System is solid and helpful, though more helpful on computer than phone. Additionally the UI can use improvement which is why it is 3 instead of 4 stars. It’s serviceable but too often difficult to navigate to its many options for food input such as importing/writing ingredients of a recipe. That being said I unfortunately don’t have ideas for improvement on UI, I just know I find navigating can be very easy if you barcode scan (and the food is found) or can find it in the search which is a high percentage 65-75%. Which is quite commendable given the variety and scope of foods. Also can we get a acronym decoder, you can find 3 listings of the same brand but it could be EU, USA or Canadian (?) food standards/approval. But I’m not sure as it only references acronyms. Anyway, anything that isn’t easy like recipes for a vast variety of food is a bit difficult to navigate through to entering and saving. Why not have an option to share it with others too? I understand not uploading into your database, requires vetting and likely a host of other concerns. But my wife and I have to enter in the same recipe. It would be easier if I or her entered it and then we shared it between each other. Or if a trainer is using this, they can enter a menu of their recipes and send to clients. All in all, very helpful and above average app but UI clunkiness and difficulty/inability in sharing recipes keeps it from being awesome.

The bar is honestly so low when it comes to these apps. I will say that when it comes to tracking caloric deficits this is the best app. If you have an Apple Watch you can automatically import your active calories. Input your BMR into the app and your burnt calories are effortlessly tracked. This almost the sole reason I use this app. Other apps like MFP and LoseIt! would try to “guess” my calories burnt and then do a bunch math gymnastics to calculate a “calorie adjustment” from my workouts. It constantly was off by up to 500 calories. But this app still is lacking. The UI seems like it was made by freshmen software engineers. If you are in the middle of making a recipe and lose internet connection or leave the app for too long you can kiss your progress into that recipe goodbye. Want to separate your food diary into separate meals like every sane human on earth would want? Better pay up. It’s not even broken into time chunks it is literally just a compact list and if you add a lot of piecemeal items it can get long. And the home page might as well not exist. They don’t make the views simple and digestible. Maybe one day we will get a calorie counting app whose quality makes it easy to fork over cash but it seems like the strategy for now is to club you into submission with ads. Still bottom of the barrel. Just at the top of the bottom.

I was really hoping to make this my new default but it’s missing a few important features. First it does a better job than LoseIt for making it easy to add recently used foods and most common foods. Also you can add favorites which is great. It has a nice clean UI and really good fitness tracking integration. So far I’ve been pleased with the database as well. There are a few things I think it needs before I could fully switch though: 1. It doesn’t have any automatic conversion between measurement units. If something has serving size of “1 cup” I want to easily choose different measurement units (when possible), such as “5 tablespoons”. When a serving size is “five slices” I want to be able to choose “one slice”. Both of these should be very doable with strict data entry structure in place. 2. Doesn’t seem to provide a weekly overview. MyFitnessPal and LoseIt do a much better job of graphs and visually representing how things are going. 3. Smaller thing, but it displays different databases labeled CRDB and FDC but doesn’t explain what they mean. 4. Finally, when doing a search or barcode scan I wish it would highlight in some way which option I chose last time. Most of the time there have been 2-3 results for each barcode when I scan, and once I figure out the right one that matches my label I want that to be highlighted in some way for next time I scan.