I’ve found the welling app to be innovative and clear, and appreciated how it would estimate my calories from a picture. The AI is also very motivating and gives you advice on what food to substitute to achieve your goals :)

At first and when comparing the app with other calorie counting apps, this app is great. It has the ‘most’ intelligent AI you will find. I got the trial period and it was amazing, then I decided to give it a go for three months and I started to see some flaws in the AI Sometimes I have to ask it three or four times to go back and change things for example. He estimated the threes most strawberries will be 225g which is completely wrong, so nowadays it’s giving me more trouble to go back and correct It’s estimate than to manually input one by one. I also miss the option to create my own meals with specific ingredients when cooking for the recipes I find online and that has no name for example.

Love talking to AI, unfortunately app not calculate calories intake correctly, so I had to check labels and adjust manually. Even when I scanned nutrition. Weird AI was not working it out and calculating correctly. I’m glad I took week trial, I won’t be taking the subscription as I can really get the same/ similar with Copilot

I was using ChatGPT to log my food. I switched to Welling and so far every day I’m considering switching back to ChatGPT again. Summary of my experience:- It doesn’t do well with branded food lookups. In ChatGPT I can say things like “I had 1 Aldi sea salt flat bread” and it’ll look it up online and pull the data. Welling just guesses. It doesn’t use UK databases so its guesses are terrible. - It’s buggy. Sometimes I snap a pic and say “1 of these” and it’ll log it. Other times (randomly) it’ll tell me about the food and say “to log it say ‘I had one of these’”, but it also doesn’t seem to have chat context so if I then type “I had one of these” it asks me what and I have to resubmit the photo.- I’m not convinced by the way it does macros as a % of calories. Yesterday I went for a walk, burned around 700kcal, and Welling wanted me to eat 240g of protein! I weight 80kg so that’s 3x my weight in grams! Every online recommendation in the UK is no more than 2x your weight in grams. I can’t cap Welling at 160g protein though because it’s set as a %. Eating 240g of protein is, by all accounts, dangerous if I keep doing it long term. - It’s really hard to log a proportion of a meal. For example: if I cook a frittata with 3 eggs, 2 slices of ham, 2 peppers, and tell Welling I had half of it, it gets confused. Instead it logs 3 eggs, 2 slices ham, 2 peppers, AND half a frittata!Most of these are the bits that ChatGPT does really well, so it seems like they’ve hampered the AI capabilities of Welling. Maybe they’re using an older/cheaper model (I’m not sure which LLM and which version it uses). So far the only thing it does better than ChatGPT is storing the entries under proper days and meals. ChatGPT is just a conversation history and for it to work I have to start a new conversation/log daily. Welling clearly has my food logs in a database, which makes it better for reviewing over time. For now I’m keeping it. I’ve found workarounds to most of these issues - mainly I just take photos of the nutrition labels every time. But it’s a daily frustration and honestly, I’m considering going back to ChatGPT and sacrificing the improved logging functionality (or trying to build that into ChatGPT somehow). If they could improve these issues it would be an easy win for Welling and a 5* review.