5 star content, 2star functionality – SparkPeople Calorie Tracker Review

I have loved Spark People’s website since before Smartphones. I even used the android app when it first came out, and it was great! Unfortunately, I did stop using spark people during the ensuing years, but not before they started charging for the app. ***Once they started charging for the Premium version of the Android app, the app actually went downhill.*** I recently recommitted to losing weight to better my health numbers, so naturally I turned again to SparkPeople. I told myself, “it’ll be OK this time. I’m sure they’ve improved things.“ Not so; this iPhone app is even worse than the downhill version of Android app! I am highly disappointed in this app. It takes forever do you load, even when I am the only one on my high-speed Internet connection at home, and I have to close it and restart it at least once a day. This is annoying, since I am tracking my food, which requires numerous entries per day. In addition, the water tracking practically never works. Also, it keeps telling me that I have the premium trial, but still shows me ads. Why would I want to pay for something that’s going to show me ads anyway? Why would I want to pay for something that doesn’t work well in the first place? In sum, the articles are great and the friend feed and social aspect of it is really nice, but I am definitely looking for another app to track my macros. This makes me really sad, because I do love SparkPeople. Oh one more thing: it keeps telling me to tell them my goals, which I have already done. It has decided what my macros should be, instead of allowing me to determine what my macros should be. I would imagine there is something to remedy this on the website itself, but I just haven’t gone to it yet.
Review by To Scan QR Code, Do This: on SparkPeople Calorie Tracker.