Top 5 Calorie Tracker iPhone Apps
The best calorie counting iphone apps.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Using technology to help better your physical self has become a growing trend since the launch of the Apple iPhone nearly four years ago. It’s a proven fact that when you record your dietary choices daily, you have a significantly higher chance of losing weight than those who don’t. What better way to assure yourself that you will lose the weight this time than using one of the Top 5 Calorie Tracking iPhone apps listed below.
This incredible app combines all the necessary features needed to help you lose weight, including:
- Access to the food database listing over 350,000 foods with its full nutrition information and analysis
- Tracks all nutritional information for the foods you have eaten
- Allows you to set goals based on your age, weight, and fitness levels
- Build customized workout routines, or find a preloaded plan based on your goals
- Instructions on how to perform your chosen exercises with the correct technique
- Customized check ins to remind yourself to workout, log your log, or weigh in
Unfortunately, recent implementation of having mandatory social networking have driven this app rating down, it still has many commendable features which should be noted.
- Access to a food database that lists over 600,000 foods and the ability to track all major nutritional information
- A built in recipe calculator to add in your own recipes
- Tracks both cardio and strength training progress (including sets, reps and weight used)
- Customizable goals and the ability to track your progressive weight and measurements
Using a calorie tracker to help you reach your weight loss goals has never been so easy. Included with the app is:
- Track your weight management goals, your caloric intake, and your daily progress including calories burned
- Food database that contains over 625,000 foods
- Simple to use interface that doesn’t bombard you with too many features
- Fitness database to identify commonly used exercises and their calories burned per minute
This app is not only functional, it is also motivating. As you log your food for each meal, this app will create a running total of your days food intake versus calories burned and outline it to you in a motivation way. It also allows you to:
- Track your food using a large database and built in bar-code scanner and customized recipes
- Database of over 500 exercises as well as built in calculators that determine your total calories
- Monitor your progress based on your current weight, target weight as well as various other factors
- Syncs online to MyNetDiary.com to allow for online food and exercise entry
- Online community that allows you to connect with people of your choosing
This new calorie counting app combines a simple to read interface with features that are easy to use and functions well:
- Bar code scanner and quick pick food list for nutritional information
- Food and exercise diary to track what you are eating and how many calories you burn per day
- A journal to track your progress