Calorie Counter Reviews

Not user friendly. Unable to find foods to add to diary. Requested a refund

I tried to contact them with the provided email in the help section and it came back not valid.

Not many options for food choices. Also doesn’t scan foods.

Very displeased with CalorieCounter. I was initially attracted to the simplicity of CalorieCounter so I paid for the PRO version. It is not worth it. When I add my water intake the amount shown as consumed has not ever been correct since I began using it…. And when I add my weight with a decimal point… the numbers following the decimal are never the numbers I input…. There is also the very limited food category to contend with. So I give it a 1 on the scale … this may seem harsh but it either works or it doesn’t and CalorieCounter doesn’t work correctly…

Calorie numbers are way off, can’t find certain food and the measurement options don’t reflect the answers they give

This software is difficult to use from the start. I tried the free (and doubted it) and hoped the PRO would be better. It’s not. Getting around to do various things might come in time, but it is not intuitive. Creating a good is forced to be at 100, so if you are adding, let’s say cereal, and the box shows that it is based on a 59g serving, you have to recalculate everything to 100g, then when you add it to your day, you have to enter 59g to get it to work out correctly. You can’t enter the number of servings either (because it forces you to drop a serving size).

Editing a food is hit or miss. If you try to change something, there is no SAVE button, only another EDIT button, and that may or may not save the changes.

Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

I’m assuming I’m using this right. The reason I chose CalorieCounter is that it had 5 stars. CalorieCounter doesn’t scan barcodes like most of the calorie counting apps. It doesn’t recognize food brand names like most of the apps. It’s generic and they charge you over $10 when it says $5.99. How do you not have a cup measurement?!?!

Purchased CalorieCounter . it looked easy at the start, but turned into a PITA. Can’t enter then save your own foods. You can enter but there’s nowhere you can save it. It just disappears. Not even logged into a day. Just a waste of time. Why bother! Asking for a refund.

I stuck with CalorieCounter for a week, even paid for the pro version because I'm more likely to use something daily if it's pretty. I love the colors and was willing to overlook the many programming issues and add my own foods and tricks to get around the programming flaws but after the second time of my full food log being deleted it became style over substance and a frustrating waste of time.

A few issues with the programming, *****

Twice my food log for that day was deleted completely before the day was over.

Each time I open CalorieCounter it automatically opens to Monday regardless of the day so I have to make sure every time I open CalorieCounter I log food on the right day. It's irritating because you shouldn't have to pick out the current day every time.

The macro percentages are confusing as they don't add up to 100%.

You can only log food as an ounce not per tablespoon or piece. I had to look up the ounces of one egg because that was the only way it would allow me to save it.

It's strange, but when you add a food in ounces and go to log it, even if it was a food you created in different ounces, it automatically puts in the portion of 3.57 ounces, so I have to change the ounces every time even for foods I created.

When you log water, the ounces add up incorrectly.

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I'm disappointed as CalorieCounter really stuck out from the others because of how pretty and simple it is to use but I spent more time re logging food and trying to work around the programming to get the log to show what I wanted it to.

It’s hard to use. I still don’t know if I paid 7.99 for CalorieCounter or if it’s 7.99 per month. I have updated my weight and nothing is showing in the weight lost portion. My start weight is just changing. It’s difficult to log food or to add foods. All in all if it was possible to get my money back I would like to.

In the US we use lbs, ounces, and grams on our labels. So our labels start out with how many calories are in a serving and in the serving is a breakdown in macros using grams ( like 10g of protein or 8g of fat. When adding new foods to save on my apps it asks for how many calories in ounces which is great but on the macros it also ask in them also in ounces which is the problem because all of our packaging has the macros labeled in grams. So there for I have to do the math every time I need to add something into it.

This needs improvement. It makes you select grams or ounces for everything throughout the program. My weight needs to be in pounds, but entering a new food, all the labels information is in grams. We need to be able to toggle units.

Great simple app. Obviously it’s not as detailed as other apps but there aren’t IAP, so I’m very happy with it.

Can’t figure out how to interpret macros, the numbers and percentages just don’t add up in any way. The percentage wheel shows that one category was about 80% (100% of my goal) but the text in that category shows that I only made 48% of my goal.. CalorieCounter seems to work nicely, the macros on the home page do not relate in any way to the macro screen and the wheel/chart doesn’t seem to display correctly..
Not sure what it is telling me..

The developer worked with me to resolve the issue and it seems that there may be a conversion error when using pounds and ounces rather than metric. When using metric, everything works as it should. Great developer support and a terrific app!

March 2023: I think some of the negative reviews are targeted and purposefully misrepresent the features of CalorieCounter. Given the privacy invading scope of data-collecting and selling by the biggest name app (do they really need to track me financially and other undefined “sensitive data”?), I decided to ditch it and look for something else.

I am delighted to have found CalorieCounter. It integrates with Apple Health, has convenient reminders, and even a little game with which you can distract yourself, if you’re feeling the urge to snack.

After one day of use, I realize that the free version has everything I personally need, but I paid for the Pro version anyway, as a thank you to the developer. You can put in your stats and goals, search for foods, create your own foods, create and save the ingredients of recipes or regular meals (“mix ingredients”), edit them, define your desired macros and track them, select from a wide array of exercises and enter them, and if you pay the small one-time fee for Pro, you can also track water and add additional details to food (beyond fat, carbohydrates and protein). There are five tracked statistics in all: calories, exercise, macros, weight and water.

Also, when you search for something you get one result, instead of potentially dozens that you waste your time picking through, then report for inaccuracies, and edit anyway.

No, this does not have a convenient barcode scanner, but I’m willing to make that trade off for my privacy.

It works perfect for me based on my needs.

I am so happy to find an app that does not share my data that I want to support this developer right off the bat. Appreciate communication and plethora of explanations. Appreciate lack of push to pay and the one time support upgrade rather than a subscription or ads.

I’ve been using CalorieCounter for a few days now and the more I use it, the better I like it. It’s well worth the one-time expenditure to remove ads and the cost is very reasonable. I’m still learning the different features and settings so I still haven’t discovered all it’s capabilities, but I’m impressed so far.

Finally an app that’s pretty enough to make it fun to use & packed with enough features to give me all of the information I need. There’s even health tips in it. I love that!

I downloaded 8 tracking apps to try. My old one was so ugly I wasn’t motivated to use it. After testing each app I chose this one & loved it so much that I bought the Pro Version. It’s an extremely affordable price that you pay just 1 time, no annoying subscriptions.

Give the free version a try, you may love it enough to buy it too!

Just one suggestion - include the formula for net carbs or have CalorieCounter include fiber and sugar alcohol so net carbs can be automatically figured. I’m always going over on my gross carbs, but meet when figuring for net carbs.