LIBRO 4+

I’m using this app as part of my uni course but it really needs work. Stop with the clever interfaces (like VR) and just get entering food easier. The constant visible “flashy” refreshing of data, like the tracker wheels is really heavy on the eyes. Great things are the front screen trackers. They’re fabulous and why I’m sticking with it. I also like the photos of food quantities. However, the barcode database lacks many common items from major UK supermarkets. Multi-add is buggy and regularly adds two of one food in the list and misses another out. Changing portion sizes once the food is added doesn’t seem to work - or at least it’s not clear if it has. And a really major problem is that you can’t see your progress summed up in any way. You can’t see data for anything other than a day so if you want to see your Vitamin A intake for a week (much more relevant than per day), you can’t. This app has the potential to be great, but at the moment it’s form over function.

Making a recipe, I’m adding foods, then suddenly I get error messages, or it freezes. 5 clicks between selecting one food portion, hit return,,hit save,(why is that two processes?) back to recipe, look in info, select, scroll, add ingredient, VR doesn’t work this time, so type it in..... until you can (try to) enter the next item. All very frustrating. I have 4 more ingredients to enter, But it just won’t let me save them.
The quantity adjuster for portion size gets in the way of the figures I’ve entered, on my iPad (better on my phone, strangely). And then won’t close, nor let me edit the amount. Freezes. Then sneakily the app enters the foods as snacks instead of part of my recipe. I didn’t ask it to, I wasn’t even aware I could at that point! I never got to the end of my recipe, and I’ve no idea how I’d use it in logging my food, but I’ve already given up. For now. This thing is what my dietitian wants me to use, so I’ve got to try again. Sorry I’m incoherent with frustration. Yes I have written to support. If they help me I’ll leave a better review!

I see I’m not alone, and when I click on Support, you offer stuff for the professionals, on the PC, not we end users using our phones and tablets, from my initial look at any rate.

Feel awful saying this as someone has made it but it’s a terrible application. I will continue to use MyFitnessPal which is also free but well built. It’s fiddly, takes ages to load, it has barely any barcodes scanned in, I almost feel like I should be paid an admin fee for the amount of data I’m inputting. I can’t input for the week ahead (maybe I can just not intuitive at all) which I like to do to plan meals. I have hired a nutritionist who uses this application for some reason but will not be continuing use. It is taking a lot of time and effort which I don’t mind, if it’s an efficient use of my time which this application is not.