“Lifetime membership is a lie — I paid for a lifetime membership years ago. Hadn’t used the app recently, redownloaded and somehow none of my emails are in their system. Now everything is behind a paywall. Lies.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 501 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★77,546 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
239 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Since 2010, Fooducate has been helping millions of people eat healthier, lose weight and improve their health.
• Recommended by doctors, dietitians, fitness trainers, and personal coaches • Apple's Best of the iPhone Health & Fitness category • 1st prize - US Surgeon General Healthy App Challenge • Media praise: USAToday, NYTimes, Dr. Oz, Oprah, WSJ, ABC, FOX, etc.
THE BEST NUTRITION & HEALTH TRACKER + Log your food intake and exercise + See the quality of calories + Count your macros: protein, fats, carbs + Analyze your sugar intake + Track your sleep, mood, and hunger levels + Enter your recipes and instamagically & see their nutritional value! + Seamlessly integrated with Apple Health…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 7.28 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 7.28, updated 2026-02-18.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes 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 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 about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 501 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 501 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 501 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Underwhelming features with lots of ads — Second time trying this app as a basic calorie counter and it just is not up to snuff. Most of what you try to scan just flat out doesn’t, or times it’ll tell me the scanning feature is locked…”
“false advertising — why would u include nutrition information as a promotional tool under the basic plan, yet it’s locked behind a subscription paywall?”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 7.28.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.