Leave a Review Atkins® Carb & Meal Tracker
PLEASE update this app!
My husband and I wanted to start watching our carbs, so we thought we would try the Atkins 40 plan. We liked the plan and thought the app would help us even more. It seems as though it has so much potential, but it is very frustrating to use. The scanner apparently does not work because when you scan barcodes, the number will come up, but the food description never does. It is very time consuming to key in the specific details of every food item that you eat. We understand that happening for some foods, but for almost everything you scan, that is not a atkins item? that is a little much. Also, I wish you could log water in specific ounces instead of cups. There may be a point in my day where I may not have an entire cup of water, but I would still like to count the ounces. Finally, it would be so wonderful if you could attach your fitness tracker to the app so that you would not have to manually put in your steps every day.Show lessHarry's Mon
Love/hate with this Atkins 40 app
I love this app because it really helps me keep track of the carbs I'm eating and I'm actually losing weight. I tried to do this in my head but it just didn't work well that way and I was eating more carbs than I thought and not losing anything.
The part I hate is looking up foods. I can't find most of what I'm searching for and have to enter them in my favorites manually. The lists are very long and they don't seem to be in any kind of alphabetical order - there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the order of the list. I wish the search itself could be refined to any word or all words. If I put in "banana peppers", I get every single thing that is either banana or pepper - I never did find it and entered it manually from the jar. That happens a lot.Show lessBTownMeezer
The new version of the app is unusable
The older version of the app is much better. The sources for the food when you go to look something up are very unhelpful. Their database is missing so many food items, resulting in hand entering food items, and who has time to do that all the time. When you search for a food item, you can’t see the net carbs next to the food, so you don’t know which item to select.
I don’t care about asthetics, the new interface is fine. But the food sourcing database and the food result display are what makes this app unusable for me. Which is a shame because I’ve always been a huge supporter for Atkins and low carb diets. Sigh. Another company trying to “improve” and in turn just makes the app worse than before.Show lesssarib85
Not good…
There are so many issues with this app compared to the old app. I don’t know how long this app has been around, but I used the old app about 18 months ago that was great. This one doesn’t do so many things it should and does things that aren’t helpful. Paper and pencil are faster than trying to search this food database. There is no rhyme or reason to how things are listed. No recipe builder for faster input, no groupings to make logging regular meals faster. Scan utility doesn’t work. Why have these things on here if they don’t do anything? It’s a sad app that needs a lot of work… or just go back to the old app that did all the things that were needed.Show lessLilacBadger
Only one minor complaint
Most diet apps are calorie focused. It really annoys me that some are free unless you want to track carbs. It's diet discrimination. With the Atkins app there is no subscription. If you want you can buy their books and their grocery products. But the app and web site are totally free. And they make it super simple to track your daily carbs and advance through the stages of the diet. My only gripe is I tried to scan the barcode on some Atkins frozen meals and it couldn't find them. I was able to locate them by typing them in though. Hope this is a temporary bug.Show lessGregB957
Update is terrible
I have been doing Atkins for going on 2 years (although I have done it in the past with success). The app update has seriously lost all functionality. Most of the items I scan can’t be found (including Atkins branded items). When I search by item name, it brings up hundreds of results that are sorted in no particular order (definitely not by closest match), and adding more search terms doesn’t narrow the search, it brings up even more results.
I miraculously was able to locate a low carb brand bar, but I had only eaten half of it so I changed the serving size to half, yet it still counted all of the carbs for a full serving toward my goal.
The app LOOKS good, I guess, but what is the point of having a sleek interface if it is so difficult to use. I have gotten so frustrated trying to track that I stopped using it altogether for a while, hoping whatever glitchy design this is would be updated and fixed by the time I came back. Unfortunately, no.
Atkins in general has been literally life changing for me. I had health problems, chronic pain, and of course was overweight, but this lifestyle has changed all of that. Part of the reason it was so easy to follow was that there were tools for success. This app was one of those tools, and I sincerely hope that it is fixed so we can all go back to easy tracking!Show lessBeccaboo6132
Good app but poor food database
I’ve used many different apps and while the Atkins app is easy to navigate and track information, I’ve found more foods not in the database than in it. An example from today is the Starbucks Sous Vide bites. These are mostly eggs and cheese with small amounts of veggies. Should be an excellent Atkins-friendly breakfast on the run, but I can’t find them using the search tool in the Breakfast tracking area. Other apps have robust food databases but may lack in other areas. It would be great if Atkins could link to Calorie Counter or other similar apps with strong food databases.Show lessBucabuddy
What happened?!
I seriously hope the App developers read this and all of the other pleas below. I used this app for 3 years and lost 60 lbs with diet and exercise…this new “upgrade” has so many bugs and is horrific. You can’t access the favorites that have been saved over the years, which is one of the reasons I preferred this app, I could track 3 years of progress and food faves. Now, everytime I click on “track meal”, the app literally closes. I have deleted and re downloaded and it still won’t work. This is POINTLESS if I can’t even track anything. And even if I could, the servings are messed up and so are my settings. My settings say I am expected to consume -4 carbs per day??
I am so sad and disheartened and really really hope this is fixed. I would really prefer if things went back to the way they used to be, even if they aren’t as modern looking etc. this app is rendered unusable. 😞Show lessDAB890
No room for homemade recipes
I like the scan feature, favorites and featured recipes but wish there was a way to add homemade recipes. Also when searching foods, the list populates with the worst chain restaurant meals and prepackaged foods. Wish it was more user friendly for those of us that cook from real ingredients. I made chicken stock last night using only foundational vegetables after poaching a chicken for chicken salad, etc. Now am making chicken soup with stock, zucchini slices & chicken. When I just type in chicken soup homemade I get 9 net carbs. I don’t know what that version is made with to get that. Apps like Lose It! Let you repeat meals and is much better for recording foods, minus the net carb feature. Maybe the developers want to take a look at it for ideas for updates to this one. I find this app really time consuming compared to others.Show lessCosmoEye
The app has gone crazy
I’ve been using the app since I went on the diet on September 22nd. I weigh in every other day. Everything was working fine until this morning when I entered my weight of 147 pounds, my starting weight was 151.6. It’s now showing my starting weight was 324.1 pounds and I’ve lost 172.5 pounds!!!!! No matter what I do it won’t correct the miscalculation. I go back to each previous day until I started the diet to try to reenter my weight for that day and nothing changes. I don’t know what you have done to what used to be a well working app but it’s totally messed up now and useless. Weighing in and accurately tracking your progress is one of the most important parts of being on a diet. I’m an IT professional, obviously there was some sort of update that has totally destroyed this app.Show lessHollyL45
