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feedback on Nutrition app

mdtancsa

I have been using the paid version Cronometer for 6 months and was excited at the idea of getting insights as to how nutrition impacts my running so signed up for a trial
 Gotta say, this app seems VERY rushed and not at all UX tested. 

The interface is very clunky and not at all intuitive to navigate. It took me a bit just to get to the point where I could enter food items. WAY too much friction to get there
Serving size options are haphazard and feel like someone who does not eat food made the options.  For example, costco fennec blueberries. Serving size is 1 cup. The options that come up by default 2/3... Um, OK. but there is no easy way to just say "1 cup" as the unit of measurement is 2/3rd cup or grams.  So I have to put in 1.333 which is just more unnecessary friction.
Photo identification is really, really bad compared to cronometer.  A handful of nuts is just very wrong. Cronometer sometimes is a bit light or heavy,but the error range is pretty tight. In my picture the 3 almonds were a cup worth ?!?! And it said I have a cashew butter instead of 4 cashews as well as a cup of pistachios.  I am gonna stick with cronometer.  Perhaps Garmin could just add an option to pull in the data that cronometer collects as it does a much better job. 

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    Agreed. I tried taking a picture of three chicken wings - and yes it did recognize the food as "1 chicken wing (small)" how hard is it to count and estimate? 

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    Also getting bad barcode data. A common milk protein shake here in Canada comes up as 

    but it is able to find it if I manually search for the name. Also no vitamins / supplements ? In the winter I add D, but no way to track that with this app.  I really want this app to work well. There is a wealth of data here that could in theory be usefully analyzed to produce actionable information. But it is pretty incomplete, and clunky so far.  Probably gonna cancel after a month and stick with Cronometer which is not too bad, but is missing the integration / analysis with all the data Garmin collects.   Dream app would be cronometer's easy collection combined with all the health markers Garmin collects (stress, body battery HRV etc etc) and then look for trends and patterns from there.

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    How can Garmin release something new that is worse that MFP???

    What is with the strict meal time?  Why must food be logged as one of the static categories?  

    When logging the time of logging is NOT automatically set??? I have to manually change/adjust the time to be NOW since it's outside the designated "meal time"???

    Cronometer, PlateAI, MacroFactor.  Did Garmin do zero research into any other apps?

    I just signed up for Connect+ specifically to get nutrition logging all under one app.  I have a strong feeling I will be cancelling before the 30 day trial is over and going back to PlateAI or MacroFactor.

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    FYI: If you put nutrition under 'at a glance' and click on the plus sign there to add food it automatically takes the time it is now for the meal time. 

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    If it's within a designated "meal time".  If I'm outside the meal time window and I want to add something I have to hit the + in a meal time and adjust the time.  This makes no sense.  There should be a big + or "add" button and within that I can select a "category" or "meal" or whatever I define to organize my food with.  The time should be automatically determined at the time of entry.  

    I use PlateAI to keep track of supplements which has their own category that I created.  This is outside of so called meal times.  I also track "drinks" besides water which is it's own category and I'm definitely drinking outside of meal times.

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    If this was the very very first app of its kind every written... "great start", but its not. The other apps I have tried and use are much much better both in performance and user experience.
    ... I really love the idea of analyzing nutrition data and all the health metrics available from my watch.  It might be better if Garmin just used an api to collect the data from other apps to analyze. I use cronometer and my wife likes my fitness pal.  Garmin should at this point try and slurp in that data which those apps collect much better.  I am sure there are business reasons why they might not want to do that, but for now, this is a pretty "lets put our worst foot forward" start :(  I write this as a long time Garmin fan and user.