Health · Channel report
What people complain about in Nutrition
WaveSeek read 1,806 public posts about Nutrition over 30 days and found 427 genuine complaints in them. Below are the ones that came up most, each linking to the post it was read from.
Measured 17 September 2026 · 4 distinct sources in the last 7 days · this page is rebuilt on every deploy
Daily mentions, 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-17. Peak 108 in a day.
Week over week, mentions moved -44%. A growth figure only appears here when it survives a baseline floor, a source-change check and a credibility ceiling — most channels most weeks show nothing, and that is the honest answer.
The evidence chain
Every complaint below came out of this. Nothing is estimated; each step is a count.
- 1,806posts ingested about Nutrition30-day window
- 814read by the classifier45% of them
- 427were genuine complaints52% of what was read
Mentions here exclude news wires and video titles: somebody reporting on Nutrition is not somebody having a problem with it. The Trends screen inside the app counts those too, because it measures attention rather than frustration — which is why the two numbers differ and why this page says which one it is using.
What people actually complain about
The 8 most frequent complaint clusters of 30 found, phrased by the classifier from the posts themselves. The links go to the original post — not to a summary of it.
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1
Basic features locked behind paywall
Greedy — Once upon a time using the bar code feature was free and basic…now it’s behind a paywall
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2
Broken barcode scanning feature
Barcode scanner broken — Used to work great. Now gives an error message
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3
Intrusive ads disrupting core app usage
Had to power button my way out of an ad. Im just gonna samsung notes everything then blast the daily result…
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4
Update degraded previously good app experience
Boo — Used to be a great app but the new update has ruined it.
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5
Excessive paywalling of core features
Always want more money… — Meal planning, $100 in addition to the $80 premium already paid…
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6
Inaccurate calorie calculations and app instability
Too many bugs — Unfortunate because this is the only calorie counting app that has worked for me. But I hav…
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7
Clunky and unintuitive interface design
Great, could be better — It’s honestly a really good app. Database is huge and it’s probably the most accur…
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8
App update degrading usability
New update — Sucks. Contact me to know more I dont want to spend 10 min writing a review. Its too long. T…
The count is over every post in the cluster. The links are a sample of them, capped at three, and never imply the list is complete.
Who is already there
6 apps measured in this channel from their own recent store reviews. Ratings are computed from the reviews WaveSeek ingested in the window, not read off a store listing.
| App | Rating | Reviews read | 4★ and up |
|---|---|---|---|
| MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter | 2.2★ | 35 | 14% |
| Lose It! – Calorie Counter | 2.9★ | 23 | 48% |
| Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner | 4.2★ | 15 | 80% |
| Cronometer: Calorie Counter | 4.3★ | 12 | 75% |
| Noom Weight Loss, Food Tracker | 2.4★ | 8 | 25% |
| Lifesum: AI Calorie Counter | 2.8★ | 4 | 25% |
Search demand
130,233 Google searches a month on average, from Google Ads keyword volume — the one number on this page you can check against a source that is not us.
Twelve months of monthly volume, ending 2026-08 for the keywords nutrition, nutrition app.
Searches peak in August and bottom out in November, a 73% swing across the year.
What this page does not tell you
Four competitors in this category print a market size on a page like this one. We do not, because we cannot measure one: mention counts, complaint counts and search volume are not a market size, and a dollar figure built from them would be a guess wearing a decimal point. The same goes for revenue projections, customer demographics and funding comparables.
Everything above is a count of public posts and reviews over a stated window. It is evidence of what people said, not a prediction of what will sell.
See Nutrition change
This page is a snapshot. Inside WaveSeek the same channel is live: the complaint list is re-clustered every six hours, competitor ratings are tracked week over week, and saved ideas report what moved since you saved them.
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