Calorie Counter
Calorie Counter by MyNetDiary is a highly-rated, effective calorie and nutrition tracking app, praised for its user-friendly interface and comprehensive features, though recent updates and aggressive premium pushes have caused frustration for some users.
Calorie Counter by MyNetDiary is a popular health and fitness app that helps users track food intake, set weight goals, and monitor nutrients. Many users report significant weight loss and appreciate its ease of use, including barcode and AI meal scanners. However, recent reviews highlight issues with paywalls, aggressive premium promotions, and some technical glitches.
What users like
- Effective for weight loss and health goalsR1R7R9R10
- User-friendly interface and easy food loggingR1R2R3R5
- Free version offers many useful features, including barcode scanningR8R9R11R12
- AI meal scanner is effective for identifying food and caloriesR1R10R17R22
- Allows custom food and recipe entry, and flexible measurementsR5R8R55
- Helps track various nutrients and syncs with other health appsR7R19R21R22
What users complain about
- Aggressive pop-ups and notifications for premium features, even for paid usersR18R112R140
- Many features are locked behind a paywall, including some expected basic functionsR4R13R24R30
- Difficulty canceling subscriptions and issues with unexpected chargesR29R31R239R251
- Technical issues like freezing, login problems, and syncing failuresR27R104R106R169
- Calculations can be incorrect or the app may change user goals automaticallyR35R47R131R167
- Onboarding process is lengthy and includes many mandatory steps and adsR112
- UI changes in recent updates are seen as pointless and make tracking more cumbersomeR144
Latest update · v10.23
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Bug Fixes and Improvements! We've tackled several bugs and polished the app for a smoother, more reliable experience. Happy tracking and stay healthy! Thank you for updating the app. Always yours, The MyNetDiary Team
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This app is for individuals serious about tracking their calorie and nutrient intake for weight loss or health goals, especially those who appreciate an intuitive interface and advanced features like AI meal scanning and barcode scanning R1R3R10R14. It's particularly good for those who have struggled with other tracking apps like MyFitnessPal . It may not be suitable for users who are sensitive to in-app purchase prompts or who expect all advanced features to be free R18R24R112.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew negative, primarily due to issues with paywalls, aggressive premium promotions, and some technical bugs. However, the overall lifetime rating remains very high (4.8 from over 150k ratings), suggesting that the core functionality and user experience are generally excellent. The negative sentiment in recent reviews indicates a potential downward trajectory in user satisfaction, possibly linked to recent monetization strategies and UI changes.
Frequently asked
Is Calorie Counter by MyNetDiary free?
Does the app have an AI meal scanner?
Can I import recipes into the app?
Does Calorie Counter by MyNetDiary sync with other fitness trackers?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R1] Great tracking app: Wonderful app, this app has been a good guide and tracking source for me to loose my weight. The AI is excellent and tracking is easy. In addition the food added is getting better and more.
- [R7] Love this app!: This app has helped me set a weight goal and track my calories. It also keeps works with my workout apps to track my calories burned. I absolutely love it and have lost a total of about 85 pounds.
- [R9] The BEST way to lose weight!: I have used My Net Diary for many years. I have lost 50 pounds and haven’t paid a dime. This is after I used many different methods and paid hundreds of dollars. Highly recommended.
- [R10] Optimal Tool: MyNetDiary has helped me to manage my food intake, and loose 27 lbs in 7 months. Using the AI and barcode function makes it so easy to keep track. Planning my meals in advance, really helps. On the difficult days I really have to pray and ask Jesus for help. overall, it’s been a great tool.
- [R2] Great app: Love it. Use it everyday and helps me stay on track.
- [R3] Great app: This app is great for people who want to keep track of their daily food intake
- [R5] Great for counting calories: Able to add custom food in recipes. Able to copy information from one day to another. Very flexible measurement types for food.
- [R8] Love this App!: An actual free version that works. Really LOVE how I can directly download recipes from the internet and adjust the portion based on what I eat.
- [R11] amazing app: you get so many useful features on just the free version alone. On the free version you can log calories, meals, water, steps, exercise, weight, it’s fantastic.
- [R12] Love this app: I love this app it has help me so much in my fitness journey it’s easy to use and mostly free
- [R17] The AI meal scanner is superb: The app works very well. The best feature in my opinion is the meal scanner. It accurately assessed a recipe I had from “that other weight loss app” for which I know the nutritional content. Great job!
- [R22] So far the best for nutrition limits: I’ve used a lot of different diet log apps over the years. As I got older, nutrients need to be monitored more. This app does the best job and is easiest for me to understand than other apps. It also syncs well with Apple Health. I used the menu scanner. It didn’t do well with the picture of the paper menu, but it scanned the online menu well and gave some gr
- [R55] Really good and easy to track food. all you could need!: Have lost 8.0 st since 2022 lots of info and advice. So easy to track meals quickly with ai. Or you can enter favourite recipes. I invested in the premium version as I use intermittent fasting.
- [R19] Always Consistent: This app always keeps you on track with your goals, meals, workouts, and the freedom to make any modifications you may need. I’ve used this app for over 5 years and it has never failed me to reach my goals.
- [R21] Very Helpful: Great at tracking calories as well as making sure you eat enough of every nutrient
- [R18] Paid in full: When you pay a year in advance it seems you wouldn’t be plagued with pop ups and notifications to buy even more. The pop ups are relentless every day several times. Not what I paid for. Will not renew based simply on this. The app works fine outside of the constant bother of these popups
- [R112] Awful first use: I have had this app for 10 mins and I've spent that entire time entering my life story into a mandatory 30 question survey, clicking through mandatory info screen after screen after screen, clicking x on various ads for upsells and subscriptions. I haven't even been allowed to use the app yet. I finally managed to wade through all of that and now there are popups everywhere saying
- [R140] Yearly Plan adds: I bought year plan, and yet when I log in I still get another pop for life time, it is so annoying I will be refund coz I find it extremely frustrating
- [R4] rate n opinion: meal scan should be free
- [R13] ok app: i really enjoy the app, but it says it’s free for the meal scans, but after about 2 scans, i hit a paywall
- [R24] Good ig: It’s really good but there are a lot of annoying paywalls
- [R30] Good app: Is anyone else here from Twitter? 😋 it would be better if the scanner thingy was free tbh, i’m a broke 16-year-old 😞✌️
- [R29] Cancel: HOW DO I CANCEL MEMBERSHIP?
- [R31] Review: Was told a reminder would be sent before charges and it was not
- [R239] Pas acheté et facturé. Aucun avisé d’achat.: Pas acheté et facturé. Aucun avisé d’achat.
- [R251] Scam: Why is it that I canceled this subscription but still charged me later and give a very confusing billing date? Apparently it was billed the 10th of march but came out on the 20th?? I don’t understand and I’ve canceled it in the first place so why am I still subscribed until April when I canceled this so long ago and can’t even dispute purchase or contact anyone
- [R27] Bad app: I tried to signup on this app but it keeps getting stuck while telling me how easy it is to “just snap a picture of my food” and it won’t go past that. I guess I’ll never know if it’s an app that would be helpful although right now I’d have to say no…🫤
- [R104] Won’t let me back into original account: I got a new device and it wouldn’t let me into my old account even though on subscriptions it says I have one to next year
- [R106] Disappointed: Will not link with Apple Health to transfer work outs from iPhone no matter how many times I follow the instructions- used to work when used previously
- [R169] My garmin data is not uploading.: Help.
- [R35] works but sucks for weight gain: why would everything turn red when my goal is to gain weight and i eat over the “budget”?? it lowkey feels like it’s incentivizing me to eat less but that’s not my goal. i’ve been under every week which is the opposite of what i want.
- [R47] Options: I would like to be able to increase the amount of protein I need daily. For my age I should take in 80 to 100 grams of protein and the app tells me 58 grams a day.
- [R131] Kinda works but annoying: Some of the things are off and i mean it’s just majorly inconvenient I’m not measuring honey in grams I’m using teaspoons for my tea it’s annoying to get the slake out for a teaspoon of honey also things are sometimes incorrect mostly the option for serving it’s incorrect like if it’s penguin bars 1 bar is a serving so if I click 2 servings it says the wrong amount and is
- [R167] Incorrect calculations: All I’ve had today protein wise: 26 g shake, 50g meat balls & it’s telling me I’ve consumed 150 grams of protein today.
- [R144] Pointless UI update: The app worked perfectly fine very intuitive, then for no reason the developers felt the need to add pointless and convoluted UI changes in the latest update adding more needless steps to tracking calories for a system that work perfectly fine. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it is a mantra that many app developers need to practice.
- [R14] I love it!: It's so easy to log your food and I lost so much weight using this app.
- [R34] Importing recipes: I like that we can import recipes; however, it’s very cumbersome and not easy as stated in the instructions.
- [R69] I love this app!!: So simple to use and very user friendly. The premium upgrade is very reasonably priced and I am enjoying the recipe section as well. It was easy to connect with my Oura ring via Apple Health so it brings all my physical data points together nicely. Highly recommend.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store