YAZIO Calorie Counter & Diet Reviews

by The Notorious LBG

Well that was extremely disappointing. I downloaded YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet after seeing high review ratings, read the destruction in YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet Store, and had seen some options for pro features to pay for 6 months or 12 months, etc. But after I opened the all and began signing up, low and behold, there is NOTHING accessible in the “limited” app except a calorie tracker. Really?! Then please update your app description because this was very misleading. No sooner did I enter my email, YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet asked me to choose if I wanted the “Limited” option with calorie tracker only, or if I wanted to pay the $30 a year for the Pro Features (everything worthwhile...). So, no recipes, no meal plans, no statistics tracking, no fitness tracking, no mood tracking.

TLDR; don’t bother downloading if you don’t feel like paying the $30 right out the gate.

by Mknutson96

I enjoy the look of YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet and the options it has, unfortunately despite working with YAZIO support team, they don’t seem to understand as a whole the science of burning calories. Your body burns calories all day not just during an active state. But YAZIO only tracks and displays the active calories burned. So if you walked 10 miles in a day, without your heart rate reaching an “active state” they WILL NOT COUNT IT. Which of course left me with a LOT of calories burned that weren’t counting on YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet so after logging my meals for the day it would turn red and say I’ve eaten over my goal, when in fact I had been eating at too high of a deficit. This is dangerous to eat at too high of a deficit and therefore I find the tracking hazardous. You read that right. You will put your health at risk if you trust this apps calculations. I use a Garmin Venu which displays my active and inactive calories burned. Many other health trackers show this as well. Proceed with caution using YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet.

Best regards,
a PRO user.

by Fern Marie Elizabeth

I wish there had been a free trial available before purchasing a subscription. I chose this out of all the apps because it was the only one that counted both fasting and calories. I was excited to see that there was an updated version which was supposed to address some of the issues I am having. It states that the updated version allows you to customize your fast times. It either does not or I can’t figure out how to do it. You cannot enter your meal times. The time for the 16:8 skip dinner fast automatically runs from 2:00 pm to 6:00 am. I am not even up at 6:00 am. The most frustrating part of YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is the calorie counter. It is so random. For example, a cup of grapes is listed as 350 calories. Even foods identified by brand are wrong. Not even standard measurements are correct. Sometimes a cup is listed as 4 oz sometimes 3.5, sometimes something else. Last time I checked, a cup is 8 oz. The whole thing is clunky. The only thing I do like is the estimation of weeks left until the weight goal is reached.

by BadMojo66

Having used MyFitnessPal for years. I decided to switch to an app which worked better with Apple Health. After one day of frustrating food entry I wish I could get my money back. First of all it requires you to enter all food by the ounce/gram. This might be the most idiotic entry system ever. If I am on the run and stop at Chik-Fil-a for a chicken sandwich. I don’t have a scale on me to weigh it on. If I go to any major vendor or restaurant for nutritional info. It’s based on the item not the ounce. Why can I not enter food by item and a nutritional average. It say in the FAQ if I don’t make the item visible to others I can make serving size whatever I want. This wasn’t true. I unselected visible to others. Went to select and was only given weight options such as gram/ounce. How about sandwich or serving size large, medium or small. This food entry just isn’t for real people with day to day lives who can’t weigh every portion or cook every meal. It’s a real shame as I love the way it looks.

by Princess5307

I’ve used a few calorie counter apps before, and this one seemed good at first. However, there are a few options that are not user friendly. I have the free version so they may be better on the subscription version.
But, for one it’s hard to determine exactly where it is deriving the caloric limit from and it doesn’t automatically update with weight loss or gain, you must manually recalculate each time. Then, it doesn’t tell you the exact calories you have expended for the day (even wearing an Apple Watch), it just gives you a goal to burn each day based on information entered in to the bio.
I have yet to determine what the color of the circle for each day indicates since there is no explanation for that.
Also, I’ve yet to come across any of my foods that have the barcode information entered into their food database. A lot of the foods I'm scanning are common foods. It’s extremely time consuming and frustrating to have to enter all the information about every ingredient in each meal in manually. It also only gives a few options for serving sizes instead of multiple options. Most of the serving sizes on the packaging of my foods don’t even match up with one of the serving size options given.
Lastly, YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet crashes on my iPhone X every time I try to search for a food. This is by far the most frustrating issue I’ve had with it. If it crashes every time I try to enter my food, how am I supposed to actually track my calories?

by Gap Spanner

The good: it’s fairly extensive in regards to information and nutrient break-out. For many processed foods, it offers a simple barcode scanner to import nutrition info.

The bad: too many options for a single item. Look up something like ‘egg’ and you get so many options, including distinctions like brand. The nutritional info is different among the options as well.

Also, you may find several choices for the same frozen dinner - with different values, apparently based on whatever users submit.

Navigating the myriad of options is very frustrating.

As for support - I used YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet for a few weeks before deciding to purchase the pro version. I used the pro features for a few weeks when suddenly all of my info was gone. Support took almost a week to respond and told me that because I didn’t register when I first downloaded YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet , my purchase ended up wiping everything out. They did not address the fact I had been using YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet for a few weeks under my pro subscription.

So now I have to start all over - and, of course, give them all my information to track me with and/or sell to marketers.

I’ll use it for now, but will be looking for something with more accurate nutritional info and fewer than a dozen options to say ‘I ate an egg.’

by Sports49er

I was using MyFitnessPal for years and thought I’d try this because I don’t want to just know the calories, but also want to know the quality of the food that matches my goals. This seemed like the perfect fit at first. As I have been using it (in USA) I have found the food database to be woefully lacking. It has nothing to do with barcodes or barcode reader, the foods aren’t in the database. Some very common foods from any chain restaurant are missing. I have to add almost EVERY item manually. That’s a non-starter after having used MyFitnessPal and never having this issue. Like other comments, everything seems to be listed as a 1 ounce serving size. Not very helpful when dealing with grapes, avocados, etc. YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet has great potential, but too labor intensive to get the information into YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet . I’ll keep looking for an app like MyFitnessPal that has the food quality ratings like this one if it exists.

by Dubbzcity1

New user here coming from MyFitnessPal, so far I like YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet and like everyone, the interface is great! I love the integration with Apple watch so much I have added a complication to my watch face! The only complaint is that the data base needs work. I scan items and they are not found, but those same items are in MyFitnessPal. Also there are only 4 meals, I wish I could customize the meal number or like in MyFitnessPal it gives pre workout meal plus 5 meals. All in all I do like YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet but the database needs a lot of work, I hate having to substitute a brand to get as close to the macros as I can when it's a name brand food. I am a pro member and bought the 12 month subscription also so..... Update, database still needs work! I scan things and they are not found. Sometimes I have time to enter and I will but others I don't and it gets frustrating.

by John D In Boston

I was a long-term user of another popular calorie tracking app, but found myself looking for an app that synced better with other tracking apps. Enter YAZIO. So far, I find YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet absolutely fantastic. The UI is clean and simple, the tracking feels accurate, and the logging is very nice. I’m starting to feel like a permanent convert!

However, there is one significant issue: the “Add Food” capability. It certainly makes sense that the food library is smaller than some apps that have been on the market longer. I can’t fault them for that, and have been more than willing to take the time to add foods to their library that I eat and can find the nutritional info for. The issue is that there’s no way to “name” a standard serving. This makes adding food, or logging food another user added, extremely difficult.

I understand that it’s oz based, but some menus don’t provide caloric info based on the oz’s of, say, rolls. They tell you how many calories are in a roll! If they offered the user the chance to rename a “standard portion” to something more useful (for example, “1 Roll”) it’d make the database so much more useful!

Other than that, YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is fantastic, but this ends up being a bit of a deal breaker. I don’t want to have to add custom foods every time because I can’t figure out what other uses used for their “standard portion” baseline.

by BrahmiTriYoga

First the good. I like the water tracker. I am definitely drinking more water because of YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet. I like how you can see all the nutritional info easily for each meal. This was more difficult with MyFitnessPal. They have a FB support and the people are super supportive and helpful in that group.

The not so good. Adding a recipe had to be done manually. You can’t import one from the web like you can with MyFitnessPal. I am not sure I trust their calorie calculator. There is a coaching app to support intermittent fasting and offer different challenges. This would be good except it doesn’t work well for vegans or vegetarians. It includes lots of menu suggestions and recipes but not for vegans. There are a few vegan recipes but there are not very good. Would not make again. The whole coaching aspect is bad for me because it keeps telling me to eat animals (vegan for 20 years).

Bottom line, what I paid the extra money for is useless for vegans and vegetarians. Only benefit over MyFitnessPal is the water tracker. If I knew that I would have saved my money.

by Exile714

The good: interface, doesn’t push fad diets (but supports them, you Keto people), nice recipes section.

The neutral: pro version cost, database needs work (but works well enough, and doesn’t play games with serving sizes so far)

The bad: calorie calculation for goals. Oof, this one is a big one. If you’re the kind of person who has success with straight calorie tracking as opposed to food category restriction (which is just a convoluted way to get to calorie restriction), then you should be familiar with BMR calculations.

My BMR is about 2500 Calories when sedentary, and and activity beyond that raises my caloric needs. YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet adds movement Calories from Apple Watch, Fitbit etc. That’s great! But... they add movement Calories into your baseline!

What does this mean? If I want to lose 1lb a week, I should be eating 2000 Calories plus more for movement. But YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet starts me at 2500 and THEN adds my movement Calories. So if so burn 500 on average, YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet says I should eat 3000... or 3500 if I want to maintain weight.

You can set caloric goals manually, but if you’re going to try counting calories with YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet, you’re going to maintain or gain weight, not lose. YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet isn’t the only one to do this, but given how good the interface is for straight calorie counters... it’s just frustrating.

So just don’t rely on their Calorie goal calculator, do a BMR calculation online and remember 500C/day is 1lb/week, then go from there.

by Grgdne

See my old review below for the details... Will this finally be the update that fixes widgets? Well, let's see... There have been around 3-4 updates since my last review and not a single one of them has fixed the widgets. So I pose the question (again!): What good are widgets if you have to open YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet for the widgets to update? Seriously. When will the widgets be fixed? Will it be with this update? I hope so. But based on the recent update history, I'd say no.

orig review: App is awesome but the widgets leave something to be desired. I use the "Summary" and "Pedometer" widgets and they don't update until YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is opened. Situation: App is closed. I go on a long walk. Neither of the widgets are updated. Open YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet , now the widgets are up-to-date. What's the point of having widgets if I have to open YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet ? Once YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is opened, I already see the numbers and don't need the widgets. Please fix! I have a number of other app widgets that update just fine while the apps are closed (ex. Coinbase, Robinhood). PS: I have the latest version of Yazio and I tried having background app refresh turned on. Nada.

by CalKidDewey

Love the functionality, tracking, and reporting, but the recent UI update requires more clicks than before to navigate into and out of meals to add items, and when you’re in a meal making additions you can’t see your daily totals. Given I often use the tool to plan my next meal ahead of time, not being able to see my daily overview while in a meal is a challenge. Also, the scrolling units entry feature is frustrating. If the default is 1 ounce, but I want to enter 7 grams, I scroll the number 1 to a 7, then the Ounces unit to Grams. When I change the units, the number scrolls back and resets at 1, forcing me to have to scroll the number back to 7 again. Hopefully they’ll address these issues and make the tool easier to navigate and make it easier to make entries. Overall, still useful and robust.

by MightBeTim

I’m trying this after being a MyFitnessPal user for a long time. The things I really like about this are (1) it makes really good use of its Apple Watch app, way more than MyFitnessPal, and (2) it’s a much cleaner look. With MyFitnessPal I always hated how the initial screen was basically an ad for their other products, despite having paid for the full subscription.

The downside of YAZIO is that the database doesn’t seem as full, although so far it has been pretty good. The bigger frustration I’ve run into is that when I tried to add foods that weren’t in the database I got an error saying that my calories didn’t match what the macronutrients were, despite the fact that they were definitely what the label said.

At $22 per year so far it’s definitely been worth trying out. They also have a lot of different diet options with food recommendations, which I’ll be checking out after the holidays.

by Quincy McQueen

This is a great app and honestly it would deserve a 5 star rating. I really enjoy it, I’m eating healthier and seeing results just after a week of using it, BUT that’s because I realized of the tons of mistakes other users have made when entering nutrition facts into the database, and I’ve spent quite a deal of time entering my own data. YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet allows you to create food items entering any name for any kind of food with almost any nutrition facts and share that data publicly. It seems no one is checking all this data, resulting on a public database with lots of duplicated items, different nutrition facts for the same item, and misleading info. The developer must create an efficient way for users to report wrong information and remove those items from the database. Bottom line, a really good app if you’re using your own data.

by ClayRAllen

I found YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet as a recommendation on IOS 15 health. Thanks Apple! I am 64 and have seen drastic weight gain with complications lately. I first fasted in 1975 with great success but now metabolism is not what it used to be. I loose confidence as my body reacts differently. YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet supports and encourages as the days go by. I am now able to lean into the hunger like it’s a wind in my face each day with confidence and use data points it supplies to encourage me. Say to myself; see there you can do this. I fly by the 12 hour fasting clock and frequently extend it with jubilation. Only beef ( yum beef) is it doesn’t remind me to start or stop fasting clock. You need to do this and you’ll thank these people for writing such a good app. And pay the $33 for subscription, you need some skin in the game.

by Ak199

I started YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet as a slim 17 year old kid getting ready to go to college. My goal has always been to play lacrosse at Syracuse and YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is helping me immensely. I set my goal to building muscle as I started as an athletic but still somewhat scrawny kid. I started at 135 and set my goal weight for 155 to start. With the help of YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet, I have been able to get the proper amount of calories I need for my goal AND I get a step counter and calories burned counter. YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet does all the math for me and I am no longer struggling with my calorie counting like I was before YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet. In 2 weeks I have gained almost 6 pounds of almost 100% pure muscle. YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet has made it easy to meet daily goals with reminders and helpful tools throughout YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet . The recipe ideas are also helpful even if you don’t have the pro membership.

by Jesssssaiz

I was very pleased to find this premium version of the YAZIO app at a great price! Only $20 a year! I found out after years on weight watchers and trying Noom $20 a month! Thankfully, that there’s this better and more affordable diet diary type app. I was particularly interested in fasting support apps and being able to speak into the Apple Watch to track my meals on the go. It synchronizes exercise and calories perfectly. Really enjoying YAZIO at this point in time, I have been able to lose the 5lbs I gained through Thanksgiving and Christmas. I hope to be at my goal weight before my birthday in June. I’ll update

by Cooliobrouhunicorns

I don’t usually write reviews but I am truly impressed by YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet and felt I should give credit where credit is due. This is by far the best diet aid app I have found and I’ve been through many trying to find the perfect one. It has everything you need all in one and there’s no hidden charges like others. What I especially like about YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is their extensive recipes, one thing I struggle with as an athlete is getting enough, good, calories and the recipes have helped tremendously as they are all light wholesome ingredients (perfect for an active lifestyle). Another great aspect is their new addition for notes so that way you can track how you are feeling if you are in a new diet or if you just want to decompress. There are so many meal plan options so you can choose what is right for you or just track what you are already doing!:) facts

by Miss Mecca

I recently started using YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet and so far I love it BUT! I don’t understand the point of YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet asking for a unit when creating a food for the database, (such as ml, gram, etc) if it’s still not going to allow me to document my food by that unit. For example, I added a product to the database and wanted to document it in the diary by a ml measurement. Even though I selected ml as a standard unit it still gives me oz when it comes tine to journal how much of the product I ate. PLEASE give us more options for measuring the food please! I prefer to measure most things by gram since I believe it’s the most accurate. Or maybe I’m missing something? 🤷🏽‍♀️🥴

by Lindalu2017

I find creating new foods to be difficult when entering portion sizes. Sometimes I get the correct portion size in there and sometimes it just shows 1 oz for the portion size with the nutritional value for a true portion, ie 3 oz. A lot of other people seem to have the same problem. Sometimes there are several entries for the same food with very different calorie counts. And why isn’t the default weight grams, as that is the measurement on many packages of food. Why can’t I use grams and fluid oz. instead of grams and ml?
Also, I don’t think you can copy foods to different days without paying for YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet . I get frustrated going in and searching for foods and then trying to figure out which is the correct one.
The reason I use YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is to track my husband’s nutrition and calories. The one I use for myself is much more user friendly and flexible.

by ToriaVictoria

I’m only a couple days into using YAZIO— but that’s a couple days more than I’ve ever used any other fitness app.

I really like how easy it is to track meals and the bar on top makes it very convenient to see when you are at your daily max for calories. I also really like that there are a couple integrative options for tracking your daily fitness efforts. Connecting the IPhone step counter was very easy and I like that the exercise is factored into the daily calories remaining bar. The recommended recipes feature is a nice addition as well, but most require a membership to access. (Many don’t look complicated however and I think just by looking at the photo you can kind of guess how to cook it for yourself.)

My only objection is that YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is advertised as an app for dietary/health management with a specialization in fasting. However, when you get YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet , you will see that you must buy a membership in order to unlock the fasting options.

Otherwise, the free functions are still very helpful and I have to see what happens! I’ll update if I manage to lose any weight :)

by Ultra Goddess

I love YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet so much so I use it everyday compare to other nutrition app on my phone. The only problem I have is creating a meal is hard for me. So I tried putting in okra soup but the only option I had was Nigerian okra soup. Am African yes but not Nigerian so the way my country okra soup is made is very different from Nigerian Okra soup. There was an option to creating your meal by adding things in but is so difficult to manage I had to settle for the option of Nigerian Okra soup which gave me more calories than I had actually consumed. Besides this great app I would recommend it 100 times more than any nutrition app on my phone. Great Job Team YAZIO

by JAVaugh

My main gripe with YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is that the food database makes things more difficult than they need to be.

It’s very small, and usually the entries that are there are just plain wrong. About a quarter of the time I just fill out my own entry, which only adds to the problem because now there’s another entry and unless people look up the nutrition info they don’t know which one is right.

Also you can’t change what YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet considers a standard portion, it’s stuck at oz by default. For example, I recently added 7-Eleven’s Chicken Dippers to the database. The 7-Eleven website lists the portion as 1 piece at 70 calories, one piece being 24g. When I entered the food I set the standard portion as 24g and even set up another portion as 24g labeled “piece”. When I finished the entry the default portion is labeled as oz and defaults to 1oz, which is slightly more than one portion. You can still change it to 1 piece and have the correct info, but the default being wrong might confuse users.

Other than that YAZIOCalorieCounterDiet is great. I don’t have problems with step counting like I do on other apps, and the UI is clean. I also appreciate not having to create an account, I’ll give it five stars because I believe the database problem is fixable. Although seeing reviews here with similar problems from a year ago doesn’t give me hope.