I expected more from the most expensive diet app

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.

thcooper about Perfect Diet Tracker