Calorie Counter by Cronometer

This app is super helpful!!

This app used to be amazing and was a great way to track macros. Loved the features to copy and paste and create custom recipes. Now the pop up ads make the app almost impossible to use — I understand an advertisement every now and then, but there is an ad after any logged food item. I had to watch 5 different ads just to log my lunch.

With the free version, there’s not much else you’d really need. Works pretty flawlessly so fat, no bugs i’ve found yet.

This is my biggest gripe - I try to add (3) 12 oz servings of water at a time and the app puts it in as 305 g instead of 1016 g so there’s no proper way to track water. It would be so much more efficient to have a counter (tally) for the number of 8 or 12 oz glasses of water consumed. Accountability is a huge part of why I need an app to track my intake so this is a huge miss for me.

Nothing even remotely close to actually tracking accurately

This app is awesome! Efficient, convenient, and easy to use. The free version includes the barcode scanner, and the daily macro breakdown. Most food-log apps have put those 2 things behind a paywall, so I tell everyone about this app. Cronometer also doesn’t make you answer dozens of questions about yourself or require tons of personal info, and it doesn’t advertise or promote fad-diets like other food log apps. It does exactly what it is designed to do - gives the user the ability to log and track food/nutrients and see macro breakdown of each food item/for the day. I haven’t found a food yet that isn’t already in their food “library” with nutritional info already entered for you, even restaurants I wouldn’t think would be on a worldwide app- are on this one! I am preparing to get serious about my macros again and meal prep, so I may try out the paid version and will update this review to include info on the paid version if so! This is the app for you! If you’re looking to lose weight, monitor calories, monitor macros, or even just trying to get in the habit of logging your food (that was my first step to getting healthier, I made food-logging a daily habit without changing anything else. Once it was a habit, I added another small change until it became a habit. So on and so forth.) this app will be such a good tool to help you!

This app is so good for tracking, and it’s an amazing free alternative to my fitness pal

System is solid and helpful, though more helpful on computer than phone. Additionally the UI can use improvement which is why it is 3 instead of 4 stars. It’s serviceable but too often difficult to navigate to its many options for food input such as importing/writing ingredients of a recipe. That being said I unfortunately don’t have ideas for improvement on UI, I just know I find navigating can be very easy if you barcode scan (and the food is found) or can find it in the search which is a high percentage 65-75%. Which is quite commendable given the variety and scope of foods. Also can we get a acronym decoder, you can find 3 listings of the same brand but it could be EU, USA or Canadian (?) food standards/approval. But I’m not sure as it only references acronyms. Anyway, anything that isn’t easy like recipes for a vast variety of food is a bit difficult to navigate through to entering and saving. Why not have an option to share it with others too? I understand not uploading into your database, requires vetting and likely a host of other concerns. But my wife and I have to enter in the same recipe. It would be easier if I or her entered it and then we shared it between each other. Or if a trainer is using this, they can enter a menu of their recipes and send to clients. All in all, very helpful and above average app but UI clunkiness and difficulty/inability in sharing recipes keeps it from being awesome.

Absolutely no reason to need an email for an app such as this, only gathering it so they can sell it. Just using a 10 minute email generator works fine tho, or a spam email will work fine as well.

Other nutrition tracking apps are great for macro tracking and one or two are easy to use and have solid food and product data that makes entry simple. Cronometer is superior in its micronutrient tracking, however. If you’re truly interesting in visualizing how well you’re eating on a daily basis to hit the bare minimum FDA recommended nutrient profile, this is the app to choose. It’s fairly easy to find foods with the search function and scanner, and changing units (ounces to grams, etc) makes weighed food seamless to enter. Another app makes it easier to quickly enter recent foods from previous days, but that’s a small annoyance when the other benefits are so much better.