Press & about TrustBite
TrustBite is a food allergy app for iOS and Android. It helps people with food allergies and coeliac disease eat out and shop, at home and abroad: an allergen card for restaurant staff in 24 languages, a barcode scanner, and an alert when an official food recall concerns their allergens. TrustBite is built and run independently by Philipp Rosenfeld in Niederwiesa near Chemnitz, Germany.
Key facts
| Platforms | iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play). Printable cards can also be bought on the web at trustbite.me/card. |
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| Allergens | All 14 allergens regulated in the EU: gluten, peanut, tree nuts, milk, egg, fish, crustaceans, soy, sesame, mustard, celery, sulphites, lupin and molluscs. |
| Languages | Allergen card in 24 languages, including Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi. The app itself is available in all 24 official EU languages. |
| Features | Allergen card that works offline · barcode scanner with a traffic-light result (product data from Open Food Facts) · AI analysis of photos and menus · Recall Radar · Recipe Watchdog for saved products · a community feed of “free-from” finds |
| Price | Free: barcode scanning, every warning, the Recall Radar, the Recipe Watchdog, the community and the emergency screen — no account needed (posting in the community needs one). Optional Pro adds all 14 allergens and 24 languages on the card, family profiles and more: 30-day Trip Pass €7.99, €34.99 per year or €99.99 once. Pro never unlocks a warning. |
| Recall sources | 15 official sources: the food-safety authorities of Germany, the UK, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic, plus the EU’s RASFF system. |
| Privacy | User profiles are stored in the EU (Google Firestore, region eur3). No data is sold. Details in the privacy policy. |
| Maker | Philipp Rosenfeld, Niederwiesa (Saxony), Germany — see the legal notice. |
Recall figures for your reporting
The Recall Radar collects official food-recall notices from the 15 sources above. Every month TrustBite publishes a report of the allergen-related recalls it recorded, broken down by country and by allergen. The current 30 days, with links to every monthly report: English · Deutsch.
- The reports count only allergen-related recalls, for example an allergen missing from the label. Recalls for other reasons, such as pathogens or foreign bodies, are not included — so the figures are not the total number of food recalls in a country.
- Recorded is not complete: a source without an entry does not mean there was no recall.
- Using the figures: please name “TrustBite Recall Radar” as the source and link to the report page.
What TrustBite is not
- It is not a medical device and gives no medical advice.
- It never gives the all-clear. A scan result reflects the data available for a product; users are always asked to read the label and to talk to restaurant staff.
- No alert system is complete. A recall that the Recall Radar does not show can still exist.
- Community finds are personal observations by other shoppers, never a safety verdict.
Logo and images
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Logo, transparent PNG · 512 × 512 px
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Logo on dark background PNG · 1200 × 630 px
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Allergen card, English PNG · example card
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Allergen card, German PNG · example card
Please use the logo unchanged — no recolouring or cropping — and not on a blue background, as the logo itself is a blue circle. The name is written as one word: TrustBite. Current app screenshots are on the App Store and Google Play listings; larger files are available on request.
Contact
Press enquiries: trustbite@trustbite.me — answered
personally by Philipp Rosenfeld, usually within 48 hours.
Help with the app: support@trustbite.me or the
support page.