Fodmi vs FODMAP Friendly

FODMAP Friendly and Fodmi help at different moments. FODMAP Friendly is for planning and shopping: a list of laboratory-tested foods, more than 200 recipes, meal plans, certified products and a directory of dietitians. Fodmi is for the meal in front of you: photograph your plate, see the whole meal’s FODMAPs across the six groups, and check in a few hours later on how it sat. If you want recipes and a shopping list of certified products, FODMAP Friendly has far more of them. If you want to find out which of your own meals cause trouble, that is what Fodmi is built for.

We make Fodmi, so take our view with that in mind. Everything below about FODMAP Friendly comes from its US App Store listing, which we read on 28 October 2026. Listings and prices change; check the current one before you decide.

Side by side

	Fodmi	FODMAP Friendly
Best for	Logging meals and finding your own triggers	Recipes, meal plans and certified products
How you use it	Photo, voice or text for a meal; barcode or label photos for packaged food	Look up foods, recipes and certified products
Foods	More than 900 foods, with the amount where each stays low	Hundreds of laboratory-tested foods with a pass or fail rating and a maximum serve
A whole meal’s FODMAPs	Worked out across the six groups from a photo	A recipe maker that helps with FODMAPs adding up across a recipe
Packaged food	Scans a barcode or the label and rates each ingredient	Certified products, filtered by country, brand and category
Recipes and meal plans	None	Over 200 recipes, recipe eBooks and meal plans
Symptoms	Check-ins a few hours after each meal, with the Bristol stool scale	Its listing doesn’t mention a symptom diary
Report for your doctor	Weekly trends and a PDF report	Its listing doesn’t mention one; it has a directory of FODMAP-trained dietitians
Devices	iPhone	iPhone and iPad
Price	Free download, full access by subscription	Free to download

What FODMAP Friendly does

FODMAP Friendly is a certification body for low FODMAP products, and its app reflects that. Its listing describes a food list of hundreds of laboratory-tested foods, each with an overall pass or fail rating, the percentage of FODMAPs found and a maximum serve. You can browse products it has certified, filtered by country, brand and category, with the maximum serving for each.

It leans towards cooking and planning. There are more than 200 low FODMAP recipes and recipe eBooks, meal plans, and a recipe maker that helps you build your own recipes while keeping an eye on FODMAP stacking. A directory helps you find a FODMAP-trained dietitian near you, and restaurants can use it to get accredited.

Its listing doesn’t mention logging what you ate, recording symptoms, or scanning barcodes. It’s free to download, on iPhone and iPad, in English.

What Fodmi does

Fodmi starts from the meal on your plate. Take a photo, say what you ate, or type it. Fodmi picks out the ingredients, including hidden garlic and onion, and shows the whole meal across the six FODMAP groups, because FODMAPs from different foods add up. A few hours later it asks how the meal sat, so over a few weeks you can see which foods line up with bad days. You get weekly trends and a PDF report for your doctor or dietitian, and you can look up more than 900 foods with the amount where each stays low (see the food list).

It also scans packaged food: scan the barcode, or photograph the label if the barcode isn’t found, and Fodmi rates each ingredient and tells you whether the amount you’ll eat is low.

What it doesn’t do: there are no recipes or meal plans, no list of certified products, and it’s iPhone only. How Fodmi works out its answers.

Which should you pick?

• Want recipes and meal plans for the first weeks of the diet? FODMAP Friendly.
• Prefer to shop from a list of certified products? FODMAP Friendly.
• Looking for a FODMAP-trained dietitian? FODMAP Friendly’s directory.
• Eating out or cooking without a recipe, and want the meal checked as a whole? Fodmi.
• Holding a packet that isn’t certified? Fodmi scans its barcode or label.
• Trying to work out which meals cause trouble, or need a report for your doctor? Fodmi’s check-ins, trends and PDF report.

The two fit together well: one for planning what to cook and buy, the other for what you actually ate and how it sat. For more apps, see the best low FODMAP apps for iPhone and Fodmi vs the Monash FODMAP app. Whichever you use, the diet works best as a short trial followed by reintroduction, ideally with a dietitian. Our guide to the low FODMAP diet explains the three phases.

Frequently asked questions

Is the FODMAP Friendly app free?

Its App Store listing shows it as free to download, on iPhone and iPad. Fodmi is a free download with full access by subscription.

Does FODMAP Friendly have a barcode scanner?

Its listing doesn’t mention one. It has a list of certified products you can filter by country, brand and category. Fodmi scans a product’s barcode, or photos of its label, and rates each ingredient for the amount you’ll eat.

Can I use FODMAP Friendly and Fodmi together?

Yes. Many people use FODMAP Friendly for recipes, meal plans and certified products, and Fodmi to log what they actually ate and see how it sat.

Is Fodmi part of FODMAP Friendly?

No. Fodmi is a separate app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by FODMAP Friendly.