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Calorie Tracker - Diet and Fitness Tracker.
LIVESTRONG.COM'S Calorie Tracker can help you reach your diet, weight loss and fitness goals by tracking your daily calories and exercise. Lose weight easily by setting your weight management goals and track your calories and progress with our comprehensive online food journal containing over 625,000 food and fitness items. Tracking works. You will lose weight like millions of other members.
The Calorie Tracker lets you look up or track your daily caloric, fat, carbohydrate and protein intake with the click of a button. You will have access to The Daily Plate at LIVESTRONG.COM, which offers a comprehensive nutrition database of more than 625,000 food and restaurant items. Most major competitors only have 7,000 items in their database.
You can also find and track the amount of calories you can burn in our database of exercises and activities. Caloric burn is calculated based personally on your measurements.
Whether you want to lose, maintain or gain weight, the LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker will help you achieve your diet and nutritional goals.
This application is a companion tool for members of The Daily Plate at LIVESTRONG.COM. There is also a free service online. www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate
Additional online features include support groups, forums on a variety of topics and expert Q&A.
The LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker offers:
* The largest database of food and restaurant items
* Customized daily calorie intake based on your goals
* Weight tracking on your phone and online, with a bi-directional synch from web to phone
* A diary of your caloric, fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate, sugar, fiber and protein intake
Note: You can still track the fitness database and any food items you've tracked before even when you are offline. The items will sync the next time you use the device on a network.
The LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker is a diet coach, nutritionist, calorie counter and food planner at your fingertips.
www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate
For any questions or help with the application, check out our support forum:
http://www.livestrong.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=26
2008 LIVESTRONG.COM
Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals reviewed by Users
Be warned: very BAD food database I had very high hopes for LIVESTRONG Calorie Tracker, as it carries the highly respected name of LIVESTRONG and advertizes 525,000 foods in its database. It also syncs to a web site, which is a big deal for me.I still cannot quite believe what I found after trying it. I found a HUGE problem - its food database.I got suspicious when I searched for Panera Turkey Artichoke Panini and found not one, but 6 foods, with sandwiches listed as having 370, 810, 840, 350, 350, and 850 calories. Well, I checked Panera's web site and found out that this panini is actually 750 calories. No kidding.I checked my kid's favorite - Wegmans Crab Cake and found 5 foods in the database, with 660, 260, 290, and 360 calories. The Wegmans web site lists 450 calories.So, I did more digging and was shocked to find that many if not most foods in LIVESTRONG have duplicates with varying calories and other nutrients.How could that have happened? It turns out that LIVESTRONG relies on their users entering the food database. And more popular foods have more duplicates because people enter them again and again, often with errors. The app claims 525,000 foods, but given the number of duplicates, old, and simply incorrect foods, it looks like one huge mess to me! My guess is that the real number of foods is less than 1/5th of it. But you never know which ones are correct and which are wrong without checking elsewhere!!! The database is useless!How can you lose weight safely when the food database has such bad reference information??? I cannot believe LIVESTRONG is not aware of all these issues, which makes it unethical and dishonest to knowingly provide such a bad food data, hiding behind disclaimers. The only two good things I can say about this LIVESTRONG app are the nice icon and great splash screen. Don't get fooled by its database "size"!This is one inaccurate and dishonest app. LIVESTRONG should be ashamed.BE WARNED: YOU CANNOT TRUST THIS APP.
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Version 1.0.3
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Mar 28, 2009
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Builder10
Phenomenal app The LIVESTONG calorie tracker app is by far the best diet tracking application out there. And, believe me, I've tried every one. LIVESTRONG is simple and graceful to use, yet exactly everything you want. Well organized. No glitches. And the most extensive, fast and forgiving food search on the planet.
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Version 1.0.3
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Mar 18, 2009
- Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by
whereverigo
Meals support and background sync!!!! Great additions to the app! This is the perfect mobile tracker. Quick, stable and lots of features. I particularly like the support for meals so you don't have to add each food you eat often. For example, I'm so busy I eat subway 3 days a week with my grapefruit juice and sun chips. Now I create a meal out of it and it's always waiting for me to track.
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Version 1.0.3
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Mar 18, 2009
- Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by
danbrian
With a huge database, and perfect syncing: Excellent Now that the app syncs in both directions *in the background*, it's really excellent. The much-awaited addition of meals is, simply, a godsend. I use this app literally every day.I can search for -- and find -- foods from restaurants, the supermarket, and that I prepare at home. The Daily Plate at LIVESTRONG was already helping me to maintain my weight; now that I can track from my iPod touch, it's easier than ever.
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Version 1.0.3
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Mar 17, 2009
- Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by
LexF
don't waste your money - Lose It app is much better! I used Lose It! before using this. The UI for this app is horrible and doesn't really allow for recipes. I cook a lot at home and I need to be able to add my own food. I bought this app b/c it boasted having a huge database, but I can't find something as simple as a McDonald's chicken biscuit?!Most of the foods in the database come from other users, so you see a lot of "my McDonald's Meal", which is completely useless. I wasted my money buying this app, since it is no longer free.Also, I have an Ipod touch, not an iphone, so it has problems because this app expects you to be connected to the internet all the time. You cannot use the food database unless you are connected to the internet.I am going back to Lose It!, which is a free download. Don't waste your money!
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Version 1.0.3
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Mar 25, 2009
- Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by
chickbabay
Lifestrong I just downloaded Lifestrong yesterday and have been playing with it for a day.I have been using another program, CalorieKing.com for about 4 years and love it. I have lost about 50 lbs just by being aware of the calories I eat at each snack or meal.I used CalorieKing on my Treo and their program allowed you to download 7,000 food counts on their database to the Treo. You could also add custom foods and meals.By having the database on your phone, it was very fast, quick and easy. The only problem with CalorieKing, they refuse to support the iPhone. DUMB< DUMB)I've made several request and will not let go of my iPhone and go back to the TreoToday on Lifestrong, I tried to add a raw apple. Maybe I don't know how to use it yet, but after 20 min I gave up. It came up with apple pie, apple juice and about 50 other foods that had apple in them, but no raw apple.I know this is Lifestrongs first attemp at the iPhone app and hope future updates will make it better. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by 57guy
Good, but needs to actually sync with website In general, I like the app. However, I don't want to always have to use the iPhone if I want to see my 'daily plate' on the go. Syncing from the iPhone to the LiveSTRONG site is great, but it also needs to be able to upload things entered on the website to the phone, at least for the current day, in order to be viewing the same information. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by bouldercyclist
Not Very Functional This is a pretty neat app. It does fall short in several aspects. The most important for me is the application won't allow me to access anything from the network unless I'm connected to WiFi. This is a HUGE PAIN!!! Instead of entering what I just ate I have to wait till I get into a WiFi area which could be several hours later. Also there is no way to enter a personal item. If I make something at home I have to search around to find something similar from a company. It doesn't allow you to just enter something on your own. It doesn't have favorites. If you start typing it does bring up similar items you have eaten before but it seems like this process can be shortened.Otherwise this is a good app. I really hope to see these improvements in the future!!!!!! - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by ballpark1313
Just a Good Idea But it is not user-friendly to type activities and foods in each time and then browse through a list each time.
I tried to find some examples of food I might eat, but didn't find much. This app can boast so much foods in their database because there is a lot of food that the restaraunts from other countries and stuff that is out of date. They even have "Big Foot" pizza at Pizza Hut. Actually most of the menu items are out of date. Some food requires assembly like adding ingredients.
I will stick to my easy to use and up to date app. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by Darron Weis
Truly Great App!!! Please add favorites so we don't have to search same foods. THANKS!! - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by brend56
Perfect! I've been a user of The Daily Plate and I was so excited to see this application appear on the app store. It has not disappointed me at all. I logged in with it, did quick sync and all my logged information was there. I added some exercise and a weight---worked flawlessly! Thank you so much. This is great website for logging food and calories (almost every food I want to add is already there!) and now it's even better with this iPhone application. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by Dripps
Good start . . . but . . . I like where they are going with this program, and the database of foods seems really extensive, but searching for each component of my lunch (bread, meat, cheese, carrots, etc. ) was a tedious process. And, since there is no way to save favorite, or commonly used foods for later use, I get to do it all over again tomorrow. No thank you.Oh, BTW, now the program won't even launch. I've tried rebooting my phone twice, but to no avail. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by dawheelo
Thank God! The tool I NEED to get FIT! This app beats EVERY calorie counter available on the store. I would pay for this app but getting it for free is an added bonus. The app has a lot of GREAT features:- looking up food calorie and exercise routines- weight graph- access to food intake and exercise online- AUTOMATICALLY syncs food intake and exercises completed whenever the app connects online.overall.. amazing apP!!! Thanks for putting out a tool that probably will get me started into getting fit! - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by Superbad @ TheAPPera.com
With improvements a 5 Great app. Only works adding food on wifi. Supposed to be fixed in next version.
Difficult to add food as many items show up for each one. For example "chicken noodle soup" has at least 20 different selections and u have to go through each one to find the one that matches what u want. Maybe the app should show calories on the entry screen.
Very nice that it ties in with website. Will be nice when food u enter on website shows up on iPhone. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by capt996
Absolutely great but...no protein info.... 4 should be a 5 with protein info. This is the best health/fitness app by far, no other even comes close, my only complaint/request is the daily plate must have protein count. I understand that this is a calorie counter but a high protein diet along with a proper strength training regiment will increase muscle mass therefore increasing metabolism which is the burning of calories. Why is there no protein count when the description clearly states otherwise? My protein intake is extremely important but this app is so good i can overlook the protein gap error for now with the confidence that it will be added later due to the importance. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by thayes2020
polished app works well This application is working well for me so far. It is not clunky and appears to be well written. The user interface flows nicely and is very easy to use.update 2008-11-05 - Items added to the daily plate via livestrong.com don't sync back to the iPhone. The sync from the iPhone to the livestrong.com site is working well, just not the other way around. I had a dupe item today because I had added it via the web site and even though I tapped "sync" on the iPhone app, the item didn't download to the iPhone from the livestrong.com site. Please fix this so that two-way sync works. Thanks. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by KT2T
Great App, but needs some work to make it spectacular Great all-around calorie counter, weight tracker, and fitness tracker. Beautiful UI.But..... needs the following.1) Data entered on Daily Plate website should sync to iPhone2) Access to favorites3) Ability to enter calories only (+/- carbs, fat, etc), without need to identify specific item - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by dwoogi
Okay for version 1.0 This app crashes a lot, has duplicate foods, it also limits search results to about 20 foods, add additional words to get closer to what your looking for ie: "starbucks" does not show the whole menu use "starbucks xxx" for the food your looking for.
Negatives
Slow, syncs every time you put a food in, makes you wait
No way to have fav foods that you use over and over
No way to group foods to create a meal
Cannot see the entire menu name for long items
Cannot modify the food, people using this are likely to not eat some exactly as a resturant makes it
Okay because it's free, I wouldn't pay for it... - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by Triathleteguy
custom calories Overall looks good(in theory); however , it won't let me enter my own number of calories for the day (it's the 2000 cal preset...); if this is fixed then I think it could easily get over 4 stars - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by DiMD
Flawed From the start... Overall I like the idea of this application,...however, it had incorrect information right from the start. Supposedly I am allowed 2000 calories a day in order to lose weight - OMG- I Wish! In reality, I need no more than 1250 - where they got the number is beyond me. Secondly, food data base is way too repetitive and many popular foods are no where to be found. It just needs some tweaks, and some database purging, as well as an overhaul on how it calculates daily caloric intake to needed to lose weight. Until then, I am still searching for a better weightloss app. - Calorie Tracker - LIVESTRONG.COM: Achieve Your Diet and Fitness Goals review by findmeupnorth
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