Is there a good app for log meals?
Prime Gap: 5 apps already serve this, and 154 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| food list jumps to top on log | ux | 3 | Every food you log now causes the UI to jump on screen and brings you back to the top of the food list |
| cumbersome food logging | ux | 2 | adding food for daily tracking is really not good |
| frustrating meal logging | ux | 1 | Meal logging is frustrating at best, imposible at worst |
| meal time-of-day logging | missing-feature | 1 | не хватает возможности указать время приёма |
| too complex to log simple meals | ux | 1 | non posso scrivere pasta con pomodoro 100cal.. è per frustrati maniaci |
| hard to log food | ux | 1 | I can’t stand trying to log in my food anymore |
| 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 |
| logs foods not eaten | bug | 1 | it logs foods that I haven't eaten recently. I have to constantly delete foods |
| food logging defaults to wrong meal time | ux | 1 | everything goes to anytime then you have to change it to breakfast, lunch or dinner |
| time-consuming food logging | ux | 1 | Es braucht viel Zeit |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Meal App | 5.0 | 3 | $0.99 |
| Options Log | 4.5 | 2 | $1.99 |
| R-Log | 4.4 | 11 | $1.99 |
| LeanBites - Healthy Dining | 4.6 | 3,095 | Free |
| Noom Weight Loss, Food Tracker | 4.7 | 868,553 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 95 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.
Who has tried building this
6 attempts, 4 active but small (top 29 stars); steady interest yet no breakout—a crowded, low-traction field.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| fraineralex/tracky | active | 29 | TypeScript |
| akutishevsky/nutrition-mcp | active | 15 | TypeScript |
| gshaviv/ninety-two | active | 13 | Swift |
| umangsh/famnom | stale | 13 | Python |
| panwarabhishek345/Log-It-Andoid-App | stale | 11 | Java |
| pallaviXD/NutriMind-Ai | active | 6 | JavaScript |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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