# FoodyLife : The Food Diary App — Track Your Foods Now

> Visual food diary app for mindful eating, no calories or numbers. (iPhone/iPad app by Hau-Ben Shih.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foodylife-the-food-diary-app/id1350599517 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Hau-Ben Shih](https://appshunter.io/developer/1350599516)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: $1.99
- Rating: 4.48/5 from 108 App Store ratings · 10 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 10.0 · 57 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Chinese
- Released: 2018-04-24
- Data updated: 2026-08-16
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foodylife-the-food-diary-app/id1350599517/reviews.md

## What is FoodyLife?

You will be able to explore your eating habits visually and improve your eating habits. No calories and no numbers are shown in the app! 

Features:
+ Beautifully minimalist food diary app
+ In-App Camera And Filter
+ No calories No Pressure
+ Visualizes all your diets and shows your diet balance clearly!
+ Crazy and Interactive Foody Face
+ Learn how to eat mindfully and correctly right now!

Don’t make Foody Face angry! Tap download right now!

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The inspiration behind FoodyLife is that nowadays people pay little attention to what they eat and often eat unhealthy food. Although there are many similar apps on the market (e.g. Fitness App, Calorie counter...), most of them focus mainly on “numbers”, such as how many calories the user has eaten and how long the user should exercise to get rid of those calories, or sending the user notifications when they should get up to exercise or if they have eaten too much.

FoodyLife’ is an app that helps users track their daily diet by allowing them to keep their own food diary. The app shows neither calories nor numbers; instead, users have only to take a picture, enter their diet information, then they are able their overall diet balance. It is very simple and highly effective. Users can explore their eating habits visually, improving self-consciousness about eating habits.

## Key features

- Minimalist food diary
- In-app camera and filters
- No calories or pressure
- Visualizes diet balance
- Interactive food face
- Learn mindful eating

## Recent user reviews (10 of 10)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/foodylife-the-food-diary-app/id1350599517/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Stop asking for reviews each time I do something

*2022-09-16*

Stop pestering my experience with requests to rate the app when I have just started using it. I have easily seen the request to rate you like 10 times after a few interactions since yesterday afternoon when I installed it. You wanted my review? Here you go. So annoying.

Update: in spite of my note above, I still wanted to give the app a try. I confirm that it is buggy and lacks an important feature. 

Bug: When editing log entries from previous days, right after saving the changes, the updated text unexpectedly (and erroneously) clones and replaces the content of other existing entries, not just the one you actually updated.

I am not your QA guy here, don’t sell a so called “final product” ($$$) when you expect your users to be your testers. 

Also, The so calles “report” is just a chart that contains subjective and meaningless information . Worthless. 

Missing feature: the report should contain the LOG ENTRIES (including pics), and allow to export on a PDF format, or at least in text format.

UNINSTALLING

### 2/5 — Can’t get started

*2021-10-16*

I live in America and so don’t know how many cm tall I am or how many kg I weigh so I can’t get through the set up.

### 4/5 — Cute app for low stress nutrition

*2021-06-24*

I like this app for keeping an eye on nutrition without feeling stressed about calories or macros. Some suggestions I’d like to see are maybe a filter slider to change the filter strength, I want my photos to look pretty but the filters are pretty intense as is. I also think it would make more sense if the diary was in the reverse order, so the top is my first meal and the bottom is my most recent meal.

### 5/5 — Good app

*2020-08-28, version 1.0.11*

I used this app to track my diet for two years! It has been amazing!

### 1/5 — This app is confusing

*2020-06-04*

And not very easy to use and record your food.  There are no instructions on how to use it, except the initial pop ups which tell you nothing.  I am going to delete it. Thank god I got it for free.

### 1/5 — Don’t waste your money

*2020-01-22, version 1.0.11*

This app is absolutely rubbish. There are so many free app that do much more than this. What a waste of money.

### 3/5 — Disappointing

*2019-11-21, version 1.0.11*

No  response reference my question

### 1/5 — Asking for review before starting

*2019-08-12*

How can I rate if I haven’t even started using app yet?

### 4/5 — Foody Fan

*2019-06-23*

I love this app. It’s easy to use and figure out what your portions are. 
But, that being said I took a star for some improvements:
When adding a custom date you should be able to add a custom time if you want, in case you remember the time you had it. 
I also think it should have a sweets category so it can tell you if you have had too many sweet things today. Or other things like, how do we tell what good things or bad things we get out of lemonade? What category does it go in? 
Also, sometimes dairy isn’t just drinkable. Like cheese. There should be an option to put dairy on your plate and not just to the side. So for sweets and dairy, go ahead and just make 2 more spaces for food on the plate.
Also, I think it should be an option in settings if you want to add calories. Sometimes we may not know the calories like if you were at a restaurant without providing the calorie numbers for your order. But it should at least be an option in settings because I know I have wanted it. That way I can tell if I had to many calories that day (me basing it on a 2,000 calorie a day diet)
Also you could add the amount and the thing you did for exercise, so foody life could tell you if you need to eat more for your exercise routine. That also could just be an option in settings.

I can’t wit to see this app grow. Please consider my ideas.

### 2/5 — Not ready for prime time

*2019-05-19*

A couple stars for the idea, but this has a long way to go before being useful. 

First, no option for imperial measurements, need to manually convert your weight to  cm and kg if in the US. Why not just pull and push to Apple Health?

Next, interface is very complicated and unintuitive, which seems to be two things the author believes he made the app to avoid. I started to document my breakfast by taking a shot of my coffee with butter and MCT oil- aaaand... there are things at the bottom which seem to be base categories like fruit, dairy etc. Tapped on “dairy” (closest I could find) and nothing happened. Tapped on “fruit” to add my banana and it associated “fruit” with the coffee and then proceeded. 

Lastly, it seems that nearly all the effort has gone into data mining, which doesn’t thrill me. If that’s the business model then so be it, if I liked the app I’d prefer to buy my privacy. 

This would be an awesome idea if implemented correctly. Take photos of a meal, maybe use a little optional AI to try identifying meal components and let me manually set up items I frequently eat. But I strongly disagree with the priorities and organization of the current design. Hope the developer takes the idea and reworks it because it’s the seed of a great idea, especially for those who find themselves in situations where they want to make food entries but don’t always like writing while they eat.

## Frequently asked questions about FoodyLife

### What is FoodyLife's main focus?

FoodyLife focuses on helping users visually track their daily diet and improve eating habits through mindful eating, rather than relying on calorie counts or numbers.

### Does FoodyLife show calories?

No, FoodyLife explicitly does not show calories or any numbers. Its core feature is to visualize your diet balance through meal entries.

### How does FoodyLife help users track their diet?

Users can track their diet by taking a picture of their food and entering diet information. The app then visualizes their overall diet balance.

### What devices is FoodyLife available on?

FoodyLife is available on iPhone and iPod devices.

### What is the age rating for FoodyLife?

FoodyLife has an age rating of 4+.

### When was FoodyLife last updated?

The latest version of FoodyLife was updated on September 9, 2019.

### What is the price of FoodyLife?

FoodyLife is a paid app and costs $1.99.

### How does FoodyLife differ from other diet apps?

Unlike many other apps that focus on numbers like calories or exercise duration, FoodyLife offers a pressure-free, visual approach to understanding eating habits.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.11 — 2019-09-09

- Bugs repaired

### 1.0.10 — 2019-03-21

- Free for limited time!

### 1.0.9 — 2019-03-03

Fixed minor bugs
Ate some churros :-)

### 1.0.8 — 2019-02-24

Pick out some bugs ;-)
Feel Happy

### 1.0.7 — 2018-05-03

- Bug Fixed

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