HitMeal Calorie & Food Tracker

I have been using HitMeal for about a month now, and I could go on and on about what it does right. I love how nutrition information from even some more obscure restaurants and recipes are easy to find. I like how easy it is to add your own recipes, and the interface you use to go about all this. A few features that I think would be very beneficial though: 1. More fine-grained control of custom recipe portions. I sometimes eat different amounts than just whole, halves, thirds and quarters, of a serving. Since the ingredients all include weight and/or volume, being able to control it that way would be a game-changer. 2. Being able to choose portion size from the calories/macro values. If I want to eat X number of calories of something, it would be awesome if I could type in X and get how much I would need to eat to do this. 3. Having the search feature include your custom recipes when searching under breakfast, lunch, etc. that’s my workflow for most items, so having it extend to your recipes would be convenient. Regardless of these gripes, this is a stellar app and I applaud the developer for it!

I have the full paid for app and have been using the app for a few months now and track everything all day everyday. This app has been a huge help and big eye opener but the owners need to do a few things different and get some updates going. 1. Make the calculator where you can change your parameters to your own needs and not just some randomness they decide. I bought the subscription so I could and you can’t. 2. There are tons of new foods coming out all the time and there are some that are just nonexistent on the app but other apps have them. New or old. It goes both ways. 3. Smaller brands/Stores/Gas stations. There’s a lot of different places to shop and some of other places are no where to be found on the app. Big gas station names like Casey’s should be there. They have their own stuff and sometimes these stores have special sizes and macros that aren’t there. 4. Fast food places like subway and or a few others really need to be updated and added to. I’m sure tons of people are using subway and others to get by sometimes and it would be great if you could just type in ANYTHING you got and not have to add a new food and go off a menu online until you get everything saved and tracked.

This app is the best of its kind, the interface is simple and beautiful. I can track weight, water, and macros on top of calories, which has a nice time graph for all. Love it! Great barcode scanner, and entering food is quick, exactly how it’s needed. I love tracking my food I used to write it in my notes. If I can make two suggestions to developers, I mean no offense… when I add new food, I wish there was a way that I could combine my foods I had scanned to create one food. For example, I drink the same chia seed smoothie several times a week, and to be accurate I have all ingredients separated out. Well each time I track it, I have to find each ingredient in my favorites and add. When I press the plus button, the screen scrolls up to the top, and then I have to scroll back down again to that area (which can be a long list). If there was a way to make this a custom food that I can add all the ingredients together that I scanned, or, if that list didn’t scroll to the top when pressing the plus… 👌👌👌 Just in case you are taking user suggestions :) Great app, very beautifully designed, does exactly what it’s supposed to do and very efficiently!