If you have ever looked for a gluten-free restaurant abroad, you have opened Find Me Gluten Free. It has existed since 2010, it is cited in every coeliac forum, and it holds more places than anyone. So why another app? Because the two do not answer the same question — and a coeliac needs both answers.
This article compares the two honestly, with what we know as of 5 September 2026. We are Nutrixe: read it knowing that, and check what matters to you.
What Find Me Gluten Free does
A map of places worldwide, fed by its community. Each listing carries reviews from people who ate there, often coeliacs, with precious details: dedicated kitchen or not, informed staff, shared fryer, reaction or none after the meal. That volume of testimonials is its value, and nothing replaces it.
The free version shows ads and limits sorting. The Premium subscription ($24.99 a year, $39.99 for a family, at the time of writing) removes ads and unlocks the features that matter to a coeliac: the “most celiac friendly” sort, which surfaces dedicated places and those the community considers safest, and since 2026 a “celiac confidence score” that aggregates several reports into one rating.
What Nutrixe does
A directory of 3,274 places in 16 countries, where each establishment has been verified one by one by a human: the venue’s own communication, its real opening status, and third-party sources where they exist — coeliac associations, detailed reviews. Each listing shows its actual level — fully dedicated kitchen, gluten-free menu in a mixed kitchen, or mere options — the identified risks (oats, shared fryer, flour handled on site, gluten-removed beer), the sources consulted and the date of verification.
And a rule that exists nowhere else: Nutrixe never says “gluten-free”. It says what we know, where it comes from, and what remains to be checked. A listing whose opening hours could not be confirmed says so.
The map and the listings are free, with no account and no ads. The subscription adds offline mode, travel lists and the notebook. The app also carries a barcode scanner, which Find Me Gluten Free does not.
Head to head
| Find Me Gluten Free | Nutrixe | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the information comes from | community reviews | human verification at the source |
| Number of places | very large, worldwide | 3,274 in 16 countries |
| Actual level shown | through reviews and member tags | on every listing: dedicated, menu, options |
| Named risks (oats, fryer…) | when a member mentions them | structured on the listing, or “not verified” |
| Sources and date | date of each review | named sources and verification date |
| Ads | yes, except Premium | never |
| Account | required to contribute | none |
| Product scanner | no | yes, free |
| Price | free; Premium $24.99/year | free; premium for offline and the notebook |
| Languages | mainly English | six languages |
Where Find Me Gluten Free is better
On numbers, without debate. In a city where Nutrixe has ten places, it may have fifty. And on recent experience: a review from three days ago describing a meal with no reaction is worth more than a verification from three months ago. Its community is its asset, and it is irreplaceable.
In the United States in particular, its depth is such that we advise opening it first to discover, then opening Nutrixe to check.
Where Nutrixe is better
On the nature of the information. A review says “I ate here with no problem”; a Nutrixe listing says “fully dedicated kitchen, no wheat flour on site, verified on 28 July 2026 through the official website and the local association”. The first is a testimonial; the second is a dated, sourced fact. For a strict coeliac, the second one decides.
On honesty about absence, too. When Nutrixe does not know, it writes it — “oats: not verified”. A Find Me Gluten Free listing without a recent review says nothing, and silence reads too easily as a guarantee.
And on the price of safety: at Find Me Gluten Free, the sort that surfaces dedicated kitchens is paid. At Nutrixe, the actual level is on every listing, free, and so is the “strict coeliac” filter.
What we recommend
Install both. Use Find Me Gluten Free for reach and lived experience, Nutrixe for the actual level, the named risks and the scanner in the aisle. And whichever app you use, do what neither can do for you: ask on site, and read the label.
What we do not know
We have no access to Find Me Gluten Free’s figures, nor to the details of its confidence score. The prices quoted are those displayed publicly in September 2026 and may change. If anything here is inaccurate, tell us: this page will be corrected.