A SafetyCulture (iAuditor) alternative for food businesses
An honest comparison for restaurants, caterers and food manufacturers. SafetyCulture (formerly iAuditor, now called Mitti) is an inspections platform for almost any industry. EthicalHub is built for one job: food safety records you can show an inspector or auditor.
Choose SafetyCulture if you need one app for inspections across many sites and industries, with sensors, training and a huge template library. Choose EthicalHub if you run a food business, from a restaurant or catering kitchen to a manufacturing plant, and want your food safety records already structured: HACCP, prerequisite programs, temperature and cleaning checks, supplier certificates and corrective actions, with an audit pack ready in about a minute.
SafetyCulture rebranded as Mitti in August 2026. SafetyCulture and Mitti are trademarks of their owner. Facts checked 30 September 2026.
Checklists app, or audit-ready food safety records?
Both can capture a temperature check. The difference is what’s built around it.
SafetyCulture: a flexible inspections platform
You build or pick a checklist, your team completes it on a phone, and issues become actions. It now also covers training, assets, documents, sensors and more. It’s used across manufacturing, hospitality, construction, retail and facilities. You decide how to structure your food safety system inside it.
EthicalHub: food safety records, already structured
You start with a HACCP plan, CCP monitoring and all 18 prerequisite programs ready to use, plus the temperature, cleaning, allergen and delivery checks a kitchen runs every day. Supplier certificates and corrective actions are linked to the records. The aim is simple: when an inspector or auditor asks for a record, you can show it straight away.
EthicalHub vs SafetyCulture at a glance
Based on each product’s public information. Where we couldn’t verify a detail, we say so.
| SafetyCulture (Mitti) | EthicalHub | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Frontline teams across many industries. | Australian food businesses: manufacturers, restaurants and caterers, hospital, aged care and childcare kitchens, and the consultants who support them. |
| Starting point | A large free public template library, including HACCP templates, or your own checklists. | HACCP plan, CCP monitoring and all 18 prerequisite programs ready to use, with no templates to build. |
| Restaurant and catering kitchens | Hospitality templates in its library, which you set up and adapt. | Temperature, cleaning, allergen and delivery records built for kitchens, ready for a council inspection under Standard 3.2.2A. |
| Inspections and checklists | Its core strength. Mobile inspections, photos, reports and analytics. | Daily CCP, PRP and kitchen checks on any phone. Out-of-limit readings open a corrective action, and deviation pattern alerts come with Professional. |
| Sensors | Sells its own sensor range: temperature, humidity, door, leak, power and more. | IoT sensor integration on every plan. |
| Issues and corrective actions | Issue reporting and actions, including AI issue capture from photos. | CAPA workflows with root cause, owner, due date and evidence. |
| Supplier certificates | Document management. How expiry tracking works depends on your setup; ask Mitti. | Certificate vault with expiry alerts, and approved supplier records. |
| Food scheme and retailer mapping | General purpose. You structure templates around the standard you follow. | On the Enterprise plan: SQF, GFSI, FSSC 22000 and BRCGS scheme workflows, and retailer audit-cycle tracking. |
| Traceability | Not verified for this comparison. Ask Mitti. | Batch and lot records, recall readiness. |
| Audit evidence | Inspection reports and analytics. | Audit pack for any date range in about a minute, on every plan. Automatic audit pack generation on Enterprise. |
| Consultants | Permissions and access management on paid plans. | A free Consultant Dashboard across client sites, with remote corrective action review and sign-off. |
| Training, assets, other areas | Training, asset maintenance, lone worker safety, contractor management and more. | Food safety records only. |
| Pricing | Free plan (up to 10 seats, 5 active templates). Premium US$24 per seat per month billed annually, or US$29 monthly. Enterprise on quote. | Per site, with team seats included: Essentials $69 (4 seats), Professional $149 (8 seats) and Enterprise $349 (15 seats) a month. See plans. |
SafetyCulture details from mitti.com, mitti.com/pricing and its sensor range, checked 30 September 2026. Prices exclude tax and may differ by region. Check the vendor’s site for current details. EthicalHub details updated 22 October 2026.
Pick the tool that matches your audit
Plenty of businesses are better off with SafetyCulture. Here’s how to tell.
Choose SafetyCulture if…
- You need inspections across many sites or industries, not just food safety.
- You want WHS, maintenance, quality and training in one app.
- You want to buy sensor hardware from the same vendor.
- You have large teams and want a free plan to start.
- You’re happy to design how your food safety system is structured.
Choose EthicalHub if…
- You run a restaurant, café or catering business and want council-ready records without building templates.
- You’re a food manufacturer facing a HACCP, retailer or GFSI audit.
- You want HACCP and all 18 PRPs structured for you from day one.
- Expiring supplier certificates keep catching you out.
- You need SQF, BRCGS or FSSC 22000 scheme workflows (Enterprise plan).
- You’re a consultant who reviews and signs off client sites remotely.
You can also use both: SafetyCulture for WHS inspections and sensors, EthicalHub for food safety records and audit packs.
A SafetyCulture alternative for restaurants and caterers
Most kitchens looking at SafetyCulture want one thing: records that hold up when the council inspector walks in.
Built for council inspections
Standard 3.2.2A asks most kitchens for a food safety supervisor, trained food handlers and records of key controls. EthicalHub keeps all three in one place.
Priced per site, not per user
Casual staff come and go. Plans are priced per site with team seats included, so adding a new starter doesn’t change your bill.
Ready on day one
Fridge, bain-marie, delivery and cooling temperatures, cleaning sign-offs and an allergen register are already set up. No templates to design.
More on EthicalHub for restaurants and catering and what Standard 3.2.2A asks of your kitchen.
Four questions to test any tool
Ask these in a demo, whichever product you’re looking at.
Show me a record from last year
How many clicks to find one CCP reading, on one date, with who took it?
Show me the corrective action
Does an out-of-limit reading link to a closed CAPA with evidence?
Show me what’s expiring
Which supplier certificates lapse in the next 60 days?
Show me by clause
Can you pull every record behind one scheme or retailer requirement?
From daily check to audit pack
Every record lands where an auditor will look for it.
Log CCP and PRP checks
Deviation alerts flag a reading outside its limit as it happens.
Open a corrective action
Root cause, owner, due date and evidence, closed out and linked back to the reading.
Keep suppliers current
Expiry alerts give you time to chase certificates before they lapse.
Export the audit pack
One click, about a minute, organised by requirement. The auditor asks; you show.
Free: 59-point Retailer Audit Readiness Checklist (PDF + Excel)
Test your current system, whatever tool you use, against what auditors ask for.
Related
EthicalHub vs SafetyCulture: common questions
Is SafetyCulture now called Mitti?
Can SafetyCulture be used for HACCP?
What is the best SafetyCulture alternative for food businesses?
Is there an iAuditor alternative for hospitality?
How much does SafetyCulture cost?
Does EthicalHub work with temperature sensors?
Can I use SafetyCulture and EthicalHub together?
See your audit pack in a minute.
Walk through EthicalHub with your own records in mind, and decide if it fits your next audit.