Is there a good app for log meals?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
93
Opportunity /100
97
Demand /100
44
Competition /100
96
Execution gap /100
3
Apps serving it
72
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to log meals, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| frustrating meal logging | ux | 1 | Meal logging is frustrating at best, imposible at worst |
| reduced to just meal logging vs original | other | 1 | This is also nothing in any way shape or form except for logging meals compared to the original |
| too many inputs to log a meal | ux | 1 | it still takes an unnecessarily long amount of inputs to simply log a meal |
| logging meals much harder | ux | 1 | logging meals is so much harder than the Fitbit app |
| hard to log food accurately | ux | 1 | It's difficult to log anything accurately |
| food logging defaults to wrong meal time | ux | 1 | everything goes to anytime then you have to change it to breakfast, lunch or dinner |
| cannot log a meal | bug | 1 | Can't log a single meal. Must be some bug |
| too many steps to log food | ux | 1 | I really love tracking my food and way too many steps to do it |
| double-logging/losing logged foods | bug | 1 | keeps double-logging/losing the foods that I log |
| forced to log by meal adds extra step | ux | 1 | why do you have to log by meal? That also adds a whole extra step |
| can't log multiple foods at once | missing-feature | 1 | You should be able to enter multiple foods at the same time |
| food log all bunched together | ux | 1 | everything else is all bunched up in one place |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factor_ Prepared Meal Delivery | 4.8★ | 237,141 | Free |
| Noom Weight Loss, Food Tracker | 4.7★ | 865,829 | Free |
| Nutrition Coach: Food tracker | 4.8★ | 87,684 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 93 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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