Have you ever struggled to eat healthy while away from home? I know I have! That was one of the reasons that I created this blog. In this article, I’ll cover some of the very best food and diet tracking apps for mobile devices. So without further ado, here is my list of the 7 best apps for healthy eating:
Best Apps For Healthy Eating You don’t have to browse the health section at your local App store to find amazing apps that will help you eat healthier. Yes, we realize it’s not as simple as it sounds, but we’ve found some great apps to help you with menu planning, tracking your progress, keeping an eye on calories, and even finding nearby locations for healthy groceries and restaurants.
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Best Apps For Healthy Eating
- MyFitnessPal (Free)
myfitnesspal_680.jpgMyFitnessPal offers a huge food database, listing over 5 million different foods. An effective calorie counter, it can take you less than 5 minutes a day to track your diet and exercise, meaning it’s a quick habit to get into. Working in conjunction with over 50 devices and apps including Apple Health, Fitbit and Garmin devices, it’ll help you keep on top of how well you’re doing.
- FatSecret (Free)
fatsecret_680.jpgFatSecret offers an easy to use food diary for you to track as well as plan in advance what you’re going to eat. Image recognition of food and meals make it even easier to add what you’re eating, with a community that’s keen to advise on how best to proceed. A weight tracking tool, along with barcode scanning, rounds off the package.
- YAZIO (Free)
yazio_680.jpgYAZIO offers a personal plan for losing weight or building muscles, before allowing you to track the nutritional elements of your meal. You can create meal plans, track your calories and daily steps taken, as well as sync up with other fitness apps. The Pro upgrade provides you with healthy recipes too, along with body fat tracking and even blood pressure and blood sugar.
- Lose It! (Free)
loseit_680.jpgLose It! wants you to lose weight while also enjoying the process. Simply telling it a little about yourself, it’ll devise a custom weight loss plan, setting you a daily budget and goal to aim for. Its image recognition means it’ll identify the food you’re eating automatically, saving you from entering it yourself. It breaks things down according to every part of nutrition too, giving you plenty of insight.
- MyPlate Calorie Tracker (Free)
myplate_680.jpgFrom the people behind Livestrong.com, MyPlate Calorie Tracker hopes to be the most user-friendly option for losing weight. The app helps you find out which foods you eat contain the most calories, allowing you to set personalized daily calorie goals. You can also keep track of your water intake, and create custom goals for your macronutrients and micronutrients. Meal reminders can also be set.
- Fitbit (Free)
fitbit_680.jpgFitbit is best known for tracking your steps and day to day activity, but it’s also good for tracking other parts of your life. You can use its services to log the food you eat via its barcode scanner, seeing your meal history at a glance. You can also use it in conjunction with the Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale, ensuring you always know what your weight is. Water intake and sleeping patterns can also be tracked.
- Fooducate (Free)
fooducate_680.jpgFooducate doesn’t just track how many calories you’re consuming, but also the quality of them. Keeping an eye on your sleep, mood and hunger levels, it’ll give you insight into where you can improve things. Analyzing your meal, Fooducate considers any health conditions you may have, as well as if you’re trying to avoid various allergens.
- My Diet Coach (Free)
mydietcoach_680.jpgSet a goal and My Diet Coach helps you work towards it. With a visual weight tracker, you can “see” the weight drop off. It focuses on encouraging you to pursue small but healthy lifestyle changes such as drinking more water. Alongside that, you can use motivational photos to encourage you, and even gain rewards for staying committed.
- Charity Miles (Free)
charitymiles_680.jpgWant even more motivation to walk frequently? Charity Miles doesn’t track your calorie intake but it does help the world a little. The app works like a pedometer with each step helping a charity of your choice. You can choose from over 40 different charities, earning them a little cash as you walk. It’s an ideal extra form of encouragement.
- MyNetDiary PRO ($3.99)
mynetdiary_680.jpgMyNetDiary might be the only app here that requires an investment but it’s worth the few bucks. You set a weight goal and the app analyzes your diary, calculating the targets you’ve set yourself and providing you with personalized advice and diet tips. All you need to do is input your eating habits and exercise, and MyNetDiary PRO does the hard work for you.
Best nutrition apps 2022
Why We Chose It: We chose Lifesum because it’s compatible with various types of diets, comes with a large database of recipes, supports macronutrient and net carb, and promotes all aspects of a healthy lifestyle.
Pros
Works with various types of diets
Large database of recipes that contain five ingredients or less
Syncs with several major apps and fitness trackers
Habit trackers for water intake and fruit and vegetable consumption, along with a food rating system to encourage healthy habits
Creating an account is fast
Cons
No free version, plans start at $4.17/month
Barcode scanning isn’t always able to find the item you’re looking for
Some users appreciate judgements made by the app (smiley faces are given for certain foods that the app deems as “healthy”)
Lifesum earns the title of best overall for diet apps because it encompasses all aspects of a healthy lifestyle, so you can learn how your diet integrates with other habits to ultimately help you reach your health and fitness goals. It’s also incredibly flexible and works with any diet, from keto to paleo to high protein, or you can choose to start with a three-week weight loss kickstarter plan.
Your Life score serves as a source of motivation, getting higher and higher as you log healthy meals, exercise, water, and more. If you’re ever in a pinch for meal ideas, browse Lifesum’s database of hundreds of recipes. Take the quiz to find recipes best suited to your goals.
Lifesum also supports macronutrient and net carb tracking, perfect for those following a keto diet or other low-carb diet. The premium version, which starts at $4.17 per month, syncs seamlessly with several other health apps and devices, including Apple Health, Fitbit, Google Fit, Withings, and more.
Best for Food Logging: MyFitnessPal
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Why We Chose It: MyFitnessPal is our pick for best food logging due to its extensive food database and barcode scanning abilities.
Pros
Enormous database of different foods, along with barcode scanning
Connects with over 50 apps
Forums available for support, questions, and encouragement
Free version allows for quite a bit of functionality (food tracking, nutrition insights, exercise tracking, water intake, etc.)
Cons
Nutrient data is only as accurate as the users who input it
May encourage consumption of processed foods because they’re easier to track than entering in fresh recipes
Many people shy away from the thought of food logging, because it’s historically time-consuming and frustrating. With MyFitnessPal, keeping a food journal is easier than ever.
This app is renowned for its massive food database of more than 11 million foods (which continues to grow!). This database makes food logging easier than ever: All you have to do is scan a barcode (if the food is packaged) or search for the item (if it’s not packaged, like an apple or banana).
Additionally, you can create your own personal food database for foods you eat often. MyFitnessPal also gives you a nice breakdown of your daily macronutrient intake so you can see how well you’re sticking to your goals.
Best for Nutrition Education: Fooducate
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Why We Chose It: Fooducate is an excellent choice for individuals or families looking for a diet app that tracks the number and quality of calories, encourages healthy eating, and provides tips and information about nutrition.
Pros
Encourages healthy eating rather than just calorie counting
Community support is provided on the app or website
Free to download and ad-free version is a one-time cost of only $3.99
Cons
Some functionality glitches on Android
Doesn’t sync with other apps or devices
Not everyone agrees on what the app deems as “healthy”
If you’re new to the world of nutrition, exercise, and wellness, you may feel overwhelmed with all of the information out there. Fooducate aims to make healthy eating easier for everyone, from beginners to nutrition experts. The app’s wealth of articles and tips on nutrition and exercise makes it less overwhelming to integrate new healthy habits into your lifestyle. But this app is more than just an educational platform: You can track meals and recipes, exercise, sleep, mood, and hunger level.
Perhaps the biggest differentiator about Fooducate is that not only can you track calories, but you can track the quality of the calories you eat—a very important but often overlooked factor when it comes to healthy eating.
When you scan barcodes in the app, Fooducate analyzes information in the nutrition panels to look for components such as added sugars, artificial sweeteners, trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, GMOs, and more. Each food you enter receives a personalized nutrition grade (A, B, C, or D) based on your health status and goals.
Best for Keto: Carb Manager
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Why We Chose It: Carb Manager helps track calories, net carbs, ketones, and glycemic load, which makes sticking to a Keto lifestyle a whole lot easier.
Pros
Extensive recipe database (over 1,000 from the app’s test kitchen, 10,000 from users, and 350,000 website recipes available)
Connects with Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Health, Google Fit and hundreds of other trackers and apps
Free version is sufficient for basic keto tracking (net carbs, calories, etc.)
Cons
Several tracking features are limited to the paid premium membership (including meal plans, recipes, grocery lists, and body measurements
Difficult to customize meal plans based on dietary restrictions or preferences
Comprehensive yet straightforward, Carb Manager tracks calories, net carbs, ketones, blood glucose, insulin, glycemic load, and more to perfectly manage your keto diet. In addition to those advanced features, you can also track basic metrics such as water intake, exercise, and body weight. The app analyzes all of this information and provides reports on how your diet is helping you reach your goals.
You can track more than one million foods in the app’s database, connect Carb Manager to your other fitness apps and devices (such as a Fitbit or Apple Watch), browse recipes and meal plans, create custom grocery lists, and log your food via photo or voice command.
Best for Paleo: Paleo (io)
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Why We Chose It: The Paleo (io) diet app makes it quick and easy to find out if a food is Paleo or not. Plus, users will appreciate the extensive library of educational content.
Pros
If a food isn’t listed you can submit it to be added in the system
Hundreds of paleo-friendly recipes are available
Quick and easy to use, especially if you’re new to eating paleo
Cons
No free version, however the one-time cost of 0.99 cents isn’t bad
Limited database with just 3,000 foods listed
Doesn’t sync with other apps or fitness trackers
Paleo lovers, rejoice! With Paleo (io), you no longer need to endure hundreds of web searches to find out if a food is paleo or not. Just plug the food you’re wondering about into Paleo (io), and the app will instantly search its database of thousands of foods.
It’ll tell you whether or not the food is paleo, so you know if it works with your diet or not. The simple “Eat This” and “Not This” features make it easy to plan meals and buy groceries so you don’t end up with a cart full of foods you can’t eat on paleo.
Paleo (io) also offers loads of educational content, such as its Paleo 101 Briefing and in-depth blog articles on common paleo-related questions. In addition to the food at abase, Paleo (io) also has a paleo recipes database.
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