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Great app, too many ads
This is a great food and weight tracker. I am especially pleased with the extensiveness of the food index, the ability to add personal recipes, and the app’s recommendations based on eating history. I also like that you can enter a goal weight and the app calculates the approximate date of achieving that goal, based on your calorie intake and activity levels.
The only thing I don’t like is the constant barrage of “buy our plus features subscription” ads. Every time I open the app, a pop up appears telling me that it’s my “last chance” to get the extra features at 25% off. It’s been my “last chance” for over three months. I understand that I’m using the free version, and developers have to pay rent the same as me. But I get this pop up ad each and every time I open the app. Every. Single. Time. Which means I have taken to keeping a sticky note of my meals so I only need to open the app once a day, or every couple of days. (This is why I only gave it two stars. It’s super annoying.)
I would love it if the developers could please give an option to pay a one-time fee to never see that pop up again. Or at the very least if they could decrease the frequency it appears. Because I would absolutely pay a one time fee for the basic tracking part without the extra features of the subscription. But I have no need of a subscription, and I really don’t need constant reminders of my apparently eternal “last chance” pricing.Show lessBammble Bee
Developer Response
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on how the ads come across. Lose It! Premium subscriptions, along with ads, are what keep Lose It! in business and allow us to make great products for all members. To provide specific suggestions or ask for more information, contact us here: loseit.live/help Best, Leigh-AnnGave this a rating of 3 because....
1) I don’t like that you have to be super specific when typing to find the food you’re looking for. You should be able to get some options after entering a few key words. 2) When editing anything where I have to scroll down to type, the app just won’t...hold it stay to where I scroll to; Like, it’ll just spring back up to the top of the page. I can’t edit my profile because I get get to the bottom of the page to type. Also, 3) I don’t know that the percentages and other numbers are very accurate. For example, you can find an avocado that’ll say 240cal per...I don’t know 70 grams and then another option will say 350 for 70 grams. You know? It’s like “which one is the right one?!” And I know that some good have checkmarks and they have been, supposedly, reviewed for accuracy by the Loose It! people but I don’t know about those either. I paid for a year subscription but I’m not happy with that. I think it isn’t worth it to pay for this app, specially if you are doing a specific diet such as I’m doing (keto). Because even though you get some exercise video and meal ideas other are not targeted to YOU they are very general and from what I can tell by using this app for many years is that they don’t update any of that stuff.Show lessPrince Zorro
WoW! I am a happy Loser! Are You?
Best app I ever used for steady weight loss!!!... it’s very encouraging to see that even when I feel like I dropped the ball and had a bad day, as far as having eaten to much, that the app doesn’t give up on me but rather motivates me to keep going and not give up on myself! This App TRULY gives me hope and a practical game plan daily. It divides my calories up per meal (4 meals) and suggest the allotted calories it recommends.... and hey! I know this thing is just an app/calculator but if you let it it can be so much more. Lastly, this app Allows you to take pics of your food daily/each meal, scan bar codes (way easier logging on the run and jetting out the door!). It’s not crazy complicated either. I love it! Honestly, when I can afford premium I am all about it!!! It teases you a bit and gives you examples of premium App privileges but it’s not to pushy either. From what I can see, premium offers dietitian planned meal plans, recipes, GROCERY LISTS & SUGGESTIONS ON WHERE TO SHOP!!! (Yes!!!... so much easier while raising a family) Ok, so enough said! This app speaks for itself. Try it! Work It! Love it! & Lose it! P.S. if I created this App I would have called it My Body Accountant or My Personal Body Life Coach! or how about My Bestie? 😄 (seri doesn’t hold a candle to this app) ....That is how good it is! 👍🏻😊🍇🥂Cheers!!!...all ya happy Losers out there 😜 (lol)Show lessebear37
The right app for today’s need - Lose and maintain
This app is awesome. I am a 61-year old male who has had weight issues my whole life. I have lost 35-lbs and for the first time I have been able to keep it off. Losing weight has never been a problem because with focus it’s easy but once you get to your goal weight it’s difficult to maintain that intensity/focus to keep the weight off. This app allows you the control to eat what you want but not over do it. It is calorie counting (back to weight loss basics) made SUPER easy. The food UPC scan feature is so easy and so many foods are already part of the data base. Many restaurant items are listed, again making recording easy.
I do like the nutritional scoring but only really use it to adjust protein/carb/fat intake. Other nutritional values can be incomplete as most users adding items only add calories.
Issues: Users are allowed to add there own items which can be incorrect from spelling to calories to nutritional content. This is managed by app developer with (green checks) as verified but the unverified can make the app search a bit messy.
I highly recommend for anyone wanting to lose weight and keep it off!!Show lessBruce5614
i find it useful
I don't use any social bits, but appreciate the ability to create my own foods data, & retrieve & copy (& adjust) previous meals for quick adds; and adjust quickly-added My Foods w/ more refined data later if I want. Having a spot for brand name is very helpful in identifying foods. As is the barcode scanner.
Also like the nutrition graph & macro chart for the day & week-to-date. And having a spot to put Exercise data. In addition to walking, I have been swimming, so in logging in swim distances, I just use a separate calculator and yards/1760 gives me miles swam to enter into Lose It, and get an estimate of calories' worth. Being able to tell friends at work that a certain cookie I am turning down is worth "5 laps at pool" has made the peer pressure to indulge back off. (Most friends don't swim, so 5 laps sounds like a fairly big deal of effort to them. And to me also! ;-)
A few months ago I started getting Days Streaks of logging in. I guess I didn't realize you needed to mark each day as 'Done logging in' for that to kick in. Now however, I am motivated to do that! Having 125 days streak - I don't want to lose that and start over, being told I am on a '1 day streak' because I missed. I use the alert setting to remind me at end of day. Lost 52 lbs in seven months, so far. 30 or so to go.Show lesspre-diabe
Loseit! + discipline = weight loss
For 3/5 of my life, due to severe injuries and illness, I've been waffling the border of overweight and obesity. For the first time in almost a decade, my health was stable, so I figured I'd make dedicated effort over the summer of losing weight (I was 220lbs/100kg).
Loseit! was an app recommended by my pedometer app, and I kind of got it on a whim. 😅 I love to eat, have my Dad's sweet tooth, and am (more than) a bit lazy (ok, just highly unmotivated)... none of that is good for weight loss, so every bit helps, right?
Well, I got a scale, started counting calories with the app (the free one, not premium), and went walking or biking depending on weather. It is a bit over 100 days later, and I've lost 50lbs/23kg. I'm going to keep going another 20-30lbs/9-14kg, though at a slower rate for the holidays. 😉
Self discipline is really important to how successful you'll be, though. If you don't log everything (I know it is inconvenient/a pain/insert opinion here), but not doing so is pretty much setting yourself up for failure. I'm not saying 'don't eat sugary foods/that one food that's bad for you that is a guilty pleasure', that would be hypocritical of me (again: I love food & have a huge sweet tooth. There is no way I'm ever not going to eat what I want). I'm saying that if weight loss is important to you, you won't cheat yourself by fudging your log. Be brutally honest with yourself. It helps put what you're eating into perspective. 😁Show lessMs.Kitkat
