Cronometer - Macro Tracker for Android

…it’s free. Can’t complain too much with my fitness pal taking away free features. The format is kinda hard to get use to. You can’t have breakfast, lunch & dinner sections. The worse thing is you can get a weekly summary so you know how many calories you have saved for that special occasion or weekend alcohol.

Not perfect, ads are annoying but I get it. Everyone needs to eat. Sometimes the app can be laggy or glitchy but not often. The versatility of this app makes up for all that. By far the best, most detailed app I’ve ever used. I love it!

The user experience could use a lot of love. Most of the settings are confusing to set up even when sitting with a nutrionist. The data is also really lacking. While it is great you collect so much micronutrients, if i just want to see my day’s total or week’s total (of macro and micros), it’s hard to find if it even exists. The ability to create my own charts is nice but hardly needed. I would have to create too many charts to get all the comparisons instead of being able to just look up the raw values. Setting up up the energy tracker is also severely confusing. The system forces you into a ridiculous deficit unless you set it to neutral. For example, I have been losing weight by eating 2000 calories. My goal consumed calories is 2000. But when I put in to lose 1 lb a week which is what I have been doing, the system wants me to eat 1500 calories. No, I want to eat 2000 calories not 1500. It also adds in activities weird. By using the activity level, it tries to add on the additional calories (2500 calories to eat vs 2000) you would burn so that you end up neutral for the day and not in a deficit. This is where I want to have a deficit. It’s like this application does everything backwards. I don’t want to be under eating and mal nourished. I want my activity to put me into a deficit as it should. Overall this app is at best a 3/5. The only upside is it shows significantly more indepth micro nutrition than most of the competitors but falls short everywhere else.

This app allows me to create my own diet and nutrition based on recipes and ingredients that I already use for my meals and snacks. There are lots of diet plans that have meal plans and daily menus. Cronometer let’s me use what I already know. Being able to track and adjust my recipes is motivating and allows me to be more creative in reaching my nutrition goals. And the app is easy to use with a fast learning curve.

I really liked the look of this app until I discovered you have to pay to see meals separated. It made the lack of a scanner on MyFitnessPal less of a problem.