For people living with alpha-gal syndrome · six continents
We don't let a tick bite ruin a good life.
The community app where nobody asks what you can't eat. Make friends or match to date with people who already get it, check any label, barcode, or medicine with SCOUT, cook from three mammal-free cookbooks, keep a food journal your Doctor can read, find the Spots members vouch for, and meet up to cook together.
New · SCOUT, the ingredient checker
Scan Any Barcode or Snap Picture of Ingredients List. SCOUT checks every ingredient.
Red, yellow, or green — before it goes in the cart
Point your camera at any ingredient list — food, shampoo, lotion, a supplement, or a pharmacy bottle — and SCOUT reads it and checks every ingredient against 91 alpha-gal rules built from published research. Red ingredients come first. When something needs checking, SCOUT hands you the maker's phone number and a word-for-word script, so you can call right away instead of waiting days for an email.
- Scan a barcode, or look up a medicine by its exact maker — the same pill from two makers can have different inactive ingredients
- Set it to your body: switches for dairy and carrageenan, plus your own avoid list
- Injected, inhaled, and implanted medicines are never shown green, and every rule shows its source
Included in Full Alpha Gal Only Access, or on its own for the whole family with the Family SCOUT Scanner plan. SCOUT gives ingredient information, not medical advice.
Everyone here already gets it
Here to help you find Friends, dates, and dinner.
Discover people who get it
Your allergens, how careful you are, and what you were told before alpha-gal are on your profile from day one. Cards show what you have in common — "you both react to dairy," "you were both told it was IBS" — so the hard conversation is already over.
- New friends, Community, or both
- Start in your own country, open to the world with one tap
- Report and block from any profile; a real team reviews photos
Match, chat, and plan a date night
Message your matches, then plan a date night straight from the Table for Two cookbook: pick the recipe, split the jobs between the two of you, hand each other the shopping, and send the plan into the chat.
- Direct messages that arrive without refreshing
- A date-night planner that knows both your allergens
- Team announcements land at the top of the Match tab
EZ Meet: cook together, eat safely
Host or join small cooking get-togethers — a sheet-pan dinner, a baking afternoon, a cookbook potluck — listed by country and region. A potluck sheet with every ingredient labeled, and a chat for confirmed guests.
- Spots count guests, not the host; meets vanish the day after
- Spots members vouch for make easy venues
- Times show in your own time zone
Three cookbooks and a recipe swap
Every recipe mammal-free and dairy-free, in your measures.
The 30-Day Family Kitchen, Mushrooms Instead of Meat, and Table for Two — all by the Alpha Gal Sisters — plus members' own recipes from kitchens on six continents. Cook mode walks you through step by step; one toggle switches cups and °F to grams and °C.
The everyday tools
A journal that understands the delay, and a report your Doctor can use.
Six continents
Alpha-gal is everywhere ticks are. So are we.
The lone star tick in North America, the paralysis tick in Australia, the castor bean tick across Europe, the longhorned tick in Japan and Korea, the bont tick in South Africa, Amblyomma ticks in Brazil and Central America. Members pin where the tick found them, and the Alpha Gal Map draws the picture nobody else is drawing.
Made in the USA; at home on six continents. Prices in US dollars, cards from any country.
How it works
On your phone in about a minute.
Choose your plan
Family SCOUT Scanner or Full Alpha Gal Only Access at alphagalonly.com/#plans. Use the same email you'll sign in with.
Open the app and sign up
Open app.alphagalonly.com, tap Go Here The First Time, and add it to your home screen.
Set up your profile
Your allergens, how careful you are, your alpha-gal story, and where the tick found you.
Connect & Cook
You land on the Recipes tab. Everything else is one tap away on the bar at the bottom.
Plans
Pick the plan that fits your family.
- Scan any barcode or snap a picture of an ingredients list
- 50 photo scans a month; barcode scans and typing are unlimited
- Check medicines by their exact maker
- Up to 6 family members, each with their own allergens
- The maker's phone number and exactly what to ask
- Red, yellow, or green, with every rule's source shown
- The 90-day food & reaction journal, with a report for your Doctor
- Try it free for 7 days, with 2 photo scans included
- Everything, including:
- SCOUT, with family profiles for your household and 50 photo scans a month
- Discover, matches, and direct messaging
- The date-night planner
- EZ Meet cooking get-togethers
- All three cookbooks and the Recipe Swap
- Share your own recipes worldwide!
- 90-day food & reaction journal, with a report for your Doctor
- Spots, Finds, the guides, and the Alpha Gal Map
Checkout is handled by Stripe; your card details never touch our site. Use the same email you'll sign in with — that's how the app knows your plan. Then install the app from your browser on iPhone or Android. Plans renew automatically each month or year until you cancel. Cancel any time: manage my subscription. Charges are not refunded; see refunds & canceling. By subscribing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. Alpha Gal Only is a community, not a medical service; work out your own allergens with your Doctor.
Common questions
Does it work outside the United States?
Yes. Pick your country in your profile; Discover starts near you, EZ Meet lists by country and region, recipes switch to metric, and the journal uses your local emergency number. SCOUT reads labels in any language it can see; its medicine lookups use the US FDA label database.
Is it only for the Community?
No. The Family SCOUT Scanner plan is just the ingredient checker, for the whole family. Full Alpha Gal Only Access is everything: SCOUT, the cookbooks, the journal, Spots, friends, Community, messaging, and meets — and you choose "new friends," "Community," or both on your profile.
Is it in the app stores?
App Store and Google Play versions are coming soon. For now you can install it straight from your browser and add it to your home screen; it opens full screen and works offline. Store listings are coming.
What is SCOUT?
The ingredient checker built into the app. Photograph a label, scan a barcode, or look up a medicine; SCOUT checks every ingredient against alpha-gal rules built from published research and shows red, yellow, or green, with the risky ingredients first and the maker's phone number when something needs a call. Green means no flagged ingredients were found, not that a product is safe for you. Barcode scans, medicine lookups, and typed ingredients are unlimited; photo scans are 50 a month on either plan, with 2 included in the free week.
What are Spots?
Places and products members vouch for, alpha-gal specific or fully vegan only: grocery stores, vegan products, Amish communities for organic garden goods, local farms with no cross-contamination (fin, feather, and seafood only), and alpha-gal restaurants — by state and country, with reviews and photos from members' visits.
Who sees my journal?
Only you. Not even the team can read a member's journal, and photos you give SCOUT are read and discarded, never stored. The products you save in SCOUT and your recent checks are kept on your account so they show on your other phones; only your account can see them.
Where we don't let a tick bite ruin a good life.
Friends, Community, SCOUT the ingredient checker, mammal-free cookbooks, a 90-day food journal, and global recipe swaps. Everyone here already gets it.
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