Your Food Journal 4+

Love how simple this app is but I wish there were more options for types of food, for example, “dessert” or “grains”. When I have cacao powder I feel weird classifying that as a carb but don’t know how else to categorize it. It would also be nice to track if I took my vitamins for the day. There should be a “title” for the meal I ate and then a description below so that I can describe the ingredients. That would be really helpful!

I love the simplicity of it. It’s been helping me eat more regularly, consistently, and balanced through a difficult schedule and lots of anxiety. If it were a one time purchase I’d have bought it very quickly. I don’t like subscription models. So I haven’t. But then I found that you can’t even view your historical entries without a subscription. So that made it in that you pretty much have go buy the paid version. Which IMO is kind of a sleazy way to sell it to you. Sigh. I’m probably going to do it because it’s the best I’ve found for simplicity but yeah would expect more from a paid version.

The only actual change I would make is the ability to track numbers of the food groups. Eg, checking “carb” is helpful from the sense of evaluating, but as I get going I’m going to need to think okay, this was 2 servings of carbs and I’ve only had one serving of protein. I think you could get around that by entering every unit in separately…I will try. For example, if I put in spaghetti and check carb, that doesn’t give me an idea of how much carb.

I had a problem with the signup page. It was buggy, but after a while I came back and it fixed itself? Not sure what happened, but I got to use the app now.

I have a few suggestions already:

- Add fiber to the food groups.

- Add dessert to the meal types.

- Add a quantification feature for each food group when you log a meal. So that you can visualize if your meal is mostly carbs, or protein, or veggies, etc. Maybe a slide-able pie chart using the selected food groups. Doesn’t have to be exact, just a visualization.

- Customize daily water intake goal. (Change the default 64oz.)

- Set drink water reminder notifications aside from meal notifications.

- Customize the times of the meal reminders.

-Consider offering a lifetime deal.

This app has great potential! Please keep working on it! So many people are in need of a quick and easy way to log their food without it being mentally draining or harmful. I can see this being a safe place to keep track of things. In a way, having limited features is kinda freeing. Saves you from fiddling too much with it because you can’t. I ramble, lol. Looking forward to future updates!