Frustrated customer
I was looking forward to using this app for food exchange help, however I am over 65 and I can’t access the whole app usage unless I lie about my age. Crazy, does it not think over 65 folks need this assistance. I waisted my money on this one😖
Refund please.
The values of exchanges does not work for my diet.
Great App
This is a great app! It’s so easy to use! I easily could give it 5 Stars except I wish the app had one more feature: I wish the app would somehow also let me enter the time that I ate a particular exchange—so I can track my efforts to keep my blood sugar level. Still I love this app. Great work, Developer!
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Awesome app. I can finally figure out exchanges for my complex recipes.
Love the exchange calculator. I love this app. I have been trying to follow an exchange plan but it is difficult if you eat combination foods. I don’t eat just single foods and love to cook. Yes you need a separate nutrition calculator to figure out the Calories, fat , carbs and protein of your recipe. But once you know that you can create a food or meal in this app and it will calculate the food exchanges for you. It will keep it in its data base so you only need to input the info once. Most online nutrition calculators (actually I couldn’t find a single one online) that calculates food exchanges until I found this little app. Oh and yeah it’s a nice food exchange tracker too.
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Very good
Finally got what I was looking for, after disappointing from several tried search for a missing such app.
Thankfully for whom making the program, please keep the good work & updating it.
Best regards
Thankfully for whom making the program, please keep the good work & updating it.
Best regards
Works well for what I wanted
I am on the diabetic diet and the food exchanges are what I needed in an app to help me keep track of what I eat. It may not have an extensive list of food, but I had no problems adding foods.
Please don't buy this app!
This app will not generate a nutritional plan for me...what a waste of money. Please improve this app!!!
What I've been looking for for 7 years!
I had no idea how bad I was at calculating my exchanges. This app does all the work for me and it's an eye opener. I don't understand why everyone is upset about the short list of foods. I would much rather add the foods I actually eat using the calculator than guess and try to match things up with the creators of the app. Once the food is in, you're done for the future! Please keep this app up to date. It's a winner!
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Please do not get this app
It's frustrating it's complicated and you can't find your food I can't even find an avocado to get the calories and mean it's really doesn't work
Not what I expected
Basically the ap requires a lot of work from you. Most common entries are not available so you need another ap to gauge calories and other nutrients to properly count food components.
Tracker
Don't waste you money the program does not work. At setting it would not let me set up my Kcal count for the day. It worked if you were under 250lb and 65 years old or younger. Otherwise it's useless.
I thought the program would help me. Does not do what it says it will do. Very weak app. wish I could get money back. 😡
I thought the program would help me. Does not do what it says it will do. Very weak app. wish I could get money back. 😡
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Calculator and tracker are great, list is not
I've been using the exchange system only for a month or so and was extremely frustrated with the lack of user- and wallet-friendly apps that would help me. This is the best one I could find it so far.
Positives:
1) a calculator. Not sure of the exchange values? Plug in the nutrition information, and voilà!
2) simple tracker. Hit a plus or minus on each food category or add a food from your list, done.
Negatives:
1) the food list is TINY. You basically have to create your own from scratch.
2) I find myself needing to use another app to keep track of the actual foods I'm eating, as this one only tracks the exchange totals for the whole day. When you add a food to this, it only adds the appropriate fats/starches/etc total to your count.
3) if I add a custom food to my list, it is there forever. I made some mistakes and pushed save too soon, but now I can't go back and edit or delete them.
Positives:
1) a calculator. Not sure of the exchange values? Plug in the nutrition information, and voilà!
2) simple tracker. Hit a plus or minus on each food category or add a food from your list, done.
Negatives:
1) the food list is TINY. You basically have to create your own from scratch.
2) I find myself needing to use another app to keep track of the actual foods I'm eating, as this one only tracks the exchange totals for the whole day. When you add a food to this, it only adds the appropriate fats/starches/etc total to your count.
3) if I add a custom food to my list, it is there forever. I made some mistakes and pushed save too soon, but now I can't go back and edit or delete them.
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Needs two updates
The idea is great! I needed an app like this to accompany my food log app. The creator must be using a really high calorie amount, because I am always off from 125-200 calories a day. I use 80 for carbs, 50 fat, and 45 protein. I wish I could set that to match my dietician recommendations. Also I wish I could export this to a spreadsheet to talk to my dietician about.
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Can you call it a list?
Was really excited about this app. Thought that maybe it didn't have any reviews yet because it was too new. However, the"list" of foods is so incredibly limited and poorly made up that I literally couldn't even use it for one day. It's obvious that this was created by someone not living in USA, as bananas and berries aren't even on the list, but mamons and loquats are......
While it is possible to add foods to the list, as a paying consumer, we shouldn't have to. Other apps have extensive food lists, and even a barcode scanning option.
This app is a wonderful idea. I really hope that it continues to develop and becomes user friendly around the world. However, until that happens, I don't think they should be charging for it.
While it is possible to add foods to the list, as a paying consumer, we shouldn't have to. Other apps have extensive food lists, and even a barcode scanning option.
This app is a wonderful idea. I really hope that it continues to develop and becomes user friendly around the world. However, until that happens, I don't think they should be charging for it.
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Really easy to use
I've always preferred the exchange method for food planning and weight loss (I wish Weight Watchers still used this method). I especially like that, unlike other food trackers, you don't have to enter the exact food you ate- you can just + or - each exchange. That makes it way easier for me.
Apologies on last review
I'd like to correct my earlier one-star negative review about the "save" feature and suggest that developer add an explanation of how it works to the Tutorial.
You should wait until the end of the day to save your entries if you want to see your progress by category throughout the day. When you hit "save," the day's results are cleared from the "Today" screen, making you think initially that all the entries have been lost.
In reality, upon saving, the information is immediately transferred to the "Progress" screen, where the servings/exchanges have been translated into total kcals for the day. The kcals are displayed in a bar graph that allows you to compare daily calories consumed for the past week. But no record is kept of exchanges/servings consumed that would allow you to compare various categories from day to day.
Also, the list of foods provided is rather limited, but the serving calculations for "new foods" seems to work well if you can provide the nutrition info from food labels or recipes.
Finally, there is no contact info for App Support, and the website listed does not exist--which is a concern.
Making a few more tweaks to the tutorial to explain the "save" feature, plus adding the ability to record and compare daily food serving categories, and developing a more extensive foods database, this app has great potential. -- No longer feeling Ripped Off
You should wait until the end of the day to save your entries if you want to see your progress by category throughout the day. When you hit "save," the day's results are cleared from the "Today" screen, making you think initially that all the entries have been lost.
In reality, upon saving, the information is immediately transferred to the "Progress" screen, where the servings/exchanges have been translated into total kcals for the day. The kcals are displayed in a bar graph that allows you to compare daily calories consumed for the past week. But no record is kept of exchanges/servings consumed that would allow you to compare various categories from day to day.
Also, the list of foods provided is rather limited, but the serving calculations for "new foods" seems to work well if you can provide the nutrition info from food labels or recipes.
Finally, there is no contact info for App Support, and the website listed does not exist--which is a concern.
Making a few more tweaks to the tutorial to explain the "save" feature, plus adding the ability to record and compare daily food serving categories, and developing a more extensive foods database, this app has great potential. -- No longer feeling Ripped Off
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Simple and honest
Great app if you like to follow exchanges. Plugs in 'combo foods' for you. Also let's you add food and calculate exchange values of foods.
Only reason didn't give it 5 stars- needs section to track water.
Only reason didn't give it 5 stars- needs section to track water.
Not very good
The first thing you do is enter height, weight, age, etc. then it is supposed to create a plan, however it wouldn't do it, so I had to skip that step. Went on to look up what I had for lunch but the food list is WAY too limited, disappointing. I will delete the app.