# Atkins® Carb & Meal Tracker — user reviews > 106 indexed App Store user reviews of Atkins® Carb & Meal Tracker by Atkins Nutritionals, Inc., rated 4.75/5 from 73,655 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/atkins-carb-and-meal-tracker/id583475512/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/atkins-carb-and-meal-tracker/id583475512.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 59,964 · 4★ 10,442 · 3★ 2,326 · 2★ 342 · 1★ 581 ## What do users think of Atkins® Carb & Meal Tracker? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Easy to use - 👍 Helpful for tracking carbs and weight loss - 🔒 Accurate carb counts - 💡 Useful recipes and meal planning **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy barcode scanner - 🐛 Inaccurate food database - 🐛 Difficulty adding custom foods - 🐛 Inability to adjust serving sizes - 🐛 Lack of fitness tracking integration **Commonly reported bugs** - Favorites feature not working properly - Incorrect carb counts for some foods - Custom food entries changing nutritional info - Disappearing user data after updates **Most requested features** - Option to track water intake - Ability to copy/repeat meals - More detailed nutrition info per food item - Alphabetized/categorized food search - Customizable weight/carb goals ## Newest reviews (19 of 106) ### 3/5 — Lots of room for improvement *2025-04-13* It’s nice having the app to help stay on track but it’s not very intuitive or user friendly a lot of the time. When entering food, it sometimes requires a very specific way of searching the food item to find what you’re looking for. A dill pickle has to be searched for as “pickle” rather than “pickles”. You’ll never find it under the second option. If you’re entering a tomato slice, the box that has the amounts consumed (tsp, tablespoon, medium slice) won’t let you save it because the box won’t move up to hit the save button when selecting “medium slice” so you have to compromise your selection just to get something entered. Yes, you can do customized food entries but the automated system would be great if it wasn’t so weirdly specific on a number of items. It would be great if the steps tracker worked with Apple Watch. Looking forward to some app updates! ### 3/5 — Pretty good *2025-03-15, version 5.1.1* Needs some work on functionality. Food search is very cumbersome and frustrating. ### 3/5 — Can’t find foods easily *2025-03-05, version 5.1.1* I can’t find a vegetable easily, I tried looking for a tomato and I had to scroll for a good 20 seconds before I found a Roma tomato. Please make that function easier. Scanning food is also hard. A lot of the things that are in the grocery store like the prepackaged salads don’t exist on the app. All in all it keeps good track of your carbs. I used this app a long time ago and lost 30 pounds on it. ### 2/5 — Limited food choices, limited features. *2024-11-24, version 5.1.1* The interface is clunky. Limited or no search results when searching for a common food (ex: bacon wrapped jalapeños). Calories are not broken down by meal. No obvious way to import a recipe from the internet. ### 2/5 — Password reset *2024-11-23, version 5.1.1* The Atkinson app works fine as long as you can get inside it. For 2 days the app has not recognized my email and password. I know they are correct, I wrote them down on my list and I enter them in the log in yet the app still doesn’t recognize them. I try the forget password button, and it never sends a confirming email. For two days I have been trying. I’m going to give up and re-up as if I don’t have a membership. If it has the wrong mail or something it never confirms that. You need a better interface. For signing in when something doesn’t work. ### 3/5 — Not all features are usable for me *2024-10-24, version 5.1.1* I’m not able to use the recipes because I must keep my font larger and because of that, the display of the page just doesn’t work. ### 3/5 — The recipe portion crashes *2024-09-12, version 5.1.1* The app only shows two recipes…if I reopen it more are there and the minute I try to choose one I’m only the same two appear ### 3/5 — Several Issues listed below *2024-09-03, version 5.1.1* This app Is the best low carb tracker, but in need of serious improvements. It’s free, but I would be happy to pay for this app if they made improvements. Atkins is the original and far superior to Keto, IMO APP ISSUES: 1. No way to use app in Landscape mode or any way to force Landscape mode. It’s stuck in Portrait mode. Please fix for iPhone and iPad. Extremely hard to use as a result. 2. Food Database is tiny compared to NutraCheck which doesn’t have a low carb option at all. I’m paying $29.99 a year to NC to flip back forth. 3. When adding a food that’s in favorites, you can’t see the total values broken out and what “per serving is,” is an ounce, two ounces, what? 4. When using recipes tab, you can’t scroll back up to the top of the recipe list once you’ve scrolled down. Recipes should also have all values broken down, per serving. If I find more issues I’ll add them, good app, but again, I would be happy to pay for it if there were improvements. I would NOT pay for this app as is. ### 2/5 — i can’t see any of the recipes *2024-08-07, version 5.1.1* at first i can see plenty, then all but two recipes disappear. i keep closing and relaunching the app, and it keeps happening. very discouraging. ### 3/5 — Use to be better *2024-07-24, version 5.1.1* It’s been a few years since I was on Atkins and I decided to revisit and download the app again and it’s just not what I remember. It seems so much less than it used to be. ### 2/5 — Just downloaded *2024-07-03, version 5.1.1* Please fix the scan option! I scan my items but only the upc code populates not the name of the food. Also, it’s 2024 and I appreciate the app being free and whatnot but Atkins could AT LEAST track our steps using our fitness devices. The other apps can read (with my permission) and write over my total count, weight, workouts, etc. but not Atkins. At least I can use it for the Atkins diet 40. Lookie here! I’m already 45 net carbs over. In my defense, I did just download it in the evening. ### 3/5 — Changed for the worse *2024-06-27, version 5.1.1* I used to use this app a couple of years ago and it was great. Now it’s horrible. It is not user-friendly. You have to keep pushing the phone and pushing the phone and pushing the phone just to get something to open up so you can log something. It takes forever to find your food and log your food. It’s easier to keep track on a piece of paper than in this app. It also doesn’t scan any foods. It always says it can’t find the food but if you type the food in the search, then it comes up. I haven’t scanned one thing that is found. It used to find everything. Not anymore. Please put it back to the way it used to be. ### 3/5 — Need more info *2024-05-23, version 5.1.1* I love the Atkins Diet it was my first low carb venture..but this app needs work!! Everything I Scan is not in the app, so annoying! I’ve been using this app for about a year and still not very well updated. Where do I change my goals? I would like to see total calories, along with total carbs per meal. How bout a Recipe builder.. that would be great!! ### 4/5 — Pretty good but needs a recipe builder *2024-05-20, version 5.1.1* I like that this app tracks all of the required metrics. There are a couple things that would make it better. One is to add a recipe builder so that you can enter all of the ingredients in a recipe, the number of servings and then be able to add one serving to your tracker, and it would enter all the metrics you need. The second thing is that if you could sort the items in favorites. The third is if you can copy items from the previous day to today, but overall I would recommend it if you are doing Atkins. ### 1/5 — My app won’t work! *2024-05-02, version 5.1.1* I tried numerous times to download this app and fill in my information and it will not take it. So I deleted it. ### 2/5 — Needs an upgrade *2024-04-17, version 5.1.1* I love Atkins but this app needs an upgrade. It’s hard to stay focused on a diet and not get overwhelmed with everything especially in the beginning. More than half the food I scan or try to look up doesn’t show up so I have to manually log it all which is so frustrating especially with a busy schedule and trying to maintain my carbs and be mindful about what I’m eating. It’s free so that’s a plus but I would rather pay y’all a little something and be able to have more ease when logging my food throughout the day. Atkins is the only thing that’s ever worked for me and I’m getting married in 5 months so I’m gonna stick with y’all regardless but this diet works and it’s worth having an app that is helpful and easy! ### 1/5 — WTH! *2024-04-11, version 5.1.1* My 4th attempt to write a review!!! Really Atkins? You won’t fix it and you don’t post any kind of negative review!!! Simple foods should not have to be searched for so hard…I put in something as simple as sliced tomatoes…it shouldn’t take me 5 minutes or more to search!!! So annoying to be simple, basic items!!!! Fix the app for easier use!!! Would I be losing more if my posts could be more accurate…if it was easier to find what I was eating! I’m losing and I appreciate that but I’d like to be more accurate!! ### 1/5 — What is wrong *2024-04-07, version 5.1.1* I can’t scroll on this app or even enter foods because it won’t scroll?? ### 2/5 — APP NOT WORKING! *2024-03-31, version 5.1.1* The diet works but the app stopped working today. I logged my breakfast and snack but when I went to log my lunch it asked for my sign in info which I gave and it said network failed. I tried to reset by shutting down the phone and restarting then deleting app and reinstalling. Nothing worked . U can’t even change password or start a new account. There is no workaround. So I have no tracking of my food intake anymore! PLEASE FIX THIS! MY PHONE UP TO DATE(ios17.3.1) AND NO UPDATES SHOW FOR APP. WHATS THE PROBLEM ?????? PLEASE FIX!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Add food to the database! *2025-04-13, version 5.1.1* Want to love the app but if I can’t find Atkins friendly food in the database and have to add it manually, it wastes my time. Also trying to scan food is a waste as everything I have scanned so far isn’t in the database (unless it’s an Atkins product). This seems like such a basic function for a food tracker. Hugely disappointed. Update: sick and tired of having to add food. Basic foods should be easily searchable. Just beyond awful ### 1/5 — Bad App *2025-04-03, version 5.1.1* Really bad app. Confusing to log food, UPC codes when scanned don’t work I have to manually add most if not all of my food. In addition, I am visually impaired and I have to have my font set at above average/large. The app does not adjusted for that in their fields.. so I have to go to my settings, make my font smaller just to log food. Not user friendly 4/2/25: still bad. Scan doesn’t work. Does not recognize 80% of upc bars scanned. Still no updates to accessibility for visually impaired, appt does not sync to Apple iPhone settings. When logging food sometimes it will save, sometimes it won’t. Sometimes it saves and item twice 🤷‍♀️ I’d gladly pay a fee upfront for a good version of this app. Really disappointed it hasn’t improved much in years. ### 1/5 — Hard to use *2024-10-16, version 5.1.1* This app is very confusing. The scan feature for foods is not very good (not many foods in data base). it was very hard to enter my starting weight. I will be trying another app. I will still use the Atkins diet plan, but I am going to find another app. ### 1/5 — The App is literally the worst. *2024-10-07, version 5.1.1* Atkins is a great weight loss plan. Have had success using it, however the App is horrible. I must at one time had an account so WILL not let me rejoin. Won't email me back or let me reset. Ill just scratch out my meals on paper like it's the 1990's. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work correctly *2024-07-18, version 5.1.1* Unable to enter starting data so will not be able to get any sort of reliable information. ### 1/5 — App does not work on iPhone. *2024-07-14, version 5.1.1* App does not work on iPhone. ### 1/5 — App not working *2024-06-23, version 5.1.1* I am attempting to enter my information but the app states 5'1" is an invalid height and won't let me proceed. Quite frustrating ### 1/5 — Really poor execution *2024-06-09, version 5.1.1* Nothing is easy with this app. Can’t trust the entries because of the multiple entries and different macros attached to the same food item. You really have to spend a ridiculous amount of time to enter meals for the day. Don’t even spell something wrong because there are zero prompts. The recipe section is a joke. Click on recipes and there is a list that immediately disappears to display only two recipes. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work well *2024-05-28, version 5.1.1* Scan feature does not work at all. When I scan anything I get “food not found”. The UPC number just sits in the search bar. The scan feature would be wonderful if it worked. ### 1/5 — AWFUL food search function *2024-05-05, version 5.1.1* The app itself works fine - but the food tracker search is horrible. I search for “mushroom” and I get 100 packaged variants of mushroom products ranging from “pizza mushroom snack” to “mushroom rice mix” - where is just plain fresh mushrooms??? So I search on “fresh mushroom” - the number search result is “fresh tarragon” and “fresh mushrooms” are the 19th search result - 3 pages down - ummm .. Atkins - hire a programmer to give better search results ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Much improved *2025-01-20, version 5.1.1* This type of app is so very helpful. I was off tracking for a while, when I came back I found the app easier to use and I feel the carb counting food look up is much easier. I was going to track on paper this time, but this is so strong I don’t need the paper. ### 5/5 — Atkins app *2023-09-10, version 5.1.1* I always loved this app but it’s gotten to be such a pain to log in that I have deleted it. It keeps telling me, that my account already exists, yes that’s why I am trying to log in! I give up. ### 5/5 — Only one minor complaint *2022-02-17, version 5.0.6* 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. ### 5/5 — This diet works! - Week One 2 Lbs LOST already!! No JOKE *2021-06-09* I’m genuinely LOVING Atkins 40 and this APP makes tracking carbs EASY. I’ve tried other apps that track calories, food journals, and calendar tracking. I hated tracking food because it was tedious and made me self-conscience about what I eat. The the Atkins Carb tracker is different. It’s helped me learn about how my body reacts to food, is seriously easy, and effective. (Plus it’s free!) I love food and I don’t feel bad or guilty when I track carbs with the Atkins app. After a breakup, COVID weight gain, and getting COVID last year, I was up to 182 lbs and COULD NOT BUDGE THE SCALE. I tried all my stand-bys: running, counting calories, and weights. Nothing has worked all year. Then I do this diet/app and lose two pounds in a week, am always satisfied (never hungry), and don’t have my usual headaches from eating sugar. I’m seriously thankful for this diet and app. Last thing, I’ve noticed in the first week that sometimes I’m under on calories but over on carbs or vice versa. Give yourself grace and look at those days and chances to learn about your body and what it needs. Then KEEP TRACKING! My first week wasn’t perfect and I still saw results.🥳 ### 5/5 — Atkins Tracker is the best! *2021-06-07, version 4.3.3* I love the Atkins app as you can track your meals easily, add your own recipes and yet get recipes. I also like to use it to plan ahead by putting all my meals for the coming week in so I can have onhand exactly what I need for the week. If I don’t end up having a planned meal or item in the meal, I can easily edit it. This makes it convenient for accepting invitations to lunch 😊 Also important is the guidance that is built into the program to choose your phase and much support and information. And, all of it is free!! ### 5/5 — Very nice app! *2020-01-22* The meal tracking app and Atkins plan had been an excellent tool in achieving my health goals. It's very easy to use. I wish you could see calories per item and carbs instead of just the overall calories but I suppose calories are not the focus anyway. I've been the plan for two months and am down 25 pounds. Inflammation greatly reduced, more energy, less gastrointestinal issues. The recipes are easy and Atkins produo are a welcome treat and alternative when I feel I need a little something. They have been part of why I've been successful. With Atkins as and education on Keto and Low carb eating my attitude towards food has transformed. Low carb is now my lifestyle. There's no turning back. Life is balance Eat well... Lots of salad and veggies, enjoy protein with the fat in healthy portions, avoid sugary foods when possible Atkins treats can help!, exercise at least a little, drink water, replace electrolytes magnesium and potassium. You won't regret it! ### 5/5 — Great Low Carb App *2019-11-11, version 4.2.5* I absolutely love this app. It really helps me stay on track and be accountable. I love that you can scan foods or enter the nutrition information in and get accurate info. The one thing I wish it would do is, when you are creating a recipe and adding ingredients, be able to have the option to scan in or enter the nutritional info of an item, as some of my ingredients have different nutritional value then what the app has. Other then that I give this app 5 stars because it truly works, I lost 6 lbs in my first week and don’t plan on stopping. ### 5/5 — Great Bariatric Surgery Tool *2019-04-05, version 4.2.2* I had the Sleeve surgery last May. By following the Atkins program with this app, I have lost 130 lbs. This app counts my protein, carbs and fats and make me accountable by entering every morsel that passes my lips. I record even the poor choices I make. This app enforces mindful eating. You can also track your weight loss and measurements. This is one of the easiest apps to use. Many items are already pre-loaded. It not only includes non-brand foods, it includes many brand names too. Many restaurants are included along with big-box items from stores such as Costco. ### 5/5 — Best user-friendly weight loss tool EVER!! *2019-02-15, version 4.2.2* This is the first weight loss tool that I didn’t delete within 24 hours of installing. It is so easy to use, even for us baby boomers, and it provides accurate accountability for every single thing you eat. Also keeps a running calorie count for the day. No more guessing or estimating. If you are serious about being on a low carb plan, there is no better tool than this one, and believe me, I have tried so very many! I like that I didn’t have to put in so much data just to get it up and running, too. Great app! ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2018-12-11, version 4.0.7* I use the tracker every day to monitor my intake to stay 20 carbs or less and also watch total calories. Things I don’t like: you have to go back to the menu page, then to the meal, and then add each item separately as opposed to being able to add multiples to the meal at one time. NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW what the red flames at the bottom of the page nor the green wheels that say fat and protein mean or how to interpret them. Why even put them on there if there are no explanations? I wrote to Adkins but no response. I also find that often the numbers that come up do not match the nutritional information on the container so I have to do a lot of custom entries. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*