I used to use the My Fitness Pal app to count calories, but it seems that since I’ve last used it they put more things in the paid tier, including barcode scanning which I always found super useful. But I think I’ll go back to CICO tracking because my weight has crawled back up to where it was before.
Is there a good alternative app with as powerful logging and calorie counting features or should I just pay the money?
LoseIt is (or was last I looked) pay once, use forever and pretty good overall, but I found the crowd-sourced database highly inaccurate and/or unhelpful often. I moved to Chronometer about 6 months ago, which is subscription based, but has a large verified database of foods and a great custom food/recipe creator/importer. I would prefer a pay-once model, but Chronometer is sufficiently worth the ongoing expense, at least as long as I am a work-in-progress. When I reach my target, I’ll reevaluate.