COST MONEY!!!!!
The app overall seems really good, BUT IT COST, $23.00 a month!!! Or $120.00 a year. I’m sorry but NO THANK YOU. Because it’s literally just AI, so you could ask the same thing to ChatGPT for free.
Awful
First thing I did was throw it a simple recipe and state that I had 150g of it. Basic function in other tracking apps. AI absolutely butchered it. No amount of finagling would result in the AI calculating a portion of a recipe. This app is for performative food loggers who do it to feel better, not get actual results.
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A refreshing approach
Really like how simple and personalized the recommendations feel. Its actually easy to stick with.
Smoke and Mirrors
They state free with in app purchases but….. it’s really free to download ( which is just stupid) and you owe $22.99 a month after 7 days of strategy and just getting started. But that’s the idea. I knew Cody at Wrangler Star had to be up to something shady. He said it’s a free app and that’s just a lie. Now they will give a BS excuse to me and need me to contact an email so they look sincere Don’t Believe it.
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Great Concept, Weak Database and Inaccurate Estimates
I appreciate the idea behind Welling — making food logging simple by just snapping a photo of your plate. The concept is smart and could be genuinely helpful. Unfortunately, the execution falls short. The product database is woefully lacking, and the app’s generic guesses for what’s on your plate are often inaccurate. Because of that, I find myself double-checking its work, which defeats the whole purpose of an ‘easy’ tracker. I can’t fully trust the numbers it gives me. I even paid for the one-year subscription and now regret it — it just isn’t reliable enough to justify the cost. If they updated and expanded their database, this could be a much better tool. As it stands, it’s more frustrating than useful.”
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Great!
Great app!
They take your information and then make you pay
They take all you info and you spent some time logging all of their questions. The. You get immediately prompted to start a subscription or you can’t use their product. Also, it’s all ai. No personalization just computer.
150 a year
Makes you answer a bunch of questions and then tell you to pay. That should be stated upfront and before. App deleted, useless money grab
Extremely Disao
This is actually the first time I have bothered to review an app, but the experience was so bad that I wanted others to know and hopefully avoid wasting their time.
I was excited about finding a nutrition app where I could chat both to make it easier to track my nutrition vs. goals and to dive deeper into some of the metrics and how to improve.
The first issue is that the app kept forgetting things already outlined. This memory fade cost a lot of time because I had to keep repeating myself.
Second, there was an issue where repeatedly it would simply reply with something like “Sorry I can’t find the food you are trying to adjust,” even though I wasn’t trying to adjust anything. I would then just reply “focus” and it would get back on track.
These kind of repeated inputs are what drove the final thing that put me off this product. I was trying to work through how to lower my sodium and all of a sudden I got a message “You have reached your limit of 200 chats for the day.” Mind you there was no warning, nothing I saw when I signed up ever mentioned a limit. This was my first day with the app, and I spent a lot of effort trying to figure out how best to communicate with it, and digging into a lot of questions, but probably half of my chats were trying to get it to correct when it had memory fade or glitched.
Overall, even within the core product there are big problems. It was significantly off in calculating nutrition from a photo I uploaded. Other times even when I gave it a specific brand of something I ate, it miscalculated the nutritional info.
Overall, like a lot of AI tools this one was clearly rushed to production before it was ready
I was excited about finding a nutrition app where I could chat both to make it easier to track my nutrition vs. goals and to dive deeper into some of the metrics and how to improve.
The first issue is that the app kept forgetting things already outlined. This memory fade cost a lot of time because I had to keep repeating myself.
Second, there was an issue where repeatedly it would simply reply with something like “Sorry I can’t find the food you are trying to adjust,” even though I wasn’t trying to adjust anything. I would then just reply “focus” and it would get back on track.
These kind of repeated inputs are what drove the final thing that put me off this product. I was trying to work through how to lower my sodium and all of a sudden I got a message “You have reached your limit of 200 chats for the day.” Mind you there was no warning, nothing I saw when I signed up ever mentioned a limit. This was my first day with the app, and I spent a lot of effort trying to figure out how best to communicate with it, and digging into a lot of questions, but probably half of my chats were trying to get it to correct when it had memory fade or glitched.
Overall, even within the core product there are big problems. It was significantly off in calculating nutrition from a photo I uploaded. Other times even when I gave it a specific brand of something I ate, it miscalculated the nutritional info.
Overall, like a lot of AI tools this one was clearly rushed to production before it was ready
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Identify
The Welling AI does not identify your meal very adequate even when I take a close up picture of my meal
Best tracker!
This is probably best tracker for someone who doesn't like recording things on Notes or any other platforms. You can literally tell the chat, and it will record it for you! So simple, so easy!
Food Database
The app is super easy to use and has clean aesthetics. Their database actually does a great job showing a wide range of food cultures I eat from too
Inaccurate but looks nice
Pretty design but I found the AI to be way off with very limited options to correct the mistakes. Ultimately the convenience of the AI was undercut by bad results and limited editing capabilities and so I moved on.
Not true AI
This is a prompted response App not AI. Simple things I say like “I didn’t eat breakfast “ it doesn’t understand. It also scolds me for 100 calorie breakfast choices (Oatmeal) because it has “Maple and Brown Sugar” It says its High in calories huh? The oatmeal has less than one gram of sugar. And I gave it the entire label. It is not thinking -it is giving canned responses to the word sugar.
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Great App
Setup was easy and app is great! No hidden adds or purchases
Scam pricing
Was so close to subscribing after the strong into but strongarming me into paying a $120 annual subscription or getting charged double to just do the monthly and see how it goes is classic tech bro scam nonsense.
Seriously if you have an actually good product, trust that people will stay? Don't play this scammy annual sub thing like Adobe.
So I'm out, nice try though. Might just build my own version with Claude.
Seriously if you have an actually good product, trust that people will stay? Don't play this scammy annual sub thing like Adobe.
So I'm out, nice try though. Might just build my own version with Claude.
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Response from developer
Hi, I am not sure what this review is about. We are not scamming anyone and we do not mislead anyone into buying the subscription. There is a 7 day free trial that you can cancel easily through the App Store app as usual. If you have forgotten to cancel, you can always request a refund. Please reach out to support@welling.ai. Would appreciate it if you change or remove this review.
Not Even Close to Ready
Welling is a typical food tracking app, but with the entry and search functionality replaced by a conversational AI. Unfortunately, the AI is absolutely not ready for prime-time, which means having the entire UX built around it is a terrible idea. It can’t retrieve basic search queries. It can’t adjust former entries consistently. It makes terrible assumptions about serving sizes, etc.
You’re essentially forced to save everything as a favorite meal, which entirely defeats the purpose of the AI.
I will say the interface is very smooth and intuitive. If you weren’t forced to access everything via the AI, it might be a great app.
You’re essentially forced to save everything as a favorite meal, which entirely defeats the purpose of the AI.
I will say the interface is very smooth and intuitive. If you weren’t forced to access everything via the AI, it might be a great app.
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Fonctionne mal
Interaction moins fluide qu’avec ChatGPT ou Gemini. Erreurs dans les données nutritionnelles laborieuses à rectifier. Tenir un journal alimentaire avec une IA générale fonctionne beaucoup mieux. Je retourne à cette solution
Response from developer
Hi, thanks for the feedback. That is not how Welling should work, there is likely some bug. If you could reach out to support@welling.ai, the team will have a look at the issue. Thank you!
Inaccurate and unreliable, but still cool
The idea is amazing and the ai meal prep feature is neat. However, I’ve found the ai estimations to be extremely unreliable and inconsistent. If you put in the same meal twice, it could give you two different sets of Macros. The app told me that 2 oz of my home cooked meal was 180 calories. I copied the same meal and adjusted for 3 oz and it told me, one extra ounce of the same meal was now 1,600 calories.
I have to double check and edit each meal, something I thought I’d be doing very little of while PAYING for an app. Hopefully in a few years the technology is advanced enough to keep up with what this company is advertising. A little annoyed I payed for three months. My expectations were too high.
I have to double check and edit each meal, something I thought I’d be doing very little of while PAYING for an app. Hopefully in a few years the technology is advanced enough to keep up with what this company is advertising. A little annoyed I payed for three months. My expectations were too high.
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Food database is limited and inaccurate
I think this is going in the right direction in terms id user experience. However the core issue is that the database is limited. Some of the things i scan or eat cannot be found and it’s cumbersome to scan/save etc. sometimes the macros come back inaccurate compared to the information online or on fitness pal.
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