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1. [R7] Lose It! 1/5 · US Greed: It was amazing at the start and their Greed now is insufferable wdym I can’t scan my food now and can’t look at my Marcos
2. [R13] Lose It! 1/5 · US Free version used to be good: Lose it was a great app until the company got greedy. They began taking all the features you could use for free for years and transitioning them to the paid only. The best feature was being able to scan barcodes. This is no longer an option for free users and it definitely takes the app from perfect to trash.
3. [R16] Lose It! 1/5 · US Used to be perfect: This app used to be exactly what some of us needed in an app. Now that the barcode scanner is only available on the paid version it gets a 1 star review.
4. [R22] Lose It! 1/5 · US Disabling the barcode scanner on the free version is a deal breaker: Looks like I (and many others) are back to using a good old notebook and spreadsheet for this. Thanks for keeping my brain healthy by putting your best feature behind a paywall.
5. [R4] Lose It! 1/5 · US New update just freezing: Every time I try to edit or delete an item from yesterday’s meals, the whole thing freezes for 10+ seconds (or entirely). Lose It! has had lagging problems for several years (as a long-time paid user), but this makes it unusable.
6. [R15] Lose It! 3/5 · US Pretty good: The software is extremely slow if you try to go back and check previous days food intake or when you try to go back to a previous days meal to duplicate a meal. It stalls for a long periods of time.
7. [R18] Lose It! 3/5 · US Good for tracking but..: This app is great for tracking food and I like that there are most products in it but it’s very glitchy and I have to close out and go back in often. Not sure if premium is better but I don’t want to pay for upgraded features if it will still glitch out.
8. [R1] Lose It! 1/5 · US Trash app, inaccurate nutritional data: Wildly inaccurate and incomplete nutritional info.
9. [R11] Lose It! 5/5 · US Search food by weight: This app would be greatly improved if there was a way to search food/drink items by weight only, for those of tracking calories using a food scale. It’s frustrating to search a food item to weigh on a food scale and having to search through hundreds of unmeasurable food entries listed as “each” or “serving”. It would be great if these food listings were separated, a “se
10. [R24] Lose It! 3/5 · US Aggressive ads make it unusable: I am thinking of looking elsewhere. The app is OK but not great so I don’t want to pay for it. The core feature of tracking food has entries by other people which can be wrong or they simply say per serving which can be anything. There is no way to save/favorite entries you log frequently for faster entries and no way of knowing what data is verified and valid.
11. [R36] Lose It! 3/5 · GB Food database issue: Too many of my stock cupboard foods were missing in the database, compared to MyFitnessPal. Nutrition data was also often not correct. For twice the price of MFP, I don’t expect to be inputting and correcting so much data in a mature app.
12. [R6] Lose It! 3/5 · US Pop ups: There are way too many pop ups to promote signing up for premium. It causes me to not want to log on the app.
13. [R19] Lose It! 1/5 · US Do you need the $10 that badly?!: You have to stick the ‘give us $10’ every time we make an entry. It used to be nice using your app. Now you’ve added these interruptions that just make it worse. Do you need to make it so frustrating to use?!
14. [R21] Lose It! 3/5 · US Great features, really liked it until…: Can we PLEASE for the love of everything stop putting ads for GLP1s everywhere. I don’t want to see an add for a GLP1 anywhere, let alone while in this app! I even have the premium subscription! Please please stop.
15. [R27] Lose It! 3/5 · US Works great but: Works great but the amount of ads has become absurd. And the cost of premium is far too high to justify.
16. [R10] Lose It! 2/5 · US Navigation: Navigation on the iPhone is horrible.
17. [R28] Lose It! 1/5 · US Reminders: On the last update you rearranged everything.
18. [R42] Lose It! 3/5 · GB Used to be good: Last year I lost about 3st with the help of this app tracking what I ate. I paid the yearly membership, after previously paying for add free. Came back to the app this year and using it is awful. The UI is horrific, they’ve hit a turbo button when it comes to ads, and it just isn’t as nice to use as it once was. Guess I’ll be looking for another one now.
19. [R45] Lose It! 3/5 · GB Hate the recent changes!: There have been a number of changes recently that I think have made it more difficult to use. The ‘done logging’ button is no longer at the very bottom but lost half way down the page, you have to scroll up and down to find it. Now you have made the food list more widely spaced, which makes it harder to find food items quickly, again more scrolling required. All a bit of
20. [R3] Lose It! 3/5 · US Add Weight is broken: I’ve been using this app for years and have appreciated it very much. However, I have now reached that age where I need to track my calcium. I was absolutely shocked to learn that lose it does not track calcium! Minus 2 stars because it’s just that important for women. Please add support for this, and soon. Thanks.
21. [R55] MyFitnessPal 5/5 · US Best app ever: Top tier free
22. [R61] MyFitnessPal 5/5 · US Long term use: I’ve been using this app for almost 14 years, it is still has the best, most accurate nutrition data base. I like having my historic tracking data for reference.
23. [R64] MyFitnessPal 5/5 · US One of the best: This is one of the best calorie tracking apps I’ve used so far. I’ve never been a fan of tracking calories because it always seemed like such a burden; down to every single bite of food. Even at one point I terribly miscalculated my calories and had no energy, and no menstrual cycle. But this was really easy to use and it was free with very minimal in app pay options. Which was gr
24. [R66] Cal AI 5/5 · US 5 star: Works really well helped me lose weight I will recommend
25. [R69] Cal AI 5/5 · US Teacher champ: This app is the best I lost 11 pounds in a few weeks
26. [R74] Cal AI 1/5 · US Seems good at first: If you get those ads about the about eyeball in your calories so AI do it and it seems good to start off like to kind of keep track your calories a quick easy way but this app is so stupid because you’re just letting an AI judge what you eat off a 2D picture and then on top of that you’re paying 30 bucks a month and my issue with that is that they’re trying to charge me $120 e
27. [R75] Cal AI 5/5 · US Best diet app ever: I used for a month and lost 3 pounds
28. [R83] Calorie Counter 5/5 · US Best Manager: This tool is a great way to track and manage your nutrition! So many options. Give it some time and check out all the features. Once you become comfortable with it, it’s a great educational tool to understand what’s going in your body.
29. [R89] Calorie Counter 5/5 · US Great Weight Loss/Maintenance & Healthy Eating App!: In October 2023, I was diagnosed with Diabetes and prescribed Metformin. I weighed close to 200 lbs. I decided that I was NOT going to be diabetic! I made an appointment with a dietician and started using My Net Diary. Within 3 months I had lost 40 lbs using this app. To date, I use My Net Diary daily to track my calorie intake. I have suc
30. [R100] Lifesum 5/5 · US Love this app: Easy to record and review data, and gathers data from my Apple Watch seamlessly.
31. [R102] Lifesum 1/5 · US Great!: So easy to use and makes me think about what nutrition I am consuming
32. [R106] Lifesum 4/5 · US This is how I keep myself accountable: I love this app, but the only thing I don’t like is that you have to pay for the advanced options but you have to do that with any app so it’s really not that big of a deal I suppose.
33. [R108] Cronometer 5/5 · US Best free cal tracker that also has free scanner: It has a free barcode scanner basically everything you need and can create quick profiles for unknown food items for free with your cammera
34. [R111] Cronometer 5/5 · US Easy to use: Cronometer is easy to use and provides a wealth of information. It keeps me on track with my nutritional needs.
35. [R114] Cronometer 5/5 · US Best health app out there: I love being able to see how I’m doing with my nutrition goals, even down to specific minerals and vitamins.
36. [R117] Cronometer 5/5 · US All the biometrics: You can monitor all your biometrics. Everything. And if you have the paid version you can get suggestions on the nutrients you may need. Finally. A good app and at a decent price.
37. [R26] Lose It! 5/5 · US It just works: Listen. Do I love the name? No. But is it the easiest and best calorie tracker with the best library of foods and a quick / easy way to add new foods? Yes. Been using this app on and off again for years because it really just works. Every January to May it helps me lose 5-10 pounds because it makes logging food easy.
38. [R30] Lose It! 3/5 · GB No option for monthly on premium: The app looks great and I see the benefit of the premium but no option for a monthly payment, you must pay the year in full.
39. [R33] Lose It! 3/5 · GB Great features… locked behind yearly pay walls: I had been really excited to try this app- the layout is clean, its so easy to navigate and the tools are fantastic. HOWEVER, simple things like the barcode scanner are locked behind a paywall… and a yearly one at that. If there was a pay monthly option then it would be slightly better. But this has put a bad taste in my mouth. I’m heading back to MF
40. [R31] Lose It! 2/5 · US Premium still gives you Ads..: This is a pretty good AP that has a database about on par with my fitness pal. It’s pretty accurate and even has a lifetime subscription plan where you don’t have to pay again, and if you wait for their sales it can be a really good deal. The issue I have with this is after I paid for such plan, I see an ad for Ro, a GLP-1 medication service, as soon as I open the ap