Perfect Diet Tracker App Reviews

Used it for one day…so far I like it. Its easier than just writing stuff done. There are a lot of items already listed that you can search from but you can also add your own things in. However the only thing I wish it had was a place to track water. Your suppose to drink 8 glasses a day and that is very helpful for weightloss so I thought someone tracking calories would want that included. Would love to see something like that for the next update.

Ive used computer diet programs in the past on a PC, in particular DietPower 4.0. While Diet Tracker doesnt hold a candle to DietPower (which currently has no Apple compatibility), Perfect Diet Tracker is about the best program Ive found for a Mac. What it wont do surprises me though. The serving sizes can be difficult to navigate. Its tough to add recipes and there is no progress tracking graph for nutrients. It would provide great positive reinforcement if I could simply click on the pie chart to find out how well Ive eaten over the past week or month. A calorie bank would be nice, to help spot trends toward overeating over time instead of just day to day. It would be great to see the big overall progress picture instead of just the daily entries. And as big as the food dictionary is, it isnt big enough and seems to be regional, as my area of the country doesnt carry most of the brands listed. I enter a lot of food items by hand. Sometimes my Notes disappear for no earthly reason, and when the cursor or mouse pointer is in the Notes window, you get an unhelpful help bar across the box that blocks the note. But if you have a Mac and youre looking for a good basic program to track your calories, this one isnt bad. After all, the real work isnt in the data entry, its in the effort of actual weigh loss, but any reinforcement I can get from the computer aids my goals. I wish this program had just a little more oomph.

I havent been using this program all that long but so far it has everything that I want and need. I have used many programs before, including weight watchers online etc and I find that this one is easy to use, the interface is user friendly and the most important thing, the food diary works well. When you type in the food, it gives you reasonable options without having to search through 100 things. It also learns- so when you type in a food, next time that one will be a the top of the list. Obviously, you have to give a little and understand that youre still using a serach function but this one is better than most. I hate having to work on a program with a diary but this one makes it tolerable.

I will say that the app is easy and fast to use which is key if youre tying to use it consistently every day. However I dont understand why they dont have a screen where you can look at your intake level for all the different vitamins and macro-nutrients youre supposed to get daily. Other programs of this sort do that.

The serving sizes they have for the food is absolutely idiotic, there will be so few options. The egg options were four different weights, and 1 small. Have you ever been to a store? There are small, medium, large, and extra large. Also, if you change the serving size, the numbers do not automatcally change, so plan on entering in all of your foods nutrirional values. Another problem is the program only operates on a basis of losing weight. This is a pretty terrible program for anyone that knows anything. Save yourself from innaccurate information and some time and just go to a professional.

I like this app. Its fairly easy to use and it is helping me to lose weight. You have to be meticulous of course and enter everything you eat and drink, especially if you snack a lot. My biggest complaint is the database. It is not consistent and the search engine is not very smart. Spelling of search items seems to be critical. If you have a typo or just flat out misspell the item, you may not get a result. Example, entering pistrami gave me a no results found, which I thought was odd untill I realized I had mispelled pastrami. Instead of no results found, I should have at least gotten a did you mean pastrami? result. Occasionally I will find the nutritional information in the database to be different than what is on the manufacturers package, even though its for the same product and serving size. The difference is typically small but if you find yourself consistently bumping up against your daily caloric intake, it could add up. Overall I would recommend the app. I think the price should be a little cheaper but if you want to lose weight and have the self discipline to faithfully enter the foods you eat and drink on a daily basis and stay at or below your target, you should reach your goal.

I do actually like this app quite a bit, so its annoying to find such flawed function in the search engine to find food/calorie information online. For example if you enter "cottage cheese" it will return every internet food title that contains the word "cottage" and every item that contains the word "cheese" and very few that contain both. There isnt a way to link the words and the logic of the search doesnt look for titles that contain both words. So its a good record keeper, but youre better off using just google to find calorie information on specific foods.

It is simple and sort of boring, not very interactive and nothing to make it fun (medals, reminders, weekly workout plan) like others I have used. I wish weight would also be on the graph for nutritional intake/calories so I could see if what I ate and calories eaten make a difference rather than having to flip back and forth between the graphs. It has you rate your activity level whereas other apps calculate your daily recommended calorie intake based on what activities you actually enter. For this app, it does not explain what moderately active actually is. On another app, I actually lost more weight when I ate more because I had underrated my activity level so it told me to eat less. I actually needed to eat more as my body stopped losing weight because I was not eating enough. I only figured that out when the app itself updated the calculations from self-rate to what exercise I actually did. It would also be great to have the RDAs actually near the daily columns to see if one went over or under what is recommended for carbs, protein, sodium, fiber, etc.. It would also be nice to see not only current weight compared to goal weight but saying how much you have lost overall from original weight. I know it is on the graph but it is nice to see a big number as well on the summary page. But, I do like it and find it useful. I have lost 5 lbs so far in 3 weeks so it is working for me.

I really, really, REALLY wanted to love this app specially for its cost. But I find it not friendly to users. I do not understand what to do when I open it, and when I try to add products I NEVER find the product I want. So, I have to add a new one and I dont know how many calories it has if its just a mix of fruits and juice that I bought. I wanted to be able to have a schedule for foods, because my doctor gave me one. But ANYWAYS. I feel bad now about the money I wasted with this.

As tracking software, this app has done a couple of things very well: the ability to create groups of food is super convenient, and the food search is very quick. I spot checked some of their nutritional facts, though, and they were off which resulted in a huge carbohydrate deficit for me one day. not good. if theyre simply sharing other users food entries, id like to be aware of this or have it validated somehow before being distributed. Also, id really like to know how im doing with other vitamins and minerals and thats not an option.

I use it every day. If you take the time to save your "favorites," filling out the diary is extremely fast and easy. Very happy with the app so far. Iphone app- combo I also bought the Iphone app which syncs with no problems. The only thing about "syncing" is none of the setting change. So, if you change your goals and setting on the mac, you will also have to change them on the Iphone.

I have type 2 diabetes and need to track my diet carefully. I especially need to track my carbohydrate intake. Perfect Diet Tracker does that plus more. I can select what nutrients I want to follow from several listed: Protein, Fats, Carbs, Sodium, even Fiber. Oh yes, and calories. (There may be more which I dont recall right now.) As I make entries into my daily meals it gives me a nutritional summary for each item, then tallies the totals for each meal. One odd thing: The program allows for creating, adding, and saving your own recipes to an area called "Group" from which you can then insert your own recipe into a meal. Unfortunately it inserts every ingredient separately instead of just inserting the name of the recipe and a combined nutritional analysis. So, if you have added a bread recipe, for instance, and you select that item for "breakfast", you will get: Flour; yeast; oil; salt; etc., all listed separately for breakfast. If there is a way around it I havent discovered it yet. Still, I think thats a minor vexation and I can live with it. This is a very good app. It suits my needs just fine.

I tried Net Diary, Fitbit, WW, and a few more. This, by far, is the easiest to use. This will not make you lose weight and get healthy, but it will show if you are on the right track. The UI is the best. I like the way it syncs with the iPad. FInding foods are a snap, and it seems no matter what I look for it is there. I hope it is updated as time goes on. Thanks for a great app.

Simple enough to use quickly every day, yet gives you a lot of information about your food and exercise choices in a clear visual format. Even during very busy days, I can take a few seconds to enter food and exercise choices, and see how Im doing. This app brings everything into focus, and keeps you on track and motivated. Without this app, I got distracted by lifes interruptions and derailed, but not any more. Im eating healthier now that I can "see" the composition of what Im eating. And I like to keep that exercise graph above "0"! Its easy to enter foods, see how they will affect your goals, and change them if need be. Like another reviewer, I wanted to track of other nutrients, like vitamins, but when I tried a program which did that, planning the perfect nutrional menu was a nightmare. This app is easy, clear, fairly informative, and quick to use; thats what makes it so great. This app (version 3.6.4) does everything the description said it will do, and functions well. It does not suggest foods to eat; I use a weekly diet menu plan from another source as a general guideline.

It syncs with my ipad app, but only if the Mac version is open and on the sync menu. Also, I would like to be able to add food to the database without having to add it to my diary/food list for the day.

I like this app. Well, I want to like it. At the price point of $25 I was expecting more. The app does what it claims to do really well. There is a huge amount of info, with name brands youll recognize and all the infamous fast food joints included for input. The diary system works well. I like that it suggests different percentages of Carbs/Fat/Protein based on what diet you are following. With all of this info, wouldnt it be great if it were configured with the ingredients in recipes, and if it could take meals and build a meal plan for you, based on your recommended calorie intake and diet %s? I just installed and started looking at it, but what if it watched what exercises you were doing, and adapted your caloric needs based on how much weight loss it saw. This is from someone who doesnt plan meals, and eats what I want when I want it. If there were a planning module that was easy to use, maybe a shopping list generator for, I dont know, a weeks worth of meals, this app would be killer. Right now, its a bit over-priced for what it does.

I am sorry to have to give such a negative review but no matter how good a diet tracker is, without distributed availability and reliability, it is effectively worthless. I set up the program on my home Mac this morning and set up dropbox sync. That went fine. I entered some foods that were not in the database (even on internet search). When I installed the program on the office mac, there was no option to select dropbox sync from the beginning. I had to set up a new user to get at settings. When I then set up dropbox settings, no acknowledgement of my existing files. If your app can share data between Apple devices, it should use iCloud. You chose to use Dropbox. Fine, no big deal. Except, it doesnt work. For a struggling dieter who counts on reliability, I would be better off paying a service like weight watchers monthly since they have the available everywhere thing figured out. Other apps are using iCloud sync successfully, and Dropbox.

This is an excellent application for tracking both calories, nutritional values, and exercises. I use the application primarily to track the amount of calories consumed per day. It has an expansive database of most fast food restaurants and one can easily add custom items into this database. I highly recommend this app. I have used the printed out reports as documentation of my daily consumption when I visit my weight loss professional. It is amazing to graphically see how your weight fluctuates over a period of time. I have used this app for well over a year now and can definitely correlate personal events to weight gains. Wishing you much success in keeping healthy, Gary

I found this app to be very easy for food tracking, adding foods, grouping foods. I even group a salad by veggies, dressing, croutons, etc and name it, I also group sandwhiches, like a banana sandwhich (bread, banana, mayo) to speed entry. I think the database is fair but have taken to enter stats from boxes or cans on a lot of occasions. I like the graphs and ability to customize targets. I think the calories for exercises are pretty generous and tend to massage my credits by reducing time. Havent figured out a way to print or email results, like a days meals, to someone, but havent contacted support or spent much time trying. Overall, this is a good tool to have.

This app is just ok. The database is definitely sketchy and could be improved greatly. I have to add about 80% of products myself because they are not in the database. And the password feature is useless. I set up a password, but it doesnt even ask for it. Anyone can get in at any time. Its definitely overpriced.