Eato® - Lazy Meal Planner Reviews

I subscribed to Eato as I was very excited to have an app that focuses on weight loss through nutrition. I struggle with recipe ideas and thought everything Eato was advertising would be perfect for me. After I subscribed I found that the recipe options are very minimal. The same options for lunch and dinner, often repeating throughout the section. They also are advertising 36g of protein per day as the correct portion with a daily caloric intake of 1,200 cal. This is food for a child. On top of that I would swap my foods out and they wouldn’t save. When swapping meals you could be eating 1,100 cal-1,800 cal in a day so pay attention. I also tried reaching out to contact someone and never received a response. All in all I would not recommend

So I tried to eat healthy and when I do i burn fat and when I don’t I BURN and I don’t want that. I recommend Eato 🔥. I try to reach my goal and I do but sometimes don’t.

No place that I found on Eato where you can enter what you ate the only options it gives you is what foods they get you. For 40 bucks you should be able to enter your on food and it keep track of the calories. It’s great they tell you to stop eating drink water but if you have to use another app to keep track of calories then there no point of using Eato.

Very disappointed that I communicated with Eato through the contact us & they ignored me 2 times. So if u would need help or have questions don’t expect help! Eato is not what I need or want & u will not get any response even in the first month regarding getting your $ back. In addition, they will automatically renew without contact unless u mark in Eato Store that it not be auto renew

I would love to see ability to show a grocery list for the weekly meal plan. Additionally it would be nice to swap meals for like meals to keep within the same calories and macros without having to search through everything.

Still working at it.

I thought Eato was going to be amazing.
Took the time to review a week of meals, went grocery shopping, made breakfast this morning and now I cannot view the meal plan in order to continue for the day. So my excitement for Eato and program has turned into extreme frustration.

It actually helps eating problems n stuff and yea

so easy to use great for beginners I loved it

either/or to be answered by yes/no. yes! no info yet. $30/80$ /y Im not subscribing until im 100% sure I can cancel it. looks good tho. bad english. often way too small to read.

Do not trust any kind of app that makes this kind of claim. I was told I could lose 50 pounds in a matter of weeks. Immediate red flag. I definitely won’t pay for any kind of subscription.

Yeah sorry that’s not healthy or happening. At first I was like oh, maybe it means by next year because it’s currently March 26 and said I could loose 116 lb by may 24. Yeah, took a closer look and it said “28 days”. Deleted app.

I like the look of the timer but the widget just stays stuck on one number and doesn’t count down.

You claim i will lose 40 lbs in 28 days…..how unhealthy can you be!! I have been in WW many time and both my doc an Ww have said many times NOT TO LOSE MORE THEN 1-2 lbs a week!!!! You say its FREE..then you want me to pay…what a scam and a con you are!!!!!!!!!!

Doing good so far

It’s absolutely perfect and amazing

Eato is shady. When I downloaded it- it recommended a calorie intake that is NOT HEALTHY. Additionally, there are typos and incomplete sentences all over the interface or Eato ; huge red flags. Steer clear.

this app advertising that Eato is free. Once you fill everything out they then tell
You how much it is.

Do not like Eato. So so unhappy. I really want my money refunded. Glitches a lot and doesn’t merge with my health on apple. Big disappointment

Just a timer cost me $60, thats crazy! there are so many free apps!

They don’t always match up. Checked out a cucumber vinegar salad and it gave me a recipe for a smoothie. It’s good otherwise if they could fix this glitch that would be very helpful. Also, on the grocery list it should combine the items, such as you need chicken for 3 meals so combine those so there’s not 3 chicken listed in a row. It would make it a lot easier to use that list.

I do 16 hours fasting then the last 6 to 8 hrs eating. That is the hard part when eating. The cravings are there. Seems like when I eat, I am not satisfied and want more. Sometimes they are strong.

I wasted money on Eato! I emailed support with a question and never received a response back! Not helpful at all!

App requires extraordinary attention to be effective. In addition, and most distressing, several attempts to cancel have been unsuccessful. This entire travesty feels like a fraud out of Singapore. Attempts to resolve following app described cancellation process have proven to be impossible to fulfill. Sent complaint to Apple - they shouldn’t expose their clients to possible fraud.

Hi, before the upgrade I use to see a page with water, weight, steps, cal etc all at one place including fasting tracking.

Its useless without those features and after upgrade I don’t see that page at all 😡

When I got it, I was happy with the information it was providing. It was informational. The body goes through different processes. Now, it just like the other apps. Very disappointed.

Where did the fasting timer go and water amount? The update version doesn’t have this. What happened? If it’s not fixed I’ll have to cancel my subscription.

Where did the fasting option go?? Cannot find the option on Eato

I downloaded Eato and paid for a year. How is this thing telling me I’m going to lose 165 pounds in 28 days? That is impossible. It would be extremely unhealthy for your body. Secondly, Eato is very difficult. I tried to change breakfast, and it was giving me steak dinner, shrimp, dinner, and various things that don’t belong to the breakfast category. Even though I have chosen for quicker meals, it keeps showing me things that take several hours to cook. Eato is completely terrible. It is not user-friendly. I am requesting that my money be refunded.

I was signed up for a subscription through Eato that I myself did not sign up for. I was charged $86 and Apple is not able to refund me because they state that Eato developer doesn’t allow it. I don’t use Eato nor need it and have paid for a yearly subscription I have not been able to get refunded for. I haven’t been able to contact anyone from Eato for a refund at all and haven’t received a reply from them.

I was trying it for a week free and I canceled before the week was up and they still charged me so I guess now I will be using Eato for you even though I don’t know that it will work for me because my diet is so specified with food allergies. I’m very disappointed in this company.

Eato seems really great! But I just wish you could add your own recipes or snacks because even though, yes it is a plan that is meant to be followed.. sometimes that’s not what happens.

There is no way to put in allergies or dietary restrictions. I’m allergic to tree nuts and I don’t eat certain foods due to religious restrictions. There is absolutely no way to not have these foods constantly be included in the recipes. You are able to swap foods…but only if you pay for a subscription, you can’t even look at the recipe to make the food unless you pay.

I just started with Eato. It seems like it has the right idea. I like the fact that it offers meal plans with grocery list. Takes the thinking out of it which I like. However, I have two issues or points of clarification:

1. It gave me a total caloric intake per day of 2300, but then the meal plans totaled about 1000 calories less. Which I get to jump start weight loss, but does it adjust eventually for maintenance once weight is lost?

2. WHAT is a unit-😂? An egg omelet recipe listed 6 units for eggs. I assumed unit was per egg, so 6 units= 6 eggs, but when I looked at the calories for the meal that didn't makes sense. So what is a UNIT? Maybe there is some explanation somewhere that I am just missing.

Anyway, I'll still give a go and re-rate later. But answers to these questions will be helpful.

I downloaded and paid for Eato because the add said you are able to take a picture of your food on its plate and it would calculate what the calories were with AI and some other software. It only takes pictures of barcodes which every other nutrition app offers. I was excited for the latter as I have been waiting for an app that does that!

Also, I follow a plant based diet and my first meal plan under the vegan meal plans was spegetti and egg…tomorrow, avacado toast and egg. Eggs aren’t vegan.

I would like a refund.

I love Eato but it started to not let me scan barcodes and when I search up anything it doesn’t give me what I want.
Example: I searched up “egg” and it only gave me things like eggs the candy for 500 cals and other things that aren’t just normal eggs. It worked before but now it won’t. Is it just my phone or something? Theres no update to fix it yet either. 🥲

Logging food into Eato is very difficult. For example, I got a burrito from Chipotle today, and instead of being able to input the entire burrito on there, I had to go ingredient by ingredient. Additionally, you can’t punch in the amount of something you had. You have to search the item and scroll through to find the appropriate amount in grams. Sometimes you can’t find the right portion size. Horrid app. Would not recommend.

I just signed up but you can’t put in food allergies or foods you hate. You can’t alter recipes. For example I can’t eat salmon or shellfish but would like to substitute mahi mahi or talapia. I hate bananas and kale Would be nice if you could exchange or take something out of a recipe so you could get accurate calorie count. Not sure if this is going to work for me. Disappointed

Just downloaded this ! I think this will be the perfect app ! As a 9 year old gaining weight i needed this . And it even shows the recipes for the food ! Thank you so much ❤️

I feel like I got scammed. First off, they have you answer all these questions about your eating habits lifestyle and etc. They ask about general allergies but I unfortunately have uncommon allergies, I didn’t see an option for food preferences either. Then after answering all the questions I decided this actually might be worth trying out. However like most apps to get the free trial you have to subscribe with the promise that you can “cancel at any time”, so I selected the 12 months because it was the cheapest monthly price. When doing this I was under the impression that: A) I would get the 7 day free trial to see if I liked it then be able to cancel before being charged and B) that the charge would be the monthly payments not on lump sum! Now I cancel subscription and it still charged me and shows I have a year even though I probably won’t use it. Also the meal choices are limited and I didn’t get any suggestions for snacks which is what I struggle with. Additionally, the food looks good in the pictures but the recipes don’t seem to match the ingredients pictured sometimes and the instructions are very basic. Overall I’m extremely disappointed, I don’t think it’s worth the price and I would warn anyone to be very aware when signing up the “free” trial.

In practice, you log your food allergies or diet and it almost immediately forgets.
You go to look up another recipe, you get an error message.
Contacted tech support still no response.
Will this be awesome once they fix all the problems with it? Yes. Everything looks good.

Looks great. Nice user interface but immediately disappointed when it could neither scan or accept manual input of common products when logging meals. Protein shakes (didn’t recognize Muscle Milk Pro - a popular brand!), avocado (can’t log half units) and does NOT intuitively pick up simple words that should be common. Frustrating for anyone who is serious about logging and tracking meals, macros, and calories. I’m back to using MyFitnessPal app. It works better!

The calorie data in Eato is often incorrect (e.g., 1oz of baguette is listed as 800 kcal instead of 80). Also, the constant pop-ups pushing for a paid upgrade are very intrusive. Accuracy needs improvement and marketing tactics should be less aggressive for a better user experience. I would happily purchase the membership if these were fixed.