FoodMarble

Device feels inaccurate and app is disappointing. Waste of money

Would love to have a better way to log foods (scan barcode? ) as it’s not easy to find items in the current database. For symptoms logging I feel it’s hard to look back at aggregated data if even possible to gain more insights. Maybe produce a dashboard easier to navigate?

I’ve had FoodMarble since it first came out - just received the Aer2, And have to say the new improved Aer2 is a blessing - what a difference…

Extraordinarily confusing UI and UX. The app constantly gets in my way from doing what I want. It displays my data in misleading ways. It plots data that makes no sense. It is trying to represent too much info in too many ways in too many places.

A great app for the most part. Love the layout and ease of use in most scenarios. The UX around entering a meal and medication is confusing to me. I’m never sure if I’m creating a new meal or adding to an existing one. For meditations, it seems impossible to make two entries at the same time.

Revised rating. Much better than at first freak out when update caught me in middle of treatment. The things I complained about are there it just takes a little getting used too. Aug 10 2024. Update is horrible. Meals are no longer embedded with breath. Not user friendly. Can’t find specific gas levels like before which was really important to track. Really disappointed as I was really happy with the whole product before. Now it’s really frustrating.

Since the app is locked in with the tester, it’s an expensive app and should function fully. I agree with other users that the meal logging is terrible. My personal pet peeve is that I can add food as a meal, but it does not add it to my library, so I can’t do a quick check of whether something I previously added was ok to eat.

The app is super well-made. The design looks great. I love the user flows and the different workflows that walk me through each step. The device itself (AIRE2) is also very sleek and simple, pairs really well with the app, and seems to give consistent results. My one issue which might make the whole app and the concept moot due to the data being inaccurate is actual food logging. Food logging is one of the hardest things—I’ve never seen any app do it really well. As it’s the database and input of any food logging app that matters, this one really falls short. Ultimately, you need to know what’s inside of your food, all of the constituent ingredients, and the proportion that was consumed. What is 3oz of blueberries vs 1 cup vs handful? The app’s food logging experience and database is extremely lacking and unintuitive—the scan-ingredients-to-text feature is buggy, adding bad characters and line breaks mid word. The barcode database regularly finds no match or has server errors. I think image recognition to identify a food and its ingredients could help, portion and ratio matching, and ingredient fill in using generative AI could really help. Other than that, it’s been super helpful to get in the habit of logging everything even if I don’t log food 100% accurately. I’m hoping my brain makes some connection with the foods triggering high gas output.

I am getting some wonderful insights from using the Aire device but it would be much more accurate and helpful if there were improvements made to the app! 1) As a US user, it's frustrating not to have common measurements such as teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, and ounces, listed for EVERY food - it's often not even an option for things like cacao powder, which seems like a no-brainer. 2) Not having easy access to your common foods is extremely frustrating as most people using this device are eating the same foods repeatedly. When you try to search for your food, it's nearly impossible to find the specific food you want, even if you've manually entered it or eaten that food every day for a month. I've used plenty of other apps that offer a "my foods" and even a "my meals" section to make this much easier. 3) A wider food selection would be helpful too, though I wouldn't mind logging the ingredients and nutritional info myself if it was super simple to find your entries later (like I said, it's nearly impossible!!!). 4) It would also be super helpful if the program would collate a list of foods that the testing has shown you to have issues with but this is less crucial than the things listed above. It's just a bit frustrating to have to search through your meals to try and figure out what part of your meal was actually triggering you - I kind of thought the app would do this for you. I'm still glad I purchased the Marble Food Aire device, and I am gaining insight, but it would be a much more useful device if these issues were addressed.

User interface on all levels is incredibly disappointing. Their marketing team is great. Had high hopes and feels like a waste of time and money and plastic. Its so annoying that I can’t put in food and what’s in it. If it’s not in the database, it won’t allow you to put in the nutritional info. Also WHY NOT make super clear which end to breathe into, design wise?