Choosing an app

What to look at before you commit, and the features that turn out not to matter.

Health stores a Dietary Energy figure but knows nothing about your meals. What the number is, where it comes from, and its limits.

Every free tier has a wall. Knowing where it sits before you build a month of data on the wrong side of it.

Most food journals die in week two. A four-week plan built around that fact rather than despite it.

One answers 'what happened', the other 'how much'. Picking the wrong one is why people abandon both.

Photo logging demos beautifully and fails on anything cooked in a pot. Where each method genuinely wins, meal by meal.

Notes is a genuinely good food log. It is not a calorie tracker. The difference is arithmetic, and it is where the habit dies.

One is what you burn doing nothing; the other is what you burn living your life. Only one of them should set your calorie target.

Calories decide whether you lose weight. Macros decide what you lose and how bearable the process is. Those are different questions.

A useful tool that can become an unhealthy one. The warning signs, some practical guardrails, and the cases where the right answer is to stop.

Eight things that decide whether you are still using it in three months, and the marketing claims worth ignoring.

They are estimates, not measurements. But accuracy is the wrong thing to be worrying about, and here is why.

Most people stop within two weeks. It is almost never motivation. The failure points are specific, predictable, and fixable.

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