Changelog
Building SafeBelly, in the open
Every improvement, written down. SafeBelly is engine-first: most of what we ship is accuracy you'll never see — which is exactly the point.
6.3 million products, labels read for all 14 allergens
LatestJuly 2026
Barcode coverage grew 250-fold: the full Open Food Facts mirror (4.3M products) plus USDA manufacturer-label data (2M US products), all self-hosted so your scans never leave our systems. And scans got sharper — when a label names an allergen, in any of its hidden forms (casein, whey, semolina, tahini and dozens more), the verdict is now a clear no instead of a cautious maybe. Detection only ever errs toward caution: an unreadable label still says check the pack, never a false all-clear.
Prediabetes, done the SafeBelly way
July 2026
Blood-sugar support graduated from data-only to real verdicts — rebuilt around prediabetes. Carb-dense or high-sugar servings now read eat-with-care, with the practical nudge (a smaller serving, or pairing with protein or fiber) and the numbers behind it: carbs, net carbs, sugars, and glycemic load where a published index exists. Deliberately never a hard no — no food is off-limits, and every threshold is cited (FSA front-of-pack bands, published glycemic-load bands).
TestFlight beta prep
July 2026
The app slimmed down to five tabs centered on Scan, so testers meet a focused product: Scan, your safe list, Search, Diary, Profile. The Guided Journey — the three-phase elimination, reintroduction and maintenance protocol — is in build as the heart of v1.
Personalization loop
July 2026
Reintroduction outcomes now write back to your profile as personal tolerances that adjust future verdicts, and the diary surfaces meal-to-symptom associations per FODMAP group. Your answers start becoming yours, not a population average.
Verdict recalibration
July 2026
We recalibrated the FODMAP banding thresholds against our held-out validation set: band accuracy rose from 80.5% to 96.9% with flag precision holding at 100%, and zero allergen false negatives — the release-blocking bar every build must clear.
Barcode coverage
July 2026
The packaged-goods mirror grew to ~26,000 products, checked ingredient-by-ingredient against the condition engine — so scanning in the aisle answers from our own database, fast, without your data leaving our systems.
Your data, protected
July 2026
Health data on the device is now encrypted with AES-256-GCM, consent is captured in plain language at condition setup, and in-app account deletion erases everything — because your conditions are nobody's business but yours.
Dark mode & design system
June 2026
The full SafeBelly design language landed: warm paper tones, a calm verdict palette, the bespoke monoline icon set, and a complete dark theme — the same one this site wears.
The condition engine
Spring 2026
Where it all started: dose-aware FODMAP scoring per group and per portion, hard blocks for gluten and all 14 EU allergens, blood-sugar carb and GI data (now the prediabetes advisory), and multi-condition support — every threshold compiled from published research and cited in-app.