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FoodTrackerPro - Daily Food Eating Log
Aspyre Solutions · 39 ratings · ★ 3.8
3.8
★★★★★
39 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 27 negative reviews
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1
"food"
16 negative reviews mention this · 59% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Other things that could be improved. Since this app tracks protein by ounces, you can be pretty accurate, but the number of proteins you might eat in a day are quite large because of this. For example, a man might be recording 15-20 units a day in just that category. If you ma…" - Libbygeo
2
"money"
9 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t waste your money. This app is garbage. You can only click on how many servings you have ate. If you don’t know what category your food falls under it won’t work. Find a different app." - 576637
3
"servings"
7 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t waste your money. This app is garbage. You can only click on how many servings you have ate. If you don’t know what category your food falls under it won’t work. Find a different app." - 576637
4
"does"
6 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough features to justify the cost. This app is OK for a free download but it does not have the features it should have for the cost. I used it for a couple of days and found it to be very frustrating and limited. Disappointed." - #ofthePurpleSpottedBlueFins
5
"waste"
6 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t waste your money. This app is garbage. You can only click on how many servings you have ate. If you don’t know what category your food falls under it won’t work. Find a different app." - 576637
6
"waste money"
6 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
7
"foods"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Buggy,DONT BUY use exchanges in a free calorie tracker instead. TLDR: cannot backfill, cannot undo actions, cannot set flexible goals, cannot create custom foods, cannot get an approximation of total intake / macros. I regret buying this as I can't figure out how to get a refund. Consider this purchase…" - Rebecca74
8
"useless"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Do NOT Buy This. Feels like $5 was stolen from me. This app is useless and the description seems to be a total misrepresentation of any use to be made of it. No access to record individual foods, only categories. Ridiculous to call it a food log/diary." - rebasthangs
9
"down"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Other things that could be improved. Since this app tracks protein by ounces, you can be pretty accurate, but the number of proteins you might eat in a day are quite large because of this. For example, a man might be recording 15-20 units a day in just that category. If you ma…" - Libbygeo
10
"each"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Other things that could be improved. Since this app tracks protein by ounces, you can be pretty accurate, but the number of proteins you might eat in a day are quite large because of this. For example, a man might be recording 15-20 units a day in just that category. If you ma…" - Libbygeo
11
"free"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough features to justify the cost. This app is OK for a free download but it does not have the features it should have for the cost. I used it for a couple of days and found it to be very frustrating and limited. Disappointed." - #ofthePurpleSpottedBlueFins
12
"know"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t waste your money. This app is garbage. You can only click on how many servings you have ate. If you don’t know what category your food falls under it won’t work. Find a different app." - 576637
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Outdated app
The app is clearly outdated and lacks necessary customizations
Other things that could be improved
Since this app tracks protein by ounces, you can be pretty accurate, but the number of proteins you might eat in a day are quite large because of this. For example, a man might be recording 15-20 units a day in just that category. If you make a mistake, you cannot correct it on the screen, you have to hit an icon and use a drop down and erase it by erasing your last entry…so hopefully you catch your mistake right away. Last, the app lets you set goals for each category of food but, it is on a separate page where you set the goals and can view them. As you were doing your food entry, you have to remember what your goal is or wait until doing an entry turns the number a different color. I really wish they would fix all the things I’ve commented on. I am sure they are easy fixes and then it would be a good app.
Don’t waste your money
This app is garbage. You can only click on how many servings you have ate. If you don’t know what category your food falls under it won’t work. Find a different app.
Don’t buy! $4.99 is not worth it.
I can’t even adjust the full page of the suggested food serving size information. What a waste of money, unfortunately.
Buggy,DONT BUY use exchanges in a free calorie tracker instead
TLDR: cannot backfill, cannot undo actions, cannot set flexible goals, cannot create custom foods, cannot get an approximation of total intake / macros.
I regret buying this as I can't figure out how to get a refund. Consider this purchase the equivalent of ripping a $5 bill in half.
This app has an old and extremely buggy UI.
(1) you cannot backfill because of bugs. You'd better remember to log every day because if you don't you can never fix it!
(2) you cannot fix a mistake in your current day log, or just adjust an exchange down, instead you have to go into a context menu and wipe the entire log clean and start over! There is no down--Only up and start over.
Not bugs, but stupid choices:
(3) The ui is designed to make you feel good (green) if you are under your goal servings and bad (red) if you are over. However (1) you cannot set the goal high enough for protein and fat to get to e.g. 130g of protein. (3) all goals go from green to red, so if you under your veg and water goal? Green. Over? Red. Very stupid UI choice.
(4) cannot add custom foods. If you eat a lot of mixed type dishes it is annoying to have to enter 1/2 meat + 1/4 starch + 1/2 fat etc for each serving and do that math. Custom foods would solve this problem but isn't available.
(5) everything in the ADA book should be available to look up as a good and log as a portion e.g. Look up "hummus" and log 1/3 cup of it correctly as 1 starch + 1 fat. Instead, you have to do all of your own portion math. This app is ONLY for tallying portions, as in seeing 6 starch, 5 fat, etc, which most people can easily do on a sheet of paper for free and less bugs.
Instead of this, use loseit! or another free app. Create custom foods called "starch exchange" serving size: one exchange. Do this for all food groups. Log that way. It's harder to see how many exchanges you've had all day, but I create a "food note" that tracks this. At the end of the day you get an estimate of your calories and macros. The best part is that it's free.
I regret buying this as I can't figure out how to get a refund. Consider this purchase the equivalent of ripping a $5 bill in half.
This app has an old and extremely buggy UI.
(1) you cannot backfill because of bugs. You'd better remember to log every day because if you don't you can never fix it!
(2) you cannot fix a mistake in your current day log, or just adjust an exchange down, instead you have to go into a context menu and wipe the entire log clean and start over! There is no down--Only up and start over.
Not bugs, but stupid choices:
(3) The ui is designed to make you feel good (green) if you are under your goal servings and bad (red) if you are over. However (1) you cannot set the goal high enough for protein and fat to get to e.g. 130g of protein. (3) all goals go from green to red, so if you under your veg and water goal? Green. Over? Red. Very stupid UI choice.
(4) cannot add custom foods. If you eat a lot of mixed type dishes it is annoying to have to enter 1/2 meat + 1/4 starch + 1/2 fat etc for each serving and do that math. Custom foods would solve this problem but isn't available.
(5) everything in the ADA book should be available to look up as a good and log as a portion e.g. Look up "hummus" and log 1/3 cup of it correctly as 1 starch + 1 fat. Instead, you have to do all of your own portion math. This app is ONLY for tallying portions, as in seeing 6 starch, 5 fat, etc, which most people can easily do on a sheet of paper for free and less bugs.
Instead of this, use loseit! or another free app. Create custom foods called "starch exchange" serving size: one exchange. Do this for all food groups. Log that way. It's harder to see how many exchanges you've had all day, but I create a "food note" that tracks this. At the end of the day you get an estimate of your calories and macros. The best part is that it's free.
Should be free
There is really no unique functionality that warrants paying for. You select servings per day from 8 very broad food groups and it tracks and graphs how you cover those food groups over time. No specific foods can be entered. Disappointing.
Very basic- no food database
Would be more effective if there was a food component
Too Basic - Don't Waste Your Money
For $4.99, I expected this app to do a lot more. Everyone says this app is so great, but I don't know how it can be because it basically does nothing. You can set goals for how much of each food group you should be eating, but the app doesn't allow you to enter your age, height or weight to determine it. You have to figure it out for yourself, which is something I expected to be supplied with since I was paying for an app that has an overall 4-star rating. I wish I had never bought this app. I don't recommend it to anyone.
Do NOT Buy This
Feels like $5 was stolen from me. This app is useless and the description seems to be a total
misrepresentation of any use to be made of it. No access to record individual foods, only
categories. Ridiculous to call it a food log/diary.
misrepresentation of any use to be made of it. No access to record individual foods, only
categories. Ridiculous to call it a food log/diary.
Waste of money
This app does nothing! All it does is count servings and provides no other info.
Overpriced
Huge waste of time and money
Needs to separate foods
This lumps good foods with bad foods and counts it as one serving. For instance, fish and red meat are treated equally. Good fats such as olives, avocados, and nuts are lumped with bad animal fats.
Useless
Don't waste your money!
Disappointment
This is so simplistic, you might as well just be keeping track on paper. There's no detailed information about what you're eating--just large food groups, and all you do is click a button for each serving of food type. Exactly like making hash marks on paper. I was looking for something that would tell me how much protein I'm getting, and would let me track every item I eat. This is NOT that app! (If there is such an app, I'd like to know about it!)
Very limited and restricted. Not worth the money.
I would not recommend this application because of its extremely limited feature set. I think even for $2, it's a rip off.
Not what I wanted!
I'm looking for something that will provide calorie counts!!! This is worthless!!!! Would like a credit!!!!
Wasted my money
Too complicated! Found a food pyramid app for .99 that was much easier to use.
Not
It won't count down. Everything is put in as done. I could use a note book for that. Want money Back:(
Don't buy it
Useless. Don't buy it
Useless App
This app does not actually calculate anything for you, it is simply a fancy note pad for recording how many servings of a food group you have consumed. You have to calculate yourself how many servings of fruit are in a certain size apple, then enter that number of servings in the app. I'd be better off with a pen and paper.
Not enough features to justify the cost
This app is OK for a free download but it does not have the features it should have for the cost. I used it for a couple of days and found it to be very frustrating and limited. Disappointed.
NOT WORTH 5 BUCKS!
It's ok, but seriously not worth the price point. This app should be a buck or two at most. All it does is track your exchanges for the day and nothing more. Very no frills.
Less than expected for the price
This app does nothing that I expected. Basically you just check off anytime you eat a fruit or veg etc.. Doesn't show food name of what you've eaten so it's hard to know how many servings there are in that food. Very disappointed
WAY too dumbed down
REALLY oversimplifies types of food and doesn't let you separate proteins, carbs or even fats. I should have listened to the other reviewers.
Frustrating
I bought this because a health coach recommended it. I find it a real disappointment. Not all of the icons are clear to me. I was trying to figure out what the bottle was (olive oil? Beer? Something else?). I touched it to get more info. It said I ingested whatever it is. I tried to undo it, but there is no undo. What if the bus hits a pothole while you are entering data? The scope and purpose of the tracking wasn't clear to me before getting it. It isn't calories. It isn't actually foods. It is number of servings per day by food categories. Broad categories. Very broad. For my purposes, this is useless, and worse than useless.
Disappointed
Def not what I expected! I wanted to input food and have the app put my intake into the food pyramid. Def disappointment!
Wasn't happy
I wasn't happy with the app I preferred the free apps. I don't think this one is worth buying when you have to add almost all you food choices yourself.
Sentiment summary
69%
Positive (4-5★)
8%
Neutral (3★)
23%
Negative (1-2★)