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Foodnoms: Nutrition Tracker

Log Food and Track Your Macros

Algebraic Labs, LLC
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating4.7★7.9K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app $5.99–$89.99
Age12+Store age rating
Size190 MBiPhone download
CategoryHealth & Fitness
DeveloperAlgebraic Labs, LLC

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 10 users report the basics being behind a paywall. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 500 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.

Money

  • Free to download · in-app purchases $5.99–$89.99 (8 listed). Monthly plans $5.99 (about $72 a year), $9.99 (about $120 a year) and $14.99 (about $180 a year); yearly plans $39.99, $49.99, $69.99 and $89.99.
  • If you subscribe through the store, cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.

Paywalls and prices

From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 2026.18 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 2026.18, updated 2026-10-21.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Foodnoms is the nutrition tracker that respects your time and your privacy. Log meals in seconds, set goals that fit the way you eat, and watch your progress add up. No ads, no spam.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Log what you eat and drink in seconds: snap a photo, describe it in plain language, scan a barcode or nutrition label, or search a database of hundreds of thousands of foods.

2. Set custom goals for calories, macros, water, fiber, net carbs, vitamins, minerals, and dozens more.

3. Learn about your nutrition, and use that knowledge to reach your health and fitness goals.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

0 published · 2 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Users describe the free version as usable

One source only

Reviewers describe the free version as usable: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 100 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Reviewers repeatedly say the free version is worth using on its own. Nothing we can measure corroborates that — a free listing with in-app purchases looks identical whether the free tier is generous or a demo — so this is published as what reviewers say, not as a measured credit.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
1.0% of the 500 reviews read.

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 50 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
2.0% of the 500 reviews read.

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

500 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

500 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Users describe the free version as usable

Shown, not confirmed

Best Food Tracking app — Free version is great, gets out of your way and just does what you need. Bought the paid just because I loved the app so much.

5★ · App Store · 2026-08-20

Visual delight with great features — The best app I’ve found for macros tracking— hands down. The free version is incredibly generous with the features it includes; this is so important for anyone who is trying to learn about tracking but…

5★ · App Store · 2025-08-13

Almost perfect. — More than fair free version ✅ Free barcode scanner ✅ Fantastic UI/UX ✅ No ads (as far as I can tell!) ✅ Comprehensive premium features ✅ More stuff I’m probably forgetting because there’s just so many good things ✅ I…

4★ · App Store · 2023-09-07

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

Good while it lasted — Great app but the features and screen real estate being taken up by premium features that are locked behind subscription is increasing over time. Same progression as myfitness pal, start with a good app, use the…

2★ · App Store · 2026-09-01

Subpar and exploitative, no reason to use this app — Repeatedly changed features to move essential functions behind a paywall, automatically bills you for a full year after your trial period ends, and immediately removes access to premium…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-21

Paywall bug fixed — Edit: Thanks to the developer for reaching out and correcting the situation of free tracking that suddenly was behind a paywall. My review has been edited to reflect how much I use and enjoy this app, and to reflect…

5★ · App Store · 2026-08-17

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 27 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 2026.18 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 2026.18, updated 2026-10-21.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 2026.18 · 2026-10-21
What's New - New Carbohydrates setting lets you count carbs with or without fiber, to match the nutrition labels where you live - New Avoid Cups and Ounces setting lets you start foods in grams and milliliters instead of cups, ounces, and pounds - New Region setting in Settings › General sets your default units, nutrition labels and carbs - Quick entries can now have their own serving size and be logged in any number of servings - Simpler screens for creating and editing foods and quick entries, with a nutrition label that looks more like the real thing - An option to scan the front of the package for a food’s name and brand is now available when creating or editing foods and quick entries…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
foodnoms
Assessment date
27 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
500
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-27 from 500 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-27 Version analyzed: 2026.183 independent signals500 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.74 ★ · 7,850 ratings
Version
2026.18
Updated
21 Oct 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
12+
Size
190 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Algebraic Labs, LLC
Category
Health & Fitness
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Subscriptions8
Foodnoms+ MonthlyMonthly$5.99
Foodnoms+ Monthly (Family)Monthly$9.99
Foodnoms+ MonthlyMonthly$9.99
Foodnoms+ Monthly (Family)Monthly$14.99
Foodnoms+ AnnualYearly$39.99
Foodnoms+ Annual (Family)Yearly$69.99
Foodnoms+ AnnualYearly$49.99
Foodnoms+ Annual (Family)Yearly$89.99

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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