Calorie Counter

©Fatsecret.com

I used Lose It! for a day, then hunted around for the best free diet and exercise tracking app I could find for my iPad. I prefer using the iPad over the iPhone because of its size. I also use it for a lot of reading in iBooks and the Kindle app. Sadly, Lose It! is an iPhone-only app, and I prefer an iPad-optimized app.

I did find an app called Calorie Counter from a company called FatSecret. It has an intuitive interface, access to nutrition information for just about anything I could throw at it, including fast food, popular grocery and even store brands.

You can create an account at fatsecret.com, via the iPad or your computer, and keep your iPad data synced with your account on their servers. What’s slick about this is that you can then export and email reports in PDF or CSV format. For example, here is a PDF of today’s food information so far, although I don’t know how long the link will remain active.