Calorie Counter - Calory AI

This app has kept me on track to losing a lot of weight. It’s definitely worth the one-time price, which I prefer over paying a subscription on the myfitnesspal app. I really love the interface and customization of this app. It’s simplistic, minimalistic, and relatively easy to navigate. Thankfully, most foods are already in their library, which saves a lot of time from putting everything in manually, but some rare times some foods don’t show up. On the home page, I love the idea of beads filling up a circle as you add foods; I’m always motivated to keep that circle from overflowing. Overall I really recommend everyone try this. Myfitnesspal, while it does probably have the largest library of foods to log, it has become cluttered over the years, and I don’t like paying monthly subscriptions to unlock features. If I have to pay, then I’d rather pay a reasonable one-time price to use the full app. So I went looking for alternatives and found this gem.

I have been using this app for a few months. I even paid for the lifetime membership so I could see my macros. But the app is very inaccurate. When recording my food onto the app most times it says “nothing found” when I try to scan the barcode of the item. And sometimes, it scans the barcode, but brings me to something different. Once I scanned the barcode for a cookies and creme Lindt chocolate bar. And it brought me to something that was strawberries and creme, with different calories and macros. Also when I try searching by the name, most times I am unable to find it. So I manually have to calculate the amount of calories and manually log that into the app. Which defeats the purpose of having it in the first place honestly. Also, I am a strong coffee drinker, I drink at least 2 cups of coffee per day, sometimes I also have chocolate and even sodas, all of these have caffeine. Even though I log them in, somehow if I check my macros at the end of the day I still have consumed 0mg of caffeine? That does not make sense. If you are searching for a good calorie counting app I would not recommend using this until it is updated.

This app is fantastic, and it syncs up perfectly with the WaterMinder app as well as the Health app. The only complaint I have is about the net carb count. Fiber isn’t the only thing that can be subtracted from total carbs in order to calculate net carbs. For example, sugar alcohol and erythritol are two ingredients that also count towards calculating net carbs. However, the app’s current design doesn’t count anything other than the fiber content when it calculates net carbs, mostly because there’s no place in the app for these nutrients/ingredients to be noted in the food items. When adding in our own foods, it’d be great if there were spots for items such as sugar alcohol (g) and erythritol, and other items as well, to make calculating net carbs more accurate for people on special diets who can only consume X# of net carbs daily. One other issue of note is that the “meal” function doesn’t work properly. Every time I try creating a “meal” in the settings, it will end up glitching when I go and add said meal to my calorie count later. It doubles some food items, removes other food items, and then when I try going back into the settings and, for example, removing the extra food items it added for no reason, it ends up removing ALL of the food items even though I save it as being one of each food item. Very annoying.