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Useful but glitchy
If you are following a low fermentation potential diet, this is very helpful, but not perfect. When I create custom recipes, I will often look back at my recipes to find that oddly items have been swapped out. This happened multiple times so I ended up editing the recipe to list an entirely different ingredient and that seemed to fix it but it made my recipes inaccurate. Also, sometimes when I’m on a certain day, which I’ve double checked, I go to add a food, and it puts it on the previous day. Then I have to edit it, and it goes in the right place but there’s just a variety of glitchy things like this. A couple of times I’ve added “sucrose (table sugar)” to a recipe and looked later and it said “splenda.” of course, that could’ve been an error on my end but then I would redo it and come back and find the same weird glitch!
Also, I would love it if there was someway to export a tab delineated / spreadsheet document of some kind for me to have a better view of my trends and symptoms, etc.Show lessMXeditr
The Diet is great, app still needs work
The app is pretty glitchy at times. I’ve used it off and on for a few years now. The diet works well if you follow it and have digestive issues.
But the app needs attention. Recently I haven’t been able to add any custom foods. When I go to add them they never save. This problem started in the past 6 months or so.
The food lists are pretty limited so being able to add custom foods is pretty important.
Maybe they should do a more community/user submitted database similar to my fitness pal..Where there is a more vast database of user submitted foods. Just an idea.Show lesscurteese
Unusable for tracking food
I’ve been using this app for 4 days. It keeps giving different FP scores for the *exact same* foods and amounts. It has done this for at least 5 different items.
It can be 5 FP for one meal, and 0 FP for the next. I have no idea which one is accurate.
I tried emailing the company via the address provided in the app, but it bounced back as the email address is no longer operational.
I’ve never paid so much for a nearly unusable app. I say “nearly” because at least I can track my symptoms on the app.
Very frustrating to be unable to use it to track food.Show lessnotgruntledtoday
Overall useful, but glitchy
I’ve been using this app for about six weeks, consistently tracking my symptoms and meals. I will say that with a low (5-15/day) FP diet, my heartburn symptoms (burning sensation) have been eliminated, other symptoms have slightly reduced or stayed the same. As far as the app, it is useful for adding symptoms, noting your meals, and tracking overtime with the graph, however it is very glitchy, which frequently which makes it frustrating to use. For example, the buttons in general do not see very responsive, and either they are slow or have to be tapped multiple times to get them to do what they’re supposed to do (both the meal type/ symptom button page and the individual food items and symptoms); and many times when I hit the back button, the app closes all together. Also, when entering a new meal, almost invariably the very first item I enter ends up on the previous meal rather than the new meal that I’m entering, so I constantly have to double check what I’m entering and verify the meals after they’ve been entered.
In addition to having the glitches fixed, the app could definitely use some other practical updates as other users have pointed out, but the glitches are the main reason for the reduced stars in this review.Show lessJuligab
Developer Response
Hi, Congrats on your improvent regarding heartburn. We tested the app to see if we could recreate the issues you mentioned. We are not able to do so on our end. Please contact us at app@fasttractdiet.com with the details so tech support can investigate this issue further. ThanksMakes you sign up for an account before you can use it
After paying eight dollars. You can’t even use the app right away. You have to give away personal information and sign up for an account with the company and then wait for them to send you a verification email before you can even use the app or look up anything on the food listLashtucki
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No idea where the bad reviews are coming from. This app is super simple and super handy. Only improvement is more food in the database as well as ability to scan a barcode but the calculator is handy when the food is not in the database. Only on day 1 of this diet and can already tell it’s the one for me.Show lessSarahJ328
Developer Response
Thanks for the review Sarah and happy you find the app useful.Terrible App
I read the book and wanted to try this method of controlling GERD, but the app is horrendous. I read the reviews before getting it and expected that it wouldn’t have many foods, but dude, it seriously has almost nothing, and even trying to search for foods is ridiculous. Unless you type something in the search box that exactly matches how a food is entered, it doesn’t come up. For example, I tried searching for “shredded coconut” by typing “coconut” and then “shredded” and nothing came up. Then I tried “shredded” and “coconut” and nothing came up. Shredded coconut is on his FP food list given in the book, so there’s absolutely no reason it shouldn’t be in here. I even tried using it in conjunction with MyFitnessPal since they have pretty much everything, but you can’t track the right macros in MFP (i.e., there is no FP) and it would take forever to add all of the foods individually to the FTD app, all the while having to guess at the FP for each item. It’s an interesting concept, but man, it needs a lot of work before it can easily be applied. I don’t have the time to do all of this all on my own, and I figured that spending money on the book and the app would get me a lot more information than it has. The author has outlined some interesting ideas, but the implementation is too difficult so it’s not of much use. I really wanted to try this as a way of controlling my symptoms without medication, but this is not helpful at all.Show less...mgw...
Developer Response
The app does list shredded coconut. When you enter coconut, about 40 entries show up. One of them is coconut, unsweetened which is "shredded coconut". There is also an entry for coconut strips, a Trader Joe's product. I will change the description of coconut, unsweetened to "coconut, shredded, unsweetened". Hopefully that will make it easier for you to spot with your search. The FP food list contains over 1100 food items with corresponding FP values which are critical for people with GERD, IBS, SIBO, etc. As we continue to add foods based on newly available glycemic index values or close approximations, there are many people using the app to get off of drugs.Somewhat helpful
In reviewing all the point scores, this doesn’t always agree with my list of high fodmap foods, in fact some this app say are safe are red/bad on my other app! Also there are a lot of weird foods on here, but not more common food items. And why give rum a low score for example when we know alcohol is a problem for SIBO (it’s high on my other one)? I’m just not sure I trust the data but where it agrees I will use itShow lessCincinnatiRocker
Developer Response
This app will not agree with FODMAP for some foods because it's a completely different system. The FP calculation that rates symptom potential counts grams of five different carbohydrate types including fiber and resistant starch. The FODMAP diet does not limit fiber or resistant starch even though they are fermentable by bacteria present in SIBO. Also, alcohol does not contain fermentable carbohydrates. That's why it's zero. Of course excess alcohol is bad for the liver and digestion in general. Moderate alcohol consumption is not. https://bit.ly/34ylOv2App has many bugs
I’m still evaluating whether this diet works for me, but it’s incredibly frustrating trying to create low FP recipes in this app. I’ve been attempting to change the number of servings on one recipe, and the app closes itself every time without saving any of my changes.
Also, for foods you’ve added yourself - they show up blank in a recipe, so you have to guess about what it was you added.
It’s also just cumbersome to begin with, so I wouldn’t recommend.Show less_bd365
Developer Response
Thanks for reporting the issues. 1. the app closing every time when trying to change the number of servings: we tested it on our end but we cannot recreate the issue. Please kindly contact us by using the "Feedback" function in the app or sending an email to app@fasttractdiet.com and let us know your iPhone or iPad version so that we can look into it asap. We are assuming that your iOS version is 13.4.1 which is the latest version. 2. Custom foods added in a custom recipe showing up blank: the latest iOS update (13.4.1) released on April 7th, 2020 caused the issue. We updated the app to correct the problem.Limited use poor ui
The information is helpful but it could really use a professional once over by a ui/ux designer. One thing that would help so much would just simply being able to sort by points.Tomcat900
