Nutrients is a nutrition reference app for iOS and Android that provides offline access to a database of 200,000 food items.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#75
▼9Food & Drink · paid
Sentiment
4.3
3k reviews
Nemesis
MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire Nutrients for granular micronutrient tracking and offline data access, serving dietary needs that require more precision than standard calorie-counting apps.
For Individuals managing specific health conditions like diabetes or heart health, and students of nutrition and dietetics.
What does it look like?
Key features
Access to 200,000 food items without internet connectivity
Sorting mechanism to identify foods by specific vitamins, minerals, or nutrients
Custom ingredient entry and serving size selection
How much does it cost?
Monetization is split by platform, with a paid model on iOS and ad-supported model on Android.
Velocity
Dormant developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: zombie.
Who built it?
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What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads frustrated. Users appreciate detailed nutrient tracking provides deep insight into specific vitamin and mineral intake levels.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Detailed nutrient tracking provides deep insight into specific vitamin and mineral intake levels
- Barcode scanner and manual food entry features fail to function correctly following recent updates
49 of 49 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Nutrients - Nutrition Facts
How's the Food & Drink market?
Nutrients maintains a consistent presence in the Food & Drink category, typically ranking between #10 and #40 across 80+ regional App Store charts. The discrepancy between its steady chart rank and inconsistent grossing performance indicates it functions primarily as a niche utility rather than a mass-market subscription service.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By MyFitnessPal, Inc.
Dominates the nutrition tracking market with a massive, crowdsourced food database and deep ecosystem integrations that create a significant barrier to entry.
- Maintains a massive, user-contributed food database that dwarfs this app's curated 200,000-item catalog.
- Integrates with hundreds of third-party fitness wearables and health platforms to automate activity-based calorie adjustments.
- Offers a robust social community and forum layer that encourages daily retention through peer accountability.
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Key takeaways for Nutrients - Nutrition Facts
Where is it heading?
The nutrition tracking market is consolidating around apps that offer active guidance and frictionless logging, leaving Nutrients exposed due to its reliance on manual entry and static data. Unless the team resolves the current entry bugs and improves search relevance, the app will continue to lose ground to competitors that offer automated meal planning and higher data accuracy.
- Persistent barcode and manual entry bugs in the latest version erode user trust, leading to a decline in daily active usage.
- Recent update cadence focuses on stability, suggesting the team is in maintenance mode rather than active feature expansion.
The SWOT
- Offline-first database architecture ensures utility in environments without connectivity
- Granular micronutrient tracking provides a specialized resource for clinical-grade dietary research
- Integration of automated grocery list generation could capture the meal-planning segment
- Regional database filtering would improve search utility for international users
Next best moves
Rebuild barcode scanner logic because it is the top-cited crash trigger → restore core utility
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's static, curated database is a feature, not a bug…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Crowdsourced food database (available in MyFitnessPal but absent here) +1
Since the last report: The app shifted to a freemium monetization model and experienced a decline in stability, with core entry features now causing crashes.
Bottom line
Nutrients holds a strong niche in micronutrient tracking, but the latest version's failure of core entry features threatens its retention, so the PM must prioritize stability over new feature development to stop the sentiment decline.
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