Update: I had to reset my smartphone, so I lost all my apps, including the Calorie Count app. I've heard so much about MyFitnessPal, that I decided I would try that one instead. So, I got it. Here's my evaluation of the two:
1) MFP has a much larger database of foods. Everything I entered I could find. Sometimes in the CC app, I could not find the specific foods I wanted to enter, so I would just enter something comparable. Since I don't track macros, this was really no biggie to me, but the nerdy side of me liked it.
2) MFP is much faster than CC. This, to me, is the biggest advantage. Oftentimes, there is an annoying lag opening my daily menu in CC and entering foods. Sometimes, it times out and I have to try again---2 or 3 times. I had no such problem with MFP. It opened quickly and I could enter foods quickly.
However, . . .
3) I like the format of CC better than MFP. Maybe I'm just used to it. However, it seems as if the main page on MFP is just too busy and confusing. In CC, I see a graph with the percentage of my calories on the left, and on the right is my actual calorie count with my exercise calories indicated underneath. It's really easy to see and understand.
4) I like that in CC I can easily enter "recently eaten" foods no matter what meal I'm eating. So, if I ate a certain type of bread with dinner and plan to have that same bread for breakfast the next day, in CC I just go back to dinner, "add" a "recently eaten" food, and then choose "Breakfast" as an option rather than dinner. I could not figure out how to do this in MFP. I could choose a "recently eaten" food, but only for the specific meal in which I ate it. I could not apply it to another meal (at least I couldn't figure out how to do so).
Ultimately, I deleted MFP and went back to CC. It was close, though, and if I can figure out some of the problem issues with MFP I mentioned above, I'll go back to it mainly because of the speed.
Last edited by lin43; 11-19-2011 at 06:38 AM.
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