I'd like to get everyone's thoughts about the best apps for recording food and water intake. I'm currently using the free version of MyFitnessPal, which works perfectly with the Apple Health app on my iPhone. The reason I like using the Apple Health app is that it pulls in a lot of data from a lot of sources — it collects all of the nutrition information MyFitnessPal, all of my weight recordings from my Withings scale, and all of my activity data from my phone and watch.

I've heard about Bariastic, which seems to have a lot of great post-surgery tools, but I don't know if it works seamlessly with Apple Health. Also, I don't know if the additional features make it worthwhile to switch over.

What app (or apps) do you use, and what do you like most about them? What are your recommendations?

I too like MyFitnessPal because it connects to my Apple Watch/Health. Also like that it has most foods when doing a search and it is easy to copy/paste a recipe and it locates all the ingredients.

I like the baritastic app along with my fitness pal

3 minutes ago, Missdivine13 said:

I like the baritastic app along with my fitness pal

If you use two apps, what do you use them each for? I am thinking that since MyFitnessPal doesn't have a very sophisticated water tracking app, I might use Bariastic for that.

Baritastic might be OK for your needs. I downloaded it, wasn't able to find the first three foods I tried to look up, and deleted the app. Their food database is relatively small; MyFitnessPal's is light years bigger. And the water tracking is fine imo.


RNY 14 April 2017
SW: 295 lb / 134 kg
GW: 187 lb / 85 kg (I'll see when I get there)

I use Lose It ap to track food and exercise...don't know about water

I like LoseIt, but pretty much just because of the pictures.