Perfect Diet Tracker App Reviews

As good as Weight Watchers, but without the monthly fee.

You can see how much fat, protein, sugar, salt and calories are being consumed in one day. I wish it was able to display how much ADDED sugar I am eating. And how much is the daily recommendation. I think it is 37.5 grams for men. I dont know the recommendations for sugar from fruit etc? The information should be in this app. You can also write in how much you want to gain or lose. And it will calculate how long it would take to reach that goal. I think it does it realistically too. And there is the option to add exercises to the food calender. The exercises list needs to be expanded. For abdominal exercises, I just see the abslide? No option to choose crunches, trunk twist etc.When I want to add my own exercise I put in the name and the duration, but I dont know how many calories I have burned. So I cant fill in the last box. I think the app should do that automatically too.

Looks like crap in my mac book pro retina. Everything else is great.

Was doing great but this morning it asked me to create a new profile. My profile is completely gone with all the stuff I had writen in 10 days. I´m so frustrated. Even if i start again I lost the tracking of the last ten days.

I love the app BUT it keeps deleting the target rates that I have "set" even after multiple adjustments. I think it might be because i need it to track weight gain as opposed to weight loss. If this gets fixed I will chage my rating.

I have been using this for 3 months on a daily basis. It is really smart software, and I like how easy it is to add exercise and new foods. If a food is not in the data base, you can add it along with the nutritional information. The "Favorites" feature is reall handy; it knows the foods you eat regularly. It has helped me lose 21 pounds in 3 months, and to become aware of serving sizes and calories in food. I have had no problem with it.

The app works well helping you track your food intake and progress. Expect to spend some time inputing the foods you like, as it can be hard to find what you eat in the search feature. The only real problemm I have found is that the "Your nutritional profile" and " Target nutritional profile" graphs are never correct and there are some wrong numbers in the Target nutritional profile %s. So those features are pretty much useless...

I applied the last update and now it does not match my exercise versus the calories consumed. When you enter the exercesie works, but when you go to "view results" the "net calories" are the same as the consumed and the exercise information is "0". Update on 2013: Once that the following releases corrected the bugs, I have been working fine. It really helped me to keep a diet and exercise program. I will definitely recommend Perfect Diet Tracker based on my experience of one year with the product.

I have tried most of the online systems, as well as most of resident diet programs for MAC. Perfect Diet Tracker (PDT) is not perfect, but I lost 42.5 Lbs over last 102 days using it as my guide. Losing weight is simple you eat less than you burn, but to do that you need total Caloric Awareness - you need to be able to look at a piece of food before you eat it and know how many calories it contains. To get that content awareness was a new skill for me, so got some good scales, and I entered in everything using PDT BEFORE I ate it. Eventually over course of about a month was able to develop good sense of food content and now think am advanced expert with excellent Caloric Awareness thanks to PDT. Reason can claim to be in expert category now - I can go to Restaurant with others order meal and just eat what I know is enough to fill in daily allowance and lose weight that day, usually about .4 lbs per day. Few things could be improved with menus, and how to enter in Groups or Receipts, but reports and weight tracking, access to nutritional databases all very good. I use Vitamix drinks a lot and easy to make a Vitamix “Group”. Enter in each item by weight it becomes a Group. Pour a glass of Drink 5 say, weight on scale at 300gs and can figure out quickly how many calories you consumed for Drink 5. Easy to change few things in Drink 5 to create Drink 6 , next time you make new drink from old Group, and ends up becoming receipt. Same with other foods… When you do this with PDT for month or so , for 25 different drinks, learn that Vitamix drinks all have about .5 Calories per gram, - so gets much easier with time . I use a fitbit to monitor activity, and easy to enter in that caloric activity every day, in excercise menu, and see your in/out total. Few things might make easier: 1. Be able to duplicate groups so can modify ingredients with new name. 2. Add gram and oz to groups – you can do workaround now by using ratios in portion size. PDT has no complex gimmicks or web schemes to grab more money, just works well and I have used it daily now many months. I highly recommend. PDT for anyone interested in serious weight loss

This app has everything I needed. It creates charts to visually track your progress and lets you create custom goals. The existing database of foods and exercise is pretty large so I can usually find what Im looking for. When I cant, its easy to add to their list.

Im very new to the world of nutrition, and am very happy to have found this app. A major health issue is the motivation for using this app. It allows the tracking of nutritional values for single items and for multiple items in a recipe. I need the awareness of what nutrition is and how it is used to determine a healthy diet. Use of this program promotes a better understanding of nutrition. I gave this app 4 stars partly because Im still learning about it and because Ive discovered that a couple of nutrition categories are missing (cholesterol and trans fat). Ive received assurance from Support that cholesterol will soon be included. Responses by Support were very fast. The app, even without further improvement, is a valuable asset for planning a healthy diet. Im thankful for having seen favorable reviews.

This app is ok but would be much better if the synch was icloud and not dropbox based. Its a hassle to get your info synched as it stands. If it seemlessly let me add food on my phone when out, my iPad at work and my mac at home Id give it a 5.

Is reporting a little low. Can this be fixed? I am still new, so I havent gone the distance yet, but playing around with the software, it seems to be working as designed except for the BMI calculation.

I just downloaded this and right off the bat, it is easy to use. My rating is more like 3.5 stars, here are my pros/cons: CONS: • Not retina-display friendly, which makes it hard to read because of the terrible pixelation. • The layout is just so-so. Could be much more attractively designed. • Instead of a big ugly logo in the corner of the dashboard, I would like to be able to post a profile pic - something that would be motivational per the user. For instance, being able to post a current “fat” picture of yourself, or posting an older “thin” picture (target weight?), or even just posting a picture of something healthy and delicious (a bushel of tomatoes), or a picture of someone running - something that reminds the user of why we’re trudging along and to not give up the efforts! PROS: • I like that you an add foods easily, such as what you do with Weight Watchers. The app searches the internet to calculate food. You can also manually enter this in. It’s nice to have both options. Some other additions I think would be useful: • The ability to set a reminder alarm (to take a vitamin, exercise, etc) • A field to enter medications and vitamins with times • A field to track general health (i.e., sleep log, bowel movements, moods/mental health, sickness, menstration, etc). This is especially helpful for someone who wants to not only lose weight, but improve their health in other arenas related to weight loss and nutrition.

That said, some really great things about Perfect Diet Tracker: - Makes it really easy to track my calories and how many I have left as I go through each day - Helps me reduce calories at a more gradual, manageable rate — for example, I lost 1/2 pound yesterday, so today my goal is 4 calories less — no big deprivation there On the other hand, it’s missing UX features you expect with a Mac OS app, like the ability to resize text fields as they become full. For example, to find foods in my growing Favorites list now I have to deal with the really funky, jerky scroll, and I should be able to alphabetize the list to find items more easily. Also — and this seems like an obvious, no-brainer function a $24.95 app should have — you should be able to create custom foods and meals, so you wouldn’t have to build the same breakfast you eat every day item by item each time. (2 eggs, 1 pat of butter, 2 slices of bread — you have to find each of these items on your non-alphabetized favorites list and add it separately each time instead of simply entering a custom label like “eggs & toast.”) On Google you can type in “calories 1 tbsp yogurt” and get the answer in less than a second, but less-than-Perfect Diet Tracker forces you to search through yogurt brands you probably never heard of, find something you hope approximates, and calculate the amount in an unfamiliar metric. (Do you measure foods like yogurt, butter and milk in grams, ounces or kilos? I measure these items in fractions of a cup or tablespoons, so this app forces me to figure out how many grams, ounces or kilos in one tablespoon in order to calculate my calories — stupid waste of time. Same thing with bread — people eat “slices” of bread, not grams, ounces or kilos.) For $24.95, I expected the Maserati of diet apps. This is more of a Corolla.

Short review-After sheer frustration trying to put just 1/2 CUP strawberries into my daily breakfast, I see that there is very little support for using cups or half cups, as items are expressed in grams, regardless of my settings. I am just rying to put what I eat into a rational order showing what is consumed and calories per day. Someone who is working in grams should love this. Very clunky trying to use in OS X, but I thought I would really like the fact that two different people can be tracked. This is just not for me! Money wasted! I see that many others simply loved this app- certainly must be me!

Application wants to upgrade database files for new version but fails to do so. Let it run for over a day. Ended at moving support files. Clearly this is broken. If it can manage to update its own support files it means this app was not well QA’ed before release.

Sticking to a diet can be difficult. Using computer software to establish goals, record progress, evaluate the relationship between the amount and type of food consumed and its affects on your weight and how you feel is very helpful. I found Perfect Diet Tracker software to be a tool I was willing to use on a daily basis. The software uses a “favorites” food list to quickly and easily record the food you eat on a regular basis. It also provides online access to a large database of foods. PDT’s privacy policy is exceptionally good, and the PDT software resides on my computer, thus my personal data is not sent over the Internet. I also appreciate how this software accomplishes the tasks of goal setting, recording the nutritional content of the food consumed, graphing the progress in weight-loss, and calories consumed, and the automatic correlation to BMI. I would like to see some improvement or better instruction on the use of goal setting once a weight-milestone has been reached, especially when you achieve your goal weight and want to maintain that weight. I have used the PDT software for a couple of years. I appreciate that I haven’t gotten nagged to pay for upgrades to the latest version. I find the software straight-forward, it provides the tracking tool one needs to keep to whatever diet you choose (Paleo, Atkins, South Beach, etc.). I found that if I don’t use PDT to monitor my weight, excercise, and diet, I gradually gain the weight back. This insight told me how valuable it is to use a software tracking tool.

Whatever they did in this most recent update completely ruined the app for me. It keeps lagging/freezing on me and it takes awhile to look up food items. My computer/internet connection is not the problem. Please fix. I’m transitioning to "My Macros+ Diet, Weight and Calorie Tracker” until these issues are resolved.

Im on day one using this program. I didnt want a lot of annoying bells and whistles. The entry of food items is simple and straightforward (from a lookup in the programs database). User-friendly interface. It did freeze up on me once, requiring me to force it to quit. However, I didnt lose any data.