# Calorie Counter - Asken Diet — user reviews > 26 indexed App Store user reviews of Calorie Counter by Asken Inc., rated 4.66/5 from 2,645 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calorie-counter-asken-diet/id1161305507/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calorie-counter-asken-diet/id1161305507.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,104 · 4★ 320 · 3★ 136 · 2★ 34 · 1★ 51 ## What do users think of Calorie Counter? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for tracking calories and nutrients - 🚀 Easy to use app interface - 💪 Effective for weight loss - 🔍 Detailed nutrient information **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy app with issues like incorrect food logging - 📉 Grading system not very intuitive - 🔍 Limited food database and barcode scanning - 🤔 Lacking customization options **Commonly reported bugs** - App switching logged food items to incorrect items - Barcode scanner not working accurately - Exercise logging issues with missing data **Most requested features** - Add ability to save meals for easier logging - Provide more personalized diet and nutrition advice - Include options to track vitamins and medications - Allow manual calorie and nutrient entry ## Newest reviews (6 of 26) ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2020-05-13* I recently started using this app and so far I’m really liking it. I love being able to see my charts and get advice on my diet. I just have a few things that bother me with the app: 1. You can’t manually set your calorie intake. It automatically set mine to 1,800 daily and I wish it would be lower but it seems like I can’t change it. 2. The calorie tracker at the top of the screen is kind of confusing. I wish it were a simpler format. 3. The grading system doesn’t make a lot of sense. If I eat way below my calorie goal for the day, I’ll get a good grade. But if I eat even 50 calories over my limit I get a C or a D. Overall I just can’t figure out what it’s basing the grade off of - and in a way it almost seems encouraging of eating way below your limit. That’s all from me, I’m enjoying the app so far! **Developer response:** Thanks for the 4 stars and helpful review. It's all great feedback. Sorry our grading wasn't as helpful to you as we'd hoped it would. We'd love to follow-up with you and collect even more feedback (good and bad). If you can, please email us at support@askendiet.com and tell us more ways we can improve. We'd love to eventually earn an updated review and get that coveted 5th and final star in your review! ### 4/5 — A Few Questions *2018-10-16* I gave this app a four star because of just how good it's made, but I wish it was just a little more flexible. 1) I wish you could manually put in the calories and not just have it based off of height, wieght. Some people need more nutrition than others. For example, myself. I also don't get why, after I put my age and height (I'm underwight and short for my age) it still gives my a low calorie recommendation. 2) Why is this app only for teens 16+? Why can't it be thirteen plus? My litter sister (14) is a little heavy and loves the idea of having this app! I really don't see how this app could be inappropriate for someone 13+. **Developer response:** Thanks for taking the time for the review. We honestly wish we could be more flexible but we have a few reasons we are not. Regarding (1), manually adding calories. We currently don't allow that because we need more nutrient information to give diet advice. We don't want to simply be a calorie counter but instead monitor users overall nutrient intake. If you could manually add calories, our algorithm couldn't give proper advice. Regarding (2) age limit. We have a few reasons. The USDA and other nutrient guidelines we adhere to are based on adults 16+. It is a different set of data to give advice to younger people, which we are currently not ready to do. In addition, if/when we add a Community function (sharing photos, diet tips, chat etc) we need to have users 16+ for legal/safety/privacy reasons. Sorry we aren't currently more flexible but I hope you understand our situation a little better. We are always working to improve the app and hopefully we can earn that coveted 5th star from you in the future. If you need help later on, feel free to email support@askendiet.com ### 5/5 — Love this app *2018-02-15* I met a coworker who used this app and it seemed easy enough so I began to use it. I love how easy it makes it to count calories and how it tells you how long you have to get to your goal. This is awesome everyday I'm surprised that I'm still counting. Thanks developers and consultants. **Developer response:** Thank you (and your coworker) for using Asken Diet! Our entire team is so happy to read your review. Keep tracking and you WILL crush your diet goals. If you need any support feel free to email us at support@askendiet.com ### 5/5 — Helped me lose weight. I like it. *2017-09-26, version 1.7* I’ve been using this app for a bit now and I’ve actually been losing weight. I’m really liking all the dietary advice I get each day that’s based on the foods I’ve been eating. It’s very clear wether or not I’m hitting my goals. And all the super detailed nutrient info is a huge plus for me since I can see what nutrients I’m lacking or taking too much of each day. It seems like Asken is working with professional dietitians for all their info and that makes me trust them more than some of the other diet apps I’ve used. All in all I’m happy with what Asken has built here. Looking forward to seeing how this app develops. **Developer response:** Thanks for the 5 star review! The dietary advice is written by our team of nutritionists and dietitians so they will be happy to hear your feedback. We too are looking forward to releasing more exciting features for our users like yourself. Stay tuned! ### 5/5 — LOVE it! *2017-09-13* I love getting the feedback at the end of the day. It tells me what I'm doing well and what I can improve, so I'm eating better and better each day :) It's like having a coach right by your side all the time- I can't believe this app is free! **Developer response:** Hi Karen! Wow, what a great review to read. Thank you! Our main goal is to give users a diet coach right in the phone so we are thrilled you feel that way. Our team of licensed nutritionists and dietitians create the advice for our users! And yes, its FREE! The daily advice is free after you log all 3 meals in a day (while Premium users get advice after each separate meal). We only recently launched in the US so we'd love to get more feedback (good and/or bad) from users like yourself. Email us at support@askendiet.com and we can chat a bit more so we can learn how to improve! ### 4/5 — Good *2017-02-24* If I can write diary like Japanese version, it'll be perfect. **Developer response:** Thanks for the nice review. We do have plans in the future to add a diary like our Japanese version. Stay tuned! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No Japanese *2023-04-10* Why I can’t choose Japanese version in Canada? ### 1/5 — Dan to sign up for an app that changes when you pay for the worse *2023-03-28* Removing the scanner option leaves no reason to pay for this app. ### 1/5 — the new update is maddening *2019-06-19* all i want to do is put in breakfast! i’ll put fried egg and it turns to fried plantain with egg!! i put in coffee with half and half and it changed to coffee creamer! this is the most frustrated i’ve ever been with an app!! i had it in 2016 and it worked great. but it gets worse and more confusing and complicated with every update. until they figure out why it’s switching this app is getting deleted. **Developer response:** Hi. Oh geez sorry to read this review. This is our exact opposite of what we are hoping for. Can you email us with more details, screenshots and username so we can investigate more deeply. Email us at support@askendiet.com. Thanks and sorry for the hassle! ### 2/5 — Detailed but lacking *2021-08-18* the details on what u need more and less of and possible foods to eat is very helpful. tracking ur daily calorie output as well is too however there is one big issue. When creating foods you can only do calories and nutrients when u should be able to create meals and recipes that u can tweak depending on how much u eat or cook with. For example, ground beef mashed potatoes and cheese should be able to be put into a meal that can be always easily accessible without having to relog everything that went into a meal everytime. the exercise is full of problems. first you can’t search or add in the calories yourself so i had to just pick yoga and change it til it gave me the calories and i used a separate app to get those calories since this app just did not have what was necessary. also workouts need to be able to be logged with time OR reps. i am not counting my push-ups or sit-ups with time i count them by how many i do as nearly everyone does. i originally was giving a 3 star review but after seeing the exercise i have to give a 2 star review. **Developer response:** Thanks for taking the time to share your honest feedback. We hear you about adding the ability to add recipes and meals. It is on our (long) list of improvements. As is addressing the Exercise section and added a much needed search bar there. While your 2 star review hurts (especially since we are small team of just a few people)...it does help to hear this kind of feedback from users (happy and not) so we can reassess our priorities of what we work on next. So for that, thank you. Your feedback was heard and taken to heart. Hopefully in the future you will check us out again and we can earn an updated/improved review from you. ### 2/5 — Could be better *2021-05-29* The barcode scanner rarely if ever brings up accurate information. This would give good advice on what to avoid or add for meals if you’re okay manually entering in all the nutritional information for what you eat. I’m not going to sit and type all that out on my tiny phone keyboard, so deleted the app. **Developer response:** Hi Griff, Thanks for taking the time to review us. Wow, sorry to hear the barcode scanner didn't bring up good info for you. We usually hear good feedback about this feature. We know you already deleted the app :( but if possible, could you email support@askendiet.com and let us know what kind of packaged items our barcode scanner didn't have so we could investigate. Thanks! ### 2/5 — Not quite what I was looking for *2018-05-14* I thought I’d try this app as I got the Fitbit Versa but I was disappointed. I was excited to see the nutrient listings. Unfortunately when I logged my food I got an A. The app only graded based on calorie intake. I was hoping it would judge on nutrients and calories. I had no veggies or fruit (not typical but it does happen) and I still got an A. It should’ve been a C or D. I’m just going to use the food portion of the Fitbit app. It shows macros now. **Developer response:** Thanks for the review and actionable feedback for us. Sorry we didn't fit what you needed. It does sound odd that you got an 'A' score as it should be harder to get especially if you didn't have fruits and veggies. Our diet advice is all written by our licensed dietitians and nutritionists. If you'd be willing, could you email us at support@askendiet.com so we can take a look in to your account and see what triggered the 'A' score. If it was a bug we want to fix it, if there is another reason for the trigger, we'd like to explain it after we investigate it. We are a small team building the app so we'd like to pinpoint any issues and resolve it for you and/or future users. Thanks and hope you enjoy the Versa. We enjoyed porting our app to it. ### 3/5 — More Diagnosis Options *2022-12-03* I am using this to track meals for my wife. She has: Congestive Heart Failure, COPD and kidney problems so she is on a very low sodium diet with a fluid restriction. She's also diabetic so she needs to watch her carb intake. The app seems to do well for tracking what she eats but it is seriously lacking at observing and advising for her restrictions. ### 3/5 — It’s bugging out *2019-06-20* I’ve been using this app for a long time and I love it! But recently it’s been buggy..I’ll search up certain foods and it’ll like repeat the same things when I try looking for what I’m logging. And I know it’s not just because of the app not having nutritional facts for certain foods. Because even when I search for foods I’ve logged many times I can’t find it. It also does this in my history because I eat a lot of the same things everyday so. I’ll log something from my history and it’ll be a completely different food item in my log :( **Developer response:** UPDATE 2: Wow this bug doesn't sound good. This is the first we've heard of it but we want to investigate what's going on. We will look in to it now. Can you email support with your email address so we can look at your activity to see what items seem to be triggering this bug? Email support@askendiet.com. Thanks and sorry for the hassle! UPDATE: We just released an update that fixes the exercise bug. You should be able to log exercises again. (Original response) Thanks for taking the time to review us. We are submitting an app update today to fix that exercise bug. You should have the update soon. Sorry for the hassle! Hopefully once exercise logging works again, we can earn that coveted 5th star from you. If you have other feedback, issues or ideas, feel free to email us at support@askendiet.com ### 4/5 — Decent App *2023-05-12* I really dislike that they took away the scan option for logging food. It was helpful on busy days, but once you’ve logged something it is easy to find in your history. I wish you could save a meal so that’s it’s easier to log during the week as I often reparation things that work for my net balance goals. The advice portion is a bit mundane. Suggestions would be better if they included foods to get you were you need to be. I often get the same advice daily which doesn’t seem super helpful. A verity would be more helpful. Overall this is a great way to keep track of what you are eating and a way to motivate you to keep on working toward your health goals. You can’t beat the paid price and for the most part I'm happy with it. ### 4/5 — Good App :)) *2021-09-27* I enjoy the app so far. I like how you can add foods and find foods by the barcodes. I also like how it tells you what nutrients you need more or less of like sodium, fats, potassium, fiber, etc. I would like it more if it had sugar and added sugar apart of the nutrients you need more or less of. Other than that I enjoy it :)) **Developer response:** Thanks for taking the time to review us. Yes, the barcode scanning function is so quick and helpful! We hear you about the sugar feedback. It is a tricky situation for our team of nutritionists actually...we source our food data from multiple sources (Pros = more food data. Cons = not all data sources have the same data available). One of our sources is the USDA official database which has sugar data included in the source data. But their database isn’t always as up-to-date as some third party food databases we purchase. Think of companies that are constantly offering a new snack or drink product for the summer...the USDA is a bit slow to add those to their database. But third party companies are quick to add that information (especially barcode scanning information) and we license that info from their constantly updated database. Unfortunately, those third-party databases sometimes have gaps in some nutrients (often being sugar details). So some of our data doesn’t have sugar data, while some does. Our nutrition team is always working to research and add sugar data (and any other missing data) to fill any gaps in our database. But it taking longer than expected for our small team. Apologies about that. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great App For Losing Weight *2021-05-07* This app has been really helpful for keeping my daily calorie intake down. I have really seen good results over the past month or so. The app interface is a little complicated but you get the hang out it quite easy. Definitely recommend 🤙 **Developer response:** Aww thanks for the glowing review. We are happy to hear it. As for the app interface...we are constantly trying to improve. Our app actually originated in Japan so we have been in the process of adjusting the app interface from Japanese preferences to Canada/US preferences. If you have suggestions on how/where we can improve regarding the interface, we'd be happy to hear from you. Email: support@askendiet.com and tell us about it. ### 5/5 — Awesome to loose weight! *2021-04-02* I was able to loose weight with this app. Started in January and it’s April now and I lost 6lbs. I just log in all my food and it helps keep track of how many calories I intake each take. Also helps with keeping track of your protein, iron, vitamin etc intake. Highly recommend **Developer response:** Thanks for the nice review. 6lbs down is no joke! Keep it up. Our app will guide you to sustainable weight change as you continue to log food items. Some people might think the weight change progress is slow, but our nutritionists are doing it this way so that the changes stick long term. You got this! ### 5/5 — Review *2021-03-23* I love this app it has helped me a lot to try and keep on track with my food. It also says what other things to eat which is very helpful. It calculates your calories and so much more. An awesome app to try. **Developer response:** Thanks so much for the kind review. We agree, it is an awesome app to try. Keep up the great work with your diet. Our whole team is cheering you on! ### 5/5 — Nutrition and vitamins *2020-02-20* Love this app but would like to see a area to add in your daily vitamin, because I take calcium and other vitamins prescribed by my physician. Also would like to see a question spot or chat option for the dietitian. And one more thing I would like to see is maybe a spot for the type of diet your on, since my physician has me on a reduced liver diet a lot of the dietitians advice does not pertain to my diets guidelines. All just things that would make me want to purchase the monthly subscription. Thank you for this app it’s helping me stick to my goals and keep track of my meals. **Developer response:** Hi Bryan. Thanks for taking the time to review us. And 5 stars! We are a really small team so we really appreciate the rating. Your feedback is really good. Long story short, we want to do everything you suggested. We just need to prioritize it with the other things we are currently working on. A diary or chat option is something we are drafting already in our plans. As for specific diets (based on medical needs, religious, cultural etc) is something we are working on but it is taking us longer than we expected (because we want to get it right). We basically need to adjust ALL the nutrition text based on each different diet a user selects. It's so much more than just counting calories, we want to give text advice based on each diet. Lastly, about adding vitamins/calcium, it is a fine line for our nutritionists. They prefer users to eat real food to get nutrients and worry if people try to get too many of their nutrients from supplements it might not lead to sustainable diet changes. But as a temporary solution, feel free to email me at support@askendiet.com and I'll help manually add the calcium/vitamins products you want to add. That way in the future you can simply search and find those items custom to your profile. Hope that helps. Again, thank you for joining Asken Diet. ### 5/5 — Great App *2020-02-15* Even though the Cartoon character is a little goofy, this app is precisely everything you need to gain or lose weight. I’ve tried several apps in the past and this one does it all. Bravo Asken diet, bravo. **Developer response:** The world needs a little goofy. Glad you found the app useful and thank you for taking the time to review us! ### 5/5 — It helps! *2019-11-09* I am an eater. I love to eat. I don’t like to move a lot. I tried keto diet, I lost 5 pounds in 3 months, I left it, I gain 10. This app help me to count calories but also to be aware of what I’m eating. I have lost 3 pounds in 10 days. And I’m not starving. I love it. I think it helps when you are consistent in logging your meals and looking at the calories. **Developer response:** Love this review. We are a team of eaters here at Asken Diet. That is why we built this app!! And we completely agree that consistency is key. You got this and our whole team is here to support you hit your diet goals. ### 5/5 — Haven’t started but... *2019-07-08* I haven’t started the actual process of logging drink and food yet but I love the app. The app is so easy to figure out and I love the way it’s set up so you don’t have to spend your money to use the app. This app makes me want to organize everything and congrats to the creator/s of this app thanks for creating my inspiration to lose weight and get organized about it. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind review! We appreciate the positive feedback (and if you ever have less-positive feedback feel free to email us at support@askendiet.com). Once you get in to the rhythm of logging food each day it will become routine and the nutritional advice gets more helpful each day as it learns from your (logged) nutritional intake and exercise (calories burned). You got this! We are here to support you. ### 5/5 — I love this app! However... *2018-07-05* I really enjoy this app, and I feel it will help me a lot in my weight loss journey! But there is one thing I'd love to see added to the application. That is, dancing. I typically do very cardio based dance workouts for weight loss, but there is no dance option when logging exercise. I would love to see that added! Overall amazing app however! **Developer response:** Hi Evie, thanks for the nice review! Our whole team is here to support you on your journey. You got this! Regarding dancing, we might be able to add it. It gets tricky because there is a wide variety of dance styles (ie intensity and impact on your calories burned number). Our nutrition team will look in to it. Feel free to email support@askendiet.com to give us more feedback. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Love *2018-06-22* Day 1 of my trial was awesome!!! I loved getting graded for my day even though it wasn’t high because I know I will do better and any bit of growth is improvement! I don’t want to go back to that grade again! Also love the advice and suggestions that are given! Very excited to see how today goes!!!! Thank you!!! **Developer response:** LOVE reading your review, Melanee. Thank you for giving us a try and welcome to Asken Diet. Our whole team is here to support you. You got this! ### 5/5 — Thank you! *2018-06-19* So I had gained 9 lbs in about a month because of over eating, but this app helped me lose it in about a month! Not only does it keep record of my foods, but al so the nutrients I’m supposed to be having. Best app ever when it comes to dieting since it encourages healthy eating habits. I’m back to 100 lbs and it has taught me a lot about what I eat. **Developer response:** Awesome to hear that our app is encouraging you to keep eating healthy. That is why we built it. Keep up the awesome work and thank you for taking the time to write a review. --- *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.*