Software & Apps Apps 38 38 people found this article helpful The 9 Best Food Tracker Apps of 2020 by Susan J. Owens Writer Former Lifewire writer Susan J. Owens is a tech writer focused on AI, blockchain, and virtual machines. Her work appears in InformationWeek, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company. our editorial process LinkedIn Susan J. Owens Updated on April 22, 2020 reviewed by Michelle Adeola Adelufosi Lifewire Tech Review Board Member Michelle Adeola Adelufosi is a marketing consultant with 9 years' experience working for a variety of clients. Her expertise includes social media, web development, and graphic design. our review board Article reviewed on May 05, 2020 Michelle Adeola Adelufosi Apps Best Apps Tweet Share Email Food journaling has never been easier with food-tracking apps that download right to your smartphone. Some of these food-tracking apps use your phone's camera to scan food label barcodes to make it easy to track calories, macronutrients, and protein amounts of the food you eat. 01 of 09 MyFitnessPal: Share Progress With Friends What We Like The ability to connect with friends, and get motivation from the My FitnessPal community. What We Don't Like Smartphone interface can be clunky to use and difficult to enter meals quickly. With more than 6 million foods in its database and more than 4 million food barcodes, MyFitnessPal makes it easy to log breakfast, lunch, dinner, and afternoon snacks. With powerful metrics, My FitnessPal gives insights on calories, fat, protein, carbs, sugar, fiber, cholesterol, and vitamins. It's easy to plan your meals in advance and stay on track with your nutritional goals. Download For: iOS Android 02 of 09 See How You Eat: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words What We Like Simple, quick, and easy way to make a food journal, with the ability to share photos on social media. What We Don't Like Lack of photo editing capabilities. Rather than typing a daily log of your meals, snap a photo instead. See How You Eat, by Health Revolution Ltd, is an app built on the belief that seeing what you eat can help you make more positive dietary changes and help you check to see if you're eating from the rainbow. This food-tracking app does exactly what it says—it simply lets you document your meals visually, without any complicated calorie or macronutrient support. Download For: iOS Android 03 of 09 MyPlate: Empower Your Plate With Data What We Like Daily summaries are useful in helping you see how close you are to staying within calorie limits. What We Don't Like Entering home-cooked meals is tedious, as each ingredient must be entered individually. We all start out with the best intentions when it comes to eating healthy. But hunger, life, crazy schedules, and cravings often get in the way. MyPlate by Livestrong.com, is a food-tracking app that lets you create customized goals for macro and micronutrients and provides a comprehensive dietary analysis of the food you're taking in. Download For: iOS Android 04 of 09 Protein Tracker: Are You Giving Your Muscles Enough Fuel? What We Like Protein calculator to help you figure out your personal protein needs. What We Don't Like Ads are intrusive. Like the name implies, Protein Tracker tracks the amount of protein you eat. Once you enter your daily protein goals, this food tracking app shows you the percentage of your daily protein goal by calculating how much protein you eat each day, as well as a historical view over time. Download For: Android 05 of 09 Fooducate: Learn What's Lurking In Your Food What We Like Takes the guesswork out of finding truly healthy foods by providing solid facts. What We Don't Like Serving sizes are based on imperial units, not cups. The app can be expensive for full features. When it comes to eating healthy, it's not just the calories, but the quality of your food that counts. Fooducate, by Fooducate LTD, provides a comprehensive database of 300,000 foods found in supermarkets. Simply scan the barcode with your smartphone camera to get in-depth nutritional analysis of added sugars, trans fats, high-fructose corn syrup, food coloring, genetically modified organisms (GMO), additives, preservatives, and artificial sweeteners. Personalize your tracking by entering your weight, age, and fitness goals. Download For: iOS Android 06 of 09 Stupid Simple Macro Tracker: Keep It Simple and Make It Useful What We Like The food bank feature lets you conserve calories for special events. What We Don't Like Can sometimes be slow to load. If you're confused about how to count your macros, Stupid Simple Macro Tracker, by Venn Interactive, can help. More than tracking what you eat, this food tracking app tracks your fat, protein, and carb levels. Customize your own macro levels and tag them with food icons to make it fast and easy to log your daily macros. Download For: iOS Android 07 of 09 Ultimate Food Value Diary: Eating out, Meal, Alcohol, and Snack Tracker What We Like The Meal Maker feature allows you to group items together for an automatic portion calculation. What We Don't Like Unable to import a traditional recipe. In addition to tracking food, the Ultimate Food Value Diary, by Fenlander Software Solutions, Ltd, tracks exercise, weight, and your measurements. This food app uses calorific values to calculate food values using the standard macronutrients of protein, carbs, fat, and fiber. iOS Android 08 of 09 Lifesum: Get a Quick Summary of Your Nutrition What We Like The beautifully-designed interface makes the app easy to navigate. What We Don't Like Some of the nutritional values of foods can be inaccurate as they are user-created. Premium features are expensive. Lifesum, by LIFESUM AB, is a food-tracking app built on the idea that observing small habits can make a big difference toward meeting nutritional goals. With a comprehensive list of recipes and meal plans, Lifesum also includes barcode scanning and macro tracking to see your daily nutrition and calories. Download For: iOS Android 09 of 09 iTrackBites: The Easy Way to Track Your Food What We Like Tracking points is easier than tracking calories. What We Don't Like Unable to manually type in your food, as it must be pre-loaded into the app. Once you start tracking your food, you'll quickly begin to see that what you think you're eating rarely matches up to what you are actually eating. iTrackBites uses a point system to help you see how close you are to your nutritional goals. Download For: iOS Android