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Vittly

UK food hygiene ratings, shown honestly.

Vittly shows official Food Standards Agency hygiene ratings for places that serve or sell food — on a map, or by name — and refuses to dress them up. Every rating carries the date of the inspection behind it, places still waiting on a first inspection are listed rather than quietly dropped, and nothing is ever averaged, estimated or predicted. Alongside the ratings sit plain-language explainers for the three inspection scores and for the 14 allergens UK law requires businesses to declare. Everything in the app is free, with no accounts and no adverts.

Runs on iPhone · iPad · Mac

Download on the App Store

Free, with no accounts and no adverts. Two optional one-off purchases exist — a Supporter unlock that adds alternative app icons and a badge, and a tip that grants nothing — and neither puts any part of the app behind a paywall.

In the UK: Supporter £3.99; tip £2.99. Prices differ by country — the App Store shows yours.

  • No account needed to browse, search or set alerts
  • No ads, no analytics, no tracking
  • Free — two optional one-off purchases, no subscription, nothing behind a paywall
  • Reporting a place closed is the one thing that is published

A closure report is a public record of the venue's FSA number and the time you sent it, which Apple stamps with an anonymous identifier specific to this app: no name, no email, no location. Everything else you keep in Vittly, including your allergen profile, stays on your device.

A hygiene rating reflects food safety standards found at the last inspection — not the quality of the food, and not how a kitchen handles allergens. If you have an allergy, always tell staff.

What it does

Find a place

  • Search by name, or find what is near you
  • Map view that groups busy areas instead of piling up pins
  • Save the places you check often
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for a pinned or saved place

Understand the rating

  • The inspection date, on every rating
  • Hygiene, Structure and Management scores explained in the FSA’s own wording
  • A business’s official right to reply, shown unedited where one exists
  • Awaiting inspection and Exempt shown as themselves — never as a score

Allergens

  • A plain-English guide to the 14 regulated allergens
  • The other names each one hides behind on a label
  • An allergen profile, kept on your device, that highlights matching food alerts
  • FSA food recall and allergy alerts

Keep an eye on things

  • Optional alerts when a saved place’s rating drops or is published
  • One summary rather than a pile of notifications
  • Widgets that show what changed, and when they last checked
  • Places with the same name nearby, worst rating first

“Places with the same name nearby” groups by business name only. The FSA register does not record who owns or operates a venue, so places shown may be franchises, separate companies, or unrelated businesses that happen to share a name — Vittly says so on the screen and never presents a combined or averaged score. Everything above is free. An optional one-off Supporter purchase adds alternative app icons and a badge, and unlocks no functionality.

Screens

On iPhone · 10 screens

  • Food hygiene ratings on a map of nearby places in Vittly.
    Ratings near you
  • Searching for a place by name in Vittly.
    Search any place
  • A venue in Vittly: its rating, the date of the inspection behind it, and the three inspection scores.
    Score and date
  • A Scottish venue in Vittly, showing its FHIS named result rather than a 0–5 score.
    Both UK schemes
  • Filtering the map by rating in Vittly.
    Filter what matters
  • Saved places in Vittly.
    Your saved places
  • Food recall and allergy alerts from the FSA in Vittly.
    Recalls and allergies
  • The plain-English guide to the 14 regulated allergens in Vittly.
    All 14 allergens
  • A place still on the register in Vittly.
    Awaiting inspection (sample data)
  • Reported closures in Vittly.
    Closed? You'll know (sample data)

On iPad · 10 screens

  • Food hygiene ratings on a map on iPad, with the key to the colours.
    Ratings near you
  • Searching for a chain by name on iPad, every branch listed with its rating.
    Search any place
  • A venue on iPad: its rating, inspection date and the three inspection scores.
    Score and date
  • Scottish venues on iPad, each showing its FHIS result rather than a number.
    Both UK schemes
  • Filtering the map by minimum rating and business type on iPad.
    Filter what matters
  • Saved and recently viewed places on iPad.
    Your saved places
  • FSA food recall and allergy alerts on iPad.
    Recalls and allergies
  • Choosing your allergens on iPad, from the 14 regulated allergens.
    All 14 allergens
  • Sample data on iPad: a business registered at Companies House but not yet inspected.
    Awaiting inspection (sample data)
  • Sample data on iPad: a place reported closed by Vittly users, beside its official rating.
    Closed? You'll know (sample data)

On Mac · 6 screens

  • Vittly on the Mac, listing well-rated places nearby.
    Ratings near you
  • Searching for a chain by name in the Mac app.
    Search any place
  • A venue in the Mac app, with its rating and inspection scores.
    Score and date
  • The map and its filters in the Mac app.
    Filter what matters
  • Saved places in the Mac app.
    Your saved places
  • Food recall and allergy alerts in the Mac app.
    Recalls and allergies

Vittly is a single universal app: the same version runs on iPhone, iPad and natively on the Mac. Every venue shown is a real Food Standards Agency record, except the two screens marked sample data, which use made-up venues to show how a new business and a reported closure appear.

Coverage

Vittly covers the whole of the UK, using the FSA's two schemes as the FSA publishes them: FHRS numeric ratings of 0–5 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the FHIS named results (Pass, Improvement Required) in Scotland. The two are never converted into one another or ranked against each other. The app is fully available in Welsh as well as English.

Data sources

  • Hygiene ratings and food alerts from the Food Standards Agency, used under the Open Government Licence.
  • Company registration details from Companies House public data.
  • Maps by Apple (MapKit).

Get Vittly

UK food hygiene ratings, shown honestly.

Free, with no accounts and no adverts. Two optional one-off purchases exist — a Supporter unlock that adds alternative app icons and a badge, and a tip that grants nothing — and neither puts any part of the app behind a paywall.

In the UK: Supporter £3.99; tip £2.99. Prices differ by country — the App Store shows yours.

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