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Perfect Diet Tracker is award-winning software for your Mac that can help you monitor your diet and achieve safe and consistent weight loss, maintaining that weight loss once you reach your target.
It's easy to use, and it works.
The Perfect Diet Tracker is not a 'fad' diet, it is a software application that lets you manage your own diet based on firm scientific foundations.
Through the diary and extensive food database you quickly learn which foods are causing you the most problems, and which foods you like and can actually eat more of (this may surprise
It's easy to use, and it works.
The Perfect Diet Tracker is not a 'fad' diet, it is a software application that lets you manage your own diet based on firm scientific foundations.
Through the diary and extensive food database you quickly learn which foods are causing you the most problems, and which foods you like and can actually eat more of (this may surprise
What's New
Version 3.6.1:
- Expanded food database to over 95,000 items.
- Minor bug fixes, interface updates and performance enhancements.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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| Downloads:18,679 |
| Version Downloads:124 |
| Type:Home & Personal : Health & Fitness |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:25 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $29.99 |
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Perfect Diet Tracker is award-winning software for your Mac that can help you monitor your diet and achieve safe and consistent weight loss, maintaining that weight loss once you reach your target.
It's easy to use, and it works.
The Perfect Diet Tracker is not a 'fad' diet, it is a software application that lets you manage your own diet based on firm scientific foundations.
Through the diary and extensive food database you quickly learn which foods are causing you the most problems, and which foods you like and can actually eat more of (this may surprise you!), so not only can you lose weight, you can keep it off.
It's easy to use, and it works.
The Perfect Diet Tracker is not a 'fad' diet, it is a software application that lets you manage your own diet based on firm scientific foundations.
Through the diary and extensive food database you quickly learn which foods are causing you the most problems, and which foods you like and can actually eat more of (this may surprise you!), so not only can you lose weight, you can keep it off.
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Islandmike reviewed on 25 Jan 2012
I did have occasion to find a small glitch early on that I documented and sent to them. They responded back fast, worked to resolve it, and issued an update. I happened to have bought mine with the Mac App Store -- so they were kind enough to let me use non app version while it went thru the approval time warp at Apple. They followed up -- not so usual these days when everyone is so busy.
So am I still using. Did it affect my life. Yes, and yes. It caused me to start noticing what calories came with eating what -- and just by the routine you develop of daily (for me mornings) entering your food diary, putting in your BP, making some notes of what may have affected a gain or loss -- these build good relationships between you and you food and activities and the software is most helpful to get you in the habit with positive experiences to reinforce.
I got serious when I found this program and started being accountable. From June 2011 until now I have lost over 43 pounds. I can look at the history in the software and see the dips and curves and straight lines and know what period that was "when I was really trying", "when the holiday came and we let ourselves gain a couple of pounds" , that sort of thing. But for the first time I can really relate to what types and how much food will cause what consequences. I have learned with the help of the software to get back control.
Worth every penny. Very good customer support from people who care. Frequent updates. Stable.
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johnnywalker1211 reviewed on 13 Dec 2011
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LF in Pennsylvania reviewed on 09 Nov 2011
Perfect Diet Tracker left Calories in the dust for ease of use, particularly the food list -- MUCH more comprehensive! A lot of these programs are heavy on the packaged foods. We eat a whole foods diet, most organic. Most of the things we eat were already in the database (in addition to the packaged stuff). It's easy to add things to the database as well.
I posted a question on Saturday to the developer's website and had an answer on Sunday. GREAT support! My question had to do with using a recipe within another recipe -- no problem!
It would be nice if the recipe/group feature allowed you to enter notes so this could be used to store your recipes as well as their nutritional information, but that's not a big deal.
Tracking exercise and results is easy and simple to customize.
An excellent program of this type!
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Prlab reviewed on 25 Jul 2011
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Diet software with a weak database search is a major flaw. I have written to this manufacturer and suggested they simply buy a copy of CalorieKing and copy whatever they are using. Since CalorieKing hasn't done a Mac update in years (they state their software needs no improvements) and it isn't even listed in MacUpdate, I doubt they could care less.
I keep switching back to tired old CalorieKing because "Perfect" won't try to perfect their database problems. The concept for Windows was stolen... just follow Microsoft's lead.
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Frankp reviewed on 21 Feb 2011
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The manufacturer says "most people" prefer to create their own database, but that simply dodges the issue. Why is the existing database so flawed? Why after so many years have they not been able to fix this?
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This is a fine program (I just bought it) with a good interface. (It doesn't look like a windoze port.) However, don't expect much help learning how to use it. Their website will often lead you in circles, and online documentation is maddening.
I sent an inquiry about why they didn't have a PDF user guide, and they replied they're "working on it." I sent another suggestion that they create a user forum — noting that users would do most of the work, answering each other's questions. They replied they'd considered it, but didn't implement it because of the manpower needed to moderate the forum.
Until they do this, I'll have to simply pester them with more support questions. At some point, you'd think they'd realize this takes more of their manpower!
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If I search for roast beef the FIRST result is Roast beef spread. This may vary depending on the sorting option selected.
If I search for roastbeef I get 2 results that are specifically Roastbeef, and not items that include roast and beef.
If none of these results are what I'm looking for, it's easy to add my own item.
The food I had today was easily found in the database, including Blue Machine from Naked Juice.
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"When you type roast beef and the software focuses on the word roast, that is bad software. period"
That is a poor search implementation, that may or may not be important to all users, and not necessarily reflective of the software as a whole.
"If entering foods is so easy, why have a database in the first place?"
A database with "over 80,000 items" is useful in most situations. Entering additional food is useful when some items are not included in the aforementioned database. For example, new products are constantly being introduced to the market, or you can prepare your own dishes and recipes.
Adding the food I eat into the database takes just a few seconds, including the time it takes to visit websites with the actual nutritional information (e.g., livestrong, myfitnesspal, etc.)
"you completely ignore the point that so much of the search returns are nonsense."
I ignore it as much as I do any similar type of search, whether it is online using Google, Ask, Yahoo, or with applications like Spotlight, Entourage, FileMaker, SPSS, Excel DevonThink Pro, or Panorama.
I can get to the useful results quickly without spending much time fine-tuning my search (i.e., conditioning the search with operators such as AND, OR, EITHER, Type, Wildcards, etc.) or wasting time with the useless results.
Could the search be improved? Sure. Is it that bad now? Not in my experience.
I don't think the software is perfect, but it is very good and support is very receptive to suggestions. Out of the last 50 items I ate, I probably had to add 1 or 2 into the database, the rest were already present. This includes both raw as well as packaged foods. YMMV.
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alcourt reviewed on 29 Dec 2010
Such a condition in a license is a complete deal breaker.
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Then Use Your Left Hand,
It will feel like a Stranger....
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Cigaraficionado reviewed on 09 Jan 2010
The interface is easy to use. The database of food is very large. It is easy to add your own items. You can track weight and many other measurements. You can track your exercise and add custom exercises. The breakdown you get is nice. It helps you set attainable goals for weight loss... and... It lets you set your own macro nutrient ratios. The database is stored in sqlite3 and they support dropbox if you want to sync between your desktop and laptop or such. The program runs nice reports and gives you the ability to dump data to CSV if you wanted your own external stats. The program is also cross platform and can run on windows and linux. I like that fact it can support linux since I've been using linux for 15+ years. However, I only run it on the mac.. I just like to know I have that option.
Now.. the real gem of this program is one very big thing. The support team. I haven't have very many issues with the program, but I have reported 2 issues (bugs). One bug I reported on 31Dec2009.. They emailed the same day asking for some additional info. They had a fix on 01Jan2010... Yes.. they were working and fixing it on Jan 1st. I was pretty happy with that. Then I found another small issue with reporting so I sent a support request. They responded back quickly and i gave them the info they wanted. It was fixed in about 10 hours. Anyway.. with the low cost of the software versus getting that kind of support it seems to be well worth it. Bug #1 was fixed with version 3.3.0.1 and the #2 with 3.3.0.2.
Now.. I did give it a 4/5 on Features because I see some things that would be nice to have:
1. Meals: the ability to set meal times (so you know when you ate and such).
2. (Probably relies on #1 in part) Add a meal alert to the calendar.. just a quick way to put the scheduled meal in your calendar. Then you can get alerted a bit before. I code and can get pretty in-depth on my work so this would be nice and I would rather have it in this program and have it feed iCal or such.
3. Allow the report to toggle the "Perfect Diet Tracker - http://www.perfect-diet-tracker.com/" footer that is put on each page. I know where the product is from and I don't really need it in the pdf I made or on a printout.
4. Can there be an option on date format on the exported file name? (m-d-y is not so hot).. so January 7th, 2010 is 1-7-10 and is ambiguous.
5. Add a recipe wizard. See http://www.nutritiondata.com/mynd/myrecipes/welcome?returnto=/mynd/myrecipes for details of what I mean. Would rather use the software than subscribe to that site/service (or similar sites).
Keep up the great product and equally important your very friendly and fast support.
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Vandulus rated on 25 Jul 2011