mySymptoms Food Diary 17+

Life changing!

Having gone through years of trying to find a common denominator with what particular food items were upsetting me, this app pointed me in the right direction after a few weeks of entering data.

I’m so impressed with the functionality of the app. It has great ease of use and you can decide how much detail you enter.

Entering data on the move is easy and if it’s used consistently for a period of time, you will soon see patterns forming. It helped me to discover that I am Lectin intolerant. After years of dietitians and various diets including FODMAP.

Another plus is the technical support. I raised a question late one night and received a response immediately. Awesome customer service.

Well worth the small price - if only I found it three years ago!

Ok diary app

Works for people having to track ingredients and symptoms for FODMAP elimination. It’s pretty time consuming to enter the info since the UX isn’t well thought out and a bit illogical (and searching is awful) but once you have done the painful part of creating your favourite foods and recipes then it’s not so bad. Wish it also included calorie and nutritional information so you could track all your food stats in one app to make sure you’re not under-eating. At the moment I have to use 3 apps to manage my difficult diet, with a better design this could replace 2 in one go.

Great idea but needs serious improvements

This app has the potential of becoming an excellent tool in uncovering allergies.

As it is now it is chaotic and time consuming to use with unnecessary repetitive task.

Entering new foods and categories of foods is a frustrating and unintelligent task.

Adding and editing food to favourites also needs improvements.

Using the barcode scan is like playing the lottery if you are unlucky it will not work. It definitely does not work with iPad. It works sometimes with iPhone.

The barcode scan adds numbers to the item scanned but does not populate the information. This is totally useless.

I could keep on writing about the unintelligent fails for quite a while.

Writing to support is a waste of time as you get an automated reply telling you that they are not able to answer you.

For now I will be looking elsewhere but in a year or so I will revisit it.

Developer Response ,

We're very sorry to hear that you found the app problematic to use. We responded to your support email within a few hours of your sending it - please check your inbox/junk folders for our reply. If you require further assistance, please let us know. Kind regards, mySymptoms team.