It then parses the ingredients and lets you change any that it got wrong. MyFitnessPal has an awesome recipe importer that allows you to enter in a URL or paste in a recipe’s ingredients. So the winner here depends on which of those you value more. However, Cronometer gives you a more detailed look at the nutrition of the meal. The downside is that when you go to “my meals” and click on the meal, all it shows you are the nutritional basics (calories, fats, carbs, protein, fiber).įor creating meals, MyFitnessPal is more intuitive and faster. This is incredibly easy and fast, and the meal will then be selectable in the input form we looked at just above. MyFitnessPal: Once you add foods to a meal in the day, you can select “quick tools” right below and finally “remember meal”. Here’s a short video I made to walk you through the process:

It could be a little more intuitive at the beginning, but is fast once you’re used to it. You can see a detailed nutritional breakdown of the meal as you put it together.

From here you can add a new custom food or recipe, and add ingredients to it. Saving Recipesīoth apps also let you bundle together foods as custom recipes so that you don’t have to input all the ingredients individually every time.Ĭronometer: To do this in Cronometer, you need to navigate to your “FOODS” tab on the top menu. I’d give a slight edge to Cronometer just because adding food can all be done on one page. It functions almost identically to Cronometer’s input form. When you click “add food” it loads another page (one extra step) with a similar food search and input box. MyFitnessPal: MyFitnessPal allows you to add food to each individual meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks). It’s also immediately obvious how to add food to a day on either tool.Ĭronometer: Cronometer has a single button to add food, as it doesn’t break down your day by meals.Ĭlicking the button brings up a simple input box where you can search for foods or pick from recent, favorite, or custom foods. Adding Foods and Recipesīoth apps make it easy to find your “food diary”. I’ll quickly go over how easy and intuitive it is to use each tool for common tasks.

Lose it versus my fitness pal