What Is the Best Food Safety App with No Long-Term Contract?
Food safety apps you can cancel any month, with their published prices: Paddl, SFBB+, HACCP App, Blueroll, SFBB Pro, FoodDocs and Trail compared for UK businesses.
Paddl is £69 per location per month with every feature, a 30-day free trial and no contract, and it covers SFBB, HACCP, allergens, temperature and training records and an EHO audit pack. Cheaper records-only apps such as SFBB+ (£4.99) and Blueroll (£24.99) are also month to month; Trail runs on 12-month terms.
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In Detail
No contract means two things: you pay month to month, and you can leave at the end of any month without a fee. Most of the newer UK food safety apps work that way. The difference between them is what you get for the money. At the cheap end, SFBB+ and HACCP App give you the FSA diary and a HACCP checklist for under £10 a month. Blueroll and SFBB Pro sit around £25 and add allergen and EHO report features. Paddl is £69 a month per location and includes the HACCP plan and SFBB pack written for you from your menu, the allergen matrix and Natasha's Law labels, temperature, cleaning and cooking records, staff training records, COSHH, risk assessments, licence and insurance tracking, a staff app and a PDF audit pack for the inspector. Trail and FoodDocs are good products but Trail's plans run on 12-month terms and FoodDocs is priced in dollars per site. If you only need to replace a paper diary, buy the cheap one. If you want one system that answers the EHO's questions across the whole business, the £69 buys the rest of the paperwork too.
What no-contract actually means
Check three things before you trust the phrase. First, that the monthly price is the price you will pay, not an annual price divided by twelve that you commit to for a year. Second, that cancelling is a button, not an email to an account manager. Third, that your records come out with you: HACCP plans, temperature logs and training certificates should export as PDF or CSV. Paddl bills monthly by card, cancels from the billing page, and exports the audit pack at any time. Annual billing is optional and saves 15%.
Where Paddl fits and where it does not
Paddl suits a cafe, restaurant, pub, hotel kitchen or small group that wants the whole compliance file in one place and would rather not write a HACCP plan by hand. It does not suit a business that only wants a cheap diary, because you would be paying for features you will not open. It does not include sensor hardware, there is no volume discount for groups, and the rota is per site. Square is the only POS connection today.
Food safety apps without a long contract
Prices as published by each vendor in September 2026; quote means no public price.
| Paddl | SFBB+ | HACCP App | Blueroll | SFBB Pro | Trail | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price per month | £69 per location | £4.99 per premises | £9.99 | £24.99 per site | £24.95 per premises | From about £38 per site |
| Minimum term | None | None | None | None | None | 12 months |
| Free trial | 30 days | 90 days | 3 days | 14 days | 30-day money back | Yes |
| SFBB pack written for you | Yes, from your menu | FSA diary only | No | No | Template | No |
| HACCP plan | Yes, AI-drafted | No | Checklist | Yes | No | Checklists |
| Allergen matrix and labels | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Training, COSHH, licences, insurance | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| EHO audit pack export | Yes, PDF | Diary export | Reports | EHO report | Yes | Reports |
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I try food safety software before committing?
Yes. Paddl gives 30 days with full access. A card is taken at signup, nothing is charged until the trial ends, and cancelling during the trial costs nothing. SFBB+ offers 90 days and Blueroll 14.
What happens to my data if I cancel?
Export it first. On Paddl the audit pack, HACCP plans, SFBB pack, temperature logs and training records export as PDF, and the account keeps your data for 14 days after cancellation before it is deleted.
Simplify food safety compliance
Paddl automates temperature logs, HACCP plans, SFBB records, and more - so you always have the answer when an inspector asks.