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Mediterranean Diet & Meal Plan
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"free"
39 negative reviews mention this · 53% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free app. Thought this was a free app with in app purchases but it is not free at all!! Wants you to set up an account and then it says “choose your plan”!! Nothing was free at that point" - Pjmacik
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"trial"
19 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No place to cancel free trial. There isn’t a place to cancel or change payment methods." - DARichmondHolland
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"recipes"
15 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bad program. Never could get this app to work right. It would take 15 minutes to download the recipes. Cancelled. Dusted App" - ranlin2
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"subscription"
15 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not for me. I'm not sure what I really expected, but the app just tells you something different to eat at every meal and lists all the ingredients. I am not going to spend thousands at the grocery store on all these random meals. I should have looked i…" - bulldurham8180
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"free trial"
14 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No place to cancel free trial. There isn’t a place to cancel or change payment methods." - DARichmondHolland
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"month"
13 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t get.. The app kicked me out after 3 months and I am out $40. Says my email was deleted. Emails for help go answered. Buyer beware." - nininininini
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"week"
13 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "An overpriced recipe book. I’m a bit disappointed I was looking for some thing that would help me meet my macro goals for the week and make recipes for the Mediterranean diet. But all this does is give you four recipes a day listed out with the ingredients. There is …" - Korenski23
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"meal"
11 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not for me. I'm not sure what I really expected, but the app just tells you something different to eat at every meal and lists all the ingredients. I am not going to spend thousands at the grocery store on all these random meals. I should have looked i…" - bulldurham8180
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"year"
10 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Nobodies home.. Nobody answers messages and I can’t open this app in my wife’s phone to share the grocery list. $65 for a year gone." - JaySteez413
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"plan"
10 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free app. Thought this was a free app with in app purchases but it is not free at all!! Wants you to set up an account and then it says “choose your plan”!! Nothing was free at that point" - Pjmacik
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"money"
10 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not for me. I'm not sure what I really expected, but the app just tells you something different to eat at every meal and lists all the ingredients. I am not going to spend thousands at the grocery store on all these random meals. I should have looked i…" - bulldurham8180
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"cancel"
10 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bad program. Never could get this app to work right. It would take 15 minutes to download the recipes. Cancelled. Dusted App" - ranlin2
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Nobodies home.
Nobody answers messages and I can’t open this app in my wife’s phone to share the grocery list. $65 for a year gone.
Bad program
Never could get this app to work right. It would take 15 minutes to download the recipes. Cancelled. Dusted App
App problems
I couldn’t get past the height question on my phone; there’d count use the app. What’s the point? I tried multiple times, rebooted, etc etc.
Not free app
Thought this was a free app with in app purchases but it is not free at all!! Wants you to set up an account and then it says “choose your plan”!! Nothing was free at that point
Not for me
I'm not sure what I really expected, but the app just tells you something different to eat at every meal and lists all the ingredients. I am not going to spend thousands at the grocery store on all these random meals. I should have looked into the app more before paying for the year subscription. Live and learn. Don't waste your money.
Expensive
Deleted
No place to cancel free trial
There isn’t a place to cancel or change payment methods.
Not good
This app is terrible. Paid for it because I thought I could log my own meals and can’t. I will be cancelling asap.
Don’t get.
The app kicked me out after 3 months and I am out $40. Says my email was deleted. Emails for help go answered. Buyer beware.
App is not good after 6 months
After 6 months of working fairly well and recipes are great, for the most part other then it was false advertisement on tracking weight and progress which it does NOT, the app kicked me out. Says my account may have been “deleted” I’ve reached out to the developers and have had no response. I’ve paid for a year. Complete rip off if you ask me. May be an AG thing to do….
Doesn't Work
App stalled during the introductory questions. What a waste of time.
Don’t do it
There’s a reason they do not offer a trial before making purchase.
Misleading
Not much to the app and paid $40. Was expecting more.
Cancel
How do I cancel my subscription? I’m locked out from app- states my email is cancelled yet I’m still getting charged.
Displeased with initials meals
Ingredients that I chose not to include are in meal selections.
Lots of outdated and scientifically incorrect info
The app is alright, I guess. I’m glad I only paid for a month. Reviewing the information revealed scientifically unsound information. Such as unplugging computers to avoid radiation? The radiation produced by computers is not harmful. Additionally, the distance needed to reduce cell phone radiation or RFR is 3 feet, another scientific fact left out. The rest of the app is okay. I joined to find good recipes and easily make a shopping list. I found the list of foods to avoid lackluster. For example, if you’re allergic to certain foods you cannot put that in. Common allergens are not included in the list of foods to avoid. And if you clicked a food to avoid it still adds it to your generated meal plan, just puts an ! by the meal… I was also hoping to make my own meal plan from a list of recipes. Which you can do but it isn’t intuitive. You have to select each meal for each day and then select replace. Kind of a PITA. I won’t be resubscribing as this doesn’t save me any time/effort.
Irritated
NOT FREE!! You give your info through a series of questions about goals etc, and then they ask you to pick a plan $/month!
Pay for what?
I can’t check this app without paying. It’s strange and no, you don’t have free trial.
Nope
Can’t even see what this offers without a subscription. Deleted.
Requires subscription
Horrible app. Can’t even view what it has to offer without being forced to pay for a meal plan first. Uninstalled
Not Mediterranean Food Recipes
If you are looking for Mediterranean meals this is not the app. The recipes look low quality. I feel scammed and developer was just profiting off the the popularity of Mediterranean Diet.
Unhealthy and dangerous
The app is unhealthy and dangerous, not the Mediterranean diet, which is great if done well. The app does not do it well. I’m my free trial period, and all it provides daily meal plans for me that come in under 1000 calories. This is incredibly low, especially if you are active. Hardly any protein in the recipes provided. No ability to add macros. Not an effective tool for someone who wishes to live a healthy lifestyle with this diet.
Do not use this
Subscribed 1 year ago. Didn't use it. There is no unsubscribe button on this app. Can't seem to keep rid of it and don't want to be charged again
Cannot log in
Bought the year subscription and will not allow me to log in after I paid.
Was excited to try out until….
I was really excited to try this app out.. downloaded it and set my preferences… and then of course it cost money :( I think if an app is going to cost money they should just say so from the beginning of downloading. I understand needing to make profit for your app but I just wish not everything was a monthly subscription, didn’t use to be that way. Bummer
This app is not made well at all.
Sure, it has a lot of recipes and yes, it’s a Mediterranean diet app. It just doesn’t cut it. It’s like they threw it together in a week and said, “That’s it! Let’s make some money now”. For starters, the directions are not clear. For example: one recipe stated to add all the ingredients listed above to the skillet. Now olive oil IS an ingredient in the Mediterranean diet. It did not specify to add the oil to the skillet first. That same recipe did not mention draining the water from the can of tuna. Now don’t get me wrong I still went through with the recipe but I had a tuna omelette and not “tuna patties”. That’s just one instance of terrible directions. Also, they delete the previous two weeks or recipes that are lined up without warning. I bought $150 of food for a weeks worth of lunch and dinner that I thought would taste great and the next day all the recipes were gone. Sure they have a feature were you can look them up but you can only find it when you go to “replace” a recipe. Even then upon searching it’s in alphabetical order and won’t even load everything. I have great internet so it’s not me. The app is junk and not worth buying. Don’t waste your time, patience or money.
Not Very Useful
I don’t like how this app functions. You set your food preferences (choose which foods to avoid) but this daily suggestions include recipes with those foods. The recipe search doesn’t remove recipes with those foods. So you have to scroll forever and look at every recipe to add it to your plan.
Also, there isn’t a way to indicate that you want to eat one of the meals for leftovers the next day. You just mark the number of servings. So if I want to make four dinner servings (so we can have leftovers for lunch the next dat), there’s no way to tell the app that’s what you’re doing. So you’ll have a separate recipe for lunch that you have to ignore.
I also don’t like that you can’t go back more than a couple of days to see what you ate. Sometimes I forget to mark something as a favorite and then I can’t find it again.
The recipe list is HUGE and the filtering is only by meal type. Many of the recipes are in all of the meal types, so it doesn’t help much. It would be nice to be able to filter by main ingredient (for example, I have chicken in the freezer so I just want to see chicken recipes).
The shopping list functionality is nice. But otherwise, I’m not a fan of the app. I’ve already deleted it from my phone.
Also, there isn’t a way to indicate that you want to eat one of the meals for leftovers the next day. You just mark the number of servings. So if I want to make four dinner servings (so we can have leftovers for lunch the next dat), there’s no way to tell the app that’s what you’re doing. So you’ll have a separate recipe for lunch that you have to ignore.
I also don’t like that you can’t go back more than a couple of days to see what you ate. Sometimes I forget to mark something as a favorite and then I can’t find it again.
The recipe list is HUGE and the filtering is only by meal type. Many of the recipes are in all of the meal types, so it doesn’t help much. It would be nice to be able to filter by main ingredient (for example, I have chicken in the freezer so I just want to see chicken recipes).
The shopping list functionality is nice. But otherwise, I’m not a fan of the app. I’ve already deleted it from my phone.
No free trial
Like the other reviewer said you have to purchase the app, there is no free trial. Everyone knows Apple does not do refunds on purchased apps. Click bait! You also can’t leave a review easily. Every single random nickname is taken.
Irresponsible meal planning
I am a 6’5” 250 lb male athlete. The ‘meal plan’ generated for me by this app would have me consume 1200-1400 calories a day. This is way, WAY too low. Hopefully it is not as severe for people with more average measurements. Regardless, this is how disordered eating starts. A 1200 calorie diet is not even normal for a woman.
Can’t cancel
No way to cancel membership on the app
Can’t omit many of my allergens
No opting out of allergens such as rice or apples etc, making this hard for me to use. Bummer.
Unfriendly
No customer support to answer questions. Can not customize
No stars - cannot even get thru setup
I could not use the app because it would not accept any input when it asked for my height - deleting
NOT FREE
You have to subscribe. Yet they offer short trial.
Not impressed
Couldn’t get to the recipes because of the data mining personal information questions to get to them. I’m curious what my personal info has to do with preparing a family meal? Will be deleting the app.
This is a rip off
Didn’t even let me view what the app had to offer it just kept trying to get me to subscribe for $29.99 a year sight unseen. No way past it to the (ha ha) Free? Features. Beware this is NOT a free app.
Buyer Beware
I’ve never written an app review but this is so bad I feel compelled to give others a heads up. There was no free trail option for me. It went right to purchase for a month or year. I went with a month on my iPad. I was excited to see the meal plan so bypassed the setup with username and password. Mistake. There’s no way to find this again. The interface is extremely minimal. When I tried to use the app on my phone I had to login with my username & password which I didn’t have. The only other option was to sign up for a plan! Well Apple is smart enough to stop me from doing that since I just did sign up on my iPad. So I can’t use the app on my phone. There is a grocery list option for you to add ingredients from the recipes BUT THERE IS NOTHING TO CLICK ON! The example makes it look like you can click a plus sign to add item to the list but in reality it’s not there. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!
Not Free
It asks you a few questions and then goes right to a screen where you have to pay. “In app purchases” usually means optional purchases. It does say you can do a 7 day free trial but still not what I was expecting from a FREE app.
Misleading
The only way to view what the app offers is to purchase. I saw somewhere in another review that said that they offer a free trial for the yearly plan which is NOT the case. I paid 29.99 for something that’s definitely not what I was looking for and immediately canceled but my card was still charged and it said my “subscription” is now good until sept 2021 for an app that I’m not going to use. Lesson learned.
Deceiving Payment Information
When the app tell you that the yearly subscription is $.52 a week it actually means you will pay the whole yearly subscription upfront.
Please be more clear.
Please be more clear.
Lame rip off
So it says free but before you can use it makes you subscribe and pay. Scam!!!
Cost
This app says in app purchases but requires a fee. Misleading!
Disappointed
I’m very disappointed there is no trial for this app. There should also be something stating BEFORE downloading that you HAVE to pay to start the app....there will be no trial offered. I’m not going to join something that I may not like...so there should be a trial.
Not as expected
This just has recipes, which you can’t customize or keep track of. Was looking for more of a tracking system, but made an impulsive purchase. Waste of money for me.
Not honoring the 7 day free trial
They advertise “try a week free on us” but they take your money immediately and then respond with, sorry we can’t give refund.
Misleading
App says 7 day free trial but beware they will automatically charge you as soon as you agree to the trial. There is no trial you pay for your purchase.
NOT FREE
If you are looking for a free planner...this is not it. It cost 9.99 per month BUT you only know this AFTER they have your email address! That’s called information harvesting.
I have gone back and looked at description. No mention that this is a subscription app. If it is there, it is not clear and noticeable. After reading other reviews...I find... I'm not the only one who “missed” it. So review is accurate and stands.
You need to put the price on the app so the customer knows before signing up, there is a charge and it is a subscribe app.
BEFORE YOU ARE GIVEN ANY INFORMATION.
Btw. It does look like a good app. Not saying it’s trash.
It’s your marketing strategy that will get you in trouble.
I have gone back and looked at description. No mention that this is a subscription app. If it is there, it is not clear and noticeable. After reading other reviews...I find... I'm not the only one who “missed” it. So review is accurate and stands.
You need to put the price on the app so the customer knows before signing up, there is a charge and it is a subscribe app.
BEFORE YOU ARE GIVEN ANY INFORMATION.
Btw. It does look like a good app. Not saying it’s trash.
It’s your marketing strategy that will get you in trouble.
Meh
It’s just recipes you can get on a free website. You can add ingredients to a shopping list. Not sure why it’s $10/month.
Free 1 week trial only
1 week only trial. No mention of this before they take your login details.
Horrible App - Bait and Switch
“Free App”! Bull Crap. Total Bait and switch don’t fall for it.
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Sentiment summary
85%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)