I’ve been using Lose It! for a long time because the food journal and database are extensive, but I wanted something that would help me plan my meals and my menu for the week. That is what the advertising blurbs seemed to promise, but the only program with a “weekly planner“ is the vegan plan. Yes, you can save recipes for easier tracking, but you can’t Create a menu or a shopping list unless you are on that one specific plan. If this is wrong, I am not seeing any place to do that, and there isn’t much help within the app. It seems as if the weekly planner is only available for some of the programs. It’s a pain in the neck to get into them without accidentally switching programs, but the biggest flaw is the recipe search. I specifically picked this app because I wanted access to the Mediterranean diet program (which doesn’t seem to have a planner) because I wanted to be able to search recipes. Low sodium is a priority for me because of a disorder, and I don’t expect the meal programs to all be low sodium. When I go in and filter for. Low sodium is the only filter, I get back recipes, which have at least 500 mg per serving and in at least three cases, 1700 mg or more per serving. Other filters, such as prep time, and Mediterranean-based recipes are equally an accurate, but the low sodium one is the worst. There’s no way to even see how to make those recipes lower sodium.

Generally a very good app. The design is clean and it’s pretty simple to use. The guidelines about how much to eat and how the nutrients should be balances are extremely useful and have gotten me to reassess my eating habits. But it’s glitchy in annoying ways that would make it easier to use. It offers an option to automatically import data from FitBit and other devices, but I’ve found the information it brings in is wildly inaccurate. Like it would reflect 150 calories burned for an exercise when the actual total was 600+. So I’ve found it’s easier and more accurate to manually enter exercise information. The app also will offer to automatically track the same meal you ate the day before, but when you click on it, it doesn’t actually track the information. So you have to manually enter all the foods and ingredients again to track them. The app also will occasionally prompt me to start an intermittent fasting schedule — which I’m already on. So I’ll essentially have to reset those settings again and again instead of switching the timer on and off between intervals like I’m supposed to. And sometimes things won’t be that responsive and I have to restart the app. It’s a good app, but these small problems really interfere and make it harder to use than it should be. If the developers don’t fix these problems , I won’t renew my subscription.

I read others reviews of how beautiful this app is, everything I read was true. It is so easy to use and has so many features to customize to you need: meal plans, pre-calculated macros, recipes. I love that it counts down how many macros you have left and it offers several barand percentage graphs to track your progress . It also compares your daily intake to your stated goal intake. I used Lose It before and it was fine, but this one is way easier and faster and even after 3 days I’m already making better choices because I enjoy tracking and I want to get that smilie face that days Balanced lol it sounds a bit strange I know but it’s just another tool to encourage you to stick to your goals. I could not love this app any more . The developers obviously put a lot of thought into this and it’s just a delight to use. I have a family so I don’t have time to mess around with complicated tracking apps and this one makes it possible for me to stick to my goals while loving a real life. It is sustainable and I look very forward to the results I get because someone created this incredible app. Thank you so so much developers. It’s already hard enough to work, have a family, and then try to eat healthy and workout? It’s a lot and you make it possible. Thank you