Lifesum: AI Calorie Counter

• Lifesum Premium — $14.99/month (derived from the IAP title)
• Lifesum Premium — $39.99/quarter (derived from the IAP title)
• Lifesum Premium — $99.99/year ($8.33/mo) (derived from the IAP title)

Last verified 2 Sep 2026

• Free download · core features require a paid plan
• In-app purchases: $3.99 - $99.99 per item
• Subscription

Last verified 27 Aug 2026

4.6 150584 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Read before downloading

   TLDR: If you want an easy user friendly app then keep this as THE FREE VERSION. All of the updates don’t even work properly and the manual log feature is pointless as it doesn’t save. I have used this app on and off since 2017. Every time I want to start a weight loss journey, this has been my go to app. The problem now is it’s no longer as user friendly with premium. I cannot for the life me of figure out how to track a single item. Quick track? Nope. Barcode? Nope. Every option it recommends doesn’t work. I can’t even add the ingredients into a meal to log it the long way around. I add it but it doesn’t reflect at all. It refreshes and disappears. And I don’t have the patience to pull up every food item I use to manually type in the numbers. Maybe a bug? But the list of updates says it’s better than ever. What a joke. Now it’s pushing ai on me to log my meals when all I want to do is scan and add. I don’t want to be forced to talk to an ai just to track my meals. How is this app more difficult with the paid subscription? I paid in advance so I can’t even cancel and use the free version again. Never felt so frustrated. I already downloaded a new app and canceled my subscription since I don’t want to wait 3 months until this app is usable again to lose weight. (I paid 3 months in advance)

   Caitlin N. · 2 Sep 2026

2. 3/5The older version was better

   Positives: I like the tracking with photo feature when you need to quickly track a meal with a “guesstimation.” So glad the barcode feature is still here! Negatives: there’s a lot of glitches with the new ai update, and things aren’t as streamlined as they used to be. Foods are no longer organized by meal type. It just appears as one long list, and if they’re not tracked in a timely manner they will show up as an incorrect meal, and it doesn’t seem like there’s a way to manually adjust when before you could. You also can’t see calories by meal anymore, which was super helpful in tracking my habits, it’s all just really disorganized now. Tracking with text is not always accurate either, and there’s no way to adjust, or search for verified foods like they’re used to be. I also really wish you could multi select from recent foods when tracking a meal, you have to go back each time and it’s really annoying, I don’t think this was a problem before. Overall: I’m hoping these things are addressed, I used to really love this app. I’m disappointed that Lifesum went the ai direction, the personal touch and accuracy is just not there anymore They fixed something that wasn’t broken and made it worse. I would suggest keeping the photo feature and text entry as an option but still include the old methods. I won’t be renewing my subscription if this doesn’t become more user friendly.

   GenBen🌻 · 2 Sep 2026

3. 3/5Meal Plans and Shopping List

   This app definitely has the potential to be a 5 star app but the synchronization of the meal plans and the shopping list is horrible. For starters, the shopping list should automatically be generated, but instead you have to select each item individually for it to be added to the the shopping list. Second, some recipes have the same ingredients but instead of grouping repeat items together and increasing the quantity the app just creates another item on the list for the same thing. For example, there were two meals on the meal plan that both needed chia seeds and instead of having one entry with the total amount of chia seeds I needed for the meal plan, chia seeds were listed twice with 2 different amounts. It’s really a pain in the a*+. Additionally, there is an option to choose to eat the same meal every day for a meal but it does not sync with the planner. When you select to add the recipe ingredients to the shopping list it adds the original item that was there instead. For example, there was originally a recipe for lentil soup and I replaced it with sweet potato stew instead. When I chose to add the sweet potato stew ingredients to my shopping list all the ingredients for the lentil soup show up instead. Overall, I love everything else about this app, but the meal program has not been optimized. I highly recommend the developers to take a look at this app called Meal Lime and take pointers on how they synchronize their shopping list with their meal plans.

   Dee C34 · 2 Sep 2026

4. 5/5READ THIS

   So I think everyone can agree that losing/maintaining/gaining weight or just even remembering to eat healthily can be a very tough thing for anybody. This app, is honestly the HOLY GRAIL of nutrition tracker app. AND YES I SAY NUTRITION, because it is not just a weight loss, cal counter, water tracker, it’s so much more than that. I know this because I can probably say I have used every freakin app to try and make the habit of healthy living stick. So there is a few bugs here and there but nothing I can say that would make me stop using it. Mainly just certain calories not matching up etc. but I doubt the makers of this app can control that due to it probably being inputted from other resources, BUT I will say, it’s almost 75% accurate if you’re not specifically measuring anything out. I’m saying this because I do measure everything out, and honestly if you do measure your food and put it into the app, it is extremely accurate, some of the work has to be put on your side because a phone screen cannot accurately calculate how much your eating. It is a tool!!!! An extremely useful, well made, and STUNNING tool to help you along whatever health journey you are going on. My FAVORITE function of the app of all is you can create your own recipes where it calculates the calories in what you made, let me tell you, an absolute game changer. If you have an Apple Watch, it pairs the app to your activity😍. I lost 14 lbs and toned up (of course with exercise and such) but with this app by my side I honestly felt like it was effortless. Just try it for yourself I promise.

   Pegasister23 · 2 Sep 2026

5. 4/5Beautiful and easy to use with some adaptability issues

   First of all, the visual design of this app is incredible. Other similar apps have designs that make it feel outdated, which in turn can make the data or plans feel outdated even when that’s not true. Gorgeous color scheme, icons, motion design, etc, and lots of great features like the barcode scanner and ability to quickly select previous days’ meals. However, there’s a few issues with how the tracker adapts to your daily activity. The app will add to my remaining calories if I’ve been active that day, but the macros that it has set will not adapt with them. For example, it tells me to eat 120g of protein per day, but yesterday I happened to be super active and had 1000 more calories I could eat. Even though I had a huge amount of calories left, my macros didnt adjust, so I had a bright red indicator on my macros for going over even when I really should’ve eaten more. For how much I love the rest of the app I really dislike how those goals stay static. I also wish it could connect to Fitbit with a little more detail- I don’t use Apple Heath to track my steps and wish it could detect steps, type of workout (like weight training), etc from the Fitbit app. All in all, I love this app and would absolutely recommend it to everyone, just be aware that it’s okay to ignore the bright red macro counter if you’ve done a lot of activity and need to eat more that day.

   Jackinzi · 2 Sep 2026

4.4 377842 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   even the free version is very useful! provides much better details in the paid one.

   Tornike Asatiani · 27 Aug 2026

2. 1/5

   didn't work for me

   Nikos · 27 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   Perfecto 👌🏻

   Abood BS · 27 Aug 2026

4. 3/5

   it sometimes over estimates calories and you can't really amend it easily. good for keeping up with what you eat though and tracking water and exercise.

   Autumn Witch · 27 Aug 2026

5. 1/5

   *update* your support is not great, keep having a conversation with a bot, and it is not going anywhere. No help at all. Burned calories wrong. have reconnected so many times and still not showing all my steps throughout the day. Can you advise what I can do? I have a Samsung S24.

   Brigita Girkute · 27 Aug 2026

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