# Back to Basics: Lyndi Cohen — user reviews > 76 indexed App Store user reviews of Back to Basics by Lyndi Cohen, rated 4.80/5 from 18 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/back-to-basics-lyndi-cohen/id1568257642/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/back-to-basics-lyndi-cohen/id1568257642.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 16 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (20 of 76) ### 5/5 — Very happy with this app! *2024-02-12, version 1.2.141* I signed up during my pregnancy and have loved all of the content! The workouts are really doable and the recipes are super easy to make and healthy. My husband has loved all the recipes too! ### 5/5 — Love this app! *2024-01-21, version 1.2.131* The recipes are super easy and yum. Is helping me gain a better relationship with food. I definitely recommend B2B! ### 5/5 — This app is really easy to use. *2024-01-13, version 1.2.129* I like the simplicity of the ‘Back to Basics’ app not just for its ease of use - it wouldn’t be much good if that was the only good bit! But it’s also great for meal ideas plus recipes to suit all tastes and workout suggestions. I certainly recommend giving it a go!! ### 5/5 — The best! *2024-01-12, version 1.2.129* I love the recipes, they are easy, and super delicious! The calendar function allows you to plan your week, and the search function is really handy and easy to use. Love!! ### 5/5 — Excellent app! *2024-01-08, version 1.2.129* Easy to navigate, lots of variety with recipes. So handy to be able to adjust the recipes to the number of serves needed. Love it!!! ### 5/5 — Love it and use it every day *2023-11-30, version 1.2.125* I have been following the workouts on the Back to Basics app for over 3 years now, through pregnancy, postpartum and beyond. I loved that I could be confident that I was moving safely and effectively through pregnancy, and postpartum recovery, and it has made daily workouts accessible with a baby, and now busy toddler. I literally use the app every day. It is such great value, and I could not recommend it more highly. ### 5/5 — Easy and understandable *2023-06-05, version 1.2.117* Thank you getting off the yo yo bandwagon. Love the recipes planners and simply add to shopping list! Saves so much time ### 5/5 — Exceeded Expectations *2023-05-11, version 1.2.114* I have had this app for 3-4 weeks and every recipe I have tried is amazing. I’ve learnt a lot about healthier cooking methods (ie: how to make a creamy pasta sauce that’s to die for using just grated zuchinni and milk). I’m a single Mum and I love that I can dial up or dial down the serves pending if I’m on my own or have the kids and the recipe automatically adjusts the ingredients. And love that we can mark our favourites. You know it’s good when the kids say “Mum, put a star on that one!!” Thanks Lyndi & Team ### 5/5 — Brilliant app! Love the video content *2023-05-04, version 1.2.114* I love this app. It just makes life so easy. Not only are the recipes fantastic, but I love that you can select your meals with the meal planner and then create a shopping list and send it all to your Woolies or Coles online shopping! And as a mum, it’s great that you can select how many people you’re cooking for… so for me it’s one for lunch but 4 for dinner - and the required ingredients adjust accordingly! The video content and challenges are brilliant. I highly recommend this to everyone. ### 5/5 — One of my favourite things *2023-04-27, version 1.2.113* Delicious, easy to make meals is a winner. Let alone the convenience of dumping my menu into a shopping list into my woolies cart! GENIUS! ### 5/5 — I was curious *2023-03-21, version 1.2.113* I am super impressed with this app. It’s user friendly and has so much information. It’s presented in a fresh happy way that just makes me feel good. ### 5/5 — Worth the $ *2023-03-05, version 1.2.113* Most health/wellbeing apps are products you use when you’re on a health kick and then fall by the wayside when you inevitably fall off the bandwagon. This app is refreshingly the opposite for me. It’s my go-to when I’ve stumbled in my health journey and need a reset, some inspiration and some kindness. It’s a pricey app subscription but I easily get more than this value out of it every year. It’s an exercise class, wellbeing coach, recipe book and meal planner all in one. I love the recipes and there’s a huge variety of exercises to suit my mood. Have also had a couple of interactions with the app support team over the years in which they consistently demonstrated outstanding customer service. Thanks Lyndi and team. Keep up the great work! ### 5/5 — Changed my life 🥰 *2023-02-09, version 1.2.111* I absolutely love this app. The recipes are amazing and so easy to do. My partner and I are doing this together and he said to me, whatever you doing keep doing it because I love this food 😆it has completely changed how we eat and feel within ourselves. We are loving it ❤️ ### 5/5 — Recipes at your fingertips! *2023-02-06, version 1.2.111* This app is so handy. As someone who doesn’t love cooking and the kitchen, I love having this library of recipes accessible whenever I need it. The function of adding the recipes to the planner and creating a shopping list makes the Sunday grocery shop so easy! ### 5/5 — Such a great app! *2023-02-04, version 1.2.111* I love this app! I’ve used it for a few weeks now and as someone who doesn’t love cooking it’s been a game changer! The recipes are easy enough to not stress me out but wonderfully tasty. The variety is great too! Thank you for your hard work on this app! ### 5/5 — Back to Basics *2023-02-04, version 1.2.111* Great value, with a wide range of health and wellness tools. I needed some support and the excellent customer service had my query resolved really quickly. ### 5/5 — Love this app *2023-01-31, version 1.2.110* The meals and weekly cookups are so quick and easy to make. The family enjoy eating them. I can do a big cook up and have breakfast and lunch plus snacks made to make my life easier. I also love that I can search an exercise programme by how much time I have available. ### 5/5 — Love this app *2023-01-30, version 1.2.110* Great app, lots of content and great pregnancy feature! ### 5/5 — This is just what I needed! *2023-01-29, version 1.2.110* Such a refreshing and realistic way to think about food. Some of my old habits are hard to break but with Lyndi’s reinforcement in her books and app, I’m definitely making a breakthrough. It just makes sense. The recipes are the best I’ve seen in a long time…and I read a lot of recipes. Every one has turned out perfectly and I love how you can so easily adjust the servings accordingly. Keep up the good work Lyndi! ### 5/5 — Simple healthy recipes *2023-01-27, version 1.2.108* Loving the educational content- but I’m really here for the recipes! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 4/5 — Great recipes, suggestions for Hunger Check-In *2023-01-17, version 1.2.105* I love the recipes on this app, love the easy search function where you can search ingredients. There are heaps of different filters like “budget friendly”, “meal-prep”, “lunchbox friendly” which also make searching for recipes super handy. I downloaded the app because I am doing Lyndi’s Keep it Real program, so I really like that it has a built in huger check-in. I do have a couple suggestions about this feature though - the terms used to rate hunger aren’t the same as the KIR hunger scale. That’s only a small thing since it is a number scale after all, but I feel like consistency across both would be fab. I’d also like to be able to write a note along with the hunger check-in so I can write my thoughts down around food as that is often recommended in the KIR program. Not sure how that would work with the current setup of only showing statistics, but I also feel like it would be good to be able to look back at a week/month at a time for example so you can see your progress. I also would love to be able to specify the time. That’s not a big one, but I’m a bit ocd and kinda want to track times for my hunger to see if there are trends. Aside from these small suggestions I absolutely love the app and the variety of simple yet delicious recipes! I haven’t used the workouts personally but that’s not what I was really looking for in the app, hunger check in and recipes mostly was what I was after. ### 4/5 — Recipes *2023-01-13, version 1.2.105* I’ve only just Downloaded this app, so far loving it. A couple of issues, when browsing the recipes, if I click on a recipe to have a look at it, then I hit the back button, instead of taking me Back to where I was on the recipe list, it takes you back to the home page. So I have to get back into recipes and find my place on looking through recipes. It’s a bit annoying. Also notice some recipes say GF but aren’t? Like the Bahn mi roll? Otherwise love everything about this app :) ### 4/5 — Great App *2022-12-05, version 1.2.105* Loved this app, loved the recipes they are delicious, simple, filling and balanced. No long list of weird ingredients…all stuff I regularly stock in my pantry. I started following Lyndi for her realistic approach. I don’t have a paid subscription unfortunately I don’t think I’m quite ready to ditch the calorie counting 😟. One (minor) functionality thing with the app that can be annoying - after viewing the recipe it goes back to the meal plan rather than the list of recipes. But all in all everyone needs to give this a go. ### 4/5 — Highly recommended *2022-08-08, version 1.2.85* As a health professional I am always on the look out for apps and websites that use evidence based practice, and resonate with the same messages and values that I try to use to empower my clients. It can be so difficult to find reliable and trustworthy health advice with all the white noise out there on social media. Back to Basics is easy to use, the recipes are quick, easy and delicious, and I would not hesitate to recommend to my family, friends or clients. ### 4/5 — Enjoying the app! *2022-02-17, version 1.2.30* The recipes are delicious and are super easy and quick. No faffing with loads of ingredients. Videos are bite-size and easy to watch. Shopping list feature is really handy too, and great that you can add other items to the list. Would be great if the list could be an ongoing saved list that you can continually add to/delete from as it seems you have to make a new list each time you log in and it doesn’t save stuff. Eg I took two separate trips to the supermarket but had to create the list twice, but by then I didn’t know what I already had/needed to buy. Also, would be great to add favourite meals directly from planning tool. Planning to try workouts too, also short and sweet to squeeze into the day. ### 5/5 — Love this approach to life *2025-01-30, version 1.2.160* Lyndi’s approach to food and exercise makes it easy to incorporate as a lifestyle choice. I love this app. All of it is bitesize and helpful. Highly recommend. What you see is what you get and there are no hidden surprises. ### 5/5 — Brilliant app! So grateful! *2025-01-12, version 1.2.160* I’ve have tried almost every diet there is. And then I found this app, along with the beautiful online community Lyndi Cohen has created. And so comforting knowing it’s written by a qualified Australian dietician. Finally learning to ditch the diets, intuitively cook healthy meals and focus on health measurements beyond the scales. Early days but I am absolutely loving it. Range of simple to more complex recipes, helpful guidance and tips, excercise and a planner. I highly recommend this app! ### 5/5 — So Useful! *2024-11-03, version 1.2.150* This app has the best recipes of any health app. The organisation of it is so helpful and straightfwd. After feeling overwhelmed with tracking and weighing this is a great way to reset and care for myself instead of beating myself up. Thank you Lyndi💚 ### 5/5 — Just what I needed *2024-10-08, version 1.2.149* A fantastic app for shifting your mindset around food (definitely what I needed)with practical, achievable strategies for everyday life! The video content is engaging, and the recipes are simple, delicious, and easy to follow. I love that there are no strict diet rules—just a focus on becoming a healthier version of yourself, completely guilt-free! ### 5/5 — Delicious, easy, real food!!! *2024-09-14, version 1.2.149* I love the app and its recipes and features. After 30 odd years of diets food is starting to be a non issue for me ## Most praised reviews (5 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing App *2024-05-12, version 1.2.146* I love this app. So easy to use and lots of advise and recipes at your fingertips. ### 5/5 — Review *2024-05-03, version 1.2.146* Hi Lyndi and team, I only downloaded your app a month ago on the recommendation of my daughter who is a binge eater and is an avid user of Back to Basics. I am 70 years old and am currently fighting extra kilos again. I thought I was the only one who experienced all these issues. It is good to know that I am one of many. Thanks for all you do and your advice is helping me to deal with a lifetime of weight governing my life. I have read your book twice and am hoping that, even at my age, I can turn things around. ### 5/5 — Love this App *2024-04-13, version 1.2.146* Very easy app to use which gives you everything you need at your fingertips. Can use it on my phone but also my IPad. ### 5/5 — Brilliant app for busy families *2024-03-12, version 1.2.146* We are loving this app! It is just what we needed as a busy family wanting to eat real food that’s simple to cook and delicious to eat. The planning tool is invaluable, it’s quick to choose meals and then create a shopping list - so something that used to take me hours to do myself now takes a few minutes. Plus you can include healthy, simple home-made snacks. And very practically, we can choose the number of serves for each meal which means that we can cook enough to have leftovers for lunch. The shopping list is split into categories, making it super easy for us to shop between farmers markets and supermarket to save money. I absolutely recommend this app!! ### 5/5 — A breath of fresh air *2024-03-01, version 1.2.146* Both the back to Basics app and Lyndi's Podcast are refreshingly simple, no-nonsense and focus on health & wellbeing not restrictive meal plans & inch loss. It's making life so much easier and more pleasant as I heal a very bad attitude towards my body! --- *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.*