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Calories is an application for health-concious users.
Want to take care of your daily nutrition? Scared by ugly and hard to use nutrition applications? Calories to the rescue! Build with the user in mind, Calories lets you record and analyze your daily nutrition with ease. Download Calories and start recording your meals today.
Features:
Want to take care of your daily nutrition? Scared by ugly and hard to use nutrition applications? Calories to the rescue! Build with the user in mind, Calories lets you record and analyze your daily nutrition with ease. Download Calories and start recording your meals today.
Features:
- Extremely easy to use
- Streamlined workflow
- Incorporates the USDA Food Database for Dietary Study 3.0
- More than 6900 foods
- 44 different nutrients
- Reports for day, week, month and year
What's New
Version 2.8.8:
- Issue with opening the sync server preferences fixed
- Minor bug fixes
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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| Downloads:11,711 |
| Version Downloads:500 |
| Type:Home & Personal : Health & Fitness |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:02 Nov 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $29.00 |
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Calories is an application for health-concious users.
Want to take care of your daily nutrition? Scared by ugly and hard to use nutrition applications? Calories to the rescue! Build with the user in mind, Calories lets you record and analyze your daily nutrition with ease. Download Calories and start recording your meals today.
Features:
Want to take care of your daily nutrition? Scared by ugly and hard to use nutrition applications? Calories to the rescue! Build with the user in mind, Calories lets you record and analyze your daily nutrition with ease. Download Calories and start recording your meals today.
Features:
- Extremely easy to use
- Streamlined workflow
- Incorporates the USDA Food Database for Dietary Study 3.0
- More than 6900 foods
- 44 different nutrients
- Reports for day, week, month and year
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Priosantos-Jan reviewed on 14 Oct 2011
Too expensive. Period
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for example, i wish i could press Command+N to create a new line entry under the currently selected item or category, start typing and it autocompletes to show all matching foods, press Return to complete or Tab to enter quantity, etc. if nothing matches what I typed in, pressing Return would automatically create it as a new food item and i can enter details.
as it is right now, you have to jump around to many different areas of the window and click a lot, which feels a bit disconnected. process flow could be much improved.
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Does anyone have experience with both?
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Ruben T.f. reviewed on 22 Oct 2010
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Any performance issues should be solved since version 2.5
Current version is 2.6.3.
In your particualar case I guess there is something wrong with the installation or the database is corrupted.
Additionally you can try to deactivate all unused databases and foods.
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Macstorch reviewed on 21 Jan 2010
Now I can easily plan my day beforehand. When I want to eat something really delicious with many calories, I can look for an activity to compensate this exactly not overrunning my personal goals I have set in Calories.
One more thing is Withings. I am using a Withings Wifi balance since october last year.
This app seamlessly integrates my data from my Withings balance and fetches these data automatically. This makes this package gorgeous. Intakes, activities, body analysis and all the results of my efforts at a glance.
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First on our road map is localization and enhancements of the user interface.
After this we will add new features like custom meals and weight tracking etc.
An iPhone client is sheduled for spring 2009!
So stay tuned!
Daniel Holtwiesche (CEO)
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rspeed reviewed on 24 Oct 2008
There aren't a lot of features, but it has a fairly adequate and seemingly accurate (though inconsistent) database of foods. There are likely better choices out there for this type of application.
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I'm going to add a periodic save right now, will be in the next release.
-- Konstantin
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The problem with international versions is the food database. The US database is the only free one I found. A couple of days ago, a Canadian user pointed me to their database, which seems also to be free and has english and french food names. I'm currently in contact with Health Canada to incorporate their data.
Now to Germany: there is a German food database, but the license fees are very high and I am forced to buy a 'high volume pack' in advance. In addition, there are a lot of other 'inconvinient' liciense terms.
So, what is the solution?
My idea is to take the US or the Canadian database and - for now - do an automatic translation into all major european languages (French, German, Spanish, Italian). If it won't work out very well, I'll have to take a look at the national food databases.
I am currently working on an iPhone / iPod Touch version, which will be a complete redesign with lots of new features (tracking of body weight, fat, exercises, support for diabetics, etc.) and will make it very easy to replace and/or add other databases. I'll open up all this, so everyone can create a database and make it available for others to download. Of course, all this will go into the desktop version too.
=== Weight Watchers
Yes, it is simply a matter of one column, but again, the food database is the main problem. Where to get the data from? In additon, I don't want to bloat Calories with all the possible diets out there. Anyway, Weight Watchers is very popular - at least here in Germany - and I'll contact them as soon as I have something exciting to show and possibly make a deal with them to include thier food data. Again, this should be very easy to do with the new food database design.
=== Personal Note
When I started to develop Calories, the main idea for 1.0 was to just get a minimal version out. Because the US database was the only free one, I decided to concentrate on the US market. Calories is my first application at all and I am still a student. I don't have the time and the (financial) resources to develop a full fledged product with all the bells and whistles right from the start. Instead, I'm taking the 'agile' incremental way: Start with the minimal feature set and let it grow while listening to customer needs. Now here we are. I have set up a simple Google Group for this purpose and I'm going to further 'open' the development in the near future (with main ideas borrowed from the 'Scrum' methodology). The most important thing here is, there will be free beta versions right from the start. You'll be able to download it, try it out and give feedback. German and English are the development languages. Other languages will follow after the 1.0 release. So please, if you really like the product, participate and help me to get the product as *you* like it to be.
-- Konstantin
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As for the iPhone app -- I'll be looking forward to that...! :)
As for the Weight Watchers options -- even without being able to used the food database, having a points column would be nice so that the app could be used as a daily diary where you just enter the food you have eaten and thir points value...!? Of course it would be kind of an expensive solution though in that case...
Also it would be nice if there was a points calculator included then, which is fairly easy to do...
Unfortunately I don't really think you'll succeed in talking WW Germany into co-operating with you on that subject though...! From my experience they are really tight-assed (sorry, but they are) and don't really have the vision to realize what's possible...! Actually they're pretty much the same in the US anyway...
So on one hand they would like to do it all themselves, but they are totally unable to get it right...but when someone from outside tries to do it, they not only don't show any support but occasionally tend to legally threaten developers to make them cease their projects...! It's been like that back when people tried to develop Palm apps, it's been like that with people trying to make a decent Mac app and it may be just a matter of time until they do it to the iPhone developer community...! :(
We'll see...
Anyway, I hope you'll find a suitable way for you to improve the app and open it up to a wider audience...!!
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Link (dyld) error:
Symbol not found: _NSDefaultRunLoopMode
Referenced from: /Applications/Calories.app/Contents/MacOS/Calories
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
Can someone help me out?
GG
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support@nsobjects.com
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What version of Mac OS X do you have? Calories requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
-- Konstantin
http://www.nsobjects.com
AlanG100 rated on 12 May 2011
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Abt113 rated on 22 Dec 2010