# ChowTracker — user reviews > 54 indexed App Store user reviews of ChowTracker by Jamie Botham, rated 4.70/5 from 818 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chowtracker/id6744155101/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chowtracker/id6744155101.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 676 · 4★ 83 · 3★ 41 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 11 ## Newest reviews (15 of 54) ### 4/5 — great app except for the search engine *2026-08-15* this app is my favorite calorie tracking app yet, I really like the customization options available (though it would be nice if more accent colors could be added 👀) and it’s pretty simple to use and MOSTLY works perfectly fine. the only issue I have with the app is its search engine because sometimes food from certain brands won’t be shown in the search engine one day and could be found the next day or you search up something and you get results only slightly related to what you searched for. the app is still great, it would be nice if this issue could be resolved in the next update though. ### 4/5 — Bar code *2026-07-11* It’s a very good app and very good looks but I do wish you didn’t have to pay to scam barcode since the search bar dose not have all the items and I cant track a lot of my snacks. ### 4/5 — The scan *2026-05-19* Why is the scan not free? ### 4/5 — cute !! *2026-05-13* i love the baby pink feature and the app is so easy to navigate !! it be cool if all the colours came in a soft baby colour ### 3/5 — Great Tracking App - Missing Cholesterol *2026-05-11* I really like this app! I paid for premium in hopes of unlocking more nutrition and better features, however I realized there is not an option for cholesterol which is the main reason I’m tracking food, I would really love to see that added!! **Developer response:** Thank you for your suggestion! We will make sure the team is aware this is a wanted feature so we can improve the app for you :) ### 3/5 — Good Tracking App *2026-04-13* I think this app is really good for being able to track your calories and to customize its look, although there are a few things I would change to make this app 5 stars. For example adding a way to tell the app you’re finished logging for the day to not lose your streak if you’re fasting, a way to see what you’ve logged for the day on your Home Screen as to edit or remove items, and a graph to log you’re weight loss and see your trends. I use this app instead of LoseIt because of the customization feature, but that app has all of these things I’ve mentioned and makes it a better app overall and I have potential of switching back. **Developer response:** Hey, thank you so much for your valuable feedback and kind words, we will use your feedback to improve ChowTracker. Thank you! ### 3/5 — always have to pay *2026-03-19* I did my research on the app and everyone was saying that the app was free and that was a complete lie because every time I try to track down my food it always says to get premium. They say that most of the app is free including the scanning part but that’s a lie it always tell me to get premium and asks me to pay but I don’t want to have to pay and want to use the app for free. They should put that you have to pay all the time and you are not allowed to use this app for free. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We apologise you have been misinformed by others online. ChowTracker has core tracking free and extra and easier ways for premium users. We apologise you didn’t find this to be the case for you. Many thanks ### 5/5 — Change Date *2026-03-13* Love the app, just please work on fixing the “change the date” option. I’d have to delete stuff and go to the actual date. I think changing the date would be much more convenient. ### 3/5 — Barcode scanner and Weight log chart need improvement *2026-03-13* When I scan a barcode of a food, I often have to adjust calories and macros to actually reflect nutritional info per serving. I also don’t like how sometimes, even if I enter a weight recording for the day, on the graph there will be days when my weight shows 0.0lb which makes it difficult to visualize progress with the graph going up and down so falsely dramatic. I do overall enjoy the app though. **Developer response:** Hey thank you for your feedback, we will take these into consideration for ongoing updates to improve this for you. Many thanks! ### 3/5 — Widgets please *2026-03-13, version 1.12.3* Widgets please ### 5/5 — Great App but Feedback *2026-03-12* I love the app however one thing I wish was changed was so the graphs don’t record days you don’t log it. For example, I don’t weigh myself everyday but then it logs it as zero so my graph looks all wonky! Other than that, it’s such a great app and very user friendly! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review, your feedback will be reflected in our next update to ensure this is fixed for you. Thank you so much for your review! ### 5/5 — GREAT AND FREE *2026-03-02* guys get this app rn!! you can pay for premium to log things like sleep and water but i js use it for tracking calories and it’s great! it also lets you log exercise and doesn’t push premium membership on you every 5 seconds it also has no ads get it rn! ### 4/5 — 4 *2026-02-25, version 1.12.3* the app is very cute i love the style personalization and how easy it is to navigate the app the only problem i have with it is that i cant find the foods i have in the search bar, so i wish there was more variety to the foods we log in. ### 3/5 — Can’t sign in.. but paying *2026-02-13* I recently got this app.. forgot my password an even tho it says it’s sending me an email to reset the email never shows up.. I can’t contact because that requires the mail app which I don’t use so here I am. Please someone fix this for me I am still paying an want my app back with all my data. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Helps allot losing weight *2026-02-02, version 1.12.3* It helped me allot I went from 123 to 53 so much I love it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — ruined *2026-01-10* after the latest update, you can no longer add custom measurements. i had lots of items i’ve added to the list of foods myself, and so when i’m cooking or making something i can just type in the exact amount of grams and it’ll work out the calories and protein. now, i can’t type in custom measurements, and have to work it out in my calculator beforehand before adjusting all the separate macros on the app. basically pointless now **Developer response:** Hey Grace, thank you for your review, in the recent update we made changes to how servings work, we also added a notice on how to update the old foods you had saved to the new servings, all you need to do is slide on the food and click “edit” then save the changes. All new foods will automatically use the new system. I hope this helps ### 1/5 — new update *2026-01-08* new update is not allowing me to put custom numbers pls help pls make it old way again **Developer response:** Thank you for your review, in the new update we updated the way servings work to improve conversions. In the app it mentions how to re-enable the conversions on old foods, all new foods will have the new improved system. I hope this helps! ### 1/5 — Fix ur app *2025-12-18, version 1.11.1* Almost all of the time the search button doesn’t work, and it is so annoying because how am I supposed to track calories. Seriously do better, it can’t be that hard to fix a search feature ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work anymore *2026-08-30* Worked okay at first, now it can’t even give you grams or ounces for physical food items. How do you expect me to log FOOD with ml? Obviously ai-supportive (the ai doesn’t work anyway). Just kinda pointless, so many bugs and isn’t great at giving you the food items your searching for, even if you say the exact brand name and WHAT it is. Find a different app! **Developer response:** Hey! Thank you for your feedback, we resolve all reported bugs and pride ourselves in a bug free app, please remember to report any issues to have them resolved as they may be isolated issues. Our ai additions have been developed to be one of the most accurate thanks to our add context system which allows you to point ai in the right direction. Many thanks ### 2/5 — Been trying to get help, no response👎 *2026-07-01* I sent an email about a week ago asking to cancel my subscription as I no longer use it enough. I did not hear back. There isn’t even a section in the app to ask help! This is so frustrating I cannot find the subscription on my Apple setting and have sent the email twice. **Developer response:** Hello, thank you for reaching out, we just searched for this email and are unable to locate it, you can cancel your subscription from your settings app on your phone by going to Settings -> Apple account -> subscriptions. I hope this helps! Many thanks ### 2/5 — good app but big problems *2026-06-19* I love the app and the personalisation options, but finding foods i've previously logged is weirdly difficult. there's no logical or clear way to access past entries, so I often have to end up inputting it from scratch on another day which makes logins mundane and long. the search function is disappointing. compared to my fitness pal, searching for foods often returns completely unrelated results, and even foods i've logged before don't always appear. as a premium subscriber, I would have expected more. but I will no longer be using this app - I have to cancel my subscription **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, we will take note of this and address the issues for future users! Thank you for your support ### 2/5 — Not very good compared to other apps *2026-06-15* Its personalizable simple interface is what’s most appealing about it, other than that it’s less advanced than other apps and locks some features under subscription when other apps like my net diary offer the same features for free. It also doesn’t allow you to put your age as under 16. Overall solid app, but its drawbacks turned me to other apps. Its interface is very well done and easy to use but in terms of function it’s very basic. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, we aim to keep ChowTracker simple and this is why we don’t aim to over complicate with unnecessary bloat. Thank you for your feedback we will use this to improve. ### 2/5 — THE NEW UPDATE *2026-03-19* the new update makes it even more difficult to find foods in the search. before, when i couldn’t find what i was looking for there would usually be other options similar to mine, but now when i search something with a brand name, what used to have many variations now has none. i’m better off making an estimate mentally than using this app. i was looking forward to an update on the search database since it needed some improvements, but now it has become almost entirely useless instead. i hope you guys can find a solution to this as i do prefer this app over many other trackers. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. We will take a look into this with an investigation and push out a fix if we find this to be an unintentional glitch. Thank you ### 2/5 — Bug within 2nd week *2025-12-04* The app was working well the first week. But now I can’t search anything that I’ve logged before. It keeps saying it has no search results for food I’ve logged before. I’ve tried redownloading the app twice and restarting my phone and it’s still not working. I love the app but not that it’s not working anymore. **Developer response:** Hey! Thank you for sharing with us, this is the first we’ve heard of this issue, we will look into and resolve once we locate what may have caused this bug. Kind Regards ### 2/5 — limited features *2025-08-22* every other tracking app i have used has more free features/ better features. while the app looks nice and aesthetically pleasing, hardly any foods are in the system. **Developer response:** Hello, Thank you for your feedback, due to us having a no ad experience for free users we have to accommodate more for the premium. We will take your feedback onboard to improve. Many thanks! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — loveee *2026-08-07* such a cute tracker! i’ve tried it for a bit, it’s so easy to use and makes tracking fun! also connects to health and ur apple watch, so it’s even easier knowing how much u can eat. so much cuter than the other trackers aswell x **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review! Glad you are enjoying it and we will continue to add more health connections and features :) ### 5/5 — sooo cute!!! i have an update idea! :) *2026-07-09* It would be SO cute if like we could have our own diaries in the app🥹 where we could track our weight, measurements, etc! and if we could add our own photos to the diary for aesthetic reasons :)! hope the devs see this! ### 5/5 — amazing but i wish there was one more thing *2026-07-09* i use this app all the time i just wish it had an option thats easier to track measurments! building muscle means the scale may go up while physically the body is looking different, i used to add notes to each weight but theres no way to see the full note so i can only see half the measurements! 🥲 ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-05-15* This is such a great app for tracking my calories! I find it to be more easier to use and less complicating than other tracking apps (i.e. MyFitnessPal). I love how they also have the grams setting, which is very helpful when tracking with the food scale I have **Developer response:** Thank you for your review! It made our day! :) ### 5/5 — The best! *2026-05-09* Literally the best app for tracking. It’s fun & easy. This app has definitely made it easy to be consistent and achieve my current weight goals. ### 5/5 — AMAZING BRO *2026-04-18, version 1.13* I am so ECSTATIC I discovered this nutrition tracker app. It doesn’t require an 80 dollar subscription to track a basic diet. MYFITNESSPAL SUCKS. I am so grateful I get fantastic benefits for free. Your search is over!! Download this app you won’t regret it! Bonus: the theme is so cute!! ### 5/5 — simple app, gets the job done :) *2026-04-04* I really love the small community in this app!! everyone on the forum page is super nice <3 I love the “simple logging” option where you can just log calories and macros if you are unsure of the meal’s contents😸 **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your feedback, super glad it’s helpful for you! ☺️ ### 5/5 — Very useful *2026-04-02* Great app, no adds and premium is worth for the barcode scanner. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind review! So glad you find it useful. ### 5/5 — SO GOOD *2026-03-20* really really good for logging calories. there are so many food options already in there!! also its so cute you can make the tracking circle into a heart ### 5/5 — Helpful but 1 improvement needed *2026-03-17* I really like this app and I love how we can personalize it and make it pink which really makes a difference when doing something like calorie tracking to make it a bit more fun. However, when I go to change the date it glitches, so if I wanted to see how many calories I ate on a day 6 months ago, the ‘choose date’ feature is blank and it won’t let me actually see the dates to scroll through. Please can you fix this as this is something really helpful and important for me and will have to switch apps if it’s not fixed, even though I love ChowTracker ☹️ Thank you - UPDATE: have seen you fixed this issue in the latest update. Thank you so much!!!!!! This is great and I will continue to use 🥰 **Developer response:** Hey, thank you so much for your kind words! Your review was the cause of getting it fixed, thank you for your feedback and giving us the chance to resolve this for you. We really appreciate your continued support! 😁 --- *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 2026-09-02.*