Great App but Chinese Quince is missing and should be included please

Just a few hours ago I wrote a nice review about this app. But I have to change that because I cannot change any of the entries into the diary because the pencil icon is not large enough for human finger to touch. Why does an app that has links on it that you’re meant to touch on a touch screen but the hot area of the touchable area that will actually open that link is physically smaller than the width of the finger that touches the screen. This app is meant to make people stress less and manage their diet but instead it’s starting to piss me off more.

And the low FODMAP diet itself. Thanks to Monash University my IBS symptoms are now at bay making my life so much better. The app is incredibly helpful and I use it everyday to determine what I can eat on the low FODMAP diet. I still want to have a varied diet and quantities of food can vary to turn them from low to high FODMAP. This is where the app is very helpful, especially the new update. I love the traffic light system and how you can easily see the different quantities at a glance.

I’d previously downloaded some free Fodmap apps, but wish I’d just bought this one straight away - it’s so much better and well worth the money!

The latest update has made it even better - there’s a really helpful guide to the FODMAP diet, the traffic light system is great (and is broken down into 6 different types of FODMAP when you click into the food).

The food/symptoms diary is really easy to use and the Reintroduction part of the diary comes preloaded with types of food to reintroduce for each FODMAP group and suggested amounts to eat for each Reintroduction day, which makes everything SO much easier!

The filters are great if you want to filter out particular types of FODMAPS, which will be great once in Stage 3 of the diet (Personalisation). All in all it’s a brilliant app, and the money goes towards more research into FODMAPs - win win! 😄

This app has been an extremely valuable resource for following a low fodmap diet but since the update to version 3.0 I am unable to access any of the 6 main sections on the homepage (most frustratingly the “food guide”) or the settings menu. Please fix ASAP otherwise the app is useless!

I've just bought the app before this update. And now find its iOS 11 + I have only access to iOS 9 . Just plain wrong.

I have been following a low-FODMAP diet for years and this app has always been my holy grail. I am so so so happy for this update, it was looong overdue.

The app is so easy to use now, everything is logical and user friendly. The new recipes are really great and easy to make, and the food guide has a new look which makes viewing recommended portion sizes so much easier! I really like the new option of seeing newly tested products together under one tab as well.

Thanks for the great update and all the testings/hard work done to help us, IBS sufferers!

I absolutely loved this app until today. After the update I’ve now lost all of my previous data. I’ve been keeping a track for a few weeks and it’s all gone, including today’s data.

I just did a huge mistake, i updated the app, now I have to open every fruit to get advice! The coloured circles next to the items in the list are gone ;(

Absolutely load of rubbish this app. Can’t believe I’ve just bought it!

As far as I can tell this is basically a fodmap food poster digitised. No brands included. There are better apps for less money. Trying to find out how to get a refund.

Extremely basic, can’t imagine any actual nutritional knowledge has been used here- just a load of junk food options and really basic info you could find yourself online in 20 seconds! Really peeved I spent £7.99 on this! 🙄

This was helpful but now it just keeps closing down...

So much more info on the internet, no mention of FODMAP reintroduction. Handful of recipes. Save your money and buy something gluten free!

A like the app, but when I try to view my food & symptom journal report the app crashes ☹️ I’d like to get this fixed so that I can see my reports.

Having been on a low fodmap diet for several years under guidance by my dietician, this is the only app I trust. No, you can’t scan pre packaged foods but it gives you the safe portion sizes where appropriate and you can see at a glance which foods can be eaten more freely. Some foods are high fodmap but when you click on the item for further info some of them are tolerable in small doses so you can add to soups etc. The price is worth it and goes towards helping support further testing of foods which benefits all of us who need to download the app in the first place.

This helped me immensely even for peace of mind that I knew for sure what portion size most people could tolerate. We all know our stomachs react to stress so knowing there is a professional firm out there dedicated to research like Monash was a huge relief. I’d recommend anyone to buy this if you have gut issues.

This is my first review of any App. The App enables me to understand the scientific background well. However, I find that it would be more useful if the app could update my input e.g. shopping list from one device to another. I spent a long time reviewing the recipes , then making a shopping list on my iPad, thinking it would update automatically on my iPhone and only then realising that was not the case. Other Apps have this facility. Frustratingly I also found that when I scroll down the recipes to find “other” to input my own recipe it wasn’t there...I couldn’t find it. I need to be able to do this so that I can accurately chart my food intake and be able to see the chart results at the end of each week and report to my dietician. it would be very useful in any future development of the App, to have a barcode reader for items bought so I could check the food product with the low FODMAP diet. This is available on another similar App. It is fair to say the traffic light system is easy to follow on the various food categories. Finally from my personal experience ...It would have been so useful if there had been some contact information to assist me in the use of the App.

Incredibly helpful to check what you can and can’t eat and in what quantities. I would be lost without it! Most expensive app I have brought but is well worth the money. Only slight issue is that it would be helpful if it said what the maximum allowance for all food are so it says 1tbsp of sugar is ok but then doesn’t comment what your maximum should be, which is annoying

This app has been invaluable in following this diet.

I would have been totally lost without it. This despite the fact that I am a qualified dietitian myself, though trained before FODMAPS even heard of.

Would like to see a more flexible diary and more easily understandable. For example would like the option to add notes. However I do understand the reasoning behind the approach taken.

Unfortunately I am unable to make much use of the recipes as I have to eat a very low carb diet because of having reactive hypoglycaemia.

Thank you Monash.

This App has really contributed to my well being I was introduced to the FODMAP idea from a GP. I have found the app incredibly helpful alongside their facebook site. It is regularly updated and gives you an option to refresh the pages to obtain up to date information. I also use the Facebook site. They responded quickly to my misunderstanding by email. There are filters fir colour blindness. All very good.

Not sure why it has such low review scores. I love it. I use it for a quick search for foods to see if I should avoid or not.

Can highly recommend it.

If you live in the UK. I’m sure it is a great app with a lot of careful work involved in its development but this is a quite typical problem with the App Store. I regret spending the 7.99 and there should be a refund option as you do not find this out until you purchase it.

I don’t do reviews but seeing the poor review from someone saying they wanted more for £7.99 made me laugh. Some people expect everything for nothing. £7.99 doesn’t get you many doughnuts at Krispy Kreme's. Frankly I would forgo ten times that many doughnuts for this research/app which has obviously taken a huge amount of work. My only suggestion is I found it hard to find the food lists. It took a while to realise these don’t show up (just food products instead) until you set your filters. Very well done to everyone involved. Hugely appreciated !

PS annoyingly I hit the one two and then three stars to rate this before I realised you only hit the fifth one to give five stars. Feel really bad about that and I suspect it happens a lot for novice reviewers. So i advise to ignore all the lower ratings 😉

Having had this ap for 2+ years, as at November 2017 I am finding this useful. I am now looking more closely at using settings and filters. BUT I feel there are not enough UK foods in the list, and especially easily available foods. When I turned it on the UK only, with my intolerance filters (can you use both those at once) I didn’t have much luck with finding things. The Information is pretty American-biassed, unless I have made a mistake using the filters. I know bell peppers means green and red peppers, I have forgotten what zuccini is. Looking for bread I could eat - there is one if I went to Germany! Then I found gluten-free bread, which can be bought in the UK. I would like more information about where things can be bought in the UK, apart from common foods which can be bought in supermarkets. Would be good to be able to buy things on line. Living on my own, difficult to get the SMALL portions listed, without wasting a lot of food. Nevertheless, I’ve found it very useful to come back to this ap, as my symptoms have worsened. I think I now also have some problems with fibre as well as many fodmaps. I think everyone individual is different re what foods they tolerate. My severe IBS was late-onset. Had it much more mildly when young. I don’t regret getting this ap, and recommend it highly, despite the fact that further improvements could be made. If only someone would produce a range of low fodmap ready meals and market them in the UK!

I can’t choose any menu other than breakfast - can you please fix this ASAP.

For £7.99 it is reasonable to expect decent functionality, this app is very disappointing. Although the traffic light system for foods is generally good there is sometimes a lack of explanation when standard sentences are merely included. Some of the recipes given include high FODMOP ingredients with no explanation which leads to confusion, and finally, the most frustrating thing is the diary which gives set recipes for meals in the first week and will not allow you to record actual foods eaten nor symptoms thereby rendering it absolutely useless. Would recommend only for the food lists but it is very expensive for that feature alone. Come on Monash, please do better then this.

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Terrible search function, not enough entries, no depth.

It contains almost all foods I searched for, which is HUGE considering a great diet starts with knowing what you can eat - as opposed to what you can not.

Many thanks for making this app!

This app is okay but it's impossible to use it to search through the list of FODMAP approved foods as the option to filter by country doesn't actually work!! It would take forever to scroll through every countries options so it is unfortunately useless to me and a waste of £7.99!

This is the best app for low Fodmap diet on the market, in fact they invented the diet. The foods scientifically measured and portion sizes worked out for you. It is regularly updated free with any new foods tested.

A must have tool if you have a gastro intestinal problems. From IBS, SIBO, fructose malabsorption, gerd, wheat intolerances etc. The list goes on.

The other good thing about this app is that all the profits go back into more research so win win

The content and UI is fantastic but unfortunately the food diary which I followed religiously could not generate an overview of my symptoms because the app crashed! Absolutely devastated as I invested a lot of time into this.

Having said that, following the guidance in this app has reduced my symptoms significantly.

Latest version just won't open at all - please send an update soon! Considering we pay for this app (and there are tonnes of free ones) - it needs to work at least.

Although there are a few apparent contradictions the content in the guide is generally excellent.

HOWEVER, the App itself is appalling and littered with bugs particularly in the food diary and symptom journal. After the most recent update (v2.0.2) these have become almost unusable with the app crashing when using, viewing or adding any of my custom recipes. Hopeless...

I am not particularly happy with paying nearly £6 for this app, the two foods I wasn't sure about aren't even listed in the foods you can check (liquorice being one of them) and the less I say about the recipes the better. How is a cheese sandwich or steak and chips a recipe?! Anyway, the Internet is a much better source of info than this app unless you've had no advice about FODMAP at all but I'd advise a dietician over just going it alone!

What a great app. Easy to use and well thought out. Easily informs me what is safe to eat with IBS. I would like to see more recipes and also have the app add all the same items in the shopping basket together so I know exactly how much of what item to order. Keep up the good work!

As an epp Monash have done a great job to further the research in the whole area of FODMAPS. However, the applicaiton lacks any real world relevancne as scientific reseaerch and customer experience are too different things. The app is very crowded in terms of information being provided and Monash seem to be more interested in selling certifications now to manufacturers. The app is lost with so much information and a really good reference tool but you know what on Google it is free to access the same information. In the UK it requires too much interpretation and not really helpful when cooking for a family of 4 when i need some really easy options.

I've been reading about the FODMAP diet for a long time and never seemed to be able to find a simple, conclusive list of foods to avoid. This app has solved that problem! I'm not on the diet yet but I've been using the app just to observe and confirm my suspicions when I have symptoms.

It's really well made and the extra features are very helpful. As for other reviewers comments on the foods listed - I eat a simple diet of mostly non processed foods and have had no problems so far. You're not going to find a specific brand of frozen lasagne or anything like that. The UK food list is for unusual items unique to the UK, so it's very small, however we get almost everything on the main list in the UK anyway.

I've only given 4 stars as I'd love to see more recipes added, especially vegetarian ones.

This app is vital if you are starting the low FODMAP plan for IBS. It is easy to use and regularly updated with newly researched foods. I don't think I would have been able to follow the diet without it, and it has helped my IBS symptoms a great deal.

If you're using a low FODMAP diet to alleviate IBS symptoms this app will be invaluable to you. It's a comprehensive guide to what you can and can't eat, which is great - really useful if you're in the supermarket or in a restaurant. But it's so much more than that. It covers in a concise way much of the info that's in the associated book and it's been developed by Monash University, the research body responsible for developing this diet worldwide. So you know what you see here is the correct information, not an interpretation of it.

You can set a country filter, so if you're in the U.K. you'll only see products available in the U.K. If you travel to other countries you can change the filter so you see products from that specific country.

The app also includes a food diary.

At £5.99 it's expensive but for its functionality it's worth it. And if the profits go back into further FODMAP research at Monash I think it's money well spent.

This app has been paramount in helping me to overcome IBS related problems. I purchased the app after finding the LOW FODMAP diet recommended by a dietitian left me with conflicting online information. This has safe portions of the foods I can eat and tells me how much after reintroduction I can eat (if at all) of the high FODMAP foods. All of the money from it goes straight back to Monash and they use it for further testing. In the year that I've had it I've used it every single day and had updates every few weeks with more foods being added to the vast database that already exists! If you were to ask me now, I'd pay £20 for it! It really has been that much of a godsend! Thank you Monash! You made this girl so happy when nothing else could 💞

This is the best app for those following the Fodmap diet. Monash University invented the diet so you know it is accurate. It doesn't have many processed foods, because it is an International app, and recipes vary worldwide, and are always changing. But it has the ingredients, you just have to look them up. It does take a while at first, but you soon get used to it. It also gives safe portion sizes, which most other apps don't. It also DOES work offline, it has a setting for that. Finally, the cost goes back to the University to research more foods for future free updates.

Bought in desperation after years of sufferance from IBS. Doesn't work offline when in a supermarket with no phone coverage, not enough UK foods detailed so you have to guess if it's similar to those on show. Shame really as such a good idea. Still have IBS, still bloated and no further ahead.

Lacks coverage of uk food (concentrates of Australian and US foods).

Doesn't work offline which is extremely limiting when you are in a supermarket, plane or restaurant with poor connectivity - these are often the environments when this app is required.

Very poor search.

No sign of improvement to any of these limitations and no response when contacted.

For me, in the UK, this is by far the most useful FODMAP app. I recommend it unreservedly.

The Monash research team provide a great deal of relevant information about each type of food, not just "ok" or "not ok". That's because dietary sufferers like us might be triggered by one or more of four different things: Oligos, Polyols, Fructose and/or Lactose. By understanding the levels of each of these in what you eat, you can over time figure out which of the four types of FODMAP are triggers for you.

Some foods in the database are irrelevant to me in the UK, I guess they are items sold in Australia. But the database has most of the key things in it (various fruits, pulses, cereals, vegetables, and so on). So with a bit of browsing through the database, you are then armed with enough knowledge most of the time to read the labels on what you buy and be pretty confident about the FODMAPs in it.

So whenever I shop for food, and whenever I visit a restaurant, this FODMAP app is with me, ready to advise.

The app costs a lot compared to anything else FODMAP-related in the App Store. I'm ok with that because (a) it has more information by far than any other app I have found, and that extra information has helped me hugely to get my guts under control, (b) it is produced by the most learned FODMAP medical researchers in the world and (c) all revenue from the app goes back into medical research into FODMAP.

So if you need to understand FODMAPs for your diet, I recommend this app for the database of basic foodstuffs alone (and hence whether you are in Australia, UK, Timbuktu or anywhere else). I've never even looked at the recipes or shopping list functionality, so I have no opinion on those.

Good luck, I hope this app helps your guts as much as it has helped mine.

Useless for uk user the shopping list for uk users has about twenty items on it, complete waste of money

The version 2.0 keeps crashing immediately upon opening, please fix!

I rarely leave reviews but this app was so disappointing I had to leave one. The recipes are all common sense, nothing creative.. I'm not sure you can call a bowl of corn flakes a recipe! The only saving grace is that I can quickly look up ingredients while I'm in the shop.. But then I can do that on google for free. Sorry but this app is not worth the money.