11. Calorie Counter Pro
Price: $2.99
Compatible With: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
Caloire Counter Pro is another exercise and nutrition tracking app with a comprehensive food database and exercise database. Stand-out features include:
- Food database updated daily, including popular foods submitted by users
- Built-in barcode scanner on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4
- Fast and easy food entry
- Breakdown of your diet including carbs, protein, fat, fiber, sodium and more
- Syncs with your free account on MyNetDiary.com
- Includes over 500 exercises and activities
- Ability to enter custom exercises
There are also charts, graphs and other tools to help you track your progress on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
12. Daily Burn
Paige Waehner
Price: Free
Compatible With: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
Like the other nutrition and exercise tracking apps, Daily Burn offers a variety of features for entering foods, tracking your weight loss and monitoring your exercise program. The app is free, but you pay extra for other features such as the FoodScanner ($4.99) or consultations with a personal trainer ($4.99). The stand-out feature for Daily Burn is the exercise section, which is more comprehensive than other apps. You can find training plans based on your goals (weight loss, building muscle, etc.) and you can build custom workout routines and track individual exercises as well. You can also view detailed instructions for how to do different exercises.
13. Lose It!
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Price: Free
Compatible With: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad
As free weight loss tracking apps go, you can't go wrong with Lose It. It's easy to use and offers tons of feedback for anyone wanting to lose weight. Some features include:
- An estimate of the calories required to lose weight based on your goal (from 0 to 2 lbs a week)
- The ability to enter foods using a comprehensive database
- An exercise database to calculate calories burned
- A chart that shows your daily calorie budget -- calories eaten, burned and how many more you have left
- You can track nutrients (fat, carbs, fiber, etc.) and add new foods to the database
- View your progress by the day or week.
Lose It! is a great resource and, best of all, it's free.
