It’s time for the annual “look how much weight I gained over the holidays 😞”, and New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Does anyone use a food and exercise tracker app on their Android device? How is your experience with it?
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Second vote for chronometer.
Third vote for cronometer
Cronometer is really nice for food tracking. It knows most things by its barcode or you can search by name. You can get a nice breakdown of nutrition for free and there are some subscription features like food suggestions based on your missing nutrients.
As for exercises, I go with FitNote. It knows most exercises or you can simply add your own. It’s easy to create workouts and you can display your data in some usefull charts like volume by week e.g. There’s a supporter app to buy, but I believe there are no gated features.
Came here to mention Cronometer. 👍
Just the Garmin Connect app for fitness.
For nutritional tracking, I used to use LoseIt. Really big barcode library, the UI looks good, and it’s pretty simple to use. The issue is that now, without paying for a subscription, it’s worthless. You cannot see anything outside of the total calorie count for free. This did not used to be the case, and it really sucks.
If anyone knows a better replacement, I’d love to check it out.
I currently use LoseIt as well and have for the past few years. Honestly I would say it’s worth buying the lifetime purchase when it goes on sale around the New Year. It’s usually marked down to around $30ish and in my opinion is worth it if it’s going to be a daily use thing. I like the UI and it’s pretty intuitive and the large barcode library is a big plus.
But I also get some people just want a free tracker that’s simple to use. Unfortunately it feels like those are becoming harder and harder to find anymore. So I’d much rather just pay once and have the app unlocked and ads removed rather then a subscription bleeding me over time.
I should consider that at some point, but it’ll have to wait for now. A while ago, I’ve paid for a yearly sub, just once, and honestly felt like I didn’t get enough value out of my money, especially considering i’m struggling financially sometimes
Cronometer for food
I really wish there is an open source alternative for this kind of app.
I’m very nervous around big companies tracking things like my health.
Samsung Health is the only decent-good one that’s free, but I use LoseIt! instead for reasons I can’t really recall
Waistline is pretty good.
+1 to waistline. Also the dev team is pretty friendly for contributors
Macrofactor is an excellent nutrition tracking app. You track your weight and your intake, set a weight goal (gain, lose, or maintain) and a goal rate of weight change, and it sets your calorie targets from there. The app isn’t free, but there is a free trial period as well as a few different payment options.
I quit using it over the holidays due to too many outings and events, but I’ll be getting back to it next week. I highly recommend checking it out.
I’m a big fan of Hevy for tracking weight lifting sessions.
"Lose it"for counting calories. “Yuka” for checking ingredients. Both free and pretty good.
I use Samsung Health. It comes with my watch (and it’s free on phones) and tracks calories, steps, exercises, and all sorts of things from the watch. It’s cool because it can suggest exercises, track them, and keep track of food. It’s all free so it has that going for it!
I tried Chronometer but there are no japanese foods and they won’t add any to their DB so I basically gave up on it :/
I have a goole pixel watch I bought when my Garmin died. It’s fine for my needs.
For diet I use Macros. (previously used: Chronometer)
For exercise I use Loop Habit Tracker
For meal plans, I self-host Mealie on a droplet.
