months, and uForage every 3 weeks. Most recently, Food Intolerances was updated on November 1, 2026 and uForage on October 30, 2026.

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