Lose It! vs Cronometer

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. [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.
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. [R62] 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
4. [R72] Cronometer 3/5 · US THIS APP IS THE 🐐: I’ve used this app for ~6 years with varied consistency, different goals, diets, and hrt. It’s probably the MOST comprehensive and customizable FREE fitness+nutrition tracker. What initially stood out to me was micronutrient tracking which idk any free app that does (or even paid!). But it’s so so important. I feel FANTASTIC when I’m hitting at least 40/50% RDI on micros. I wo
5. [R10] Lose It! 2/5 · US Navigation: Navigation on the iPhone is horrible.
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. [R65] 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.
8. [R75] Cronometer 3/5 · US Great but Glitchy App: I love the features of Cronometer. It makes tracking macros much easier. My issue is that every time I make an entry a blank white box pops up. Usually it goes away on its own. But today, as I try to update my macros, every time I enter information, the white box comes up and stays. I can’t do anything when it’s on the screen except shut down the app after each change to m
9. [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.
10. [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.
11. [R61] Cronometer 2/5 · US Lots of bugs since update: Constant crashes, multi year user. Please fix.
12. [R78] Cronometer 3/5 · US Paid tier is still glitchy: App screen keeps “refreshing” every few seconds, taking away access to all UI elements as though it’s trying to load an ad even though I’m on a paid subscription which removes ads. Photo log which brings up camera also constantly nags about giving full access to all photos on every single use
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. [R109] Cronometer 2/5 · US Deleted right after I got it: So basically I downloaded the app thinking it was going to be free but immediately subscriptions popped up to be a part of the gold member which gives you cases to everything so if you don’t pay for it you don’t get like anything that it says will give with the app. You can’t use the scan or picture thing if you don’t have it so you have to search up every single thin
15. [R17] Lose It! 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
16. [R90] Cronometer 3/5 · US Great customer service: I faithfully track everything and it’s easy to do. However I have noticed on some items the calorie count is different from the labels. It might not be off by a lot, but it doesn’t match. Their customer service is very helpful.