Figured it was time to write a review. I've used this software for a while and version 3 has been out since last April.
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.
I bought this software on 28Jan2009. The software is great. However... I see that version 3.0 is out and now they want me to pay an upgrade fee. I have had the product for 68 days... and i don't get a free upgrade? They had the 3.0 beta when i bought. Doesn't make sense. I'm not paying another $18 for something I should get in this time frame.. it is less than 90 days. They made their cutoff 01Mar2009 it seems. I think they need to rethink it.
+3
Perfect Diet Tracker
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.
+4
Perfect Diet Tracker
+3
+10
Thanks for a great product!