DashDietTracker

Response from developer

Sorry your faces have been unhappy ones. There are a couple of things you can do in the app to help with this. The ratings can be harsh because they drop you a peg for each food group where your food intake is outside the range. You can go to the Preferences screen and choose an alternate method that uses the average servings over all food groups, which generally provides a more-favorable rating. You may also be using the wrong tracking guide for the number of calories in your diet. You can tap the Change button at the top of the data entry screen to change your tracking guide. The app provides 4 guides that I found in the Dash Diet literature. You can also set up a fully customized tracking guide by going to the Preferences -> Tracking Guides screen and either modifying an existing guide or setting up a new guide, and then selecting that guide with the Change button as above. And if you don't want to see smiley ratings at all, you can change them on the Preferences screen. You can change them to any character or emoji you want. You can make them all the same character, which will tell you that you've recorded meals for a particular day but won't give you a clue about your rating for the day. I hope you'll try some of these suggestions and give the app another try.