Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker by Under Armour “MyFitnessPal”
Free (Ads)
$9.99 month
$49.99 annual
General Impression
One of the most comprehensive fitness and nutrition apps for athletes and people in the general population. With fitness apps taking a life of their own, My Fitness Pal is able to offer a well-rounded and robust set of features to track fitness as well as tracking food. Offers a lot of features for free with opportunities to promote Under Armour merchandise to its members.
What’s Cool!
By far the most integrations with wearable fitness devices. Also I really like the ability to find restaurants nearby feature. Another standalonefeature is the ability to locate a variety of fitness classes close to the user.
What I wish the app did better!
Ability to track sleep, log food by taking pictures and message general questions to a professional dietitian.
$4.99 month
General Impression
An app designed specifically for athletes, however it has a lot of cross over use for anyone looking to track and log their eating habits with guidance from customized meal plans. Its primary purpose is to create a team challenge and encourage group competition and engagement but it can still be used by an individual.
What’s Cool!
The meal plan guides arethe most unique. It provides a variety of foods to eat based on an individual’s weight management goals and caloric demands. Love the ability to create a team challenge and use peer motivation as a means to improve an athlete’s eating habits. Also an athlete can choose to give permission to certain key people to view, comment and rate their eating habits based on the pictures of the food they are eating.
What I wish the app did better!
Integration with wearable fitness devices would be pretty cool but fitness/exercise apps have become so specialized that it is probably more practical to use one of those apps to track a user’s fitness activity.
Free (Ads)
$29.00 annual
General Impression
One of the easiest to navigate nutrition apps on the market. Easy to find and locate a wide variety of features. Users can quickly and easily log their food and exercise with a very sleek style.
What’s Cool!
Find restaurants nearby with full menu available to select from. Restaurants are also listed in alphabetical order in order to find food items quickly. Supermarket brands are also listed in alphabetical order for the user.
What I wish the app did better!
Add friends to user experience with Facebook friends. Add more fitness integrations for free.
Calorie Counter by FatSecret
Free
General Impression
One of the best if not the best app for diet and weight loss. Lots of features for building community and accountability as well as quality information about recipes and food.
What’s Cool!
Ability to add a professional into your network so they can give you more specific guidance on your weight loss plan. The professional can view from their desktop and message/email each other. Also love their Restaurants/Chains, Popular Brands and Supermarket Brands as it makes finding foods easier and quicker.
What I wish the app did better!
Set up meal reminders as well as when to weigh in. Similar competitive apps have more wearable fitness devices integrations for free or premium.
Weight Loss Diet and Calorie Calculator by Sparkpeople
Free (Ads)
$4.99 month
$29.99 Lifetime
General Impression
A very robust set of free features with a lot of emphasis on making social connections with like-minded individuals that are trying to achieve similar weight management or healthy eating goals. Connect with people from within Sparkpeople user base within a timeline feed, like and comment on their timeline.
What’s Cool!
Short demo videos on how to perform select exercise routines. Also really like the ability to score points in a wide variety of interactions with apps, helps to improve engagement. Also provides a lot of education and tips on healthy eating and dieting.
What I wish the app did better!
A calorie calculator to help determine daily caloric needs. User is left to try to set their own daily caloric needs per day. Also need ability to invite your personal friends to use the app and join along in the user experience.
Free (ads)
$4.99 month
$29.99 annual
$74.99 lifetime
General Impression
Another great app that provides a lot of free features for the user to log their meals. User has variety of ways to stay engaged with other users with similar goals.
What’s Cool!
Their food grading is unique. Each food item in their database comes with a letter grade (A, B, C, etc.) so it’s easy for the user to evaluate the quality of that food item. A community is built solely around user generated recipes. A very active part of their community interactions.
What I wish the app did better!
Set up meal reminders as well as when to weigh in. Similar competitive apps have more wearable fitness devices and integrations for free or at a premium price.
Free (Ads)
$9.99 month
$30.00 6 months
$45.00 annual
General Impression
Very simple in design but has a lot of free features to track food and exercise. One of the easiest nutrition apps to navigate.
What’s Cool!
User activity goes into a timeline and can be filtered out so it’s easy to connect with others with similar goals. The app’s workout/exercise area is the most unique in that it provides short simple workouts that can be done almost anywhere. Each workout provides video examples of how to perform each exercise.
What I wish the app did better!
No ability to add your friends to your community. You have to interact with the app’s community members and you have no ability to follow or connect with them. You only interact with the most current topics/people in each thread. Also wish they provided more of their own content within the app in the form of blogs or tips.
Free
$19.99 for 5 Clients/Month
$49.50 for 15 Clients/Month
General Impression
An interesting and different approach for a nutrition app. No calorie calculator and the user enters in their target weight then begins to take pictures of what they eat and shares it within the apps community of members. No food to enter and no macro/micro analysis but just a cool tool to log a user’s eating habits.
What’s Cool!
Ability to add a professional to your network and allow them to see your tracking/log history and provide comments and feedback. If you do not have a professional to work with you can search their database and make a connection with one of their nutrition coaching professionals.
What I wish the app did better!
It would be cool if they built in some meal reminders within their app. Also would be nice to have them provide some nutrition content or tips on how to improve a user’s eating habits.
Free (Ads)
$9.99 month
$30.00 6 months
$45.00 annual
General Impression
A simple and straight to the point app that offers specific dieting plans and preferences. User purchases a diet plan and the app provides meal plans and recipes tailored to that plan. It has the basic food tracking tools. If the user is unsure of which diet plan to follow, they can complete a survey which will provide them guidance on their selection of a diet plan.
What’s Cool!
A wide variety of diet plans with great recipes. Takes the guesswork out of what to eat.
What I wish the app did better!
Find a way for the user to build or interact within a community of members. User can connect with friends but it is not clear what that connection will or can do for them.
Free
$44.99 month Healthy Wt or Hypertension
$89.99 month Diabetes
General Impression
Basic tracking app but goal of this app is to connect you to a nutrition coach. You complete a survey and then select your Nutrition Coach. The app servers as a tracking tool between you and your nutrition coach.
What’s Cool!
One of a few apps that provides direct one on one nutrition coaching services by a qualified staff. It is direct and to the point on what it provides for its monthly subscription.
What I wish the app did better!
Build in meal reminders and provide more education/tips on nutrition and dieting. Also, wish it increased the variety of ways to add foods to their daily log such as a restaurant list or brand food names to select from.
Free
$18.00 3 months
$39.96 annual
General Impression
All the basic tracking features you will need however their main focus is to get the user to select a diet plan and then provide food recommendations based on that diet plan. Diet plans are not overwhelming in choices like other apps but simple and straightforward. Great graphics and user experience however no social or community connections.
What’s Cool!
Love their tool to find restaurants nearby. The app also takes into account any special dietary needs such as vegetarian, gluten free and lactose free to name a few.
What I wish the app did better!
Add a calorie calculator in order to give better guidance on caloric needs of the user. Would like to see them offer more of a community connection or more one-on-on nutrition coaching services to complement their services.
Calorie Counter & Food Diary by My Net Diary
Free (Ads)
$8.99 month
$59.99 annual
General Impression
Provides basic food and exercise tracking tools with a great graphical representation on home screen. Overall it has all the basic tools needed to track food and fitness but a lot of the best features are delivered in the Premium version.
What’s Cool!
In premium version, you have the ability to download, print or share reports as well as the ability to turn on tracking features related to diabetes.
What I wish the app did better!
Provide a better navigation structure and release more of their features for free specifically the fitness tracking integrations.
Free
$4.99 Lifetime
$14.99 month
$44.99 annual
General Impression
You select the specific diet you want to follow, some are free and some are premium. It tells you exactly what to eat per meal and you can obtain specific shopping list from that diet or Meal Plan Guide. No tracking features included. They cut to the chase and tell you specifically what to eat for each meal. It does have a calorie calculator to set caloric needs for specific Meal Plans.
What’s Cool!
So many diet plan choices. A wide variety can be confusing sometimes but they do a great job of making them practical and realistic.
What I wish the app did better!
Include some type of tracking tools for the user. Provide more content/tips/coaching to go along with each of the diet plans.
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