Best food diary apps for Android
Best food diary apps for Android :
Are you among those who badly want to maintain diet for fitness but end up losing control over delicious food and postpone plan every time? Are you short of time to join a fitness center or have paid fees but never turned up to your trainer? Are you tired of listening to various random free advices on food and fitness from people?
Did you ever wonder if an app could be of much help in tracking food, counting on calories, and much more? Well, this blog helps you find the best food diary app that could do a lot more than a trainer or any other advisor. Alright then, let's begin the hunt amongst the top best food diary apps described and reviewed below.
Calorie Counter – MyFitnessPal (Contains In App Purchases)
MyFitnessPal is one stop for all that you need to track your everyday food. It allows you to set goals as per your requirement, whether you would want to lose, gain or maintain your weight, with some basic information and that’s it, you are all set to start because the rest is taken care by the app. Notifications on each of your meal(calorie) consumption to let you know the balance for the day, would keep you alert on your goal all the time. This app showcases a final diary of your intake not just in terms of Calories but also a detailed nutrition chart. All you got to do is to make entries whenever you consume something in the day and you can get to know your progress by completing your diary at the end of the day. Although the user interface is very simple and not that attractive, it is still easy to understand and navigate. Also, they have got to offer much more in premium version. The best part is you can connect your other fitness apps and devices with this app, as such a fitbit or a water drinking reminder and so on. So, when you think your app or device would make MyFitnessPal a complete package for you, the app is open for collaborating. Well, apart from this, the app has other basic options such as weight estimation on every diary, to make notes, blog(that offers plenty fitness tips), community and much more.
Lose It (Contains In App Purchases)
Lose it! has all the basic features like every other food diary app, to set goals, track food, etc. What makes Lose it! special? Well, it has a unique feature Snap it!, which makes the diary entries simple for the user. Snap it! - a food photo recognition tool works as a barcode scanner and you can just take a photo of the food to track it. I am sure you will love using snap it.
This app offers a huge exercise database that will help you burn the extra calories. Also, public Fitness challenges and the rewards on reaching various levels, offered by Lose it app will keep you motivated. Do you have friends with similar Fitness interests? Get them on and create group to throw challenges. As they say competition gives great spirit. Although connecting to other Fitness apps and devices comes with the premium version, lose it has some cool stuff that worth a shot.
Pedometer and weight loss coach:
Pedometer has classic weight tracking feature but is more about counting steps. It is as accurate as it could be with some manual adjustment of pedometer under preferences. This app tracks your steps without any need of additional setup or hardware. All you need is having your phone with you. This app is capable of reporting accuracy in spite of inconsistent position of your phone. Isn't that fabulous?
It has reached 10 million downloads because of it's easy to use user interface, in very less span of time. Pedometer allows you to set goals and keeps you motivated to reach them. It makes sure you are aware of pending steps to be on track. This app is a very good companion to MyFitnessPal And Fitbit. To not to have any less fun, Pedometer gives an option to create groups and encourage friends. Unfortunately Pedometer has no user login, which could be an issue in resuming history with change of device. On the whole, Pedometer has no major flaws that could hold it to be in the top list.
Lifesum - Calorie Counter, Food and nutrition tracker:
Lifesum stands out with a huge database of recipes and diet plans and tips for users to reach health goals. Plan your meal and track intake to stay fit. Exercise without right food is absolute incomplete. Lifesum helps you achieve it with expert tips. An additional feature is a forum to communicate with many others with similar health interests. Lifesum does has options to set weight loss goals but it also assures to deliver a suitable diet plan to achieve goal, by asking you to take a simple test to understand your needs.
Lifesum also has a barcode scanner option that makes food tracking easy, after all we need it keep an owl eye on calorie consumption. Weight loss can be achieved by eating right food on right time, with the nutrition plans from this app. Also, you can integrate with many other popular apps such as google fit, Nokia health, jawbone, fitbit, etc provided you are a premium member of the app. It is worth joining those millions who are impressed by super duper motivating features of the app, to achieve what you want.
Paid Apps:
Although we have many open sources, we have observed that few features in the apps are meant only for premium users. Premium members get additional benefits than the regular users, for example - premium members do not get interrupted by unnecessary adds. So, why not go for a paid app that does no nonsense but only business. Here I have mentioned a couple of paid apps that could be of more reasonable price with a lot of amazing stuff in.
Food diary - 55/-
This is an amazing app to identify food intolerances. Yes, in this app you can log your daily food intake and also note the symptoms. Now, this can help you determine the foods to avoid, that actually caused allergies or side effects in your body. Isn't that a great help? Actually this habit of maintaining a journal is recommended by doctors as well.
Coming to features - it has search option to be used before you eat anything in order to know if it has caused any trouble in the past. Also, its autocomplete feature makes entries faster. A very special feature of Food Diary app is to export your log report into XLV or CSV format for Dr reference. Custom categories in the app allows you to track other Fitness related things like Exercise, stress, etc. Although the features sound amazing the app is found to be slow while pulling up records, which could annoy users who don't like waiting. Otherwise, food diary is simply useful for tracking food intolerance.
Ultimate food value diary 260/- :
This app has a huge food database that's attracting most users. Has all classic features to set goals, track daily food, etc. Barcode scanner that can scan 3 million barcodes, makes the app real functional. No add interruption, that comes within the price of the app, is a big relief for the users. Along with large online food database, this app also has online dining out guide. Too many features, huh! Also, a special feature of giving points for every exercise keeps it's users very motivated.
Food value diary app is more about the huge online database of food, restaurants and exercises. What else could one need, who wants to work on weight by eating right food. This app also allows you to export diary into TXT or XLS. There is a premium plan which allows to integrate other Fitness apps with this app, like pedometer, google fit, fitbit. Premium users can backup data in cloud and restore later. The support system for premium users is jet fast which is just an email away. I guess this one feature is enough convincing us trying the app.
Alright, so whatever is your goal in health and weight loss, I hope this blog helped you discover suitable app for your plan. That's all about the food diary apps for now. If you think I have missed any better app, please leave in a comment. Thank you.