It’s the beginning of a New Year so that could only mean one thing, New Year’s resolutions. My personal goal this year is to lose about 10 pounds of fat so I’m gonna start by paying real close attention to what I put in my body.
Calorie Counter by FatSecret is an app that can give me the nutritional information I need to make the proper choices.
Calorie Counter Android Features:
- Get calorie and nutritional info quickly
- Scan barcodes for nutritional labels
- Keep track of what you’re eating in a food diary
- Keep track of burned calories in a exercise diary
- Weight Chart
- Keep track of your progress with the journal
- Sync the Calorie Counter application with FatSecret.com
Download Calorie Counter by FatSecret for free from the Android Market.
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By far the BEST app for counting calories, tracking your workouts and your bodyweight. A MUST HAVE!!!
I entered a weight training workout but then realized that it allotted to much calorie burn so I entered a custom one. Problem is I can’t delete the old entry. Pls. help. Otherwise, great product!
One more thing.
I have a coffee entered for breakfast, 150 calories. It’s shown but calories are not added to the total for some reason.
Spent 30 minutes entering data just to lose it all during the sync process from phone to web. Support was of no help. Uninstalled.
Was hoping this would similar to “Loose It” for the iphone… but NOOOO!!! I want it to tell me how many calories I need to take in daily in order to loose weight and reach my goal!!! Programmer guys, please make this more personal and useful! I am at my wits end with the droid and the apps and closer to going back to the iphone!!!
A MUST HAVE!!!
me too:)
Is this app not compatible with 2.1??? I had it on my Droid Eris 1.6, but when I upgraded to 2.1 I can’t find the app. Is there an ETA for when the app will be available on 2.1?? I NEED THIS APP!!!
Love the Calorie Counter. However, I upgraded the Droid and my entire food diary history disappeared. If I begin again, will I have to rebuild every time there’s an update?
In response to Shannon’s comment, this app does tell you how many calories you need to eat. You go through a little questionnaire that asks your current weight, age, lifestyle (sitting or standing all day) your weight loss/gain goals as far as time and weight. Then it tells you how many calories you should eat per day. You can track everything you eat. It has an extensive library of foods and restaurants and the calories associated with the menu items. Additionally, it will scan the barcode from the foods you are eating so that you don’t have to enter the data, you just scan it. You also track your daily exercise (calorie expenditure). There is a calendar that tells you whether you were up or down on each day. It also has a weight tracker with your starting weight, target weight and the graph of your weight changes. This app is working wonderfully for me!!
If I want to download the 1.12.0 version of calorie counter by fatsecret, how can I do that? I do not like the updated version and want my old version back. Barcode scan option availalbe?
Please advise
I updated and am now sad to see that it’s not calculating my points. Isn’t there any way to calculate that ratio without tying it to a diet?
A few weeks ago, the version I had would calculate weight watchers points. Now when I click on the change columns menu, weight watchers points isn’t an available category anymore. Any help on how to view how many points?
In response to JJ’s April 21 post – where is that questionaire? I just started using CC and it asked me a few questions but gave me no answers (i.e. how many calories per day)
If you “click” on the RDI at the bottom of the food diary (colored squares) it will give you the questionnaire and you can customize the amount of calories too.
The Bar Scanner is by far amazing.
I love it! Thank you!!
Is this application no longer supported? I have lost 10 pounds using it and I wanted to install it on my dad’s new droid, but can’t find it, even using the QR code.
Help! I am “stuck” on the daily food diary… How do I get back to the main menu of the app? I want to enter in exercise and see the other great features that app has to offer. How do I get back there?
Love it
I am also stuck on the Exercise Diary. It will not let me delete an entry and when i edit it, why will it only let me replace something else?
Does anyone know if there is a way to enter your own food item that is not in the database and input the amount of calories in it so as to add to my daily intake calories?
Installed the app on a 2.1 Eris. Worked great for about a week and suddenly I lost all of my history this evening after working fine for me all this time. Can’t seem to find any way to retrieve my data….too much time spent to start over again.
Uninstalled.
PS: I did not update my phone or the software to cause this issue, and my micro-SD card is in fine shape with all of my other data perfectly intact.
I have a question about the calorie expenditure in the exercise diary…I love how to app has the feature to log calories burned, but it doesn’t seem to take that into account for total daily calories. For example, I burned 200 calories doing Yoga, but the app did not apply the calories I burned to my daily calorie summary, and it actually said I went 11% over my daily intake. However, if you subtract the 200 I spent doing Yoga, I didn’t go over. Am I doing something wrong or do you just have to factor in the calories you burned yourself? I was thinking that I could always go back and subtract a fodo item, but that wouldn’t be as accurate as having the app do it automatically….
Also, on that note, the only thing I don’t like about this app is that the calorie target is the same every day. Wouldn’t it make more sense for it to adjust based on your activity level? That is what My Fitness Pal, but, sadly, that app has a lot of issues.
So, can anyone help me out with this calories in vs. out issue?
Typo in the last post: “fodo item” was supposed to say “food item”
Excellent app. The barcode scanner is a huge timesaver. I would love it even more if I could save my favorite foods instead of just my favorite recipes.
Tried to use the QR to download this app, but it showed “there are no matches in the Android Market for the search: pname:com.fatsecret.android” So I was unable to easily download it. It makes think that nothing with this app will be as easy as it looks.
I have the same question as Dawn up above, but no one seems to have answered. Is there a way with this app to enter your own food item or recipe and just assign how many calories you want to it? For example, I made a recipe tonight from a cookbook that says how many calories is in a serving, but do I really have to go in and add 1/6 of each individual ingredient if there were six servings in the recipe? Help! Other than that I love this app!
Dawn and Rebecca…I also would likely to how to add my own food to my daily tracker.
I love the bar code scanner too!
Programmers or experienced users please help. Thanks!
I have been trying to get calorie counter on my droid and am not able to. It just isn’t available for me when I go to the droid Market. Has anyone else had this problem and what can I do?
I installed this app and used it a lot, then one day it was gone. I went to the market to download it again and it says that it is installed but I can’t find it. I look in app management and it is not there, I tried to uninstall from the market but it won’t allow me. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can find this app and how to uninstall it?? Strange.
Does anyone know how to pick one of your previously scanned items and add it to different meals without having to rescan again.? If I have Salsa on top of eggs in the morning for breakfast and have it again with another meal I simply want to select it from a previous meal. Thanks very much
Dawn, Rebecca, also wondering how to add my own values in.
Also have noticed sometimes with the barcode scanner the values are different than on the box… Anyone else notice that??
Nice
Just downloaded the Calorie Counter free app to my new Droid x phone version 2.3.340. Able to do all except cant “Add to my Food Diary”. What am I doing wrong?
to add a new food, if you type in a random word that ISNT in the food database (ex: “huajsiolskdlc”) it will tell you that there is no matches found and it offers if you would like to add new food. just click there and you can change the name, add a brand name, a serving size, all the nutritional counts and i THINK you can download a barscan for it too but im not sure.
LOVE this app
I want to customize the RDI. I had my metabolic rate analyzed and would like to enter in that number of calories – not the calculated number they mandate.
Kate, if you click on the green box (rdi chart) then click recalculate. You DONT have to change any of your info, just click calculate. It will show the recommended caloric intake. Just backspace and enter your preferred!
Also, morgan is correct in terms of adding a new food with corresponding calories.
How can you go back and add weigh in weights when you forget to put them in?
Having problems using the barcode scan. I’ve tried placing it over a barcode but it won’t scan the barcode. Does anyone have any suggestions?
How long is it figuring for u to reach ur goal when staying with or below the RDI?