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Meal planning apps
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 8 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Meal planning apps, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Slow web app and multi-step flow make the user forget to pick next week's meals2026-10-21
- Must fill out a form and click buy before seeing what they get or the price2023-11-25
- Cannot cancel online; cancel option is hidden and requires calling2021-11-17
- Customization options are hard to find and use without overwhelming users2018-11-19
- Website doesn't work properly on mobile, only on desktop browsers2015-12-04
- Searching 'bacon' shows baby food and soup, not basic bacon, so the user must guess terms2015-02-05
- Hover-over tooltips appear too slowly and vanish too fast, and aren't descriptive2013-05-02
- Must regenerate each day separately after tweaking meals, no bulk regenerate2013-05-01
- Macronutrient sliders are unintuitive; percentages and sliders are not shown and synced together2013-05-01
- Underlined lines look like links and reduce readability; sign up link is hard to notice2012-08-09
- Spent minutes unable to figure out how to use it or make it work2012-08-09