Lose It!

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.

1. [R2] 5/5 · US Use it to Lose It!: An excellent tool to guide/assist/track your journey to a healthy lifestyle. I’ve been using it semi-regularly since 2011, so 15 years! It’s gotten more and more sophisticated over time and now offers a wealth of information to help you manage your weight and overall health and fitness. I highly recommend it.
2. [R3] 5/5 · US Lose it: If you’re really serious about losing weight, this app will help you do it can’t say enough good things
3. [R4] 5/5 · US The RIGHT weight loss app: I have successfully lost weight on this app a couple times and seems to be the only way I can stay on track. I recommend it to all my friends.
4. [R7] 5/5 · US Great app: This app was instrumental in helping me lose over 100 pounds, so I would highly recommend it. Very user friendly!
5. [R13] 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.
6. [R14] 5/5 · US Love the Fitness and Gym time tracker: The interface is terrific. The food names, brands, restaurants, and fruit data make it easy to record your food diary.
7. [R21] 5/5 · US Great Features!: I’ve used this app for nearly 3 years and the functionality is great. One of my favorite features is inputting a link to a recipe, it finds the ingredients & inputs then for you. You can edit the ingredients once input to your edits while cooking, macro counting is made VERY easy with this app!
8. [R8] 5/5 · US Stellar Support: I have been using LoseIt! and absolutely love it. I recently ran into an issue, self-inflicted, where only my iPhone had historical data - the rest had data as of last week. I give the support team highest marks. It took a while to diagnose and then fix, but we got there. They kept me in the loop and communications were clear. I now have all platforms, iPhone, iPad and web synce
9. [R54] 5/5 · GB App Support: Fantastic support from the team at Lose It. I had an error with uploading recipes. Customer service was quick and friendly. Thank you engineers.
10. [R81] 5/5 · GB Really good: It has been extremely helpful for my weight loss journey! They were also great at fixing an app issue, I contacted them by email and they were very quick to respond and fix the issue. Brian fixed the issue very quickly and I'm very grateful!! So if you have any issues get in touch with them, they're very helpful!
11. [R10] 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
12. [R15] 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.
13. [R16] 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.
14. [R18] 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.
15. [R6] 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.
16. [R11] 2/5 · US Navigation: Navigation on the iPhone is horrible.
17. [R33] 1/5 · US Reminders: On the last update you rearranged everything.
18. [R56] 4/5 · GB Move the day complete back to the bottom please!!!!: Knocked off 1 star because the day complete is now in the middle of the page and annoys me!!!! It’s pure muscle memory for 2 yrs that it’s at the bottom of the page and now I have to scroll up and down to find it every time! Grrrr!!!
19. [R17] 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?!
20. [R34] 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
21. [R38] 2/5 · US Free version: Too many ads: If you’re looking for a free calorie counting app, keep looking unless you’re ok with being bombarded with ads for every meal logged. Absolutely infuriating. I’ve heard they don’t totally go away with Premium either. I used this app for ~2y and it got worse/more frequent over time. Eventually, I couldn’t take it anymore. UI is otherwise great. Logging meals is easy, an
22. [R41] 1/5 · US I never write reviews: But I felt like I needed to say that ads + everything behind a paywall now it’s insane.
23. [R35] 1/5 · US Not free: Lots of questions and a waste of time. They hit you with a pay wall at the end. Lack of transparency and not even a valuable product. Im gonna use AI tools to track my weight instead.
24. [R40] 2/5 · US Ridiculously Overpriced: I used to love this app, but the fact that their yearly subscription doubled in price (used to be $39.99, is now $79.99) over the course of ONE YEAR for pretty much the same service is absolutely absurd. I’ll be taking my business over to other apps that do the same things for free.
25. [R52] 3/5 · GB Too Expensive after update: I absolutely love this app and have used it on and off for years successfully losing weight and achieving my goals. However, I have reopened it this week, set up my goals and I'm now being held to ransom for £75 annual payment as a lump sum. I'll technically pay monthly or weekly as I have before but to pay £75 lump sum with no money pay options is an error and a smack
26. [R66] 2/5 · GB Free but NOT Free: It’s totally free to download the app but anymore and you gotta pay a subscription… hey, you wanna be healthy, you gotta pay! Bit of a scam and false advertising to say it’s free…
27. [R1] 1/5 · US Trash app, inaccurate nutritional data: Wildly inaccurate and incomplete nutritional info.
28. [R20] 4/5 · US Great except for ads: I like the feature of being able to track exercise and food with a pretty large selection. However, at times descriptions not accurate. There is the ability to edit the data. Would like to be able to pull information directly from the Internet. Include all the nutritional features.
29. [R28] 4/5 · US Like the layout: I find Lose It better for the phone than MFP and easier to navigate. Wish the entries were better updated for accuracy but it serves the purpose of tracking and accountability. Hate that some of the features that used to be free now require subscription but discounts are offered often and the 70% off is a good deal. That should be the regular price.
30. [R60] 4/5 · GB V useful. Not perfect: I use it a lot and it helps me keep track. It is all clearly laid out, has a ton of useful information and just the right amount of prompts. It’s also v easy to create your own foods and adjust nutrients. The one downside is it sometimes has multiple versions of the same food, all of which have different macros/nutrient values. So I have to double check against Google t
31. [R55] 1/5 · GB RIP off avoid: Tried to get the app to sync with Garmin. Get to the screen to select Garmin Connect as instructed and it Freezes. All apps are up to date, it is a new iPhone but no means to contact developers and unable to get money back. Bunch of crooks
32. [R95] 2/5 · GB Scanner doesn’t work: When I add new foods in my foods the viewfinder does not scan the barcode.
33. [R97] 2/5 · GB Slow and inaccurate: Bought this as it was meant to have better UK food options than fitness pal but it’s the opposite it’s so inaccurate and rarely has UK foods which fitness pal has, on top of that it pretty much freezes every time I use it so the whole process is so slow - don’t waste your money.
34. [R5] 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
35. [R26] 5/5 · US Amazing app: Huge database just wish it had features to calculate gaining weight/ muscle in calorie surplus.
36. [R30] 4/5 · US Accessories: I wish there was more features you could use without premium, like water tracking.
37. [R36] 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.
38. [R42] 1/5 · US New version not an improvement: The updated version of this app took away the ability to use the bar code reader unless you pay for a subscription. For that they earn 1 star.
39. [R68] 1/5 · GB Become a rip off: Last year I paid £15 for a year. Now they want £76. That’s a no from me. Plenty of other calorie counters out there. Why the huge price change?
40. [R51] 3/5 · GB Good till features moved behind a paywall: I used to love this app, used it all the time over my fitness pal as it helped me reach my goals in a healthy way, I stopped using for a month while other things were ongoing, came back to use it and everything to track macronutrients has gone behind a paywall! Absolutely shocking!
41. [R59] 1/5 · GB Gone Downhill: I used to be an avid user of lose it! but now you have to pay for everything most nutrients and macros used to be free to see and now they’re locked behind a paywall it’s ridiculous!
42. [R63] 1/5 · GB Premium: used to be my favourite to track calories and macros, slowly everything has become a paid feature, and you can no longer see macros
43. [R44] 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.