Foodvisor - Nutrition & Diet 4+

Really helpful

I’ve gotten along really well with the Foodvisor app. It’s easy to input food and seeing your weight chart as well as nutrition is really beneficial for me as I struggle to get the right macros most days. Also, the 10 min bite size exercises are great when I’m lacking motivation to work out. There’s a few spots where you can see that the language translation hasn’t gone completely smoothly but it doesn’t detract from use. Plus, the nutritionist has given me some really helpful tips to get more of the right nutrients as well as ideas for how to keep me on track.

Handy and nice interface, questionable advice and ethics

Update: cancelled my subscription and had been charged for the whole year. Misleading’cancel anytime’ comms. TL;DR, don’t bother with premium, the advice is crap and it doesn’t sync with Fitbit, despite claiming it does, and you will be charged more than expected

I find this app handy and I like how it looks, but the advice you get in premium is pretty crap. There have been days where eg I’ve been under my proteins and it’s advised me to eat cheese, while at the same time telling me to ‘drop’ the cheese that I did eat that day. Another example - today all my macros are under and despite having entered a glass of Prosecco as my entire lunch (I know), it told me to ‘drop’ the EV olive I’d eaten (1.5 teaspoons) and then under my fats recommended I eat walnut oil to up my fat intake.

Also it doesn’t actually sync properly with my Fitbit, despite advertising that it does. It only pulls through activity data that I enter into Fitbit manually (eg yoga); any activity that Fitbit recognises automatically (eg any cardio, my steps) doesn’t pull through, so it’s pretty useless.

I’m going to cancel my premium as, while I like the IA for food tracking, the premium features are just pretty useless, and I’m annoyed by the very questionable nutritional advice.

Developer Response ,

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Overpriced

I was quite interested until I saw the price.
Yet another app wanting expensive subscription payments. How does this type of app justify a subscription rather than a one off payment, It is not providing lots of constantly updated valuable content like music or films that you would otherwise have to purchase or rent, it just provides calorie management functions .... A Good deal for the developer who just rakes in money for very little work post development but a Very Bad deal for the consumer especially with so many people getting into debt!!
Way overpriced for something that just counts calories and recommends a few recipes and goals, not rocket science and there are free apps that will do most of the work of this one and much more accurately.
Photos have many limitations especially with food mixtures and processed foods.
Buy a pair of scales, read the calories on the back of the food pack and google the calories in fresh food. SAVE your money, it may take a bit longer but will be more accurate, you will develop a better understanding of the calories in various foods and you will burn more calories doing it!
However if you have more money than sense you are probably just the customer this sort of app developer is looking for .....