# Foodllama AI calorie tracker — user reviews > 304 indexed App Store user reviews of Foodllama AI calorie tracker by Llama Luna Apps, rated 4.70/5 from 1,951 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foodllama-ai-calorie-tracker/id6743861207/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foodllama-ai-calorie-tracker/id6743861207.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,634 · 4★ 170 · 3★ 81 · 2★ 23 · 1★ 43 ## What do users think of Foodllama AI calorie tracker? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Provides smart recommendations - 💡 Potential for rewards system - 👍 Clean and enjoyable interface **Cons** - 💰 Subscription required to access full features - 🔍 Inaccurate AI analysis of food items - 🔍 Lack of manual entry and barcode scanning options **Commonly reported bugs** - AI analysis provides incorrect calorie and macro estimates - Difficulty updating AI analysis with correct food details **Most requested features** - Integrate with Apple Health app - Add barcode scanning functionality - Provide widget and Apple Watch support - Expand nutritional data tracking (e.g., sodium) ## Newest reviews (16 of 304) ### 4/5 — Love the idea, model needs some work *2026-08-27* Hated food tracking in the past because digging through databases to identify what I ate was annoying. That said, I’ve noticed that generating ingredients every time leads to inconsistent tracking. Even if I ate the same thing and describe it the same way, the calorie count/macros will show up differently. Also, one time I attempted to edit the ingredients and it hallucinated ingredients that went with what I ate, rather than adding what I typed. Would make more sense to me to check and add previous entries than generate new ones every time. ### 3/5 — Good intention, under resourced compared to their water app *2026-08-17* I really do enjoy their water llama app and got this one hoping that it would similarly help me with tracking and doing better about my eating, however I’m finding the very things that help me with the water intake to be vitally missing here. For example, the food app here doesn’t have a widget for your intake, so if ADD and not noticing you haven’t eaten is a problem, this won’t help. Next, there’s no configuration when your typical day ends, so anything you log after midnight just goes into the next day, unlike the water app where you can say what the cutoff is. Related to that, you can retroactively change the time of a logged food, but not the date. Also, you can’t duplicate a meal, so if you’re eating the same thing or have logged to the wrong date but want to clone it over, no dice. And then the consequence of that is you might need to upload the same photo again, but due to the stochastic nature of the AI tool, you very likely will end up with a different caloric readout than the previous time, which lowers my trust in the initial and subsequent readings (small variance I get, variance on the order of hundreds of calories I think begs for improvement). And then finally, just cleaner stats on what you’re eating or where you need to improve. On a meal detail page you might get some insight into what your meal is lacking, but there’s no such functionality for your overall eating which is where it’s really needed - am I eating too much sugar? Not enough greens? Is my protein short of where I need it to be? So packaging more of the educational or coaching elements along with transparency and viewing at beyond the daily level would help. I support these devs because I really think they’re trying to build the right tools for people - it just didn’t feel fair to pay for the app expecting the same quality as their flagship water offering and receiving something to at I would much more likely describe as an alpha or a beta than a full release. ### 2/5 — Meh *2026-08-15, version 1.9.0* It’s fine. The calories are always wrong and I have to manually enter them every time. It doesn’t track my workouts even though I set it to do so. Plus it changed my target daily calories by 300 less for no apparent reason. I love their water app and this one is just disappointing and not worth the money I spent on it. ### 2/5 — Makes u pay *2026-08-09, version 1.9.0* Every time I try to push the X So o don’t have to pay it goes back to the home page and I have to keep restarting it sucks I can’t even use it ### 2/5 — Uso de IA forçada *2026-08-08* Estou assinando o aplicativo tem um tempo, e tenho achado o uso dele bem legal. Porém, uma das premissas desse modelo apenas por assinatura (diferente dos outros apps da Llama que tem uma opção de compra vitalícia), é baseada na ideia de que “precisa” da IA e o custo mensal fica atrelado a isso. Depois de usar fica claro que a IA é só uma pequena ferramenta e seria sim possível fazer uma versão desacoplada da IA, mas optaram em não fazer. Por que? Eu não sei, mas sinto que o aplicativo perde muito empurrar a IA como inevitável. Ainda tenho mais um ano de assinatura e provavelmente não vou renovar. Enquanto isso sigo amando o Waterllama. Não dá pra acertar todas, né? **Developer response:** Obrigado por ser assinante e pelo carinho contínuo pelo Waterllama 💚 Nós entendemos, mas queríamos esclarecer algo. Embora possa parecer que a IA seja apenas uma parte pequena do aplicativo, na verdade não é. O registro de refeições no Foodllama é feito principalmente por IA. Reconhecimento de fotos, análise de texto, detalhamento nutricional... tudo isso funciona com tecnologia de IA externa que não possuímos e não pagamos. É o motor principal, não apenas um pequeno complemento. É por isso que uma compra vitalícia não é possível aqui, como acontece com nossos outros aplicativos. Os custos contínuos estão embutidos na forma como o Foodllama funciona em sua base 🦙 Gostaríamos que a situação financeira fosse diferente, de verdade. Mas essa é a realidade de construir um rastreador de alimentos com IA, mantendo-nos como uma pequena equipe independente. Obrigado pela honestidade e por permanecer com a família llama mesmo quando nem tudo é perfeito. Nós apreciamos. (traduzido pelo Google) ### 4/5 — Bom *2026-08-03* Eu não me adaptei mas comprei o plano anual, para ajudar mesmo o projeto de vocês já que também tenho o waterllama vitalicio eu gosto bastante dos seus apps. Mas esse daqui não consegui🥺 **Developer response:** Olá Raquel! Lamentamos saber disso. Se você pudesse nos enviar um e-mail para hello@foodllama.app com mais detalhes sobre os desafios específicos que você enfrentou, seria de grande ajuda. 😊 Não é possível enviar mais de uma mensagem aqui na seção de avaliações. (traduzido pelo Google) ### 4/5 — Payant *2026-08-03* J’aime beaucoup cette application, j’utilise déjà WaterLlama, seul problème c’est que cette application est payante, du moins je ne trouve rien pour l’utiliser gratuitement, c’est dommage **Developer response:** Nous savons que les abonnements ne plaisent pas à tout le monde, mais comme Foodllama utilise une technologie d'IA externe (que nous finançons également en coulisses), cela nous permet d'assurer un fonctionnement optimal. Nous sommes une petite équipe indépendante qui fait de son mieux avec des ressources limitées, et nous souhaitons vraiment continuer à améliorer l'application et à la soutenir sur le long terme. (traduit par Google) ### 5/5 — UK *2026-07-28, version 1.9.0* I had a problem using this app at first, I didn’t think I could use it as I’m from Britain. The developer contacted me right away and helped me out. I’m very grateful. ### 5/5 — Get ALL their apps! *2026-07-24* I found Waterllama first - that’s the one that got me hooked. Whatever they are doing is working! Now I have Foodllama, Pinkllama, AND Mindllama. I’ve been a fitness tracker for my entire adult life. I believe in living a balanced life and feeding my body what it needs. I’m also very Type A! So these apps, whatever positive feedback they give you and reminders work wonders. Never had another app that keeps me feeling GOOD about tracking instead of guilty. Don’t hesitate. Worth every penny! Note to developers: my only feedback would be to have a Foodllama Widget! The bigger widgets for the other apps are life savers. I’m sure it’s coming soon but just wanted to encourage you to keep it up! **Developer response:** This review just made our entire week 💚 All four llama apps! You're officially a full llama collector at this point haha. We love it! Knowing you've been tracking fitness your whole adult life and our apps are the ones making you feel GOOD instead of guilty... that's everything. That was the whole mission when building these. No shame, no negativity, just helpful nudges and positive vibes. Type A personality finding peace with our apps is honestly the best endorsement we could ask for ✨ Foodllama widget is noted and collected! You're right that the bigger widgets on the other apps are super helpful. We hear you and it's on our radar. "Whatever they are doing is working" made us smile so big. Thank you for trusting us with your health journey across the board and for taking the time to write this. It genuinely means so much to our small team. Worth every penny right back at you for being such an amazing supporter!☺️ ### 4/5 — Perfectible *2026-07-23* Le prix n’est pas déconnant pour le style et les prestations proposées. Je pense que certaines améliorations peuvent être apportées notamment dans la description écrite avec des suggestions par exemple et un véritable mode nuit avec une ambiance plus tamisée serait apprécié. Merci pour cette app. **Developer response:** Merci pour votre commentaire pertinent ! Nous sommes ravis que le prix vous semble juste et les fonctionnalités utiles. Vos suggestions pour une navigation plus claire et une expérience plus immersive dans l'obscurité sont très précieuses ! Nous en tiendrons compte pour l'amélioration continue de l'application. 😉 Au fait, nous vous serions très reconnaissants d'ajouter une étoile à votre avis. Votre soutien compte beaucoup pour nous et nous encourage à développer des fonctionnalités encore plus agréables 💛 (traduit par Google) ### 5/5 — Love this company *2026-07-23, version 1.9.0* I stay super hydrated with the help of water llama, and I’m excited to use food llama to start working on weight loss. It’s easy to use, I love the design, and fun facts are always fun. ### 3/5 — Not a food tracking app, just an AI image analyzer *2026-07-21, version 1.9.0* I like this app. I like how simple the UI is. I do find the search database has too many irrelevant stuff and is inaccurate . For example, if i type in “egg” it shows stuff with more than 300 calories for a single egg? Or if i type in a specific protein power brand, everything except that brand shows up. Use whatever code MFP uses for their database. This one in foodllama just spews whatever nonsense it finds with those keywords also, you cant use the app for free. I didnt have a subscription and every button i pressed just gave me the pop up. There isnt a way to just manually input my food without AI?? The amount of calories it tells you to eat is ridiculous. It told me i needed to eat 900 calories a day to lose 1 pound a week… It is just not convenient. ### 5/5 — Thumbs Up *2026-07-21, version 1.9.0* Easy to use and effective ### 4/5 — A good start *2026-07-20, version 1.9.0* I think it’s a good start but feels like it’s missing features. I logged grapes and cherry tomatoes and it told me it wasn’t good for weight loss @@ seeing a thumbs down on water rich foods is crazy. Another user mentioned not being able to edit serving size—but I found you can. I took a picture, hit edit, and then changed the serving size. It was very easy and I noticed the calorie estimate was similar to other apps I’m also trying out. I’m an avid Water Llama user and would love to see the same cute whimsical art and character unlocks as the other apps. Or how Pink Llama changes its mood and activities based on what’s logged. Currently the app feels similar to the other Llama apps in name only. I do like how when I log something in Food Llama and because I have it connected to Apple Health, my other apps pick it up. It’s really nice! ### 2/5 — UK *2026-07-20, version 1.9.0* I love the look of this app, however it isn’t really suitable for UK users, I do however haver the water llama. ### 5/5 — Just need fibre and some micronutrients tracking!! 🙏🏼 *2026-07-20, version 1.9.0* Absolutely love the llama apps I have mind and water and they are absolutely great even got my partner on all 3! But I do hope in a future update they have fibre tracking and a few key micronutrients as I do like to make sure I’m getting the amount I need daily! And ideally I don’t want to have to get another app for that so I’ll keep my fingers crossed they add some other nutrient goals eventually even if you can toggle which ones you want to track that would be an amazing idea! As health and what you put into your body is something everyone & llama should be keeping an eye on! Keep up the great work on your lovely apps and can’t wait too see what you bring out in future updates! (Fibre & micronutrients) 🦙💚 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Sehr wages tracking *2026-08-16* Leider funktioniert das erfassen mit der KI so gar nicht. Bei 3 Erfassungen mit genau den gleichen Angaben ist die Range sehr groß. Im Vergleich vom niedrigsten Ergebnis zum höchsten ist es 2 mal so viel. Also da brauch ich auch nichts mehr tracken, wenn ich am Abend nur sagen kann dass ich zwischen 1500-3000 kal. zu mir genommen habe. Ich kenne das so, dass ich angebe was ich gegessen habe, in meinem Fall 4 Scheiben Weltmeisterbrot, konnte dann auswählen welches Produkt ich zu mir genommen habe und die Nährwerte mit denen auf der Verpackung verglichen um so nah wie möglich am reellen Wert zu sein. Solange das nicht sauber läuft sehe ich den Sinn im tracken mit dieser App nicht. Sorry hier muss stark nachgebessert werden. ### 1/5 — ПОДПИСКА *2026-08-12, version 1.9.0* Бесплатно не получается. БЕЗ ПОДПИСКИ МОЖНО КАК-ТО?! ### 1/5 — Pretty lacking and inaccurate *2026-08-09* Everything is off in the calorie counts. I’ve literally had to fix everything I’ve searched for. Regardless of whether is ai search or manually looking through the catalog. Nothing is easy to find either. The values are stupid. You can’t even tell what one serve is. Trying to find 1 piece of wholemeal bread?? You can’t even do that accurately 😑 Waterllama is great. This app? Needs work. The fact you have to pay yearly for something so broken is kind of ridiculous. The photo function is very inaccurate as well. And yes. I meticulously weighed and added everything to get accurate calories for every comparison. Writing the calories down on a piece of paper would be more effective to where this app is currently app 😑 idea is great and cute. NEEDS SO MUCH WORK **Developer response:** Thanks for the love for Waterllama and for being honest about your experience with Foodllama 💚 We're really sorry the database search has been frustrating. Finding items and getting accurate serving info should be easier, we hear you on that. For better accuracy, try using grams when logging instead of generic servings. It's more precise and gives you the numbers you're actually looking for. Foodllama is a much more complex app compared to our other llamas. Tracking food with all its variations, brands, and portions is a whole different beast than tracking drinks. It needs a little more time to perfect and we're working on it every day based on feedback like yours 🦙 We hope to earn back your trust as we keep improving. Thanks for taking the time to write this, it genuinely helps us know where to focus. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2026-07-24, version 1.9.0* Don’t use it ### 1/5 — Was promising, seems abandoned. Don’t waste your money *2026-07-19, version 1.9.0* Seemed promising when released, I was ok with supporting to get more features but now seems like there have been no updates in a while, bugs still exist (I can’t open app settings menu), no new features, accuracy degrading. even when scanning barcodes, the macros are way off. ### 1/5 — 騙されて2900円取られました *2026-06-08* まず、無料では一切の機能が使えないようです。 waterlamaをとても気に入っていて課金もしていました。 このアプリができたと聞いて早速インストールしました。 起動すると質問がいくつかされ、7日間の無料期間を始めるよう勧められました。 どんな機能があるか分からない状態で課金したくなかったのでまずは無料期間で始めようとしましたが戻るボタンや×ボタンがなく、案内通りに進めました。 appleidの入力画面になりパスワードを入力すると突然一年分の2900円の支払いがされました。 明らかに騙すようなUIと説明で、無料期間も結局なく1年分支払わされて驚きです。 返金のリクエストをしましたが不安です。 waterlamaをとても気に入っていたのでこんな会社だったのかとすごくショックです。 消費者庁に通報します。 ### 1/5 — Show your prices *2026-05-31, version 1.9.0* Your app looks pretty good, I won’t use it because I had to go through the setup before knowing the costs. Would be better to know the costs up front, before downloading it. I probably would have bought it if you were upfront honest. ### 1/5 — Spam! *2026-05-26* He will deduct your money before mandate starts and it’s a fake it says 3 days free and don’t fall on this trap **Developer response:** We're really sorry happened! Please write to hello@foodllama.app - we'll respond within 24 hours and help with a refund 🙋‍♀️ It's not possible to send more than one message here in the Reviews section. ### 1/5 — Too many errors *2026-05-26* I am not happy about this app at all. I bought an annual subscription and very much regret wasting money. Try entering the same food item multiple times, for example banana, and then ten minutes later enter banana again. It will show you a completely different calories count. One time I entered the same food item and the difference in calories count was 200. That’s a big inaccuracy. Overall it’s a friendly interface and a great idea but very unreliable execution. I would stay away. **Developer response:** Please write to hello@foodllama.app We'll look for the issue and fix it! 🙋‍♀️ It's not possible to send more than one message here in the reviews section. ### 1/5 — Really disappointed *2026-05-14* I’m a huge fan and daily user of waterllama and i’ve been using yazio for tracking calories and food so when i heard about food llama, i instantly downloaded and was already thinking id be replacing yazio. Absolutely not. Why are you doubling down on AI? I hate that i can’t simply type in a meal and have the app find it based on internet menu databases, instead it insists on making stuff up (as AI does). The fact that it can’t draw nutritional information about a “Mcdonald’s Snack Wrap” and instead creates its own completely inaccurate dish is so frustrating when almost every other app just finds the publicly available info about that very specific item. That and the lack of a one time purchase just completely turned me off. I rarely write reviews but this one really really irked me, especially since waterllama is one of the best and most consumer friendly app i’ve ever used and love to recommend but foodllama is an ai slop shameless cashin. Very sad. UPDATE: Still requires you to subscribe with no option to opt out of AI features, i JUST want a calorie tracking app that matches up with the quality of waterllama. I don’t want AI, i’d happily pay a one time cost for the app but I can’t even check out how it’s improved without being forced to pay. Makes me want to not use waterllama either and switch entirely to yazio. **Developer response:** Please write to hello@foodllama.app We'll look for the issue and fix it! 🙋‍♀️ It's not possible to send more than one message here in the reviews section. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 활동한 운동을 음식처럼 직접 등록할 수 있었으면 좋겠어요! *2026-08-24* 구매 후 너무나도 잘 사용하고 있습니다 그런데 사용하다보니 건강이나 활동 앱과 연동된 정보만 활동에 기록되어 정확한 칼로리 계산이 어렵다고 느껴졌습니다 제발 개선해주세요 Please..🐹🪽🪽🙏🏻🥺🥺 **Developer response:** 현재 저희 앱에서는 운동 기록을 직접 입력하는 기능은 제공하지 않지만, 활동 내역을 추적하는 데 도움이 되는 다른 방법이 있습니다. hello@foodllama.app 으로 이메일을 보내주세요. 🦙📧 리뷰 섹션에서는 메시지를 한 번에 하나만 보낼 수 있습니다. (구글 번역) ### 5/5 — Calorie Deficit *2026-08-17, version 1.9.0* I’ve only been using this app for 2 weeks and already dropped 5lbs and my muscle mass increased. It makes it easy for you to track your calories as well as protein intake. Although sometimes the analysis over estimates. Maybe that’s why i’ve lost 5lbs instead of my projected 1lb a week lol. I love the animals, they’re so cute and that alone encourages me to use the app consistently. ### 5/5 — 最高のアプリ！ *2026-08-14* Love……💗💖🎀➳ ### 5/5 — Loved their other stuff! *2026-08-12, version 1.9.0* Try this too! ### 5/5 — So cute *2026-08-10, version 1.9.0* This app is adorable. Thank you for that picture taking function. It’s a life saver. Keep up the amazing work! ### 5/5 — Schön gemacht… *2026-08-10* Motiviert zum Benutzen **Developer response:** Danke! Wir werden weiterhin mehr unterhaltsame Funktionen für Sie hinzufügen! 💛🦙 ### 5/5 — I would like to be healthy *2026-08-07* Hi FoodLlama Team! 💛 I really enjoy using your Llama apps, and I have a small idea that I think could make FoodLlama even more helpful. Instead of labeling foods as simply “good” or “bad,” I’d love to see a gentle overview of nutrients like protein, calcium, iron, vitamins, and minerals. For example: 🟡 “Your calcium is a little low today. How about some yogurt, cheese, or a glass of milk?” A friendly “traffic light” dashboard for nutrients and gentle suggestions would help people focus on nourishing their bodies instead of worrying about individual foods. Thank you for creating such thoughtful apps! 🦙💛 Ich finde, das passt gut zum freundlichen Stil der Llama-Apps: wertschätzend, konstruktiv und lösungsorientiert. 🦙💛 **Developer response:** This review is so thoughtful, thank you for taking the time to share this idea 💛 We love how you framed it. A gentle nutrient overview instead of strict good/bad labels fits perfectly with what we're trying to do. No guilt, no shame, just helpful nudges toward balance. The traffic light dashboard concept with friendly suggestions like "your calcium is a little low, how about some yogurt" is exactly the kind of supportive energy we want Foodllama to have 🦙 Your ideas are collected and passed to the team. Hopefully we can make something like this happen because it really does match the llama philosophy ✨ "Wertschätzend, konstruktiv und lösungsorientiert" ... couldn't have said it better ourselves. Thanks for using our apps and for caring enough to help us make them better. It means a lot to our small team! ### 5/5 — Great interface ! *2026-08-01* Easy and efficient ! ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2026-07-30, version 1.9.0* This is helpful to keeping me eating well and I love the design. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-07-28, version 1.9.0* It helps me with daily activities like exercise or running to help my muscles grow --- *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.*