FitBee Calorie & Macro Counter

I’ve used a lot of trackers over the years. FitBee is extremely convenient to use with a lot of features that make it easy to track food including tracking yesterday’s meal, recently logged foods available to choose again, scanning labels to quickly add to your personal food list, and easy to edit entries. I appreciate the easy integration with Apple Health. My workouts transfer seamlessly from my watch to my FitBee. I am currently in a program where I need to turn in food logs. I can easily turn my day into a PDF and print it daily. Since I’ve started using FitBee, I’ve lost more weight on average per week than when using paper logging. Since FitBee shows you how many calories you have left for the day, it’s easier to make choices as the day goes on. With paper logging I added up at the end of the day and many times didn’t realize I went too far over my budget. I highly recommend FitBee.

All I have ever really needed is a free calorie tracker dating back to around 2012. Simple, easy that’s it. I wouldn’t even mind paying for one. I thought I had that with MFP in 2012 but they pulled out the rug from under me around 2014. I switched to itrackbites in 2015 and they were a suitable replacement until they started getting bloated in 2018. Since then for the last 8 years from ‘18-‘26. I’ve wandered around aimlessly trying different free trials and paying a month here and there for apps. I’ve spent those 8 years manually entering my daily weigh ins in a iPhone contact entry per year. I tried Samsung Health, frustrated by their hard to read small font and ads. I switched to Atkins/keto in 2023 as tracking carbs was easier than tracking calories. However, I learned overtime that as I lost weight with Atkins, that Calories did matter, and going over on Calories would stall out my weight loss. So I have really bounced around in my weight over the past three years until I found FitBee. Incredible. Thank you to whoever is the genius and philanthropist who came up with this app. I love the calorie tracking, the weight, and the free Barcode Scanner just to start. if you’re considering downloading this, you should try it, there is no cost, and there are no advertisements. I like the weight tracker too very nice touch. Also, I can go in and manually enter weigh dates from previous years to establish a weight graph. My FitBee really reminds me of an unbloated MyFitnessPal in the early days of 2012. I might even buy a subscription with them. I hope they stay true to their original purpose and always offer something free. Keep up the good work.

TL;DR: It's a great app overall, but particularly if you log food by weight, this is the app for you. Full review: I've been using FitBee for two weeks, and for the first time in three years, my body weight is finally heading in the right direction. I've tried three other apps, but none worked for me. The difference is that those apps put their emphasis on having huge food databases, but seemed to give very little thought to the workflow of logging what you eat. With them, I found myself endlessly searching for an entry in their (you might say bloated) food databases, and/or then tapping away at their clunky data entry screens to get the record in (logging by grams/weight exacerbated the issue). With time, I gave up on each one. By contrast, FitBee gets the basics right, and recording a log entry is about as few steps as it can be. (As a bonus, because it's quick to log food, I can add up the calories before I actually eat, and avoid giving myself a food coma.) As for the food database, it's a good size - in two weeks of eating, I've only had to manually enter one food. I also appreciate that I haven't had to rifle through a bunch of unvetted outside additions with incomplete or erroneous data. FitBee is still growing - it needs multi-device sync, expanded Shortcuts support, and I'd love the option to keep my data entirely in iCloud for privacy. Even in its current state though, it's the leader of the pack in my eyes.