# Alma: Nutrition Coach — Food Tracker & Calorie Counter

> AI-powered food and nutrition tracker with voice, photo, and barcode logging. (iPhone/iPad app by Alma Nutrition Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alma-nutrition-coach/id6736372798 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alma Nutrition Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1771700979)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Food & Drink
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 451 App Store ratings · 124 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 290 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, European Spanish
- Released: 2025-01-29
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alma-nutrition-coach/id6736372798/reviews.md

## What is Alma?

Alma requires an active paid membership after onboarding. Membership includes access to every feature; there is no free tier or separate feature purchase.

Alma combines fast food tracking with personal nutrition coaching, helping you understand what you eat without judgment or rigid rules.

LOG MEALS YOUR WAY

Track meals in seconds using voice, photo, text, or the built-in barcode scanner. Save foods and meals you use often, edit entries when something changes, and keep your food journal current without tedious searching.

SEE MORE THAN CALORIES

Follow calories, protein, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, and micronutrients such as calcium and iron. Alma Score gives you a simple view of daily diet quality, while trends help you understand patterns over time.

GET GUIDANCE THAT ADAPTS

Ask questions about your meals, get practical suggestions, and receive coaching based on your goals and recent activity. Alma can help with meal ideas, recipes, grocery decisions, hydration, digestive check-ins, medication routines, and GLP-1 nutrition support.

CONNECT THE FULL PICTURE

Connect Apple Health and supported wearables to bring food, movement, sleep, workouts, and other wellness signals together. Alma uses that context to make guidance more relevant to your day.

BUILT FOR REAL LIFE

Alma is designed for consistency, not perfection. There are no ads, public calorie judgments, or shame-based streaks. Missed days do not erase your progress.

FEATURES

- Voice, photo, text, and barcode food logging
- Calories, macros, and micronutrients
- Alma Score and nutrition trends
- Personal nutrition coaching and follow-up questions
- Recipes, saved meals, and grocery support
- Apple Health and wearable connections
- Hydration, digestive, medication, and GLP-1 support
- Progress tools designed without guilt

Alma supports general wellness, habit building, and nutrition tracking. It does not provide medical advice. For personalized medical recommendations, consult a licensed healthcare professional.

Terms and Privacy: https://alma.food/privacy-and-terms

## Key features

- AI-powered food logging
- Voice, photo, and text input
- Integrated barcode scanner
- Macro and micronutrient tracking
- Personalized nutrition feedback
- Weight loss tracking
- Smart food suggestions

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly Nutrition Coaching | $19.99 | per month |
| Annual Nutrition Coaching | $99.99 | per year |
| Annual Membership Promo | $59.99 | per year |


## What do users think of Alma?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Intuitive food tracking
- 🎨 Impressive image recognition
- 💡 Personalized insights
- 🤖 Helpful AI-powered features
- 🎉 Fun and engaging experience

**Cons**

- 🔍 Limited food database
- 🤔 Unclear nutrition information
- 💰 Expensive subscription
- 🛠️ Occasional technical issues

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Slow or non-responsive app
- Inaccurate food tracking

**Most requested features**

- Integration with HealthKit
- More detailed nutrition data
- Customizable meal plans
- Offline mode for tracking

## Recent user reviews (10 of 124)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alma-nutrition-coach/id6736372798/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Great help. Gets better every day

*2026-08-13*

Nice help to start eating healthier and keep track of what you eat. Feedback gets implemented very fast and bugs were fixed same day.

### 1/5 — Read before subscribing, very inaccurate, detailed review

*2026-08-12*

I’ve been using it for about a month and unfortunately subscribed for the year. :/ I really want to love this app, but the accuracy is terrible. I could give many examples, but I just had what I think is a very clear case today which got me to write this. I typed “1 can of Coke Zero” it put 4 calories, 0g protein, 18g carbs, 36g fat. Obviously this is wrong so I clicked “fix it” and it showed an option that said “Coca Cola Zero” and had the correct 0 cal, 0p, 0c, 0f so I think it’s right. Then I see it has 9mg of caffeine listed when it should be 35mg. My point is this app is pretty terrible at the core function and takes way too much babying to get it working properly. The team is responsive when you report things, but it’s always a band aid for the specific issue and you’ll find many more if you continue to use it. I don’t know how their system works but they need to rely on more tool calling and APIs for standard products that shouldn’t ever be wrong like a Coke Zero and use AI only where it can’t find an answer. Just poorly engineered as a whole, you can’t use a probabilistic solution for a deterministic output unless you have many more checks and balances, which clearly Alma doesn’t have unfortunately. Hoping to find a better app, but will continue using this begrudgingly since I paid for it.

**Developer response:** Sorry you had such a difficult experience with this. We dug into the Coke Zero issue, fixed it, and emailed you directly. You should never feel trapped in a subscription that is not working for you. Reply to our email and we’ll help you with a refund.

Alma 4.0 is coming in the next couple of weeks with major improvements to tracking speed and accuracy.

### 1/5 — Read this before you subscribe

*2026-08-01*

One star. The core feature works badly, and everything around it breaks weekly, sometimes, daily.

I subscribed for Apple Health sync. It did not work at all for my first week. After I reported it, it started working — badly. Data arrives out of sync and doesn't reconcile. In a nutrition tracker, unreliable data is worse than no data: you don't know to correct what you don't know is wrong.

More than a dozen bug reports in seven days, every one confirmed legitimate by support. AI memory failures. Food logged silently as nothing. Identical foods identified differently between entries. Wrong items logged outright.

And every update fixed something while breaking something else. After one release the keyboard vanished from chat entry after a single message, unrecoverable, in a flow I'd been using heavily the day before. That is not an early product finding its footing — that's regression in production on core paths, week after week.

$99 a year to be an unpaid QA channel. The founder answers personally and extended my trial when I escalated, which I'll credit honestly. Responsiveness isn't reliability.

Know what you’re typing into. This is an AI product built around a chat assistant, and it prompts for health details — hydration, digestion, MEDICATIONS, GLP-1 use — as advertised features. Per their own terms, support personnel can access user data. Worth noting: bug reports here are capped at 500 characters, and mine were resolved without anyone ever asking me a follow-up question or for steps to reproduce. Draw your own conclusion about how much of your session they’re looking at, and read the terms before you enter anything sensitive.

Skip it for now.

**Developer response:** Kemer, you joined during a major release and hit an unusually concentrated set of bugs. We have since fixed the issues you formally submitted and tightened our release process.

We investigated your reports using the information you submitted and the limited account context described in our terms. We take privacy seriously, answered your questions directly, and provided the information you requested privately. The product experience you described was poor. The suggestion of undisclosed access is not an accurate description of how those reports were handled.

### 5/5 — Worth giving it a try

*2026-07-28, version 2.8.1*

I was searching for a long time for an app to accurately calculate my food intake using just voice or a photo. I was literally about to create my own system or even an app like Alma :) until I discovered this amazing app.

### 5/5 — Finally found it nutrition app that I’d like

*2026-07-28*

I found Alma that pure chance. I’ve been using a lot of nutrition apps over the last couple of years. Try to find one that I like. What I really liked about Alma was the fact that it can connect to clot AI. That was a game changer for me. Now, at the end of the day, I got Claude and get all my information. Highly recommended to anyone looking for a nutrition app.

**Developer response:** So glad you found us. Love hearing that the Claude connection was the game changer.

### 5/5 — Jen

*2026-07-27, version 2.8.1*

Love the support team and the tracking. It feels different and friendlier than any other tracking app

### 1/5 — Membership

*2026-07-27, version 2.8.1*

Great app but Changing to a full paid membership with no announcement made me stop using it and switch apps.

### 5/5 — Proactive Team

*2026-07-27, version 2.8.1*

They were proactive from the start, kept me informed throughout the entire process, and maintained complete transparency with my incident until it was fully resolved. I really appreciated their communication, professionalism, and commitment to making sure the issue was addressed. Excellent customer support

### 5/5 — Excellent Nutrition Coach App

*2026-07-25, version 2.8.1*

I have tried many nutrition apps out there and this is by far the best one out there. A great combination of AI insights and extremely simple logging. Plus the integration with AI tools means you can connect it with other data that you have

### 1/5 — Shady

*2026-07-21, version 2.8.0*

So I have to update and suddenly is a paid version and if I don’t want to pay I can’t access my data?  Great way to go. STOP SUBSCRIPTION LIFE!!! If it was one time payment I would have actually accepted it. I hate what you all doing to our lives with this subscriptions for everything.

## Frequently asked questions about Alma

### What does Alma: Nutrition Coach do?

Alma is an AI-powered food and nutrition tracker that simplifies logging meals through voice, photo, or text. It goes beyond calorie counting to track macros and micronutrients, providing science-backed feedback and smart suggestions to help users understand their eating patterns and achieve health goals.

### What are the key features of Alma?

Key features include AI-powered meal logging via voice, photo, or text, an integrated barcode scanner for packaged foods, comprehensive tracking of macros and micronutrients, personalized nutrition feedback, weight loss tracking capabilities, and smart suggestions to guide users.

### Is Alma free to use?

The app is available for free with in-app purchases. This means users can download and use the basic functionalities without cost, with options to purchase additional features or content within the app.

### What kind of feedback does Alma provide?

Alma provides science-backed feedback as you track your meals. It helps you understand how your food choices affect your energy, hunger, and progress over time, offering smart suggestions to guide you towards your nutrition targets without rigid rules.

### Who is Alma designed for?

Alma is designed for everyday users who want a simpler, faster, and more human approach to nutrition tracking. It's suitable for those looking to track macros, cut back on sugar, increase fiber intake, manage weight, or simply gain better awareness of their eating habits.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.1.1 — 2026-08-08

What's New:

- Quick logging is more accurate: an odd unit conversion no longer turns a spoonful into a cupful
- A saved single strip no longer logs as a whole serving
- A photographed food is measured from the photo, not from its name
- A food priced above pure fat is rechecked before it lands
- Repeat a meal at any amount: ask for yesterday's lunch at a third and every item scales
- Logging the same meal again returns the same numbers, faster
- The tab bar no longer swallows taps meant for buttons above it
- Saved foods log in one tap and confirm on the card
- TrainingPeaks nutrition syncs on its own, not only while the screen is open
- Weights and amounts accept a comma or a dot as the decimal mark
- An unrecognized supplement barcode looks up the supplement instead of asking for food photos
- Active energy from Apple Health updates in the background
- Today, Explore, and Journal hold their place while content loads
- Restaurant recommendations are labeled in the journal
- Two supplements sharing a name no longer break the Today card
- The saved-foods carousel keeps its order right after you log
- Confirmation no longer waits on a second network round trip
- Adding a peach to yesterday's lunch now keeps the peach
- A broken saved item is skipped and reported instead of failing the whole log
- A stored calorie count that could never be rechecked now can be
- Duplicate saved foods collapse to a single card
- Tapping Add food from Timeline or a detail screen now opens the entry

Request features and report bugs in the app under Settings. Follow us on Instagram @almaknowsfood for updates.

### 3.1.0 — 2026-08-05

What's New:

- Food logging is faster while portions stay accurate.
- Mixed meals stay together, and familiar foods appear first.
- Quick Add shows the saved food and portion you picked right away.
- Recipe imports stay visible while they process.
- Camera lens and automatic flash controls work as expected.
- Referral savings and pending Apple offers are easier to find.
- Weekly coaching focuses update more reliably.
- Forms stay above the keyboard so typing and sending feel smoother.

Request features and report bugs in Settings. Follow @almaknowsfood on Instagram for updates.

### 3.0.0 — 2026-08-01

What's New:

- Alma is now on Apple Watch. Talk to log food and glance to check your day.
- Recipe Map puts every ingredient and step together in one landscape view.
- Apple Health nutrition sync can now include recent logged meals when you turn it on.
- Plus fixes across food logging, coach chats, sign-in, subscriptions, feedback, microphones, camera, barcode scanning, and overall stability.

Request features and report bugs in the app under Settings. Follow us on Instagram @almaknowsfood for updates.

### 2.9.0 — 2026-07-29

Alma 2.9 makes food logging more flexible and easier to trust.

• Combine text, voice, photos, barcodes, saved foods, and recent foods in one flow.
• Review and correct newly logged foods before returning to your day.
• Log repeat meals and portions faster with improved suggestions.
• Connect TrainingPeaks and get more accurate activity, workout, goal, and nutrition updates.
• Enjoy smoother onboarding, coach conversations, profile photos, and reliability throughout the app.

### 2.8.1 — 2026-07-22

What's New:

- Review and correct each new food log before returning to Today.
- Adjust portions, ingredients, and missing nutrition details more easily.
- Choose whether coffee, tea, and other drinks count toward hydration.
- Enjoy smoother buttons, scrolling, photos, charts, and messages.
- Improved reliability across food logging, recipes, saved meals, and Apple Health.

Request features and report bugs in the app under Settings. Follow us on Instagram @almaknowsfood for updates.

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