# DASH Diet & Meal Plan — user reviews > 62 indexed App Store user reviews of DASH Diet & Meal Plan by Realized, rated 4.20/5 from 449 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dash-diet-and-meal-plan/id676477650/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dash-diet-and-meal-plan/id676477650.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 314 · 4★ 49 · 3★ 17 · 2★ 11 · 1★ 58 ## What do users think of DASH Diet & Meal Plan? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Easy-to-use interface and navigation - 🍽️ Variety of delicious and healthy recipes - 📋 Helpful shopping list generation feature - ✨ Well-thought-out meal planning - 🎯 Effective for health improvement goals **Cons** - 💰 Expensive subscription model ($9.99-$12/month) - 🚫 Paywall blocks all app functionality without subscription - ❌ No genuine free trial despite claims - 📊 Missing nutritional information for recipes - 🔧 Lack of customization options for meals - ❌ No ability to exclude foods by allergy or preference - ⚠️ Misleading marketing about free trial availability - 😤 Poor customer support responsiveness - 🚫 No food tracking or logging features - 📱 Technical issues and app compatibility problems - 🔐 Difficult to find cancellation settings - 💳 Unexpected charges and billing issues **Commonly reported bugs** - App cuts off content not optimized for latest iOS - Shopping list feature not working properly - Grocery list has buggy issues - Cannot access features despite paid subscription - App freezes or crashes on certain screens - Error messages prevent app usage - Trial timer starts immediately upon download without warning **Most requested features** - Detailed nutritional breakdown (calories, macros, sodium, potassium, fiber) - Food tracker and calorie counter integration - Ability to customize and swap ingredients in recipes - Favorites list functionality - Search function for recipes - Blood pressure and weight tracking features - Option to exclude foods by allergy or taste preference - Video tutorials for recipe preparation - Expandable recipe screen for better readability - Ability to add custom recipes and foods - Free trial that actually provides full app access ## Newest reviews (15 of 62) ### 2/5 — Not what I expected *2024-07-10* Unfortunately this app doesn’t do what I anticipated and there’s no refund. Read the reviews carefully if you’re considering a purchase. ### 2/5 — Not worth the money *2022-05-24* All it is is a list of recipes that you subscribe to for $12 a month. Not worth it. If it was like the Keto app where it gave you tons of info about the diet and blood pressure/weight tracking options, then it may be worth it. But it’s just a recipe book you subscribe to monthly. Just find that online for free. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, sorry the app is not the right one for you. We provide meal plans, not just a list of recipes. They are balanced and offer calorie counts for helping with weight loss goals. But thank you for your thoughts. ### 1/5 — Trail period *2021-11-14* I signed up for monthly and was to receive 7 days free. I was charged immediately out of my account. I am trying to get a refund. And have cancelled. This is not the diet for me. **Developer response:** Hello, we do offer a free 7 day trial with the monthly subscription, not the annual. If you were charged, then you chose the annual subscription. Please email me if you have any questions: Kelly@HealthyHappySmart.com ### 1/5 — You have to pay for this *2021-11-06* Should warn that this is a paid subscription **Developer response:** You are right. We provide weekly meal plans and give a new plan each week therefore we charge for the app. We are up-front about this in the app store description. We hope you would find value in what we offer and hope you understand that we must charge for the work we put into our app. Thanks. ### 1/5 — How to rid yourself of free trial and subscription *2021-09-14, version 1.4.0* I do NOT wish to continue to be charged monthly. I do not use this ap. How do I end my subscription? ### 1/5 — Not A Good Ap *2021-08-22* This app only tells what to eat and not you choice. Some of the listed “daily” meals didn’t work for me. I did not want some unknown entity telling me here is your meal. I wanted help fitting my lifestyle into the DASH Diet, i.e., planning my meals. Do not pay for this. I paid and haven’t used their “suggested” plans yet. #1, I won’t go out and buy food for one suggested meal and then have tontoss out the rest. Each day the meal is different and that is NOT how plan my budget for food. **Developer response:** Sorry to hear that you’re having a bad experience with our app. Your feedback is important to us and has been noted. We do have a way to pick your own meals, you would just replace the ones we chose for you - Please email me if you have any questions or other suggestions or feedback: Kelly@HealthyHappySmart.com ### 1/5 — there is no 7 day free trial *2021-07-26* I signed up for the monthly subscription specifically because it said IN THE APP that i would be charged after the 7 day free trial. I was charged immediately and within minutes realized this wasn’t going to work for me. I went in and canceled and it says my subscription is good for the whole month. that’s not a free trial! Now i have to dispute the charge with Apple. be prepared to potentially waste $10 if you want to check this app out. **Developer response:** We're sorry to hear that you’re having a bad experience with our app. Your feedback is important to us and has been noted. I hope you were able to settle this issue you had with Apple. They handle billing and payments and I am sure it was a mistake on their end to charge you up front. Us developers have no control over billing, I am sorry for any trouble you had with that, but please contact Apple about why you were charged up front when there is supposed to be a free trial. Email me with an update if you can: Kelly@HealthyHappysmart.com ### 1/5 — Disappointed newbie *2021-07-23* I am new to the Dash Diet and was looking for an app to help with foods to choose. This app states that is has “Dash Diet information on the go” but all it has are pre set meals. Eat healthy with delicious meals, but it doesn’t say what individual food items are good for the Dash Diet. A good list would be good, but no. Big miss. I paid for a year because I knew I wanted to stick to this way of eating, but it is like jumping in the deep end. Bad for beginners. I am disappointed. **Developer response:** We're sorry to hear that you’re having a bad experience with our app. Your feedback is important to us and has been noted. Did you already check out the "i" tab down on bottom right, then tap on INTRODUCTION? Here we show some details about how to follow a dash diet and even have some food lists. Our team is working to improve our app performance and features. We will work on making the app more beginner friendly. Email me with any other feedback you may have: Kelly@HealthyHappySmart.com ### 2/5 — I was excited *2021-06-05* I was excited to down load this app so it can help me to lower my colesterol but all that excitement went through the window because it didn’t gave me the trail to use the app. It was giving me the option to choose between 2 plans and had to delete it because I’m not going to pay for something I haven’t event tried 🙅🏻‍♀️ **Developer response:** We're sorry to hear that you’re having a bad experience with our app. Your feedback is important to us and has been noted. There is a free trial with the monthly subscription. Just choose that option when signing up and you get 7 days free to try the app out, all features are available at this time. Email me for any questions: Kelly@HealthyHappySmart.com ### 1/5 — No option for trial... *2021-04-07, version 1.4.0* So must pay to do anything but enter your height and weight. Just put this as an app purchase and be transparent up front. ### 2/5 — Beware of trial *2021-01-31* I only tried this app because of the free trial. After signing up I was instantly charged and I immediately canceled after trying it out for a few minutes, but it was too late. I wish I had truly had a free trial because I quickly realized this app would not meet my needs. If I could track and enter my own foods and recipes along with the app suggestions I would just continue to use it. If you need meal suggestions you can find these for free online and it doesn’t seem worth $10 a month just to confirm you completed their exact suggestions. If you don’t already know how to eat a healthy diet and just need quick easy recipes already planned for you this might be for you. **Developer response:** We're sorry to hear that you’re having a bad experience with our app. Your feedback is important to us and has been noted. Our team is working to improve our app performance and other features such as tracking. But for now - it's a meal plan app for those who need ideas of what to eat to stay on track with the diet plan. -In response to the FREE TRIAL - there is one with the monthly subscription, not with the annual. Annual subscriptions are charged right away. Monthly give you a week to try out the app for a week without being charged anything during that weeks time. Email me anytime for questions you have: Kelly@HealthyHappySmart.com ### 1/5 — Rip-off *2021-01-05, version 1.4.0* Charged me before I could review information, not what I was looking for. It would cost a fortune for groceries.😡 ### 1/5 — Unable to evaluate *2020-11-16* Behind a paywall after signing up. Zero functionality without the option of signing up for a paid plan. I refuse to pay for something I can’t evaluate first. Edit: My review is very fair. If there was free trial I would have seen it. You clearly hide it. I won’t be trying it and won’t be changing my review 🙄 **Developer response:** Hi AdamQR - sorry for any confusion you have about our app - we do offer a free 7 day trial. Just be sure to choose the MONTHLY subscription. if you choose the ANNUAL, it will not give you a free trial. Choose monthly, get full access to everything in the app for 7 days and cancel anytime during the 7 days if you decide the app isn't for you - with no charge at all. We do not hide the trial, as that would be not favorable to our business (we want you to try the app out) and not to mention not allowed as per Apple's rules. Thanks for your feedback. Email me for questions: Kelly@healthyHappySmart.com ### 1/5 — Low budget limited app *2020-10-06, version 1.4.0* This horrible little app is not very flexible. It does not let you exclude foods due to taste or allergy. It’s base recommendations has you baking meals for lunch, like who has time for that. Very disappointed. ### 1/5 — Hard pass *2020-09-21, version 1.4.0* I paid, yet still can’t access features (that I paid for), and support is grossly unhelpful. That’s $10 utterly wasted. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Mad! *2026-08-13* Downloaded then immediately saw it was not for me. Now I can't find any way to cancel it! When I click on the help part I get an AI run around. "Can't help you with that" Don't get this app! ### 1/5 — Can’t try out first *2025-03-02* The app just ask for a subscription, I would be happy to do if I can try first out even for a few minutes! ### 1/5 — No zero stars? *2025-01-08, version 1.4.3* Please don’t waste your money or time. There is no free trial and the app does not work properly. No support. Complete junk app. ### 1/5 — Don’t be fooled *2024-11-26, version 1.4.3* This is not a tracker! It’s just recipes easily found on the internet. Waste of $$$. ### 1/5 — Eye roll *2023-09-19, version 1.4.1* Have to pay to even open the app. Useless. ### 1/5 — Useless *2023-04-24, version 1.4.1* Cannot use this without paying ### 1/5 — Brenda *2023-04-20* I find it hard to maneuver and frustrating that I can’t switch out ingredients in the recipes. ### 1/5 — Ripped off *2022-12-22, version 1.4.1* I was charged $47 for a year prescription! The app advertised that it was twenty something. ### 1/5 — Not sure how this is helpful *2022-08-11* You can’t see the app until you have subscribed, upon which you see no nutritional information for the recipes they have. How can you monitor your sodium intake when there is no nutritional information? Waste of money ### 1/5 — Not Right at all *2022-03-20* I downloaded this app with the one week free and it removed money from my account immediately. So not impressed and I will be contacting iTunes ASAP!!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Hypertensive *2026-03-09* If this helps me live longer then it will be worth it ### 5/5 — This app works beautifully *2021-04-26* I don't know why such negative reviews. The version I have works perfectly. You can tell a lot of thought went into planning the meals. If you need to improve your health, this app is a great place to start. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to review our app! We’re so happy you’re enjoying it. Email me if you ever have any questions: Kelly@HealthyHappySmart.com ### 5/5 — Memere 75 *2021-04-13* Still learning this app but so far I love the meals I’ve tried **Developer response:** Thank you! We’re so happy you’re enjoying our app. ### 5/5 — Really helpful app! *2020-09-04* Varieties of healthy and delicious food to choose from. I love this dash diet app! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2020-06-10* Easy to use and amazing recipes. Always something new! **Developer response:** Your feedback is very helpful. We appreciate you taking the time to review the app. If you ever have more feedback or suggestions, please email me: Kelly@healthyhappysmart.com thank you. ### 5/5 — Delicious ! *2020-05-09, version 1.3.8* Tempting with the pictures and delicious to the taste! ### 5/5 — Bait and switch *2019-09-24* One you down load and set up login you can’t access the site without agreeing to a free trial. Get lost! **Developer response:** hi, sorry, you must have missed in our Appstore Description where we mention the free trial and the price after the free trial. We are completely clear about this. Check out our appstore description. ### 5/5 — Love this app! *2014-01-10, version 1.2.2* I recently downloaded this app looking for paleo diet guidance and I'm very impressed! I subscribed for a month for only 99¢ and it was a great purchase! With so many paleo recipes and daily meal planning that you can put strait onto a in app grocery list it's very organized and easy to use! I did have some questions which you can ask in the support section of the app, I was very impressed with the quick and friendly response I received! It's as easy as texting a friend! This is the first app review I have ever written as an App Store user of over 7 years now this app has really made an awesome impact! ### 4/5 — Nutrition numbers *2024-05-11* I have been using the app for a couple of months and so far I am pleased. Nice selection of meals and easy to swap meals if need be. It would be a nice if there was a break down of the nutritional component of each meal. I am counting calories and the percentages of intake of protein, fat and carbs. Also, my intake of sodium, potassium, fiber etc… Adding this feature would greatly enhance this app and make a very good app, great. ### 4/5 — Yummy recipes *2021-10-18* I really like the recipes and that it creates a shopping list for you. That is super helpful. I don’t know if I just haven’t figured out how to use it all the way or what, but I wish it showed you all the nutrition facts so I can calculate how much sodium I’ve had for the day and can put higher sodium recipes with lower ones for my meal planning. --- *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 2026-09-05.*