Some warnings 7 users report the basics being behind a paywall; 6 users report guilt-trip upgrade prompts. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 500 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 24.0.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 24.0.0, updated 2026-10-23.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
A revolutionary way to track your meals, enhanced by AI.
Welcome to a new era of nutrition tracking, tailored to your style. With the new Lifesum experience, you can choose to log your meals by snapping a photo, using your voice, typing a text or scanning a barcode.
We made food tracking easy so you can make more healthy choices for your body and mind.
JOIN 65 MILLION USERS ON THE PATH TO BETTER HEALTH.
Health isn’t about perfection—it’s about progress. Lifesum encourages small, manageable changes that add up to lasting results.
Whether it’s drinking more water, adding more fruits and veggies to your plate, or choosing healthier snacks, Lifesum celebrates every win, no matter how small.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Constant upsell pressure: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 83 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 71 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
500 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
What happened to this app???? — This app used to be so good, now it constantly freezes, doesn’t save my quick-tracked items, and doesn’t properly show my calories burned (it sometimes shows more, sometimes less until I restart the app)…
Pop Ups — I used to really like this app, but if you have the free version, every time you go to open it, a pop up appears asking you to go “premium”. It’s forcing me to use the app less and less.
Fell off a cliff — App always glitches out and doesn’t freezes upon launch even after restarting the app multiple times. When it doesn’t glitch, a pop up to pay always pops up every time
Used to be a great app, now too many bugs and usability issues — Lifesum used to be a very good app with many useful free features. Over time, more and more basic features have moved behind the paywall. I don’t necessarily have a problem…
Subscription for everything — Used to be a genuinely good app. I used for an extremely long time and really like the UI and how simple the app was. But now everything revolves around their subscription which is not worth it in my opinion…
A waste of time — Not only is 90% of the features in this app behind a paywall, but if you have slow metabolism, I highly doubt you will lose any weight. After following the rules and eating limits for a week, not only did I not lose any…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
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.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 24.0.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .
The store currently lists version 24.0.0, updated 2026-10-23.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Fold it, unfold it, Lifesum keeps up. The app now fits iPhone Duo inside and out. We also improved the app experience, so you can log your meals with speed and precision.
For this newest version, we've given the app some tender loving care and squashed some bugs to give you an even better experience.
Appworthy
lifesum-apple-286906691Assessed 2026-10-26 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.
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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.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
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.
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