On iOS, Noom Coach integrates with Apple’s HealthKit, which in turn can pull in data from other fitness apps and devices. Logging meals and snacks is quick and easy, but one of Noom Coach’s key differences is its traffic-lights system classifying food into green, yellow and red categories based on their calorie counts, with the app recommending that you try to make 30% of your intake green foods, 45% yellow and 25% red. Noom Coach features the same basic features as its rivals: you tell it how much weight you want to lose and the pace at which you want to lose it – turtle, rabbit or cheetah speed – and it uses that information to set your goal. It offers more tracking (hydration, sleep, body fat etc) more detailed nutritional reports more features for meal and exercise planning, and a wider range of challenges including the ability to create your own. Lose It is also free at its basic level, but its premium tier costs £29.99 a year. There are also groups around topics like cycling and cooking to meet likeminded users, and the ability to add friends using their email addresses. Lose It’s challenges are a key feature: choosing specific goals like a maximum carbs limit, or simply logging in regularly, and then comparing yourself to others in rankings tables. The ability to browse menus from popular restaurant brands, from KFC to Nando’s, is also handy. Graphs on your intake, nutrients and steps are very clear, while the process for logging your meals, snacks and exercise is quick and easy too, whether you’re searching for ingredients or scanning barcodes. ![]() Like its rivals, it starts by getting you to set a goal: using your current and target weights, height, gender and desired pace of weight loss to assign a daily “budget” for your food intake. Lose It is one of the apps that puts the emphasis firmly on losing weight, as the name suggests. It removes the ads bumps you up the queue for customer support lets you dig deeper into “macronutrients” in your diet provides recipe meal plans, and enables you to fine-tune your daily goals and nutritional plans. MyFitnessPal is free with advertising, but it has a premium tier costing £7.99 a month or £39.99 a year. Adding friends via Facebook, your phone contacts or email can provide encouragement, while the app also provides access to forums to swap tips with a bustling community of strangers. You can set goals for weight, nutrition and fitness, with simple but clear graphs showing how you’re doing. The app also connects to a wide range of wearable fitness-bands and health apps too: for example, I have data feeding in to it from my Fitbit band and RunKeeper exercise-tracking app. MyFitnessPal also doubles as an exercise tracker: it’ll calculate calories burned from activities from running and rowing to abdominal crunches and even mowing the lawn. It has a huge database of more than 5m foods, with helpful green-tick symbols marking those where their nutritional information has been verified as accurate. The app makes it easy to log your meals and snacks, either by searching for them or scanning product barcodes. You’ll also see her trying to dig deep to discover Android gaming’s most hidden gems.MyFitnessPal is the most high-profile calorie counter, with more than 80 million users by the time it was bought for $475m by sports brand Under Armour in February 2015. ![]() Nowadays, you’ll find Faith studying spreadsheets and assembling data to theorycraft new teams and builds for Genshin Impact. Now with her analytical mindset, passion for writing, and core identity as a gamer, she can finally chase her dreams as a technical writer and gaming journalist. on the NES she has owned over 15 devices for gaming ranging from handhelds to consoles. She’s also been a gamer for over 20 years, starting with Super Mario Bros. Faith’s first Android phone was Samsung Galaxy Note II in 2012, giving her a taste of how a small piece of powerful hardware can open anyone up to endless opportunities for your favorite hobbies. Her favorite pastime was writing reports, presentations, tutorials, and literature reviews, which led to her pursuing a career in writing after completing a graduate certificate in technical writing. Before joining Android Police, Faith studied Chemistry and graduated with an honors specialization in Chemistry in 2016 leading her to spending many hours toiling around the lab during her time spent as an undergraduate, eventually developing her analytical mindset to dissect and dissemble information and data to arrive at an answer. Her area of expertise is in action RPGs and gacha games, but will play and study the occasional competitive shooter. ![]() You’ll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android, or compiling explainer guides on popular social networking apps like Twitch and Discord. Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police.
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