# FDL: Macro Friendly Recipes — user reviews > 96 indexed App Store user reviews of FDL by Flexible Dieting Lifestyle LLC, rated 4.83/5 from 511 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fdl-macro-friendly-recipes/id1338879783/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fdl-macro-friendly-recipes/id1338879783.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 470 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of FDL? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Beautiful, intuitive, user-friendly interface - 🚀 Fast loading and smooth performance (v2 update) - 📚 Comprehensive recipe library with search functionality - 🎯 Macro calculator and customizable serving sizes - 🍽️ Delicious, high-protein recipes that taste great - ❤️ Favorites feature for easy access to preferred recipes - 📱 Convenient centralized access to all recipes in one app - 🎥 In-app video tutorials for recipe guidance - 💪 Life-changing recipes supporting fitness goals - 🔄 Lifetime access with automatic new recipe updates - 📖 Access to purchased cookbooks within the app - ⭐ Excellent customer service and support **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes and freezes frequently - ⏳ Slow loading times (older versions) - 🔍 Search function limited to exact title matches - 💳 Difficult cancellation process and unresponsive support - 🎥 Videos require Wi-Fi connection to watch - ❌ Favorites tab not functioning properly - 🔀 Navigation issues when returning to categories - 📝 Inconsistent recipe formatting with duplicate sections - 🚫 App won't open or gets stuck on splash screen - 💰 High pricing, especially for Canadian customers - ⚠️ Recipes contain errors and missing ingredients - 🌐 Poor community features and inactive Discord **Commonly reported bugs** - App fails to load or opens to white screen - Login authentication issues and password reset codes not working - Recipes missing ingredients or have duplicate instruction sections - Favorites tab displays only gray lines with zero recipes - App crashes when clicking on new recipes - Back button inconsistency requiring app restart - Scrolling issues forcing users to scroll back down after selecting recipes - App freezes and shuts down unexpectedly - Search function not working properly - Incompatibility with older recipe book versions (4.0) - Inconsistent category filtering on main page - Long load times and performance lag **Most requested features** - No-cook recipe filter option - Video tutorial links within recipes - Ability to input custom serving sizes with auto-adjusted ingredients - Better recipe categorization (meat category, etc.) - User-submitted recipe variations and substitutions - Recipe completion tracking and feedback history - More active community forum or discussion board - Substitute ingredient suggestions for recipes - Direct product links (protein powder, cookie butter) within recipes - Table of contents for digital cookbooks - Dark mode option - Offline recipe access ## Newest reviews (15 of 96) ### 3/5 — My pleasure with this app has been depleted *2026-07-11, version 8.3.4* I love the recipes— truly no complaints about the work that has gone into making these content. This app is very clearly some thrown together by AI, vibe coded experience that has some major usability issues. Enough to not warrant $19 a month. I am not sure who is owning the design and development of this app but please, please, please look into improving the experience with this application starting with maintaining being logged in. ### 2/5 — Confused After App Update *2026-06-25, version 8.3.4* I purchased the app and was sent an email with download instructions. There’s a Google Mail login option . The app has updated and says that it can find my account. Keep in mind I get promo emails from FDL DAILY! Now the app is giving me 2 options of paying a subscription (after I made an account) . I’m not not hurt , I just thought that was what the initial purchase was for. Now I have zero access . Oh well ### 4/5 — Needs better search function *2025-12-28, version 7.0* Very good, beautiful app with great recipes. The search function needs to be better - you can only search exact words in the title, which is sometimes not useful, especially with such a large variety of recipes. ### 5/5 — DO IT *2025-09-25, version 5.8* Hands down you will not regret this app. I had purchased the PDF bundle cookbooks idk how long ago and it’s SO NICE having everything in one spot 👏🏻 ### 5/5 — FDL app amazing! *2025-09-25, version 5.8* The new FDL v2 app is amazing. The layout categories meals by the day or you can easily access all the ebooks. Recipes laid out nicely with pictures, ingredient list and instructions. There’s even a calculator to simply get your macros to help customize and fit your fitness goals. Would highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Zach’s long time fan *2025-09-25, version 5.8* Zach’s recipes are legitimate delicious, amazing macros and children approved! I love the big update on this app! I can’t wait for more recipes!! ### 5/5 — Killer App! *2025-09-25, version 5.8* Love this app! So handy for putting together these amazing recipes. Legit changed my lifestyle! Can't recommend this enough. ### 5/5 — Fulfill all of your cravings! *2025-09-24, version 5.8* I purchased many of the recipe books, but I appreciate this app so much! All of my favourite recipes are there, no digging through downloads to find them. So many recipes to choose from and love the search feature and the videos!! These help so much. Worth every penny! ### 2/5 — Disappointed… *2025-09-24, version 5.8* I just got this app as part of it’s discounted sale. I’ve used these recipes from social media many times before and figured, why not? I’d love to have a platform that gives me access to so many recipes that have good macros! So, I bought it and was met with… a poorly put together app. It doesn’t run very well, with me having to scroll all the way back down to a recipe after clicking on one. Additionally, the ingredients and instructions for some of the recipes just have… both? Like, it’ll list out the instructions as part of the ingredients and ALSO have a separate instructions section. Along with that, the “Favorites” tab on the bottom just doesn’t work— it just shows a bunch of gray lines and 0 recipes. I really want to like this app and USE it for its intended purpose, but it isn’t user-friendly at all :/ It’s extra disappointing considering the sheer amount I paid for it as well. In the future, I would love to see all of the aforementioned mistakes fixed, and maybe an option that allows users to input the amount of servings they’re interested in making so the appropriate ingredient amounts can be altered. That would be super handy. Also, the food sections are kind of random (breakfast and lunch/dinner but also pasta having it’s own? And no meat category?) ### 5/5 — GAME CHANGER *2025-09-24, version 5.8* I’ve been following FDL for years, and his page genuinely changed my life. Anyone who’s done a traditional meal prep can tell you it’s so monotonous and boring; it just isn’t sustainable. Zach’s meals have made it possible to create real, lasting change. I used to just have a couple books and a bunch of standalone recipes in my files, saved screenshots, IG posts, etc. Having everything consolidated in this single app has been immensely helpful, and the built-in calculator makes it so easy to get started. This is the only way to meal prep. ### 5/5 — FREEDOM! *2025-09-23, version 5.8* Honestly these have been such an upgrade to my fitness journey and my cooking life. I had all the books and it was worth it to have to go look them up in the downloads and keep toggling back and forth th but THIS! this makes it sooooooo easy. I have recipes that are in rotation weekly so I’ve memorized the steps and it has REVOLUTIONIZED how I eat and cook for my family. I’ve always wanted to try more and more recipes and the app just makes it so organized and practical. the fact that it’s for life and we will get all the new recipes automatically is such a flex (lol) because he comes up with new stuff ALL THE TIME. And once I got to know some basics I felt comfortable customizing and coming up with new faves based on what I had in the kitchen. Seriously this is my #1 GO TO for eating for my goals and getting my whole fam fed happily and fit. Dude. Zach, thanks man ❤️ ### 5/5 — FDL App review *2025-09-23, version 5.8* I have been following Zach for a while and have made several of his recipes. My boys and I really enjoy them. I was scrolling through his instagram constantly, screen shooting recipes, etc. When he advertised the app and at such a discount I invested and am thrilled with it thus far. Happy to support him. (Hope you all took advantage of the discount) ### 5/5 — FDL V2 is 🔥 *2025-09-23, version 5.8* As soon as the FDL app came out I was stoked, but when the most recent update got pushed through, it was game changing. The loading is much faster, and the “back” feature update is great! Being able to go back to the category I was looking at makes meal planning so much quicker/easier. And we get new recipes before anyone else? Sweet. If you’re looking for easy ways to make your favorite foods fit into a healthier diet, look no further. FDL is the way! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2025-09-23, version 5.8* Easy to navigate app love the recipes they all taste incredible! ### 4/5 — User Friendly, Has Some Bugs *2025-09-23, version 5.8* I didn’t have the old app so I don’t have a comparison, but I do love the way this app functions. Searching is crazy easy and I love seeing reviews right there. I’m hoping that this is where we could also post variations on the recipe to help others (especially if you’re out of an ingredient or want to sub something in). There are a few bugs, but I know he’s working on this app. Example, if you select “desserts” and then find one to look at, when you go back to the main page, desserts is still selected but there are more than just desserts there. I’m excited to favorite recipes and really hone in on my macros eating! I did calculate my macros and it seems consistent with what I’ve done before. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — The App is A Black Screen *2026-05-17, version 8.0* This app literally doesn’t open up to anything. Just a black screen. ### 1/5 — The new update is horrible *2026-05-15, version 8.0* The old version of the app was great. The new version added no useful new features, wiped out all of the things I had favorited and all of the photo and video links are broken. They should have left it alone ### 1/5 — Scam? *2026-05-13, version 8.0* I got this, paid online since it’s $19.00 a month and required. 2 days later I’m kicked out and need to log in again. It redirected to a web page from the app asking for your email but when I put it in it says that email doesn’t have an account. I didn’t even get to the password part, and they had sent me authorization links to that email for the app. I checked my bank and they charged me twice. Can you guess who you contact to help if you can’t log in, because I don’t either. I can’t even get in to have them stop charging me twice a month. ### 1/5 — Hard to Cancel *2026-01-18, version 7.0* They make it so hard to cancel. Sent email to support with no reply and still getting charged ### 1/5 — I have to pay?! *2025-09-23, version 5.8* I really enjoyed this app until I realized when I opened it that I had to pay for a subscription? This is really unfortunate as I thought it was a great idea. Would’ve liked a heads up before. ### 1/5 — Confused *2025-09-22, version 5.8* I bought the works lifetime bundle, and though the name implies that I would get new recipes as they came out, I must have misunderstood. And now I’ve downloaded the app thinking that maybe I could access recipes here, but that doesn’t seem to be the case either. I’m a bit disappointed, but it was probably written somewhere that my “lifetime” bundle didn’t mean what I assumed it meant. 😞 ### 1/5 — Love recipes *2025-07-18, version 5.4* It won’t open ### 1/5 — Function *2025-06-12, version 5.4* This app doesn’t even work. It just gets stuck on the opening page and never activates. ### 1/5 — Incomplete/Takes Ages to Load(!!!) *2025-05-23, version 5.4* My prime dispute with this app is that it takes forever and a day for it to load. Developers, please work on this. In addition, the first recipe, Big Mac Chalupas, is half missing.😩 ### 1/5 — Won’t work terrible customer service *2025-04-28, version 5.4* I got this app because the recipes online seem to be really helpful in trying to maintain a calorie deficit and I thought that this would be just the thing I downloaded the app and it wouldn’t open so I tried to download it on my iPad. Same thing I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it and the same thing I reached out to customer service and they said well that’s strange. Let’s get it figured out and then I pretty much got ghosted so I asked for my money back because when you spent $50 for something you actually expected to work and silence so until they get whatever bugs fixed to make this thing actually open, I wouldn’t waste your money. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — So happy to have these recipes with easy access *2026-08-14, version 8.3.7* Love these recipes. The app is obviously still working through the bugs. Some of the recipes have misspellings and the ingredients are mixed up, but, it’s worth it to have the recipes so much more easily available than just YouTube. I wish there was easier way to track my macros within the app. As I have to modify the recipes somewhat to meet my macros. But, all in all, I’m very happy with it. ### 5/5 — 100 Stars *2026-07-28, version 8.3.5* Five stars are not enough. If you are on the fence, come on over. It’s amazing on this side. I cannot believe how everything you need is right here. RIGHT HERE! ### 5/5 — Game changer *2026-05-16, version 8.0* The FDL app has honestly been a game-changer. It makes sorting through the massive range of amazing recipes so quick and easy, and the whole app is super user-friendly. The video guidance, tips, and tricks built into the recipes are unreal, and being able to sort favourites into your own categories, leave personal notes, and interact with the community makes it even better. It’s clear a lot of thought has gone into making the app practical and easy to use day-to-day. Whether you’re tracking macros, chasing healthier options, or just love good food, this app makes life easy. Honestly… you’d be silly not to get it. 🔥 ### 5/5 — Excellent update *2026-05-13, version 8.0* Zach has pushed out a major update here. The app has a beautiful new UI and allows for customization and search for recipes (by equipment or macros, etc.). It’s great to have the full library of recipes at your fingertips. My favorite feature is the macros auto-scale when I adjust the serving size. I’m really glad I purchased lifetime access some time ago! ### 5/5 — Exceptional good for your body recipes😀 *2026-03-05, version 7.0* It’s so awesome too be able to open an app and make the most delicious and so good for you recipes, Zach you are a genius for sure!! Thank you 🙏 ### 5/5 — Love the FDL app *2025-11-29, version 7.0* I discovered Zach on Instagram. I tried some of his recipes, and they are on point. Healthy food that actually tastes great. The protein ice cream is the bomb! ### 5/5 — So excited for this!!! *2025-10-17, version 6.0* I just love that Zach and his team put this together!! I love his receipts and love even more having them at my fingertips!! ### 5/5 — Game changer *2025-10-06, version 6.0* This app has been a game changer. I’ve purchased all the books and the recipes are amazing, being able to just search and find it or just check the favorites tab is a game changer. The app is visually eye catching. Easy to read and understand. If you want to set urself up for breakfast lunch, dinner and dessert; boom! There it is! I get excited opening up the app and seeing what I’m going to cook next. ### 5/5 — Must have app *2025-10-05, version 6.0* These recipes are insane. They hit all cravings. I rarely have a desire to eat out anymore because I can make a healthier and often better tasting version of something at home with this app. 99% of the meals we regularly eat are from this. ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-10-03, version 6.0* It’s a great app very detailed on how to cook. And makes cooking fun instead of making the same normal boring meals😂. The only thing that I have an issue with is in order for me to watch the videos I have to be connected to Wi-Fi. But I’m sure it’ll be taken care of soon. --- *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 2026-08-27.*