SafetyCulture alternative
A SafetyCulture alternative built for the commercial kitchen
SafetyCulture, the app that started as iAuditor, gives any industry a blank template and a mobile checklist. It does not come with the kitchen's fire and food record set, when each record is due, or the people who will ask for it. EvidLY does — fire and food, every vendor's paperwork, and what your insurance policy requires, sealed with the date each one was produced.
What SafetyCulture does well
SafetyCulture is a general-purpose operations app used across construction, manufacturing, hospitality and retail. It is good at capturing work in the field.
- Mobile inspections and checklists built from templates, offline included
- Issues raised in the field and actions assigned to people
- Staff training delivered on the phone
- Asset records with sensors and telematics
- Lone-worker check-ins and analytics across sites
- A free tier for small teams
If you need a template engine for many kinds of work, it is a fair choice. A commercial kitchen is not many kinds of work — it is one set of records, and every one of them has a due date.
Where it stops
None of the following comes with SafetyCulture. All of it is asked for.
- The kitchen's record set. Hood cleaning, suppression, sprinkler, alarm, extinguishers; permit, manager certificate, handler cards, pest control, the five temperature logs, warewash and sanitizer — with the date each is due and the rule that requires it. In SafetyCulture you build that list yourself, and you are the one who has to know it.
- The fire half. A checklist can say the hood was cleaned. It cannot hold the contractor's certificate, its date and its next-due date — the document the fire marshal and the adjuster actually ask for.
- Vendor paperwork. Each vendor's general liability certificate, workers' compensation certificate, license, business license and W-9. Five records per vendor, expiring on the vendor's calendar, not yours.
- The policy. The protective safeguards endorsement in your insurance policy names the systems you promised to keep in service. Nothing in a template reads it.
What EvidLY does instead
EvidLY alerts you before that happens.
You usually find out something slipped after it's already cost you. EvidLY sees it coming — while it's still small and easier to manage.
The records, side by side
| What the kitchen is asked for | SafetyCulture | EvidLY |
|---|---|---|
| Fire safety records with due dates | Template you build | Held, dated, sealed |
| Food safety records with the rule behind each | Template you build | Held, dated, sealed |
| Vendor records — GL and workers' comp certificates, license, business license, W-9 per vendor | Not described | Collected from each vendor, expiry flagged |
| Insurance policy conditions read against the records on file | No | Policy Lens |
| Sealed, tamper-evident record with a SHA-256 recorded at release | No | Yes |
| Who is asking, and what each one wants | No | Five askers, mapped to each record |
| Checklists and sensor integrations | Yes | Yes — and the results land as records on file |
| Pricing | Per seat | Published per kitchen |
"Not described" means the item does not appear in SafetyCulture's published product description as of September 2026. Check with them for anything current.
Who will ask, and what they want
Fire Marshal
On inspection, by schedule. Wants the hood cleaning certificate and the suppression tag first.
Health Inspector
Unannounced. Wants the permit, the manager certificate, the handler cards and the temperature logs.
Insurance Company
At underwriting, at renewal, after a loss. Wants proof the protective safeguards were kept in service.
Property Manager
Day to day and every renewal. Wants the certificates the lease names and the maintenance it covenants.
Compliance Officer
Across every kitchen at once. Wants one place that answers for all of them.
Nobody asks for a record on a good day.
Leaving SafetyCulture
If you set SafetyCulture up to hold the kitchen's records, EvidLY replaces the setup you had to build and the knowledge you had to bring to it. The fire records, the food records with the rule behind each, every vendor's paperwork, and the read of your policy come built in — for a kitchen, not for an industry.
Fire first, then food
SafetyCulture starts from a blank template. EvidLY starts on the fire side, because the fire records are the ones with the shortest intervals, the strictest askers and the largest consequences — and they are the ones no template app holds.
Fire safety records · Food safety records · Policy Lens · What your county asks for · EvidLY for franchisees · EvidLY for franchisors
Questions people ask before switching
Is EvidLY an alternative to SafetyCulture?
For a commercial kitchen's records, yes. SafetyCulture gives you a template engine for any industry. EvidLY comes with the kitchen's fire safety and food safety records, when each one is due and the rule that requires it, each vendor's insurance and license records, and a read of your insurance policy's conditions. If you use SafetyCulture to hold those records, EvidLY replaces that use. If you use it for inspections across other kinds of work, EvidLY sits beside it.
Is EvidLY an iAuditor alternative?
Yes. iAuditor is SafetyCulture's inspection product and the name most people still use for it. Everything on this page applies to iAuditor.
What does EvidLY cost compared with SafetyCulture?
SafetyCulture prices per seat, with a free tier for small teams. EvidLY publishes its pricing per kitchen, with a pilot for two to nine kitchens and Enterprise from ten. The full price list is on the pricing page, and the Risk Assessment costs nothing.
Can I run SafetyCulture and EvidLY together?
Yes. SafetyCulture captures the work. EvidLY holds the records that survive it — the ones the fire marshal, the health inspector, the insurance company, the property manager and the compliance officer ask for — sealed with the date they were produced.
Start with the Risk Assessment. It costs nothing.
Ten questions. Two readiness numbers — Fire Safety and Food Safety — and a plan for every record, whether or not you ever talk to us.