Lifesum: AI Calorie Counter

TLDR: If you want an easy user friendly app then keep this as THE FREE VERSION. All of the updates don’t even work properly and the manual log feature is pointless as it doesn’t save. I have used this app on and off since 2017. Every time I want to start a weight loss journey, this has been my go to app. The problem now is it’s no longer as user friendly with premium. I cannot for the life me of figure out how to track a single item. Quick track? Nope. Barcode? Nope. Every option it recommends doesn’t work. I can’t even add the ingredients into a meal to log it the long way around. I add it but it doesn’t reflect at all. It refreshes and disappears. And I don’t have the patience to pull up every food item I use to manually type in the numbers. Maybe a bug? But the list of updates says it’s better than ever. What a joke. Now it’s pushing ai on me to log my meals when all I want to do is scan and add. I don’t want to be forced to talk to an ai just to track my meals. How is this app more difficult with the paid subscription? I paid in advance so I can’t even cancel and use the free version again. Never felt so frustrated. I already downloaded a new app and canceled my subscription since I don’t want to wait 3 months until this app is usable again to lose weight. (I paid 3 months in advance)

Positives: I like the tracking with photo feature when you need to quickly track a meal with a “guesstimation.” So glad the barcode feature is still here! Negatives: there’s a lot of glitches with the new ai update, and things aren’t as streamlined as they used to be. Foods are no longer organized by meal type. It just appears as one long list, and if they’re not tracked in a timely manner they will show up as an incorrect meal, and it doesn’t seem like there’s a way to manually adjust when before you could. You also can’t see calories by meal anymore, which was super helpful in tracking my habits, it’s all just really disorganized now. Tracking with text is not always accurate either, and there’s no way to adjust, or search for verified foods like they’re used to be. I also really wish you could multi select from recent foods when tracking a meal, you have to go back each time and it’s really annoying, I don’t think this was a problem before. Overall: I’m hoping these things are addressed, I used to really love this app. I’m disappointed that Lifesum went the ai direction, the personal touch and accuracy is just not there anymore They fixed something that wasn’t broken and made it worse. I would suggest keeping the photo feature and text entry as an option but still include the old methods. I won’t be renewing my subscription if this doesn’t become more user friendly.

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