SnapCalorie AI Calorie Counter

This is by far the best macro app on the store and it’s free; they allow photo descriptions and the app is constantly being updated. Really a game changer

This is one of the few calorie tracking apps that you can use completely for free. They don’t have unnecessary paywalls for things that you should just be able to do which is great. I’ve been losing weight consistently since starting to use this!

I’ve been using this app for about 3 months. It previously had a simple interface that worked well. Unfortunately they recently pushed an update that turned out to be a big downgrade. One example: there’s now a calendar function on the home page that lets you review entries. It shows day/date but not month, so unless you’re scrolling back slowly and paying careful attention it’s easy to lose track of what month you’re looking at. Another example: there used to be a diary page that let you scroll through prior entries. They were in a chronological list, divided into breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack and each entry listed the food and number of calories. Now the diary just shows a big clump of gray rectangles, each representing a food entry. Each rectangle has a title like “chicken” but doesn’t show the calories for that entry. It’s amazingly useless. I think it was done because they want users to take a photo of every item eaten, and if that was done then the diary would show a big array of photos which would look cool (but still not be a useful way to review the information). Other issues: the AI function where you take a picture of your food and the app identifies the item and determines its weight is not reliable. Sometimes it’s amazingly accurate, but other times it gets the type of food wrong or it will misjudge the weight by a factor of two. Also, their food database contains a lot of errors. At least half the time that I scan a barcode I find that the information in SnapCalorie is different from that shown on the nutrition label. It’s often off just by 10 calories per serving, but you’d think that scanning a barcode should result in exact info with no discrepancy at all.