absolute fitness
If you are one of the 100 million americans trying to lose weight, you might consider “absolute fitness“, a calorie counter / activity tracker application for iphone for $14.99. Bad idea.
Unlike advanced web services such as www.caloriecount.about.com (from the about.com website now owned by the NY Times), “Absolute Fitness” contains a very rudimentary database of foods, making it next to impossible to record your daily calorie intake. Simple foods like “sushi” are simply “not found”. Similarily, unless your calorie burning activities are limited to walking and running, don’t expect to find them here. To add insult to injury, the user interface is bad at best, and at times extremely confusing.
We’re still looking for a good app in this category. If you find one please let us know.
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September 7th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
[...] and fitness” area of the AppStore is filled with extremely bad calorie counter apps (such as “Total Fitness” — which should be totally avoided). With the self-proclaimed tagline “Serious Weight Loss Comes [...]
November 5th, 2008 at 9:51 am
I can’t disagree with your review more. Not only is there a large database of both activities and foods, but you can add your own at any time. Items like “sushi” could vary greatly so you would be better off figuring out the nutritional info in the components, adding them up and then saving them as a custom food item.
In addition, this is a $15 app, has no reoccurring fees and has been updated a number of times since it was launched. The database of both foods and activities is expanded, there’s an improved (and awesome) search feature, they’ve added online backups of your data and while the interface hasn’t changed, it was intuitive and easy to use from the start.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:54 pm
This review sucks. I love this app. Since it is on my phone and with me whenever I eat and exercise, it is easily the most useful fitness tool known to man.
September 28th, 2009 at 7:26 am
This is a good starter app for a dieter but its lack of companion web site or desktop app has forced me to use DailyBurn. The food entry is a bit tedious and it seems to be a bit generous with it’s calories burned for workouts.