We analyzed 177 negative reviews from the top 5 Feeding Notes apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
35% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Maybe we are too organized, but we plan meals by the month. It was great when we could print the whole month's menu and our kids could go through and indicate hot or cold lunch."
"Why isn't there a full month menu to look at or print? I plan for the week to see if my kids will eat lunch at school or at home. I can't even get a weekly view."
28% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Every time I open it, it asks if I want to reload the app. It takes forever to load the info from my son's school and then crashes."
"App opens a black screen. Sometimes you can force close it and reopen and it will work. Sometime it will just never work."
32% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Why do I have to reselect my organization every time I hope the app? How can I not get to my starred locations from the first page on the app?"
"My favorite school used to automatically pop up. Now every time I open the app I have to search my location to access my favorite school."
18% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Biggest gripe is that the app on iOs doesn't keep me logged in. Every day I have to log in again"
"The 'Remember This Device' option also doesn't work"
22% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"This app is useless. The menu is completely inaccurate. One day in school, I got chicken tenders. Then I looked at the menu and the tenders weren't there."
"When we click on a different day the meal does not change. Even if I drag down to update. I sent my son to school thinking he was going to eat one thing but that was what was served on the day I was looking. So he didn't eat at all."
12% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"On the school website I can select to omit foods with my son's dairy allergy. I didn't see that anywhere in the app."
"This is a convenient app if you only need what is being served. Unfortunately I need to quickly eliminate foods with potential allergens. This app does not allow this to be done easily or timely."
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Users must tap through every single day including weekends to see future menus, making planning ahead extremely tedious
"Nice app but I would suggest some modifications to make it much better. If you allowed the user to be able to access the actual day they needed it would be much more helpful rather than searching through everyday, including Sat and Sun, to get there"
App degraded with updates - removed monthly view, auto-school selection, and next-day preview features that made it useful
"The original version was great; monthly/weekly view now GONE, used to automatically show next day's menu at the end of the school day GONE, favorites (my children's schools only) were available when the app was opened GONE. The last 2 updates have made this app useless."
Parents with multiple children must manually re-select each child for each day instead of having defaults or batch operations
"With kids in middle school and elementary school, it's much more cumbersome to find a menus each day."
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