food-safety.app’s whole model is built around one trade-off: no account, no cloud, everything stored on a single device. That means no built-in way for a second team member to see or contribute to the same diary, and no backup beyond whatever phone it was entered on — if that device is lost, so is the record.
Rated5 takes the opposite, and for most food businesses more practical, approach: a cloud-based diary shared across your whole team, with every temperature, check and corrective action attributed to the named person who recorded it, accessible from any device they’re signed into.
food-safety.app’s published feature list doesn’t confirm the FSA SFBB structure specifically, per-nation UK rules, safe-methods sign-off, or a read-only inspection view for the EHO visit — all standard in Rated5.
For a single-person operation that will never need to share its diary, the lower headline price might look appealing. For everyone else, Rated5’s shared, tamper-evident, cloud-based model is what actually holds up when your business grows beyond one phone.