eaterpad: Nutrition Tracker

If you are looking for a simplified nutrition app that tracks your food intake and provides a clear analysis of both macronutrients AND essential micronutrients, this is it!! I researched a lot of apps before settling on this one. It’s better than the top rated nutrition apps! Also, the free version is more than sufficient. I’m sure I’ll sign up for the premium version once I master all the information I have at my fingertips right now. Lastly, the tech help is impressive. I had a few questions when I initially signed up and the”help” response was prompt and solved my issues. Great experience!

The overall user interface takes some getting used to, but the end result is informative, and the databases contain more information than I have found in some of the other more well known apps. So far I’ve only spotted one error in the data when compared with other databases. I have used this app every day since I installed it, and I deleted one of the other more popular apps that I had been using until then. I guess that speaks for itself. I haven’t decided yet if the premium futures would be worth the added cost. I wish there were an in-between option that allowed some compensation in appreciation for the app developers without necessarily plunking down the big bucks in perpetuity for features that might not be totally necessary. Anyway, for now, my thanks to the developers for making this and offering it.

I'm just getting started but overall I'm very happy so far. The interface isnt too busy and my pointer finger doesn't have to jump around quite as much while logging as in some of the apps I tried. The developer himself replied to my early feedback by pointing out that the free version does in fact offer the calcium tracking I want....as well as many other micronutrients....I simply had failed to swipe the main display to show the others. So great that a developer listens instead of replying with an autopilot non-answer. I'm still figuring the most efficient way to add entries for a meal. I was surprised it seems we need to double-tap a food name to select it; I'm used to a single tap in my old app (that doesn't offer calcium tracking) but maybe I'm mistaken or maybe my old app required some step that was equivalent to a second tap anyway. Wow....I just now discovered that if we want to create a custom food (for cases our food isn't listed), we have the option of sharing our entry with the Eaterpad community. My old app only added the custom food locally, on our own phone. Sharing is better! This one is a keeper!