Lifesum

This app is gorgeous! I love the articles and the recipes look absolutely scrumptious. The aesthetics alone are what make this the most effective app, and it is super smooth! Even on this old phone, where everything else crashes. Huge thanks to the devs for achieving this. Now, I turned on notifications expecting reminders to update my water or add my meals and exercise, which would be really nice! Sometimes you get busy and don't track anything; it is the LAST thing on your mind. I did, however, get constant reminders to update my weight. As someone who has a Lifesum of 119 (almost completely perfect!), I find that a little unhealthy. No-one should be weighing themselves every day, especially if you already have an unhealthy relationship with your weight, body fat percentage, or food. Even on a practical level, it doesn't make much sense. So I turned off the notifications, but it would be nice to be able to select what kind of notifications we get in the future! Such as for new recipes or articles, and reminders in other areas of body and health maintenance. Or a way to change the frequency: Weighing yourself every X amount of days. If there is already a way to do this, I hope the settings for it become easier to find. Thanks for reading!

Overall a very pretty interface with a mix of trendy but similar diets. Easy to enter most foods via scanning. The food database is not crowdsourced. Includes meals with shopping lists. But missing the ESSENTIAL reporting needed to understand current nutritional needs and plan and maintain a nutritional diet: Where is Micronutrients and vitamin reporting? The manual tracking option for veggies, fruit, and seafood seems useless and time consuming. The ability to securely share nutrient and progress info seems to be missing. Finally, uses BMR/RMR which are known to be inaccurate as they do not take into consideration many factors including body type and muscle and fat percentage (there is not currently a way to know these measurements without the proper tools). What can be improved is a calculator for estimating energy burned as most people overestimate this. There are much much better free apps for nutrition and weight tracking out there.