MyFitnessPal is one of the most popular calorie counters right now.
It tracks your weight and calculates a recommended daily calorie intake. It also contains a well-designed food diary and an exercise log.
The homepage provides a clear picture of how many calories you've consumed during the day. In addition, it shows your remaining recommended intake and the number of calories you’ve burned by exercising.
If you're using a fitness tracking device, MyFitnessPal can likely sync with it to include its data in the exercise log.
The app tracks your progress towards your goals and offers chat forums with fellow users. The forums include conversations, recipes, tips and personal success stories.
MyFitnessPal's nutrition database is very extensive, containing over 5 million foods. You can also download recipes from the internet or create custom foods and dishes.
The app even saves your favorite meals for convenient logging.
Additionally, MyFitnessPal’s barcode scanner allows you to instantly enter the nutrition information of some packaged foods.
Each day is presented as a pie chart, showing your breakdown of carbs, protein and fat. You can also write a note for each day, recording how things went or how you were feeling.
MyFitnessPal does offer a free version. However, some of its features can only be accessed in the premium version, which is $49.99 per year.
Pros:
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MyFitnessPal has the largest database available in a diet tracker and includes many restaurant foods.
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It can download recipes from the internet and calculate the calorie content of each serving.
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You can "quick add" calories if you don't have the time to add details about a certain meal.
Cons:
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Since most foods are uploaded by other users, the calorie count may not be entirely accurate. Multiple entries may exist for the same product.
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Serving sizes in the database may be hard to edit, creating difficulties if your serving was smaller or larger than the one listed.
More: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/
