FoodSwitch is an Android app developed by FoodSwitch (The George Institute for Global Health Level 5, 1 King Street Newtown NSW 2042 Australia).

FoodSwitch first became available on 27 Mar 2012. It is estimated that FoodSwitch has been downloaded between 100000 and 500000 times from the Play Store.

FoodSwitch 2.6 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.

Required to be able to access the camera device.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.