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ChefGPT: AI Calories Tracker
MIU Digital Limited · 191 ratings · ★ 4.4
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Top complaints - extracted from 11 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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"ingredients"
4 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Shady Pricing Tactics. Was looking for something I could put in ingredients I have around the house. Rather then letting my try it out, it asked for all kinds of personal info. I didn’t care but then before I can even see what the app do it starts pushing members…" - Andymanfrnj
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"work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "There are better options. Not a bad app. Some improvements in the adding ingredients functionality would be great though. Now, they need to think about a free tier or longer trial period, especially with that yearly price point. Ideally a freemium approach. There a…" - Scarbez
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"something"
3 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Shady Pricing Tactics. Was looking for something I could put in ingredients I have around the house. Rather then letting my try it out, it asked for all kinds of personal info. I didn’t care but then before I can even see what the app do it starts pushing members…" - Andymanfrnj
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"free"
3 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "There are better options. Not a bad app. Some improvements in the adding ingredients functionality would be great though. Now, they need to think about a free tier or longer trial period, especially with that yearly price point. Ideally a freemium approach. There a…" - Scarbez
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"does"
3 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "There are better options. Not a bad app. Some improvements in the adding ingredients functionality would be great though. Now, they need to think about a free tier or longer trial period, especially with that yearly price point. Ideally a freemium approach. There a…" - Scarbez
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"recipe"
3 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Nothing works. Whenever I try to make a recipe using this app nothing works. I tried to use macro chef and it crashed when I clicked on it, it even did this whenever I tried to open anything else on the app please fix this." - Really good learning app
📋 All 11 negative reviews
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Shady Pricing Tactics
Was looking for something I could put in ingredients I have around the house. Rather then letting my try it out, it asked for all kinds of personal info. I didn’t care but then before I can even see what the app do it starts pushing memberships on me. Every time I said no it kept bringing up stupid roulette wheels bringing the price down further. In 5 seconds the price went from $80 a year or something to $20. I noped out of there. If something won’t stand by the value of their product, they’re probably gouging you knowing their product is garbage. Stay away everyone.
Waste of time
Should’ve listened to the comment, wasted five minutes just to get to a paywall, app is not free. Don’t waste your time.
😡
The app crashes!
When I enter it
When I enter it
Does not work
Waste of time typing in all my stuff to not work
Disappointed
I am shocked to see an update was posted 3 weeks ago. I tried downloading 3 times, never even got to the main page. I asked the app to not track me, and I wonder if that’s what’s causing the issues, but that should be more upfront if the trade off to use the app is personal data.
Nothing works
Whenever I try to make a recipe using this app nothing works. I tried to use macro chef and it crashed when I clicked on it, it even did this whenever I tried to open anything else on the app please fix this.
Love the idea…
I love the idea but just downloaded it and it generated my first recipe and the title was nothing to the actual meal. Stuffed chicken breast with peanut butter rice… it was actually wrapping a dough lined with peanut butter around the chicken breast and baking it then serving it over cooked rice. Also the instructions didn’t provide measurements for the rice… it needs a lot of work. I don’t blame what the algorithm did with the ingredients as I chose those. I would’ve expected them to match the title. I was thinking maybe cook rice and make a creamy peanut butter sauce into the rice.
Doesn’t work
Haven’t been able to successfully generate a recipe yet. Just keep getting a “something went wrong” message.
Needs lots of work
Recipes take 10+ minutes to load. Pantry tracker has a horrible design. Only 5 recipes per month on the free version is awful. Does not have very many ingredients as well.
There are better options
Not a bad app. Some improvements in the adding ingredients functionality would be great though.
Now, they need to think about a free tier or longer trial period, especially with that yearly price point. Ideally a freemium approach. There are similar apps that are as food as this one and have freemium models.
In fact I built a GPT wrapper myself that does the same. It is not a phone app though as I do enterprise software not apps. But people can vibecode something similar easily and offer it for 29.99 a year.
Now I realize that is a European app. I never see one that knows how to monetize. High prices and few users. Volume and low price my friends. It is not even a new model. It is the only thing that works in an almost free world.
Now, they need to think about a free tier or longer trial period, especially with that yearly price point. Ideally a freemium approach. There are similar apps that are as food as this one and have freemium models.
In fact I built a GPT wrapper myself that does the same. It is not a phone app though as I do enterprise software not apps. But people can vibecode something similar easily and offer it for 29.99 a year.
Now I realize that is a European app. I never see one that knows how to monetize. High prices and few users. Volume and low price my friends. It is not even a new model. It is the only thing that works in an almost free world.
Way Too Hard to Add Pantry Items
UX to add items to pantry is wayy too complex. I have to scan every items barcode? barrier to entry too high, makes app not worth using
Sentiment summary
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Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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