Leave a Review Cara Care
Has Potential to Be Best Food Tracker Available
First, let me say that I love this app. I use it everyday and love the available features! I love that it suggests trigger foods AND that it can be set up to include food from the day before in my reactions. Beautiful interface, fairly intuitive layout.
That said, I do have a couple suggestions (some of which I can use the notes section as a work around):
A couple suggestions:
—since this is tacking some pretty personal details, I wouldn’t mind having a password (or fingerprint scan) before opening the app.
—would love to see a premade food library available so I don’t have enter every ingredient every time (app does have a way to save favorite meals, but I wish there was a library of meals Cara has already entered)
—would love to be able to track my weight too
—wish there was a way to indicate long term (like in a calendar) when I’m on a special diet (FODMAP, gluten free, vegetarian, etc)
—trigger food detection needs to be more specific. For example, xantham gum is on my bad list but its an ingredient in three meals I’ve recently eaten. I’d like to see which meals I had a reaction to—or if it was all three.Show lessSlvrhrn
Wonderfully Built and Customizable!!
I have Crohn’s disease, and I’ve been looking for an app that will allow me to track my diet, signs and symptoms, and my mood all in one app. This does an amazing job! It’s so customizable, it can be hooked up to the Apple health app on my phone, and it’s easy to use. It also gives me statistics regarding my health including the foods I eat on my best days and my worst days. This allows me to monitor what foods upset my stomach and which ones don’t in a very accessible and easy-to-understand way. It also allows me to correlate different aspects of my health and see if I notice any patterns that may clue me into things that I can be doing differently to help myself feel better. I was so overwhelmed with the thought of trying to figure everything out on my own, and this app does the overwhelming part for me. It allows me to simply focus on how I feel, and takes away some of the stress from everything else going on. I would recommend this app to any of my friends, family, and strangers; and best of all, it’s free. 10/10 would recommend!Show lessCait's Happy
Exactly what I have been looking for!
I dont ever review apps, but I have not loved an app this much in a long time! This app is perfect for tracking how everything in my life relates to how I feel. You can track food, water, sleep, exercise, bowel movements, pain, mood etc etc etc. If there is something you want to track that they dont have you can add it in! I have been having a lot of GI upset and wanted to track how it relates to the food I am eating to see if i might have some slight intolerances and this app has ben great for that! The best part is you get full access to all the features without needing to pay for an upgrade. There arent any obnoxious adds and the app doesnt do pop-ups trying to tell you to upgrade. Love it and would recommend it to everyone!Show lessJj1728485
Excellent Features
I’ve struggled with IBS as well as other unknown chronic illnesses, food intolerances, anxiety, depression, etc. since I was 15 (I’m now 21). A few months ago I saw a nutritionist that simply provided me with a template to track everything that I eat. It really opened my eyes to the content and amount I was eating and how it may have connections to flare-ups of symptoms but as you can imagine, it’s difficult to hand-write notes on every single thing you eat when you’re leading a busy lifestyle. Especially when I snack all day long! I tried other similar apps that only track your calories by scanning barcodes and that actually encouraged me to eat more processed, packaged foods because of the ease of tracking the calories. I love that this app leaves so much room for customization not only with the foods that you put (I personally input the brand and the grams of sugar per meal for my own use) but also symptoms (what some may call “indigestion” I call “sharp epigastric pain”) and you can add these custom symptom tags! Cara support seems very responsive and personable as well. Very happy that I found this app, and I highly recommend it for anyone suffering of anything chronic.Show lessKoocheese
I dig it
I am a male and I suffer from IBS-D, heartburn and acid reflux. This app is helping me to track and take note of my trigger foods and ultimately avoid or at least be aware of the things that are and are not causing my symptoms . It is fairly easy to use this app in conjunction with the FODMAP diet, but many of the foods are more European than American in regards to the commonality and name. Luckily, you can add as many foods and name them, or mis-name, them however you like and that has worked super well when doing to FODMAP plan as there are many strange concoctions and gluten free varieties of foods to track. I also have had great success snapping pictures of my food and saving them in the “saved or favorite” recipes area making it particularly handy to meal prep for multiple days at a time and not have to try and re-enter everything over and over again for any meal you eat it at. Don’t worry, if you forget to save you can roll back to the day you had something previously, pop it open and save it to your favorites list (I do this several times a week). I also find that I may prep salads for a week but add carrots one day or a different/no dressing on another day, I enjoy that the saved recipes are not locked and you can odd or remove any part of it after selecting it as the meal you’re entering.
Enjoy your results!Show lessFlayel
Useless and time consuming
I don’t understand why this app has great reviews. I’ve already had some food allergy testing done, but I can tell there is still at least one thing that my body really doesn’t like. I hoped this app would help me figure it out.
There are two big problems: 1) There is no barcode scan that I could find to help log ingredients, which means entering everything in by hand. Individual ingredients matters. This can be quite tedious. But I was diligent to enter individual ingredients and as much extra information as possible to give me the most accurate results.
2) The second problem is bigger than the first. My “results” demonstrate lousy programming. The food list of my best days was the same as my food list of my worst days. My best and worst foods cannot be the same. Why wouldn’t my “best” foods automatically be eliminated from the “worst” list? Then I’d begin to have a list I could work with. Also, the programming doesn’t account for the fact that it can take two days after eating something before feeling a reaction.Show lessCarol and Baby David
Developer Response
Hi Carol and Baby David! :) First of all thanks a lot for your feedback! About your first concern: Yes food tracking can be somewhat cumbersome, but we're at it ;) About your second concern: The best and worst days' food lists will need some time to actually work. After say something liek 6 days these lists really only have 3 days each to go by. Also you might want to have a look at the small gear icon beneath those lists - there you can tell the lists to delete duplicates, set a certain time frame you want to have a look at or tell the lists to display foods from the days prior to the ones you felt particularly good or bad on. I hope this helps a bit :)Has an incredible amount of potential.
This app is really neat. I have quite a few medical problems and they all make each other worse. This will make it easier for me to see how they each coincide and help control my symptoms better. I have high hopes for the app and because of how awesome their team is and how responsive they are to any questions or feedback I know it can only get better! I’ve never had an app with support like this. Even if you don’t have serious medical issues the app could help people figure out how the things they eat make them feel differently physically and mentally. It’s just a great way to help really understand your body.Show lessMs.Owen
Great app
I think Cara is a wonderful app and give it 5 stars but I was hoping they maybe in development it can improve. I had gone to an internal medicine doctor and this app offers everything she asked me to track for my next appt. I’m hoping that maybe the app can later incorporate options to scan food barcodes to make tracking easier. Even maybe the option to track quantity of foods or maybe nutritional facts. I’m sorry if that’s already available when I placed this review but that is the only thing I can think of to make this app better. Love the PDF that I can submit to my doctor and it’s available digitally so I don’t even have to print it I can email it to her and she can have something to read about me before my appt.Show lessLove syfy
Great app!
Love this app. Very intuitive and I like the interface. It’s already helped identify a lot in the short time I’ve been using it. I would just make the following changes:
-If you are looking at one day of data in the past, and click the plus button to track a something, it would be nice if the date of that tracking would automatically be the day you were looking at, rather than “just now”. It gets tedious to be constantly changing the dates when you are trying to catch up on a few days of tracking
-It would be wonderful to be able to crowd-source some food and ingredients. For example, if someone has already looked up and entered the ingredients for a restaurant dish, I would love to be able to access that in a database and easily add it to my tracking.
-Finally, it would be nice if all the meals and food were automatically saved and would automatically populate when I started typing them instead of going through the hassle of saving them as a favorite. Because let’s be honest, 90% of the meals I make are ones I’ll eat again.
I love the app overall, these are just a few details that would make it perfect!Show lessKateshiz
Best tracker app I've found (by far!)
Cara makes me pay attention to changes in my mood and stress that I normally wouldn't. I'm trying to figure out a food allergy (I know it's there, I just don't know what it's to!), and Cara tracks both symptoms and food and presents the things that you consumed on your "worst days". It's super helpful. Highly recommended for people looking to track the relationship between food and mood/bowel movements/stress/sleep in a way that isn't stressful - that is, no calorie counting or entering portions. I just title the dish, add what ingredients are in it. or create my own category to log and the app takes care of the rest. Five stars!Show lessM Boy Slim
