Freeletics Nutrition Reviews

I used to use this for meal planning back in early college days when I was an athlete and didn’t know how to eat or cook. Recently downloaded it again to encourage me to quit ordering food and get my full servings of fruits and veggies and the recipes are delicious and nutritious. I am always full after a meal, and usually have food leftover. I just have a few issues with FreeleticsNutrition overall that most people have already mentioned. You can know you’re repeating meals, but FreeleticsNutrition makes it difficult to track that and so many of the meals are to be cooked and eaten immediately which isn’t always practical (especially for work lunches). Right now, you can only filter based on diet (no red meat, pescatarian, vegetarian, vegan, etc) and while I can easily monitor my own allergens, I would like at the very least to be able to say “don’t suggest this recipe again” or “don’t show me for [x amount of] days.” My biggest gripe is that it doesn’t allow for you to shop seasonally. It would make my life so much easier if I could filter based on the season so that I don’t have to constantly search for an alternative meal because FreeleticsNutrition wants me to shop like it’s mid summer instead of mid winter and my budget says no.

The good: FreeleticsNutrition breaks down what you should eat, including portion sizes, for five meals a day (including two snacks). It generates meals for a whole week and has a shopping list function to collect items you need. I’ve really enjoyed some of the meals I’ve had through it and it’s helped me figure out how to eat better, even in a week.

The bad: no regular person will shop for a different meal a day with completely different ingredients, especially if they’re just starting out. I spent two hours on a Sunday flipping through all the recipe options to make a cohesive shopping list, but not every meal is available on every day for whatever reason, which is suboptimal for tracking and cooking, too. There’s also no way to add in modifications to track general calories or how well you’re keeping on track. Some recipes are also just strange — e.g., three pieces of bread for two slices of turkey, or three hard boiled eggs for one meal (that’s way too much egg).

This is a good guide and I’ve made some delicious stuff, but it’s way too overwhelming and not nearly flexible enough. I use it in conjunction with MyFitnessPal to track modifications and how I’m doing for the day.

That’s all the “coach” is.... unlocking the recipes that are locked. The only personalized thing is the meat protein you don’t eat, your weight, height, age and region. I still haven’t seen the 7 day plan, just one new suggestion every day of 3 recipes for each meal. No ingredients substitutes unless in the milk and yogurt area. It does not take in consideration any personal tastes. “Tailored for you” is a huge stretch. There’s no real coach behind it. Probably just an algorithm. And you get a few messages every day. You can’t even pick and chose the meals from the suggestions and to your “day”, for exemple. You can only click on ‘I cooked this” and you get a star. How cute! Or put in your shopping list. I am not saying it doesn’t work. They are just not ver forthcoming about what it really is. Customer service offered me a refund, but I have to contact iTunes for that, which is proving very unsuccessful so far. They should refund it themselves!

So far, so good. The recipes are delicious and ensure that you are full at the end. I wish there were more options for individuals who don’t like eggs. : (

You do have to be organized about what you are planning on eating. Definitely not for someone who wants to eat as normal but track - you have to stick to the food plan.

I like the shopping list feature. Could be made better if FreeleticsNutrition showed you what you picked - I had to write my daily picks down in order to see which meals I prepped were for which days.

While the recipes itself are good, I’m not impressed with the interface. I literally need to confirm every meal in a day to get the grocery list. Also, there’s no option to select how much repetition you want etc. there’s no way I have the time to prepare something different every single day. I’d have really liked the option to meal prep. Also there’s no search function within the recipes? This effectively means I can’t substitute meals based on ingredients I have. I literally have to scroll through every recipe to find something that interests me. Also there’s no option to swap the meal itself, other than from the 3 provided options. For example, I wanted to choose the previous days dinner for the next day too, however there’s no option to do that. FreeleticsNutrition is nothing but a glorified recipe book.

I have been using Nutrition for the past couple of months. It is a life changing app. Love all the recipes. However, it is full of bugs. For instance, it doesn't save the unit for weight and randomly switch units between SI and English, or the shopping list randomly updates itself and marks stuff as purchased. Also, I have FreeleticsNutrition on multiple devices and they don't sync very well. I hope they resolve these issues in near future.

Their workout apps are really good, but their nutritional advice is based on industry funded science and it ignores a wealth of peer-reviewed literature. If you follow their advice, you may get in outward physical shape and it might be a slight improvement over what you currently eat if you eat a lot of junk, but you’re also likely to still have a significant risk of getting a major chronic disease like heart disease or stroke, and bodily inflammation (like in my knees when I used their recipes). Just eat lots of plants and download their workout app and you’re likely to get strong and have a nice, healthy circulatory system and heart. Stay away from the dead bodies, breast milk, and eggs.

The nutrition app is pretty good. It provides options for each meal and allows you to add the items to your grocery list. It also can lookup other recipes available based on your grocery list. The one thing I wish it had was the ability to filter the recipes based on ingredients. This would be extremely helpful for people with food allergies.

FreeleticsNutrition had many good tasting recipes that left me feeling full and comfortable with the servings sizes. On the other hand, there definitely should be more recipes added that include meats (other than eggs). Another problem was that most recipes called for one or two rare ingredients that you couldn't find in your local supermarket. The ingredients are also very expensive, I would like some cheaper options that don't make me spend upwards of 100$ + a week on groceries.

As a programmer I really don’t understand how hard it could possibly be to simply add a feature that lets you select one or two recipes for the week (like other apps do), but that’s the biggest problem with FreeleticsNutrition. Not sure what’s going on with whoever is leading this dev team but Jesus just add the feature. If you want FreeleticsNutrition for good recipes then sure but if your actually trying to track anything in a practical way just use another app... Such a waste of good recipes.

The last update was at least 1 year ago. Its pretty buggy and somehow behaves weirdly when I try to use it on my other phone. Recipes seem to not sync even though I‘m opening FreeleticsNutrition and am waiting for quite some time. But sometimes, it does sync an I see the recipes. Also, FreeleticsNutrition is still not fitted to the iPhone 11 screen (and I‘d assume many other models).
Further, apart from those bugs, it‘s really way past time for some more recipes and functions, like being able to customize recipe sizes.

I personally love FreeleticsNutrition. The recipes are so good and for people who don’t want to pay there is a lot to offer. However as someone who cooks for people with allergens, in the preference section there is no option to see what is safe. You can do it manually but i feel like this shouldn’t really be an issue. Anyway this is a great app, and that’s my only concern with it

FreeleticsNutrition is great for getting me in the mindset of clean eating. I love the updates is recently made to its "Recipes" tab. Is there anyway a feature could be added to search by a certain ingredient? That way, I can make recipes based on what I already have instead of spending money when I don't need to!

The quality of FreeleticsNutrition is constantly degrading and features dont seem to improve. Every time they make a release, a ton of features get broken.

if you still care to improve FreeleticsNutrition :
1. Integration with other freeletics apps and iPhone's health app. That should automate tracking of activity and body measurement reading.
2. ability to add shopping items individually
3. Offline access to meal plans, like for the coming week
4. Ability to sort shopping list by alphabet, item type or other metrices
5. Ability for users to mark meals for cooking from recommendations. I frequently find myself unsure of what i previously decided to cook for a certain day.
6. Subscription is pricey. Consider adjusting price.

To be successful I need to visualize the meals that I’ve selected for the week. While FreeleticsNutrition allows you to make a grocery list...I need to be able to save the recipes I selected for each day to know how to plan that day! 😞 I love the workout app but this nutrition one needs work pronto for better planning. I feel like I’m not going to be successful without the menu/nutrition portion working out. Guess I will find another plan that’s more intuitive. Money wasted.

Good app with fun recipes. I like how you can pick and the recipe ingredients show up in a shopping list.

My critique would be to section the items out so that they are categories for meats and poultry, veggies, condiments/herbs/spices, etc. this makes shopping easier so that you know what to get when you need at. As of now, ingredients are added based on recipes. For example ingredients for spicy shrimp salad show up together, and then next selected recipe for green lentil salad show.

Also, I’m not sure if I should be picking small, medium, or large recipes or if my “coach” will do that. Thoughts?

All in all, I like FreeleticsNutrition

great app and well designed. 4 stars only because some of the recipes are a bit beyond my PB& J capabilities. Very worldly and wonderful new flavors to try but be aware there's some real cooking involved and the grocery trips will add up

Workout app is great, the nutrition is useless. No option to add your own recipes, say toast with peanut butter, so you’re forced to either only eat their complicated food or have inaccurate results (: would not recommend.

For a man who doesn’t cook much, I’ve been able to make some tasty meals. Plus I’m eating healthy food that are new to me; foods that are going to help me get strong.

I haven’t used FreeleticsNutrition in months and I don’t like seeing that I haven’t been following the diet in 21 weeks. Please add a reset feature that lets me restart from week 1. It’s a lot more motivating that way.

The recipes are interesting but so many ingredients per week is unrealistic. So much food waste and expensive to do it that way, not to mention time consuming. A true meal plan would thoughtfully reuse ingredients through the week so that you only have to shop for the minimum.

I am a vegetarian allergic to soy. I have a diet that isn’t unhealthy but could use a little clean up. I wish I knew this how the nutrition app worked before I bought the plan. It is just a collection of recipes iterated ~ doesn’t help those who already have a custom diet. The recipes are tasty though.

The recipes taste terrible. FreeleticsNutrition itself is very poorly organized to the point where it is unusable for its purpose. They say they'll charge you a couple dollars a week, yet hit you with a year long subscription for over $100. There are much better apps than this. Don't waste your time here