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AI Calorie Counter - Appediet
Appediet Information PTE. LTD · 45,036 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 44 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"free"
13 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Appediet. I used to love using this app, but I can’t get it to work anymore. I use the free version and watching ads would let me log my food, but now it won’t let me search anything, plus most of the calories are slightly off somehow for most foods,…" - FuriousPanda543
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"food"
12 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "What happened????. I used to love this app because of its easy tracking but just recently I got back into my diet and the way the app repays me is whenever i try to search up foods it traps me behind a paywall. For what? Wanting to log my cheez its????? I’ve …" - Whoever the frick I am
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"search"
11 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "What happened????. I used to love this app because of its easy tracking but just recently I got back into my diet and the way the app repays me is whenever i try to search up foods it traps me behind a paywall. For what? Wanting to log my cheez its????? I’ve …" - Whoever the frick I am
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"premium"
10 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "What happened????. I used to love this app because of its easy tracking but just recently I got back into my diet and the way the app repays me is whenever i try to search up foods it traps me behind a paywall. For what? Wanting to log my cheez its????? I’ve …" - Whoever the frick I am
5
"foods"
9 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "What happened????. I used to love this app because of its easy tracking but just recently I got back into my diet and the way the app repays me is whenever i try to search up foods it traps me behind a paywall. For what? Wanting to log my cheez its????? I’ve …" - Whoever the frick I am
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"without"
8 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "What happened????. I used to love this app because of its easy tracking but just recently I got back into my diet and the way the app repays me is whenever i try to search up foods it traps me behind a paywall. For what? Wanting to log my cheez its????? I’ve …" - Whoever the frick I am
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"everything"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Buggy as hell. I’ve been using this app for over a year and it has a lot of potential, but it’s currently held back by several frustrating bugs and poor design decisions that make daily use much more annoying than it needs to be. Major Issues: • History …" - Ssf🙌🐶🐶
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"paywall"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "What happened????. I used to love this app because of its easy tracking but just recently I got back into my diet and the way the app repays me is whenever i try to search up foods it traps me behind a paywall. For what? Wanting to log my cheez its????? I’ve …" - Whoever the frick I am
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"year"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "broken. i’ve been using the app for over a year. It hasn’t had any problems and now just recently I told my friends about it and they got it and as soon as they got it, it has stopped working completely. You can’t even search for foods without the …" - nathanevans_13
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"update"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Buggy as hell. I’ve been using this app for over a year and it has a lot of potential, but it’s currently held back by several frustrating bugs and poor design decisions that make daily use much more annoying than it needs to be. Major Issues: • History …" - Ssf🙌🐶🐶
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"trial"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Just another one lost to ads $. App was great before they got greedy and started to charge to even use it. I understand charging for premium but now it won’t let me even log my food before agreeing to a free trial. Disappointed. Finding a new app now." - Userkarina12345
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"been"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "What happened????. I used to love this app because of its easy tracking but just recently I got back into my diet and the way the app repays me is whenever i try to search up foods it traps me behind a paywall. For what? Wanting to log my cheez its????? I’ve …" - Whoever the frick I am
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What happened????
I used to love this app because of its easy tracking but just recently I got back into my diet and the way the app repays me is whenever i try to search up foods it traps me behind a paywall. For what? Wanting to log my cheez its????? I’ve been reading the reviews and there are tons of people complaining about the same thing and your response is “WeLl SOme FeAtUrEs ArE pReMiUm AnD ThE aPp Is FoR bAsIc TrAcKiNg” let me just tell you this….
YOU CANT LOG ANYTHING IF YOU CANT SEARCH IT NOW THE APP IS ESSENTIALLY USELESS WITHOUT PAYING FOR BASIC SERVICES
YOU CANT LOG ANYTHING IF YOU CANT SEARCH IT NOW THE APP IS ESSENTIALLY USELESS WITHOUT PAYING FOR BASIC SERVICES
Healthy
I like this application for my health and my goal target.
Not what was advertised
All I wanted was a diet tracker. I am 230 lbs at 10.4% body fat and you called me obese. Get real
broken
i’ve been using the app for over a year. It hasn’t had any problems and now just recently I told my friends about it and they got it and as soon as they got it, it has stopped working completely. You can’t even search for foods without the paywall coming up. It’s basically unusable. The only thing that saves is you can still scan barcodes
Terrible
Makes you pay for searching foods. Do not get
So skimpy with the premium stuff
U can’t use the app at all after a certain point if u don’t have premium u can’t search anything
App has gone downhill.
This app used to be great until they started restricting certain features in the app so you can pay to become a premium member. I can’t even access my history and add foods to the breakfast, lunch, or dinner tabs without it advertising their premium plan. There’s much better apps. They’re being very greedy now
No Way
So now we pay for calorie counting
‼️DO NOT DOWNLOAD‼️
I have had this app for about a month. They push getting premium SO much. ‼️This app will automatically make you pay for a subscription to premium‼️ I’ve even cancelled the subscription through the App Store and it renewed by itself! Watch your banks people this app is a scam!!
This is odd
Wont let me search up foods I need to log it just keeps telling me that I can achieve my goal faster and I can try for free. Im just trying to log and search my food :(
Do not fall for it
After a month you cannot even add food unless you pay! Such a scam! I am going back to myfitnesspal
Everything is Behind a Paywall
You cant even search for foods anymore without the paywall popping up. They say “some advanced features” you have to pay for. Searching for a food is not an advanced feature! I have used the app for years and have contributed to the user-inputed data for tracking foods such as “chicken breast, 300 calories”. I cant even use my previously inputted foods. Nice of you to use user-inputted data for years and then make us pay for the information WE gave you.
Just another one lost to ads $
App was great before they got greedy and started to charge to even use it. I understand charging for premium but now it won’t let me even log my food before agreeing to a free trial. Disappointed. Finding a new app now.
I wish i could rate this lower
This app was fully functioning last year for me, albeit rather annoying with he premium stuff. But its gotten exponentially worse snd you cant even use the app without a subscription-whats the point?
Hi
Every future cost money including the calorie scanner
Just no
I thought this was gonna be a nice app to help me count weight since I’m 120 pounds and it keeps telling me to get a free three day trial and then pay for the next months but on the app it says this app is free NO IT IS NOT do not get this if you don’t wanna spend money😢
so many ads
only ads and asks to get premium sm
Problem
Great except it Won’t quit forcing me to join. Trying to login products and keeps making me try to pay a subscription
Horrible update
the main reason I got this app was to help me stay in shape during and after wrestling season and I chose this app because it was free and convenient but now everytime I try to search or scan food it tells me to buy premium, I would rather them give us ads over making a huge pay wall
Don’t pay
Don’t bother paying money , my fitness pal is better , tracks more food and it’s worth the 20 dollars more I’ve used this app diet app for almost a year and at first it was good but constantly has wrong macros and having to pay money to an app that dose not have the right information is not fair , my fitness pal at least has the right information
I haven’t used it yet
I haven’t used it yet
Scammed.
I was charged $43! For 6 months of premium I didn’t want. I had to download this for health class. And now I have no access to the AppStore and no money to pay off an app I won’t even use. I tried to cancel it but it won’t work, it’s been over 100 days without any phone updates because of this app. I can barely use my phone.
You have to subscribe to search for foods???
What the heck? I guess with the new update now you have to subscribe in order to search up food. Absolutely ridiculous. Now I’ll have to find another app I guess. Everything today is a subscription smh
Go Back
This app used to be my favorite, It was really good, but recently they have put everything behind a paywall, literally everything. And now i'm struggling to find a new app that did the same as this one, if they wanted to lose users thats exactly what they've accomplished
Good features removed
I used this for over a year now and just yesterday the update rolled and I didn’t have the free with ads anymore and it suck’s cuz how much I’ve relied on this app and how barebones it was when I used it now it’s all pay pay pay. great job ruining your app
Misleading
It’s not free. It’s only 3 day free trial, don’t waste your time.
Not accurate
Picture scans are not accurate and overestimate calories. You also have to adjust the serving size of every product you scan a barcode for, even if the item is a full serving. If you don’t pay attention, you log your food intake incorrectly. I regret paying for the trial.
Why?
Why do we have to pay money for everything? Sounds like a great app to have but I can’t afford it.
Format Changed
The format changed where I NO longer can use it, as I can’t log in my macros. I tried to get a refund without any luck. Appediet changed the program app and I can’t get a refund, ONLY CANCEL when it expires and NO refund! They changed the app where I could NOT use it! I had NO choice! WOW…
Skip downloading
$40/ year. I hate how difficult it is to know when an app is actually free or not.
Not Free
You have to give them your payment information to try out a 3 day “free”trial. Nothing about it is free at all
Not free
It’s not free
Appediet
I used to love using this app, but I can’t get it to work anymore. I use the free version and watching ads would let me log my food, but now it won’t let me search anything, plus most of the calories are slightly off somehow for most foods, I won’t be using this app again.
Buggy as hell
I’ve been using this app for over a year and it has a lot of potential, but it’s currently held back by several frustrating bugs and poor design decisions that make daily use much more annoying than it needs to be.
Major Issues:
• History & Search is broken: The recent items/history shows random old entries from over a year ago instead of prioritizing what I actually use. The search function doesn’t update live - you have to hit enter every time. Results appear in seemingly random order with no logic based on frequency of use. For example, I eat the same Costco salmon snack almost every weekday, yet it’s never near the top and I have to dig through the list every single time.
• Frequent freezing in menus: When navigating multiple levels deep (especially when editing custom foods or meals), the app regularly freezes and stops responding to any input. The only fix is to force-close and restart the app, which means losing whatever information you were entering. This happens way too often.
• Custom meals are poorly handled: When you create a custom meal (like a 32-ingredient smoothie), it saves everything as individual line items instead of keeping them grouped as one meal. If you accidentally assign it to the wrong meal time, you have to swipe and delete every single ingredient manually. This feels like a basic design oversight.
• Dangerous Health app integration: By default, the app pulls activity data from Apple Health and automatically adds calories back to your daily total based on estimated burn. This is wildly inaccurate and actively harmful for people in a calorie deficit trying to lose weight. It should be opt-in with much clearer warnings, or at minimum not override your set goals so aggressively.
• Recent macro duplication bug: Multiple meals, including long-standing custom items I use daily, are suddenly showing 2-3x their normal macros. A smoothie that’s been ~800 calories for over a year is now showing up as 2,700+ calories. This is a serious regression that makes the app unreliable for tracking.
Overall, the app feels like it lacks proper QA and testing. Many of these issues (especially the history/search problems and freezing) have persisted for a long time. The core idea is good, but the execution makes it unreliable and frustrating for daily use.
I’d love to give it a higher rating if the team focuses on stability, smart defaults, and fixing these core usability problems.
Major Issues:
• History & Search is broken: The recent items/history shows random old entries from over a year ago instead of prioritizing what I actually use. The search function doesn’t update live - you have to hit enter every time. Results appear in seemingly random order with no logic based on frequency of use. For example, I eat the same Costco salmon snack almost every weekday, yet it’s never near the top and I have to dig through the list every single time.
• Frequent freezing in menus: When navigating multiple levels deep (especially when editing custom foods or meals), the app regularly freezes and stops responding to any input. The only fix is to force-close and restart the app, which means losing whatever information you were entering. This happens way too often.
• Custom meals are poorly handled: When you create a custom meal (like a 32-ingredient smoothie), it saves everything as individual line items instead of keeping them grouped as one meal. If you accidentally assign it to the wrong meal time, you have to swipe and delete every single ingredient manually. This feels like a basic design oversight.
• Dangerous Health app integration: By default, the app pulls activity data from Apple Health and automatically adds calories back to your daily total based on estimated burn. This is wildly inaccurate and actively harmful for people in a calorie deficit trying to lose weight. It should be opt-in with much clearer warnings, or at minimum not override your set goals so aggressively.
• Recent macro duplication bug: Multiple meals, including long-standing custom items I use daily, are suddenly showing 2-3x their normal macros. A smoothie that’s been ~800 calories for over a year is now showing up as 2,700+ calories. This is a serious regression that makes the app unreliable for tracking.
Overall, the app feels like it lacks proper QA and testing. Many of these issues (especially the history/search problems and freezing) have persisted for a long time. The core idea is good, but the execution makes it unreliable and frustrating for daily use.
I’d love to give it a higher rating if the team focuses on stability, smart defaults, and fixing these core usability problems.
Looks great but $40 a month!!!
Yikes! I give the same amount to my church. I’m not spending this on an ap.
💀
It used to be good before I had to pay to use the scanning function if they could return to making a cost ads, that would be a lot better
Not working
The app is not letting me search for food. I did it 30 minutes ago and it let me.. now it isn’t anymore. It wants me to pay. I’ve been using this app for over 2 years and it never gave me that message
new paywall is a disappointment
this app is very good and convenient for quickly tracking your calories, and it used to be completely free, and the premium only locked a few QOL features. but the fact that the paywall has moved so far forward that even manually logging is locked is absolutely absurd. ive used this app for free since november of 2025 and now i have to search for a new one. all i hope is that you guys revert soon, because youre going to lose a lot with this new decision.
This update sucks
I’ve used this app for 2 years now, tell me why now all of a sudden everything is behind a paywall?? Terrible, deleted this.
Became
Was good before when it was free. Now you have to pay to use the ai photo feature which I am not a fan of
You broke the app!
This was fine in the latest update, now I can’t add anything without the stupid free trial add popping up. I can close it and it just pops up again when I try to add food. I can only add from my history. Please fix this!!
Haven’t started yet
I can’t grade it. I haven’t used it yet.
They changed the app
OK, what I don’t like, I can scan my barcode on my healthy choice, link cuisine, and now it goes to grams and I have to go back and put the amount of weight. I don’t like that. I don’t want that I want what it used to be about a couple of weeks ago or a month when it showed exactly what the leancuisine, or healthy choice was, it’s stupid to have to go back in there and re-put in everything when I scanned the barcode I probably will not renew this app. Well, I won’t if that keeps up it’s ridiculous.
Limited database
You can’t add items to the database if you don’t have a barcode to scan. It gives you an option to scan a food label, you input all the info… and then it says it needs a barcode. Probably going to go back to MyFitnessPal because of this.
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)