Diet Software

FitDay PC TOP PICK

FitDay is arguably the most popular diet tracking software available - with over 2 million users of its on-line service.

FitDay offers all aspects of tracking (over 30 different nutrients) as well as comprehensive monitoring of metabolic changes. .

Sells at around $30.

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Weight-By-Date for Windows TOP PICK

• Very easy to use with a rich intuitive interface. Has presets for a number of different dietary regimes (Zone, Atkins, low carb, low fat, low sodium, overall health, etc).
• Daily journalling of all food, exercise, weight, and other measurements.
• Excellent graphing right down to individual nutrients.
• Can export all data to MS Word or Excel.
• You can get daily or weekly rewards, which can be personalized with a message and sound of your choice.
• Can handle tracking up to 10 different people (and each person can personalize colors etc.)
• This is the WHOLE package - health, diet, fitness, low carb foods, huge food database. Highly Recommended.

Suitable for: Almost everyone (thanks to the different versions)
Support/Service: We have found Brad Marcum at Weight-By-Date to provide excellent service, and to conduct business with great integrity. The product is always being updated with 50% off future upgrades.

NOTE: Currently offering a free trial of both the Pro and Mobile version

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Diet Power TOP PICK

An excellent tool that actually learns as it goes. By comparing you exercise activity and food intake against actual fat loss - it can dynamically predict your metabolic rate.

A very popular piece of software - used by the those looking to lose weight as well as those who wish to gain muscle.

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Many Many More...

There is a bewildering amount of software out there, and we don't have time to review it all - but one good indicator is the level of support coming from each company - see our experiences below: Sadly many didn't even respond to our email....

Food & Exercise Diary for Windows
Excellent support plus access to support forum. Both diet and exercise are tracked.

Diet Pro (Windows)
One of the most powerful diet packages around. Superb recipe database (comes free with 1,000 recipes). Ingredient database, import/export, web integration, spell-checker. Has an on-line portion where you can access a recipe database. Cooking reference section. Photo management. Fitness tracking. Expensive (~$65).

Performance Diet Pro (Windows)
Can track up to 12 people. 10,000 item food database. Also has glycemic index ratings

Kathleens Diet Planner (Windows)
Record dietary details, has nutritional information for a huge amount of nutrients.

Nutrigenie
Huge range of diet related software products.
Service: Prompt response to email.

Calorie King Diet Diary (Windows, Mac OS X).
Calorie King have a selection of tools for Windows, Mac OS X, Pocket PC, and PalmOS. We did download this one, and the Diet Diary software is fairly basic compared with some of the others. It's only redeeming feature is the massive food database that Calorie King maintain (which can be accessed free online anyway).

HealthFitCounter (Windows)
Diet and exercise tracker (formerly called NutriCounter).

Diet Glue (Windows)
Diet and exercise tracker.

Nutrition Analyser (Windows)
A basic program based on the USDA food database.
Service: Prompt response to emails

NuTrack (Windows)
Nutrition & Life Tracking System. What makes NuTrak
unique from other food database programs is the ability to add any nutrient, dietary supplement, or human activity to the journaling system.

Balance Log (Windows)
Aimed at fitness professionals, this is available for Windows or Palm OS. Tracks calories from exercise, food intake. Also incorporates input from the Body Gem tool.

Nutribase (Windows)

Fitness Software

Fitness software is for tracking workouts, although many of the packages also have a diet tracking feature.

FitWorkout
Workout software for weight loss, fitness, bodybuilding. Comes with 8,000 food item calorie calculator. Free Download.

ActiveWare LLC - Software for the Active Spirit
Fitness tracking website - track your cardio workouts, monitor progress of weight lifting routines, graph body measurements.
Service: Requested to be linked.

Athletes Database and WeightMania Fitness Software
Track workouts, nutrition, measurements, diabetes and weight loss (for Windows and Mac)

EvenFit - The Ultimate Workout Tracking Software
Track weightlifting, cardio, running, swimming, and biking workouts. Create workout templates and track weight, body fat percentage, heart rate.

Personal Training Workstation
Service: Requested to be linked.

Fitness Assistant
Includes calorie counter, carb counter, diet and fitness components.

WeightWare
Weight and exercise tracking program, also tracks body measurements and lab tests. Requested to be linked.

Crosstrainer - Personal Fitness Management Software
Service: Excellent, professional, and friendly response to emails.

Personal Trainer One (Windows)
Diet and exercise tracking and journalling.

Not So Good Support

The following sites failed to respond to our email inquiries.

• Lifeform - Total Personal Health Management Software (www.fitnesoft.com)
• HealthKeeper Performance Diet Pro (www.health-runr.com)
• BeNutriFit Nutrition Manager (www.benutrifit.com)
• DietPleasure (www.pleasuresoft.net)
• NutriStrategy (www.nutristrategy.com)
• Body Tracker (www.linear-software.com)
• BODYFITdb Fitness Software - (www.bodyfitdb.com)

The following sites still have web sites selling products but emails actually bounced back!

• Zone Balance (zonebalance.com)
• FitnessTool Fitness Software (www.fitnesstool.com)