Two things, one price. Every answer CiCi has is free on this website, permanently, for everyone, with no account and no card. That is over a thousand ingredient pages, a verdict for every product and every restaurant score, all of it with the reasoning and the regulation cited. The app is what costs money: 14 days free, then $29.99 a year.
The website is free. The app is paid. Every ingredient verdict, product assessment and restaurant score on this site stays free permanently, with no account and no card, so nobody is ever stuck in an aisle unable to find out whether a food will make them ill. What costs money is the app that does it in two seconds from your pocket.
This half is not a trial. It runs the same engine and gives the same verdicts and citations as the app, and it works in a phone browser while you are standing in the shop.
Every answer CiCi has, free forever, no account, no card, no app.
14 days of everything, free, then $29.99 a year. Scanning, photo reads, carbs, restaurants, recall alerts and offline packs. It is cheaper than Fig, and it does what three separate apps do.
or $4.99 a month
The app. Scan a barcode, photograph a panel, get the answer in two seconds.
Prices below were read off each company's own live page in July 2026. They change, and several of these companies do not publish a single number. Where a company lists multiple annual SKUs we show the lowest one, which is the most generous reading of their pricing and still higher than ours.
| App | Monthly | Yearly | What's free | What that buys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CiCi Plus | $4.99 | $29.99 | Whole website free forever, no account | Scanning, carbs and restaurants in one app. Nobody else does all three. |
| Gluten Free Scanner | $1.99 | $19.99 | Unlimited, with an ad roughly every 10 scans | The subscription buys ad removal rather than capability. |
| Find Me Gluten Free | — | $24.99 | Restaurants only — no product scanning | Premium gates the "most celiac friendly" filter. $39.99 for a family. |
| Spoonful | $4.99 | $29.99 | 5 scans + 5 searches per month | Unlimited scans and full scan history are behind the paywall. |
| Fig | $5.99 | $39.99 | 5 scans per month | Annual SKUs range to $59.99. Runs a hardship programme, which is genuinely good practice. |
| The Celiac App | $6.99 | $59.99 | No scanning | Content and dietitian Q&A rather than label analysis. |
| Coeliac UK app | — | $26.00 | None — members only | £21/yr digital membership. No free tier at all, but a genuinely verified 190,000-product database. |
Swipe the table sideways to see every column.
For context, the median health-and-fitness app subscription runs about $9.70 a month and $39.99 a year. CiCi Plus sits at $29.99: 25% below Fig, level with Spoonful, half the price of The Celiac App. It is also the only one of them that does product scanning, restaurant scoring and carbohydrate data in the same place. The free half is a whole website rather than a five-scan sample.
The angriest reviews in this category are about retroactive paywalls. Everything listed as free above is a commitment, written down here on the day the pricing launched.
Every verdict, with its reasoning and its citations, stays free on this website, permanently, with no account. Nobody should be standing in an aisle unable to find out whether a food will make them ill because of a subscription state. The answer is always reachable from a browser.
Scans are not attached to an identity and never enter an analytics event. Diet and diagnosis are health data, and treating them as ad inventory would be both wrong and, under the FTC Health Breach Notification Rule, ruinously illegal.
The two free-unlimited scanners in this category pay for themselves with an ad roughly every ten scans. A food brand paying for placement in a safety tool is a conflict we will not have.
Almost all of it goes back into the thing you are paying for: the ingredient rules, the citations behind every verdict, keeping the product database current, and the AI that reads a photographed panel when a barcode comes up empty. Those are the real costs behind the paid tier.
We are not publishing a donation percentage. The giving in this business is the free half of it: a thousand-page reference, a verdict for every barcode and a national restaurant map that anybody can use without an account or a card, permanently. That is a real cost we carry every month, and we would rather do that well than advertise a percentage we would have to quietly reduce later.
The whole website, permanently, with no account and no card. Over a thousand ingredient pages with the reasoning and the regulation on each one, a product page for every barcode we have data for, the restaurant map with its scores, the category guides and the learn library. It runs in a phone browser, so you can use it standing in the aisle. It is the same engine the app runs on.
Speed and the things a browser cannot do. Point the camera at a barcode and get the answer in about two seconds; photograph an ingredient panel when no database has the product; carry your saved products and get told when one is recalled or reformulated; take the rules offline before you fly. Plus the carbohydrate and nutrition panel on every scan, which matters if you are also counting carbs. Around 6% of people with type 1 diabetes have coeliac disease too, and until now that meant two apps.
Yes. 14 days with everything unlocked. Two weeks rather than one because the value of this shows up on a grocery trip and a single week can easily contain none. Cancelling takes one tap, and you will never have to email anyone to stop paying us.
Then use the website. It is free permanently and answers the same questions: every ingredient, every barcode, every restaurant score, with the reasoning and the regulation cited, no account and no card. It works in a phone browser while you are standing in the shop. The app is faster and it has the camera, but it gives you the same answer.
We would rather tell you that plainly than advertise a hardship programme we are not currently running.
No, and there isn't going to be. A lifetime price sells a decade of service for about eighteen months of revenue, and the people who buy it are the ones who would have stayed subscribed for years. Keeping the ingredient lexicon curated and the product data current is a permanent cost, so it needs permanent funding. We would rather charge a fair annual price than take a lump sum now and let the data rot later.
Because it does what three separate apps do. A scanner like Fig is $39.99 a year, a restaurant finder like Find Me Gluten Free is $24.99, and nothing in this category gives you carbohydrate data at all. $29.99 is below the category median and below Fig, for more product. The half of CiCi that answers “is this safe?” is still free to everyone, forever.