Foodvisor - AI Calorie Counter reviews

What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 3.6

A food diary with photo recognition, barcode scanning, and search — plus recipes and tips — for people tracking calories and nutrients while losing weight.

What users love

Photo logging saves time but consistently underestimates portions

Snap a photo and the entry is done in seconds — very handy on the go

It's okay. As a food journaling app it is very convenient, with multiple fast efficient entry methods, depending on what suits what your about to eat. [barcode, search, photo w/ AI, AI assisted quick describe] However I'm as yet (18 days in) unconvinced of the accuracy of the AI. As habit building or dieting app, I'm less impressed. There are "lessons", however I have learned 0 new information tha

sad that you have to pay for the picture function but so far it's very worth it

good little app, straight forward to use. still needs some improvements, the ai photo is always inaccurate weight wise, it's handy in a pinch but 80% of the time I have to adjust it

Barcode scanning works well, even for foreign and local store products

The scanner is fast and finds products where other apps give up

while I actually like this app, one thing that annoys me is that I can't set a profile pic it's not like a end of the world feature but it does annoy me any time I go into my profile Overall the app is great, has loads of recipes and tips and has no problems with scanning barcodes from polish stores which I've noticed a lot of calorie counting apps have

love this app. the fact that the barcode scan feature is free was all I needed but I ended up buying a year because I have enjoyed using the app so far. visually it's cute and simplistic. I used my fitness pal for year and I just never really LIKED using it but this is different for me

Multiple quick entry methods: photo, barcode, search, voice

There's an entry method for every situation — that's the app's core strength

Tries to force you to give 5 stars. Has some useless features (tamagochi-style pet and kinda pointless "daily lessons"). Also lacks proper data export tools and the food adding system needs polishing. But overall quite easy to use and quick. Barcode detection works. AI photo mode is ok, it is correct about 75% of the time, but usually you need to tweak the sizes of the food. Connects to Google Fit

In all their ads you can take pictures to analyze what's in the meal, turns out you get 1 free picture and the rest is behind a paywall.

Actually helps people lose weight and sustain a deficit for months

Users consistently lose weight and keep it off; the app motivates them not to quit

70 days and I have steadily lost weight (24 pounds lost so far). Helpful section on meal suggestions. Customizable changes can be made to macros if you are following different diet plans.

Excellent app, easy to use, recognizes all the bar codes, gives good estimates via pictures of food and helped me loose 3kg so far. Makes my kcalories tracking much easier.

Man, this app is changing my life. I've never been successful with dieting... but this makes it so easy, it's actually really fun and rewarding. It uses AI to log your food, so you literally just take a picture of what you eat instead of scrolling thru lists of food and trying to guess your portion size. I'm down 10lbs in 11 days... and was eating nachos, tons of meat, and whiskey on those days.

Lessons, articles, and tips teach mindful eating

Short lessons and advice help users understand their habits and eat more intentionally

The app is great as a food diary - it's quick and easy to add your meals especially with the photograph feature. The "classes" generally contain good information, however I'm frustrated that it asks you to track goals outside of the app. I would rather everything was contained in the daily journal rather than have to have it elsewhere, I'm spending enough time here tracking my meals it would be fa

A growing plant companion makes logging fun, but it can't be turned off

The gamified plant and rewards help users remember to log their meals

The best food logging app on the market. The gamifocation nature makes it easy and fun.

Love the app. Think "Seedy" is stupid and a waste of time and resources. Please a give a way yo turn off

I would like some more features like saving whole meals, making recipes. More stuff for my little seedling too!

Tracks protein, fiber, and macros, but misses sodium and vitamins

Protein, fat, carbs, and fiber are all visible; macro targets are customizable

70 days and I have steadily lost weight (24 pounds lost so far). Helpful section on meal suggestions. Customizable changes can be made to macros if you are following different diet plans.

I'm so disappointed I downloaded the app and I paid for 3 months. I was expecting it to count all the nutrients in my food. all it does is carbs protein fat and fiber

does not have an easy way to find out about nutrients like salt

Clean, pleasant, and simple interface

Neat design, friendly colors, easy navigation, and a useful widget

Any app that asks invasive questions to generate a "personalised plan", to then make you do a CN-style fortune wheel for a chance at a time-limited "special offer" (a discount on the annual subscription, apparently only available for 10 minutes; before you've even had the chance to evaluate the app) deserves no more than 2 stars. These are manipulative and exploitative design choices. Edit: this a

So far I love that you can scan a barcode to log in food, tell AI what you're eating, or take a picture. And add your own recipes if you prefer. It also connects with my Google fit so it knows how much exercise I'm getting in my steps. You don't even need a Fitbit. It's super cute and fun too! you can earn little rewards for staying on track.

What users hate

The photo recognizer misidentifies dishes, and manual corrections get wiped

Mistakes chicken for a burger or tofu; manually fixing the item often resets everything you entered

It keeps me thinking about what I eat. Some of the food suggestions are not normal fair for the Midwest United States. Searching for foods doesn’t always come up with the right answer, or may be wrong but it uses AI, so it should get better. Over all, I am satisfied and maybe later I will be able to upgrade my review. I have been using it everyday for over 100 days. It has enlightened me on how mu

first impression: glorified calorie counter. gives the standard "articles". asks what has contributed to weight gain but doesn't use answers other than say "you're a busy parent!". recipes are difficult to search and very simplistic. there's no option to save recipes for later. I have to go elsewhere to find recipes specific to my needs which I feel defeats the purpose. I get all this from the Goo

Sparse database: packaged foods, restaurants, and non-Western cuisines are missing

Many products simply aren't there; Asian and local dishes go unfound; adding them manually is a chore

I had an issue with actually logging food, the food database is small and adding your own foods is awful. It took me 20 minutes to log a item because I had to go locate the nutritional values online and enter everything in. If you eat out at all the amount of preloaded resturants is small. I did not like that it "rated" the quality of what I ate that's very negative from a ED recovery standpoint.

Decent app, but the food database is disappointing, especially with packaged foods and restaurant meals. Even worse is the fact that you cannot immediately fix mistakes. You can only report them and wait for the team to review it. I have sent multiple corrections and a week later, the food database still hasn't been updated. It's quite frustrating when you have to do meal tracking and are stuck wi

I think foodvisor app is a good app that allows u to track your calories, food items, cups of water consumed. It can link to your exercise apps. It also provide u health goals with weight management. However this is more catered to the western food items. Lots of Asian food dishes not included inside so the calories calculated may not be accurate. Feedback to consider the user's country for more r

Search surfaces the wrong results, and previously logged items are hard to find again

The item you need gets buried in results; descriptions are cut off at the screen edge

got advertised to me when I was searching for an app that helps with managing inflammatory disease via diet. would you guess that, it's paid. no offense, but dick move. I can get seriously hurt to point of having to go to hospital if I can't have a way to log this stuff, so advertising something that's not free is gross.

I have used many tracking apps in the past but I've been using foodvisor for over 100 days and love it. Only app out there that prioritises fiber as much as the main macros. The quick add feature is the best when navigating outside food. The search is a bit annoying (hard to find food sometimes) but the rest of the UI and features make this a non issue.

Calorie accuracy is questionable — the same product shows different values

Calories don't match package labels; identical foods show different numbers; zero-value entries appear

good little app, straight forward to use. still needs some improvements, the ai photo is always inaccurate weight wise, it's handy in a pinch but 80% of the time I have to adjust it

The app is great at giving a rough idea of how many calories you're taking in and your macro nutrients, without sitting there doing math. But the information is at times inaccurate and the app needs work with making things work more smoothly, such as the photo option, adding unlisted items. Also since the update a while ago, the app switches back and forth between the old version and the new versi

The estimates for recipes or fotos are beyond unreliable (off by 200% easily). You even have to double check barcodes, because sometimes they measure by 100g, sometimes per package, sometimes per cookie. I honestly dont believe anyone can lose weight with this app, without double checking every value. Even chatgpt is better at it. Dont invest your money here, it's simply not worth it, as the app f

Congratulations and pop-ups slow down food logging

After every meal, several unskippable animations, streaks, and congratulations play out

it took 10 min to answer the survey to get to use the app. after logging meal there are several frictions like day streak etc. before returning to log another. its not quick and convenient

y a t il une option pour desactiver ces fenetres de "cadeau" qui pop up à chaque fois que je logge un repas? je n en peux plus et il est hors de question que je renouvelle mon abonnement avec ça. Elles me freinent pour logger les repas.

I chose this app because it was fast to log my meals, but now with all this gamification it takes longer and with no added benefits. Please make all animations and Seed features optional, I think most of your users find it annoying.

Dish color ratings feel judgmental and can be harmful for people with eating disorders

The traffic-light 'good/bad' system labels inconsistently and triggers feelings of guilt

love that the scanner is free. They'll eventually offer you the year for under $25. BUT if you have ever had an eating disorder, this isn't the app for you. Mine is over a decade in remission, and this stirred up old feelings of shame/guilt with its opinion and faces rating your meal. But for general help and a free scanner, this isn't a bad app.

it's a really good app, but the food journal is entirely too judgemental. it gives you red, orange, green or blue indication to "judge" your meals. at times I'll be logging completely healthy meals but it'll nonetheless give orange ("too many foods to avoid!"), but it's not clear why it gives that warning. other times I'll log the same food slightly differently and then suddenly it's green or blue

It's not making sense to me.. how is my Ka'chava shake (high protein & fiber) an 'ok' meal, while a cheeseburger and fries from Five Guys is 'good'??? 🤔 Love the lil' tamagachi type thing you can grow tho.. cute.

Meal substitution suggestions are unrealistic — sea urchin, exotic ingredients

Instead of familiar foods it suggests unavailable and bizarre alternatives

Adding food is so easy. Just take photo or explain to AI via chat. Always really fast and correctly identifies everything. includes all nutrition etc so not just calorie counter. Pleasant UI, clean, nice colours and characters. gaminfication hits the right balance of not nagging and punishing. advisor is simple and nice, and daily summary is good, but could add a little more information. its sugge

not a fan. wish I would have tried the app before I allowed them to maninulate me into paying for a subscription. if you have any kind of disordered eating, this app will make it worse. I hate how it micromanages every meal, like I have to hit perfect macros every meal and can't adjust throughout the day, and some of the swap suggestions are absurd. If there was an option for weekly goals instead

The AI food suggestions are awful. I appreciate the Macronutrients info but the suggested alternatives are not realistic (sea urchins?? other random things I've never heard of??) When using AI, it needs to learn its users. Building in a food questionnaire about food preferences and allergies would make the AI more effective in suggesting healthier alternatives. Or at a bare minimum educating the A

Custom recipes miscalculate: calories get multiplied by the number of servings

When entering a recipe for one serving, the app multiplies calories instead of dividing

Love the app so far, I'm using the paid version and wish there was a way to enter dietary needs for the recipes.

Overall a good app. I like the quick add feature especially being able to dictate your meals. However there is one bug which is quite annoying on a daily basis please try to fix this. The issue is when you add your own recipes. When I enter the ingredients for a 5 serving meal the app multiplies the calorie amount rather than dividing. Eg. A batch cooked meal for 5 had 5000 calories for all 5 port

easy to navigate, only grams and servings so requires some conversion but otherwise I'm enjoying the app

Only grams and ounces — no fractional servings or common household units

No half portions, cups, or milligrams — you have to do the conversions yourself

easy to navigate, only grams and servings so requires some conversion but otherwise I'm enjoying the app

you have to pay for more than a calorie counter journal, but you get a cute little plant that grows as long as you keep up with tracking your food, and you can dress it up as you earn gems too!

Logged food disappears if you don't tap 'Done'

Dishes vanish when you switch away from the app, even though the calorie counter already updated

Lately the app has been crashing daily. I enter my lunch then in disappears. I don't want to give up on the app as it has been my companion during my whole weight loss journey, but the issues have been accumulating and it is getting more and more annoying.

paid features are being removed. despite paying for the pro version, i have lost the main feature for which i purchased it: the AI powered feedback on individual meals and the entire day is simply gone with no explanation. do not give money to this company

The weight chart starts from zero and hides your progress

A zero-based scale makes a few kilos of loss invisible; there's no detailed weekly breakdown

3/5 stars. The app has potential, but the search function is terrible. For example, if I search for “oil” in the recent searches list, “oil” itself only appears as the 9th result. Before that, it suggests random foods that do not even contain the word. Finding previously used items becomes unnecessarily frustrating. Also the weight tracking graph uses non-sensical scale that starts from 0 so losin

Second year I have this app and it will be my last unfortunately. I like everything but the weight measurement chart is not good, doesn't let you see your progress in detail by week or month (unlike nutrition), only all time. Not very motivating for me! And old entries seem to just dissappear, so no history retention.

-can you remove this stupid potato with gems, is very annoying. - also weight scale/chart must be fixed: there must be an option to change vertical(weight) axis to start from 75kg or so (not from zero), otherwise 2-3kg fluctuations seems like flat line.

A long onboarding questionnaire is annoying and can't be skipped

Dozens of questions before you can do anything; if you take a break and return, the survey starts over

it took 10 min to answer the survey to get to use the app. after logging meal there are several frictions like day streak etc. before returning to log another. its not quick and convenient

Monthly fee before even starting no trial with extremely long questionnaire to pull you in. Currently no trial to see if it's even worth it. I'll check reviews before trying these apps again.

Calorie goal calculation is questionable, and weight gain isn't a supported goal

The suggested target feels too low for some and too high for others; gaining weight is not supported

Starts off right, saying there are no 'good' or 'bad' foods, then immediately starts flagging food in exactly that way. Some of the criteria used are bizarre - pesto is apparently 'too high in potassium' (an essential mineral that many people don't get enough of) - and everything except basic meal logging is part of the premium version which they press REALLY hard. Not for me, thanks.

put all my info in, im underweight, trying to gain weight normally and add muscle so working out more, i have a physically demanding job too, im a 23 yr old female and it said i need 1700 calories a day..... that is WAY too low what the hell?? thats less than im already eating and there was no option for just needing to gain weight only option i could pick was "gaining muscle, losing fat is second

Cute, but too much fluff and passive aggressively judgy. I don't need a sad face because I made the choice to eat a donut. I also can not imput my actual dietary restrictions, so a lot of the "best food" suggestions are trash. The suggested caloric count is also BS given I selected muscle gain as my goal. I've been counting macros for years, this is casual dieting and google search results disguis

Coaching can't be disabled and goals can't be fully customized

No weekly targets, no way to turn off tips, no option to change workout type or accommodate special needs

Love the app. Think "Seedy" is stupid and a waste of time and resources. Please a give a way yo turn off

Good app, but I thought it would sync with Health Connect. All it does is pull your weight, but it doesn't push anything. That would be a game changer, considering the Google Health AI coach.

weight dissappeared from coach page. why?

Users want notes on meals and a way to share food logs with others

No personal notes on meal entries; no way to send a dish to another user

the app is great user friendly but there is no option to add notes. how I felt after rating certain foods or why I ended up eating more one day. if there is this option ...I am sorry, I just couldn't find it

I have the paid version. I really wish there was a place to add own comments during or after a meal. This would make Foodvisor better than the rest

Makes tracking macros easy. I never really understood what I was eating and how much if it until I started tracking. This helped me lose weight and gain muscle. The little pet makes it kind of fun also. One thing I would like to see is share your meal. My wife and I both have this app and when we eat the same meal we have to screen shoot it and send to one another. Sometimes it is not accurate. Wo

Missing an intermittent fasting timer and convenient step tracking

No fasting tracker; steps can't be entered manually and are counted incorrectly

i love this app as far as the insights, advice, food tracking, recipes, etc. My only compliant, or I suppose request, is that we can manually enter our steps. I use a ring to track steps and I've tried a few ways to get the apps to communicate, through google health and google fit and it doesn't. it would be a nice feature to add in the data from the ring. also can you add in the option to fast, s

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