Reduce Clicks For Adding Food
planned (soon)
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Simon Gilks
It takes to many clicks and feels clunky compared to NutraCheck to add food to the diary. For example I have a saved recipe for a skinny cappuccino which I have measured etc so I know my milk quantity etc. but to add this it too may clicks, for saved/favourite recipes there should be a quick add button that just adds it straight ti the day.
Leah
Merged in a post:
Easier adding meals from a catering service
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Padrino
Currently, to add a catered meal that has a nutrition label printed on the packaging, I have to add it as a custom meal and then find it and select it as a daily log.(To calculate the exact calories and ingredients) I’d like there to be an option to quickly log a daily meal after scanning the nutrition label, without having to go through the whole process of adding it as a custom meal and then searching for it and adding it to my daily intake.
Here is a sample label from a Polish catering service
Leah
Hi Padrino you can scan a nutrition label by going to My Foods-->Add-->Create Recipe-->Scan barcode. If this doesn’t quite address your feedback, please share a bit more detail about what you’re looking for, and I’ll be happy to help!
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Padrino
Leah Unfortunately, the meals from the catering service don’t have barcodes; instead, they list the exact macros and calories for each meal printed at label. When I scan a meal via “Create Recipe” > “Import Recipe,” the app generates approximate macros and calories without letting me edit them (but I want to enter exactly what’s on the label for that meal, so the current workflow I’ve found is to use “Create custom food” and scan the label; this way, I can edit the macros if the OCR didn’t work properly and the data is accurately read from the label). The fastest UX solution would be to have an additional “Save & Log” button next to the “Save” button at the end of my current workflow.
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Sonja
I really like the overall concept of the app, but the food logging experience needs significant improvement.
First, the structure feels unnecessarily complicated. Navigating through a timeline instead of clearly separated sections like Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks makes logging slower and more frustrating than necessary. A structured, meal-based layout would greatly improve usability.
The home screen widget also needs improvement.
Currently, it does not offer a quick and intuitive way to log food. In comparison, other apps structure their widget clearly by Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks, each with a simple plus button. When tapping the plus icon, you are taken directly to the search screen, where recent and saved foods are immediately visible. This makes logging extremely fast and convenient. A similar approach would significantly enhance the experience.
Second, the food database (especially for Germany) appears unreliable.
Some products are incorrectly stored. For example, I drink yfood Cold Brew every morning, but the nutritional values and vitamins listed were completely wrong.
Additionally:
- Many foods cannot be found
- Some verified products contain incorrect nutrition data
- Some foods have no nutritional information at all
- Product names are sometimes confusing or inaccurate
The search function also feels slow and inconsistent.
The biggest issue, however, is entering exact gram amounts.
If I eat 243 grams of something, I should be able to enter 243 g directly. Instead, I have to select “100 g” as the base and then enter 2.43, which is unnecessarily complicated and unintuitive. This makes food logging far more tedious than it needs to be.
It would also be helpful to have practical serving-based options (e.g., slice of cheese, slice of sausage, piece, etc.) where appropriate.
Regarding the AI features:
- The food scanning AI often significantly underestimates calories.
- The “describe your meal” function suggests nutritional values that do not match reality.
- If I provide exact nutritional information for a full recipe, the app should use that data instead of generating unrelated estimates.
Overall, the concept of the app is strong, but the food tracking system — especially for German users — needs major improvement in terms of usability, database accuracy, and efficiency.
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Tobi Boing
Sonja Yes, yes and yes. I started to log my food a week ago and your post sums up my experience perfectly! It’s a great ideas but way too complicated — I just counted and it took me eight taps over three different screens to log a single coffee with milk that I have saved as a recipe.
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Mitya
Sonja I absolutely agree. I was on Lose It! before switching to Bevel; and a part of me misses Lose It! Thankfully, Bevel is great in many other areas, but logging in food is quite the hassle...
I don't understand why the barcodes I scan don't get automatically added to my "custom" food. Whatever barcode I scan should automaticaly be added to my custom food.
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Eric Preston
i would also add it would be nice for your saved food to save your last inputted measurement. I’m always having to change from 1 cup or serving to 200g or 200ml or whatever. Better standardization or option to standardize common foods in how you prefer to measure them. It would also be nice to auto add a food to every day, such as my morning smoothie and eggs that I eat every day. Automatically add it in and if I don’t eat it that day I can delete it.
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Rafa Gómez García
I agree, it's somewhat tedious and unintuitive. For example, I would like to be able to create a food through the barcode. To do this we have to go into recipes, and from there look for a food to be able to create it. I don't want to make recipes, I want to create the foods I use and then include them if I want in a recipe. As you would with MyFittNespal. Hopefully I'll implement it differently, because Bevel is currently the best app for me and I would like to integrate everything into the same app and not have others for things like nutrition.
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Corey McMahon
I have to agree with all the things said here in the comments. In fact, as much as I love Bevel I find myself going back to MacroFactor over and over. They’ve just nailed this and it’s easily 3-4x faster. For me the primary issue is search speed and accuracy. For some reason, it doesn’t seem to match the brand name as well as the common name. Results don’t seem to take my historical choices into account. If I’ve eaten something before, or it’s one of my saved foods, it should definitely come to the top of the list before a random brand I’ve never heard of. Plus all the other features mentioned by others (swipe to duplicate, delete, edit time, group by meal, bulk edit, etc).
If it’s easier I’d be just as happy if you integrated with MacroFactor, but I’m guessing that’s less aligned with your product strategy.
Masonfoley
As others have detailed, the number of steps to add a food is taxing to say the least and the searching takes an inordinate amount of time for each entry. While the UI is visually polished, the actual food logging workflow is currently too cumbersome for daily use. The high friction in adding items makes it difficult to maintain a consistent logging habit.
Critical Issues:
Search Latency: Search queries take 3-5 seconds to return results. The cumulative time spent logging a single meal is prohibitive and this is more cumbersome if the initial search result is incorrect for a given food item.
Data Integrity: I've seen examples where the data for a food item had zero values (e.g., Nancy's Low Fat Cottage Cheese), which necessitates manual correction.
Unit Support: Many food items only offer volume as an option. Since I weigh my food, the lack of mass-based options (grams/ounces) creates significant friction and requires manual conversion.
Logging Friction: The number of "taps" required to move through the entire flow of adding an individual item (from search to a confirmed entry) is significantly higher than industry competitors.
Retrospective Logging: Most people log food retrospectively, not in real time. The experience currently feels too fragmented and needs a more cohesive batch-entry flow.
Requested Improvements:
Efficiency Shortcuts: Implement "Slide to Delete" for individual entries, "Copy Previous Meal," and the ability to set "Recurring Meals" for daily staples to reduce repetitive data entry.
Meal Groupings: Group entries by Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks with macro summaries (Calories, Fat, Carbs, Protein) displayed for each meal.
Bulk Editing: Add multi-select capabilities to the timeline to allow for batch-changing meal times or categories.
Optimized Search: Aim for sub-second search results and improved keyword matching to reduce repeat searches.
Intuitive Display: Update the timeline to show calorie counts for each individual food item at a glance.
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Tim Smail
II havI have to agree. I have been using Noom for sometime now and in the past I have also used my fitness pal. This is by far the clunky nutrition I have ever worked with and likely won’t continue to use it.
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Aliasgar A. Amirali
Take a look at Loose it! They support EU food and bigger part of the nordic
Amanda
Merged in a post:
Add barcode and AI description buttons to the food search screen.
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Kyle
The current way to add foods feels very scattered. There are different ways to add food based on the page you are on and each way is separated into multiple buttons instead of one uniform experience.
I think it would be way more intuitive to simply have a plus button on the nutrition page (just like the home page) and when you click that it pulls up food searching with smaller buttons at the top to scan a barcode or use the AI.
Currently if I add a meal that contains previous foods I’ve logged and also new foods that I have to scan, you have to switch pages multiple times and it becomes very tedious.
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