Best Food Tracking Apps

Keeping a food diary is ideal to track your calories and make sure you’re eating the right foods to support your weight loss journey. Technology has made it so much easier for us, with a range of apps available for both iOS and Android that can track calories, give you specific nutritional information and more!

MyFitnessPal is one of the most popular food tracking apps out there. You can enter your meals or search for foods using their search function and they’ll let you know just how many calories are in your meal! It’s a calorie counter, food tracker and meal planner all in one. It's available on both iOS and Android.

The free version of MyFitnessPal allows the following:

• Food Logging: Log your meals, snacks and beverages.

• Nutrition Tracking: Tracks calories, macronutrients, vitamins and minerals.

• Physical Activity Tracking: Log physical activity and exercise routines.

• Weight Tracking: Tracks weight loss progress over time.

The premium version of MyFitnessPal costs $29.99 per month or $129.99 per year and has the following added benefits:

• Barcode Scanner: Scan food at the supermarket and it will give you a breakdown of its nutritional information!

• Intermittent Fasting Schedule: Track your fast duration.

• Calories Burnt During Exercise: Tracks calories burnt during physical activity.

• Step Counter: Automatically counts your steps.

• Macronutrient Tracker: Calculates macronutrient needs based off personal factors such as protein needs by body weight and physical activity.

• Personalised Goals: Sets a precise goal in gram incredements for proteins, carbs and fat. Allows you to set custom goals for different days of the week.

• Meal Planning Tools: Create your own template with breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.

• Device Integration: MyFitnessPal can be linked with smart watches like Fitbit, Garmin and AppleHealth.

MyNetDiary is available for both iOS and Android, and it allows users to track their diet, exercise and weight loss goals.

The free version of MyNetDiary allows the following:

• Food Logging: Log your meals, snacks and beverages.

• Nutrition Tracking: Tracks calories, macronutrients, vitamins and minerals.

• Exercise Logging: Log physical activity and exercise routines.

• Weight Tracking: Tracks weight loss progress.

• Water Tracking: Monitors water intake throughout the day.

The premium version of MyNetDiary costs $8.99 per month or $59.99 per year and allows for these added benefits: 

• Nutrient Planning: Plan your macronutrient balance including the ratio of carbs, fats, and proteins.

• Exercise Planning: Plan your workouts to help you more accurately estimate your daily calorie intake.

• Meal Planning: Offers personalised meal plans, recipe logging and shopping lists.

• AutoPilot Weight Feature: AutoPilot automatically adjusts your daily calorie targets when body weight and physical activity levels change. It’s marketed to help you avoid a weight loss plateau!

• Device Integration: MyNetDiary can be linked with smart watches like Fitbit, Garmin and Withings. It will sync your calories burnt by your smart watch and send detailed daily foods.

• Weekly Analysis: Provides you with a summary of your weekly calorie balance, detailed feedback, tips and personalised advice about healthy eating!

• Body Measuring: Including BMI, BMR, hips, waist, chest, body fat, bone weight, hours of sleep and step count.

• Universal Tracking: Health trackers including cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides and blood pressure.

8700 is an educational food logging app provided by the NSW Government, available on both iOS and Android. It is completely free!

8700 provides users with the following:

• Energy Guide: Personalised daily energy needs using your sex, age, height and weight.

• Food Search: Search over 3,000 products from fast food and snack chains.

• Calorie Converter: Convert kilojoules to calories and vice versa.

• Food Education: Access tips to help you move toward healthier food choices.

This health app provided by the CSIRO started as just a website but has converted to an app for better ease of use. It's advertised as an online 12-week program to help you lose body fat and stay healthy, but recommended to use throughout your journey for its useful features. Available for both iOS and Android, the app is $39.99 per month or $129.99 per year.

• Food Tracker: Record food, snacks and beverages – automatically tallies food units and kilojoules.

• Weight Loss Calculator: Set your goals and receive a guide on safe and attainable weight loss.

• Meal Plans: Scientifically formulated meal plans. Users can preview their upcoming week of meals. Provides a guide for meal plans and access to all the recipes from the Total Wellbeing Diet cookbooks.

• Weight Loss Tracker: Track and record weight and upload progress photos.

• Shopping List: Log what grocery items you need for the week.

• Exercise Plans: PDF exercise plans. 

• Community Support: Support chat with the total wellbeing diet team and other members.

• Device Integration: Can be synced with the smart watches Fitbit and Garmin.

We recommend using a food diary because it helps you better understand your eating habits, recognise patterns, and it's one of the easiest ways to keep your diet on track!