Calorie Counter - Macros for Android
Update: Online searched fixed!! Thanks!! Once again best macro counting app. Only wish the 'Overview' screen emphasized macros used and remaining a little more like it used to since that's the main purpose. However, app is fully functional again. So, I'm good with that. Old review: Was working fine. Now app crashes with every online search. Please fix. It's been over a month... Will have to switch apps soon.
I have never tracked my macros exaclty before, but have tracked my nutrition plan carefully for a long time. This has given me so much more insight into where my protein, carbs, and fat are coming from exactly. Love it, and like it better than that other big app everyone uses. Love the charts and reports, as well as the body log. It's a little buggy, the creat food pop-up sticks and won't go away, and I wish it were easier to edit foods in the log... if not for those minor issues I would have given 5. Still... LOVE it. It's helping me get shredded!
I do not wish to download a scanner when I have one already...like this app a LOT requires very little unlike others and leaves me to work out how much I set for a goal...my only qualm is that I live abroad and not everything is on line...also the Scanner...why not make the one my tablet has built into it the scanner... fix that and have a body fat counter and you'll get 4 stars if you fix half of this and you'll be worth more than 5 stars.
Search function isn't great. You have to be too precise. App does what it says! Clear interface, looks ok. Database not great for UK foods. Saturated fat and micronutrients missing as optionals. UI could be better. Setting different macros for days of week is a good idea but not everyone trains on the same days every week. Would be better to have a calendar where you can set targets with flexibility.
Let me start of off by saying that I had uninstalled the app because of the recent update and tried other apps but they were a little complicated some or the other way so I thought I will try Macros again. This is the most easist app to count macros period, its straight forward with second to none overview screen. I wish it had the option to add one or more foods from the my food section or some oher day. The developer just fixed what wasn't broken. Good job.
Let's start out by saying that the ads aren't bad but I paid to remove em purely becuase I want to support the development of this app. Some apps I've tried and there are alot want you to subscribe for service etc.. This one does what I need it to do. Does it well too. Sure it could use a revamp to make it look more modern instead of like grandmas old kitchen table cloth but hey, well done guys. I'll be recommending this to my fellow Trainers
It works great to track macros, showing not only what I've eaten, but also my daily goals and how much I have left of each macro. It also allows me to store the nutrition information on foods, so entry is easy. The only problem is that I can't figure out how to get the weight tracker to work. If that worked it would be a 5/5
Great app, very simple to use. Way better app for tracking macros than MFP. You don't need to pay a cent to set exact macro goals and track macros. One downfall is that the food database isn't as varied as MyFitnessPal. So I the first week you spend a lot of time entering the nutritional information of the foods you eat regularly.
Just the app to track macros for those of us outside of the countries where barcode is useful. Easy to enter food and easy to re-use it. Highly recommended if you don't need barcode and social fluff of other more expensive apps. Stars off due to application starts painfully slow and general UI navigation is far from being fast as well
The minuses: 1) ALL my data inputs were erased in the previous version, 2) cannot alter data on scanned items (that pull up from the database), 3) the scanner crashes almost every time. Other than that, it is once again a user-friendly app. I like that you don't need to enter calories first; they get automatically updated when you enter your macros. As they should, because we're mainly tracking macros. Other apps ask for a calorie entry first. I also like the added water tracking feature.
Works great. Really like the different features of adding food from online data base or add my own. I also like the "if you eat this...then you'll have these macros left" the visual of the meal by meal progress with line and pie grays are great too. Ads aren't annoying either. Great app
Easily readable display of information. Able to build a custom library of foods or use the online search feature. Makes it easy to set and meet nutritional and body weight goals. My only gripe is that the weight & bodyfat tracker graph does not accurately reflect progress over time unless your inputs are on a schedule. That is, if you weigh in at odd intervals, the graph tracks my input event, not calendar day - causing some distortion of the graph. Still, overall the most functional app of its type!
A simple & clear app to log log your macros and track your weight. Let users edit weights like we can edit past food days. Like syncing across multiple devices except for a new installation wrote an older file with bad weight data. I would like local control of the data file (Dropbox or similar sync).
Really easy to use, lots of foods in the database, easy to add new items. Barcode scanner super helpful. Occasionally asks the same question twice, or asks if you want to add a food even though you can see behind the prompt that it found it. Just say no and proceed as normal.
Great little app. I like being able to track my macros. This is a very simple app and honestly I like that. I would like to have a larger food base for bar codes. Also sometimes when you scan a barcode the label information reads but the app gets stuck and doesn't read it right. That is the only reason I didn't give 5 stars.
Love the app and have loved all the new updates, i just have one issue at the moment. Everytime i search a food item "online" instead of putting in all the information, it doesnt save to "my foods" everytime i try to look for the same item its long gone from my "recent" tab so i either have to search for it again, or create a new food item. Could you please fix this, thanks
Still a bit of a lag when I press "Add Food," but I can definitely tell this new version is improving. It's going to be great when the bugs are worked out. 5 stars very soon, I bet!
Easy to navigate, you can enter as much or as little personal info as you want (e.g., weight). I just didn't find the database of foods that great, so end up entering a lot of nutritional info manually.
Wish it had a bigger food database and scanner that worked but its great if you don't mind looking up how many carbs a tomato has. Plus food log isn't alphabetical so if you eat a lot of different foods you gotta search through a big list which can be a little annoying
Love this app. Makes tracking easy. The food search function works much better than other apps I've tried in the past. I wish it was possible to edit past weights. I accidently entered one at 0 and it messes up my weight loss graph.
Most people simply don't like when an app changes just because they aren't used to it. That is not the case here. What used to make this app great was the ability to customize any food entry and have all entries stored locally. New problems with this update: 1. Those entries were deleted. 2. The new interface is bulky and isn't easy to navigate. 3. Adding food and searching food takes longer due to having to ping a server every time you add/search food
This app was working great when I was adding food to my food log, but when trying to add food to a saved category it wasn't working. I tried restarting phone after experiencing this and it still wasn't working...making it harder to count
Been using this to improve on my years of paleo eating by tracking macros. First week was a bit of a learning curve. After that I have used for several weeks and found to be very easy and helpful. Down 4 lbs in two weeks from a frustrating plateau and feeling better than ever!
This app was great before they updated it. Simple, fast and intuitive. After they updated it became essentially non functional. They did make improvements to the update so it is now working but the new layout and design is overly complex, clunky and just a general pain to use. Barcode scanner still does not work!!!!!! This used to be a great app. Looking for a replacement macro app which is a real shame since have been using this app for years.
I would have scored it higher but I haven't been able to update my water intake. I'm sure it's user error but it's enough it's being a pain...
Easy to see this app was built by people who know about calorie tracking. Simple and quick to use once you have built up a good size "foods" base. Does not have a bunch of surperfluous features, just what is essential.
This app is far more accurate ( calories per gram wise ) than most apps ive used including my fitness pal. One of the only issues is when scanning food , sometimes nothing will pop up which can be aggravating. Keep improving this app as much as possible please
Best macro tracker, and I've tried several of them before finding this! Wish I could delete things off the "recent" list and add my own calories when creating a new food. Those are minor things, overall great app!
The new updates are wonderful! Thank you to the developers for making the changes we requested and then some. Very happy with all that's available now! I especially like how I can see how many macros I have left on the home screen.
The bar scanner is junk. It says it found the item then it says it didn't and makes you add everything. All else looks good so far.
It does what I need it to do very well. I do wish you could remove food when you've made a mistake. Other than that its great!
This is a great app for tracking macros. It could use a more complete food bank of items when you go to search for things. But all in all I like this app alot!!
It's a good log that let's you know what your numbers would be before you click submit but it does not recognize a lot of specialty foods. You do have the option to manually enter them but most of the time it freezes.
The app was absolutely amazing, until about three days ago when it lost it's online food database. At first I thought it was my connection but I tried different Wi-Fi connections and my data connection and it still says that no products can be found when searching online. Even for something as simple as Chicken. Tried some products I already have saved it still says no product found. No matter what I type in, it does that and it definitely was not like that before. I emailed about the problem and never got a response back. It would be greatly appreciated if the issue could be fixed! Thanks.
Liked it before, upgrades helped alot. I used to never be able to find anything online. That works great now. Love the water tracking feature they added too.
Bought the full version even though the ads isn't flashy and doesn't really do anything else - just to show my support to the app.
So helpful! This has made tracking macros for my recent venture into a keto diet very manageable. It lacks a decent database of foods already stored, so there's a little bit of set up time that goes into the first couple weeks of food log but if you eat similar foods daily, it becomes quick and easy.
Good for keeping daily macro counts .wish you could set different targets for each day and save. App Has been freezing up.
The new interface is much better once all the bugs were removed, but it did not work until I reset the entire app. It takes too long to remember my previously entered foods when I go to record my meal. If I enter a decimal point in the portion size dialog the app crashes. When giving a break down of what I've eaten today to weighs grams of fat versus grams of carb vs protein. Not by calories consumed. Also Appmoto you release a broken product, you fixed it quickly but it was still broken. This app is very close to a five star rating but the stuff above prevents that.
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Only issue is there a bug on android where you search for items using the scanner, it find them, but a pop-up on the front of the found item says "item not found" would you like to add yes or no.... and sometime the pop-up won't go away unless you press the back button or the yes or no button 10x or more. Aside from that this app is amazing and very helpful. I didn't want to pay $10 monthly for my fitness pal....