RP Diet Coach & Planner
The RP Diet Coach & Planner app is highly effective for achieving diet goals and provides excellent structure, but recent updates have made it significantly less user-friendly and buggy, leading to a mixed value proposition.
The RP Diet Coach & Planner is praised for its effectiveness in weight loss, muscle gain, and macro tracking, with many users achieving significant results. However, recent major updates have introduced numerous usability issues, bugs, and a complicated interface, causing frustration among long-time users and making it less appealing compared to cheaper alternatives.
Free vs paid
The reviews indicate that the app requires a paid subscription to access its core features, as users mention paying for a year's subscription or a monthly subscription before being able to use it R1R8. There is no mention of a free tier or a free trial, with some users explicitly complaining about the lack of a preview before payment R8R16.
Value complaints
- Many users feel the app is overpriced, especially given its current bugs and lack of unique features compared to cheaper or free alternatives like MyFitnessPal.R3R9R16R53
- There are complaints about the absence of a free trial or preview, forcing users to pay upfront for an app they might not like or find usable.R8R16
- Some users who paid for a yearly subscription regret their purchase due to recent updates making the app unusable or less effective.R1R46R51R99
- Users express frustration over paying for an app that is buggy, unresponsive, or has poor customer support, leading to a feeling of wasted money.R1R9R10R11
Where it delivers
- The app is highly effective for weight loss, muscle gain, and maintaining a healthy body weight, with many users reporting significant results.R2R25R30R35
- It provides excellent structure, meal timing guidance, and macro adjustments, acting like a 'coach in your pocket' that simplifies dieting and removes guesswork.R2R23R29R30
- The app is appreciated for its ability to duplicate meals and its reminders, which help busy individuals stay on track.R23R116
- Some users find the interface intuitive and easy to use, especially for those familiar with RP templates or who prefer a structured approach.R2R23R77R103
It is worth paying for if you are serious about achieving specific weight loss or muscle gain goals, appreciate a structured approach to macro and meal timing, and are willing to invest time in learning a complex interface R2R25R29R30. It is also suitable if you eat similar meals frequently, as it allows for easy duplication R23.
Evidence note: The reviews show a strong dichotomy between satisfaction with the app's effectiveness for results and dissatisfaction with its usability, particularly after recent updates. Many positive reviews are from long-term users who have achieved success, while negative reviews frequently cite the new UI as a major drawback. There is a clear signal that the app's core diet methodology works, but its current implementation is problematic.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R3] Nothing Unique Or Special Here: This is basically a meal and macro tracking app, no different than any other tracking app. I was thinking that there was meal planning included, but there is not. No different from My Fitness Pal and basically just as expensive. I just wasted $20! If a tracking app is what you are looking for, there are cheaper and easier to use options out there.
- [R9] Free trial: For something that doesn’t have a free trial, I would expect it to have majority of the calorie scans and also also let you put the correct grams of a food product to the T. For a 100 dollars I think I should of just just went with fitness pal. This app should be honestly attached to the fitness one for these prices. 3 days in using this thing and I honestly would want to get a refund
- [R16] Horrible UI hard to use: I got this as I am starting my cut. Used to use MyFitnessPal but figured I’d try something new. Bought this and immediately regretted it. The UI is terrible and there aren’t any added features compared to other CHEAPER apps. Worst part they don’t even give you a free mode or trial to give it a try before buying. Gotta pay up front and if you like it great but if you don’t
- [R53] Glorified My Fitness Pal: Overpriced Myfitness Pal with less customization, at least fitness pal you can choose low carb if you need it….not this.
- [R8] Good for some: I would’ve liked to have a preview before I paid for the subscription. As much as I like the strength app, the interface for this is busy and unusable and I’d like a refund.
- [R1] Could use some improvements: Unfortunately already paid for a year’s subscription but most macros are not accurate even when you upload a photo of the nutrition facts on the package. It seems to just spit out some random numbers. I like the idea but it needs some healthy improvements before it’ll be worthwhile. I’ve been having better luck just tracking on my own.
- [R46] Should offer refunds.: Should offer refunds for those of us that paid for the year prior to the new update. This app was the best before the update. It helped me lose 40 pounds naturally. Now it’s a noisy, cluster mess, like every other diet app out there.
- [R51] Terrible since the update: I paid for the year, loved the app and since the big update they did recently the app unusable. I get what they went for but it’s now over complicated for no reason and not user friendly at all. Had I know the app was going to change this way I wouldn’t have paid for the year. I can’t use it anymore.
- [R99] New update ☹️: I loved the app before the update. After the update the screen is very busy and a bit confusing. It was easier to create a meal when the foods were in their macro categories, and it was much easier to adjust the food amounts with the sliders. I appreciate some of the advanced features they added but I really don’t love the new interface. Based on this update, I will not renew my s
- [R10] Not working: Now since updating, when you plan your next week and add workouts, it adds calories to your day. Which is normal. But then when you try to save it says that you’re trending over your goal. Customer support is almost nonexistent for this app. Absolutely no help online.
- [R11] Wonky: It’s fair share of bugs and customer support is nowhere to be found when you need it
- [R2] So easy: Makes creating and following a proper diet incredibly easy. The app takes up less than five minutes of my day and saves way more than that by allowing me to plan ahead.I have lost over 40 pounds with most of that being pure fat. Can not recommend enough.
- [R25] Best tool for making weight!: I've been using this since before it became an app and was only a template. The app just makes it a thousand times easier. I've used the RP diet Coach & Planner for years of competitive sports including powerlifting, weightlifting, strongman and jiujitsu. It's helped me make weight for cuts as well as just maintaining a healthy bodyweight in between. Highly recommend
- [R30] Best app ever: Downloaded RP Diet Coach in 2020 expecting macro math. Instead I got structure, sanity, and abs that showed up. This thing tells me exactly what to eat, when to eat it- No food shaming. No “good vs bad” nonsense. Just “hey, eat this amount, trust the process, go live your life.” I stopped overthinking. I stopped spiraling. My body changed and my brain calmed down. If you’re tir
- [R35] m: The app is amazing!!!! already down 10 pounds in a week
- [R23] Great results.: So excited that RP came out with an amazing app to help keep track each day. I found it very user friendly and love that I can duplicate meals since I eat the same thing most days. The reminders “time to eat” is so helpful since I live such a busy lifestyle...it helps me space out my food appropriately!
- [R29] Game changer: The best tool I have used that tracks my macros AND meal timing! People don’t realize the importance of meal timing when trying to be in a deficit. 💪
- [R116] Finally don’t feel hungry: Whenever I would cut weight I would constantly feel hungry. Taking away calorie counting and focus on macros, as well as planned meal times has been a game changer!
- [R77] Huge Improvements over previous RP Diet app: I have used RP diet app for most of my cuts over the past 8 years. This is by far the best version of app. The interface is more intuitive. Rebalancing macros is effortless and allows better diet flexibility. Now, I spend far less time messing with app and can just focus on hitting my diet goals.
- [R103] Super easy and convenient: Worth it for the price. Easy to follow, 90% of my foods were already in the system. Meal check ins take 10-15 seconds, weights import directly from your apple health app (if you use it). Highly convenient!
- [R4] Too difficult to navigate: I’ve had success using the fundamentals of RP but the app has gotten so complicated it’s not worth the headache any longer. Checking in meals, redistributing macros for the day (and saving that setting for the length of the diet), realistic redistribution (ie don’t tell me to eat 300g of red meat to reach a goal- tell me to add another meal!)…. But over all what was doab
- [R5] Only for pros. Not for the everyday man and woman: So I really wanted to love this app because their hypertrophy app is GOATed. Unfortunately it’s not the most user friendly app and that matters for me because it’s what motivates me to track even through imperfect days, vacations, family and friends coming over when we order food etc. this review is meant to give my opinion and may change if the a
- [R7] Shampoo-drinkingly awful UI: This app has gotten me shredded but the new AI features make this app unusable. The old interface was better, the new interface is impossible, I don’t even enter my macros every day because the AI automativally adjusts the macros of my other meals if I only enter in one meal. Also, it’s impossible to schedule a workout without it doing weird stuff like giving me crazy
- [R12] App used to be good: I’ve had the app since it first came out and was using the diet templates before that. While I love updated features like being able to scan a label and having it import immediately for new or custom foods, the rest of the app just seems really difficult to navigate and difficult to use. My diet meal timing constantly makes no sense when I configure it and it doesn’t seem to r
- [R24] Needs Improvements: The app can be a great tool if you’re eating chicken and rice everyday because you can measure those out one at a time. Where it struggled for me is if you’re trying to make a meal prep recipe for the week. There’s nowhere to create a recipe, add in how many servings or the total weight, and then add servings of that recipe for each day. This led me to not use the app more than
- [R6] Sucks Big Time: This app does not add up the daily totals. After you spend all day imputing the meals you’re eating, it simply just reminds you what your target total for the day was. If you want to figure out your daily totals you have to write them down and add them in paper. What’s the point?
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store