Top Diet and Nutritional Apps

Best Diet and Nutrition Apps for Free

There are so many good apps for your phone now available; here are some of the top free apps for Diet and Nutritional information.

Diet Point Weight Loss (Android, iOS; Free)

Diet Point Weight Loss (Android, iOS) aims to help users pick the weight loss program that's right for them. The app provides details for more than 150 different diets in varied categories, including, the Mediterranean Diet, Paleo Diet, Raw Food Diet, High Fiber Diet, Vegetarian/Vegan Diet and Low Carb/Fat Diets.

 Dieters also have access to the Diet Point community. This app comes complete with detailed shopping lists and meal plans. The app also helpfully notifies you for mealtimes, to help avoid out of control craving and overeating. 

The diets take into account your Basal Metabolic rate to estimate the amount of weight you could potentially lose with each diet. An added feature is the grocery list. You input the foods necessary for a particular diet and print the shopping list.

Fooducate (Android, iOS; Free)

Fooducate (Android, iOS) helps you shop and eat healthy by allowing you to quickly pull up nutritional information about food products from barcodes, as well as by helping you make sense of nutritional labels. It is a food scanner and diet tracker that lets you count calories that helps you to lose those extra unwanted pounds. 

The Foodcate app displays a letter grade from A to D, along with a quick summary of nutrition information in plain language, as well as healthy alternative suggestions. If users cook their own meals or eat out, you can also manually enter a meal's nutritional information. 

Shopwell (Android, iOS; Free)

The first step to eating well is shopping well. At least that's the idea behind Shopwell (Android, iOS), a barcode scanning and shopping assistant app that rates foods and grocery items according to your nutritional needs. 

It’s like having a dietitian in the palm of your hand. ShopWell users create a personalized profile and select from a series of nutritional goals (Heart Disease, Athletic Training, etc), as well as dietary restrictions (Celiac disease, food allergies, vegetarian, etc.). 

The app then takes these into account and uses them to score scanned grocery items, as well as provide layman-friendly nutritional pointers, and healthy suggestions.

MyFitnessPal (Android, iOS, Windows Phone; Free) 

A good exercise regime is nothing without a balanced diet to back it up. MyFitnessPal's Calorie Counter (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) app helps you out on that front, functioning as an easy to use calorie and nutrients counter with a database that boasts more than 2 million foods (and it's growing every day). 

You can easily look up and track the foods you're consuming with the help of a barcode scanner as well as a recipe calculator for inputting custom creations. Track exercises, set diet goals and sync your progress to myfitnesspal.com for free.

Lose It! (Android, iOS; Free) 

Lose It! (Android, iOS) is another excellent nutrition and exercise logging tool targeted at those looking to lose a few pounds. Simply enter a few details about yourself such as weight, height and goal weight, and the app will help you come up with a daily calorie budget. 

The Lose it app keeps tracking your food intake easy, with barcode scanners for grocery items, as well as an extensive database of dishes and restaurant meals. The app also has an exercise tracking feature, and can also sync data with other exercise apps to help log your routine.

These are just a few diet and nutritional apps that are complementary. These are so  many more out there, please let me know which app you like and why?