Fooducate: Nutrition Coach

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Used to be a amazing…. This app used to be incredible, and now it’s utter trash. It’s very buggy and looks barebones. You can tell that after more than a decade, the devs clearly don’t care anymore. I also paid for it long before there was even a subscription. It freezes when I try to restore… Convenient.

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Underwhelming features with lots of ads. Second time trying this app as a basic calorie counter and it just is not up to snuff. Most of what you try to scan just flat out doesn’t, or times it’ll tell me the scanning feature is locked behind a paywall. The search function is pretty bare bones as well, I can’t find most of the products you can commonly find in most grocery stores. I don’t appreciate being bombarded with popup ads at every tap, any time I need to change screens I know I’m going to have to close a popup ad asking me to upgrade, or trying to close an actual advertisement and am greeted with yet another popup to upgrade to a paid plan to remove ads. Overall, this app is just annoying to use. There’s plenty of better free options out there.

3. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   Cancelled trial yet still charged for membership / apple refused to credit -. I cancelled this trial - I was charged $40 - I deleted app instantly so haven’t been using and haven’t used it since -of course apple (as always) refused to credit the amount- I am now going through my bank .. not amused ..

4. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   false advertising. why would u include nutrition information as a promotional tool under the basic plan, yet it’s locked behind a subscription paywall?

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   App is Garbage. The app sucks, let us use the website again instead of trying to make us use the app. Will find another app or website that’s actually useful for quickly looking up nutrition information

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Disappointed - enjoyed the original app. Tried to scan a food product to get a grade like when the app was first launched and was disappointed to find that the company uploaded its label and propaganda. I loved this app for being able to walk through a grocery store and find out the rating based on real nutrition facts. Now it is a calorie counter and diet ideas shared by various bias. Before it was just the facts on how processed and healthy a product was. Now it is useless for my needs. Deleted it sadly, loved and referred this app for years.

7. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   False calculators, overall buggy. Horrible app. It said if I’m on a cut as a woman I should be eating 2800 calories. Super buggy at almost every point, can’t even adjust the numbers nor adjust the serving you had to accurately reflect what you consumed.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Missing data. Paid for the pro so I could track and analyze all macros and it only breaks down carbs. What a rip off

9. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Not worth the Money. Does not have enough calories count. Recipe and calorie don’t match. Very misleading.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Create a food. It won’t create a food. It just loads for 20 minutes.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Horrible. I tried to sign in and it didn’t let me because I’m 10 that is so whack. I’m never downloading this app ever again. And also most of the reviews are negative.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Expensive membership lost. Paid around $100 for a lifetime membership and they lost it

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Wouldn’t let me use. I was just downloading and app and inputting my info when all the sudden, after I put in my age a message pops up saying “you can’t continue to use fooducate”. The issue is, the App Store says it’s 17+ and I’m 17, almost 18. And I put in my birthday correctly. I tried swiping out of the app, I tried redownloading it and restarting my phone. Not sure what the issue it

14. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Don’t count on the free trial. Was charged right away and didn’t get the 7 day free trial

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Add new products. App won’t let me send the email when I want to add products that are not scanning

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Don’t download. Everything is behind a paywall. Useless without paying. Not worth the cost. Basic functions available in other apps not available here. Food ratings are arbitrary and not based on true science. Use Samsung health instead. Edit: their response to this is both very generic and meaningless. They couldn’t even be bothered to write a real response.

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Infinite potential but completely missing core element. This app does have great potential of taking away a vast part of the market share. However, when it comes to adding the missing nutritional information from so many various food items that are missing from your database, it is extremely frustrating that you ask to send the photo of the nutritional labels via e-mail to be addressed at a later time by someone else, who does that these days. It should be addressed immediately via A.I. tools being implemented right within the app so that it can immediately extract all necessary nutritional information right from the user’s photo of the nutrition label, instantaneously reflected in real-time basis. Please get with the trend and keep your app capable; otherwise, new contenders will literally turn your app completely irrelevant, then no one will use it, period.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not free. Got up because it said it was free and it's not. Don't waste your time unless you wanna pay.

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Horrible App. This app can’t find foods on a consistent basis. Half the time you can’t find the grocery tab. What a waste of time. My Fitness Pal is a far better app.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Like most, it spies in you. This app used to be great, but I stopped using it for a while and now that I started using it again, it keeps saying that there is a network error. To make sure I am connected to WiFi or cellular service. It is, but the problem is that I ALWAYS use a VPN. They hate that because it makes it a lot harder for them to track us and spy on us. Many unscrupulous companies (I don’t know about this one) claim that they don’t allow VPN’s because of security concerns. What a load of you know what. VPN’s increase your online security by encrypting your online traffic. And that is why they keep telling people to use a VPN while using a public and unsecured internet connection. Such as the WiFi connections at markets, stores, coffee houses, airports and bus terminals, and so on. But it also interferes with companies ability tracking you and your device. No tracking, no selling of your personal information and that means less money for the greedy developers.

21. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    UPDATE YOUR APP PLEASE, THANK YOU. It’s really buggy and I can’t use it.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Don’t get taken!. So I checked my Apple account… was charged $35 for this app not sure how?! I downloaded it months ago have t used since didn’t find it helpful! Beware when they get your info they use it… so a yr subscription I cancelled but eating no pun intended $35 for nothing!

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Very lacking. Lacking, they charge you for macro analysis but they have incomplete and/or inaccurate information. And it takes them months to implement the information you provide for the product they don’t have.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Didn’t even get in. I don’t often leave reviews. But this app made me mad. If it’s “completely free” to register and “my card will not be charged” then why don’t need my credit card information?

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    ad infested. redownloaded this after a few years and I guess they got bought out by some giant company, sad to see that the app now is just covered with ads and trying to push you towards their premium plan, a shame and I will be looking elsewhere for food tracking apps

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Did not honor lifetime subscription purchase. No way for company to look up past lifetime subscription purchase and app has been reset.

27. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Scam. Tried the free trial, didn’t like the app. Canceled after selecting the weekly charge and it still charged me the full years subscription ($34.99) which is unacceptable. Don’t bother with this app

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    First experience. Useless - cannot read apple barcode

29. ★★★★★inaccurate results and incorrect data

    Waste of my time!!!. Tried using this can’t find any of the products I use so not accurate in counting what I’m eating!!!!

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Cuidado es spam. Es spam no lo descarguen :)