Goals are color-coded, so they’re easy to identify at a glance as they fill up your progress bar for the day and report their status. The History section of FoodNoms also displays your progress towards any goals you’ve set in the Goals tab, which I’ll get to in a moment. I appreciate the multiple ways to navigate past data, although I’d prefer a calendar UI to the date picker’s tumblers, especially since the calendar icon opens a view with plenty of room to display a mini-calendar picker.Įvaluating your daily progress by meal and ‘Top Foods.’ You can navigate between days one at a time using the arrows in the top right-hand corner of the screen too. There’s also a calendar icon for jumping to today, yesterday, seven days ago, or a different date using an iOS date picker. The top of the History section displays the date you’re currently viewing. The History tab is also how you navigate past days you’ve logged and goal progress. The feature may not make FoodNoms more accurate than an alternative, but it’s an honest approach that provides more insight than is possible if you’re forced to pick a specific number. With FoodNoms, you can quantify your uncertainty and see how that affects your goals, depending on which way the number swings. If you don’t have the confidence of a nutritional label from pre-packaged food, whatever you log is going to be a guess to some degree. I’ve always disliked the false sense of accuracy that most food trackers provide. With FoodNoms, you can specify the accuracy of your portion estimates. FoodNoms’ bar code scanner is incredibly fast, reading the code almost instantaneously when my iPhone’s viewfinder passes over the code. In fact, I actually prefer to add items using other methods because they’re usually faster. Although it may not be quite as extensive as databases used by apps like Lifesum and MyFitnessPal, the other methods for entering items in FoodNoms make up for any limitations. However, overall, I’ve had good luck with the database so far. It’s hard to judge the quality of FoodNoms’ database after only a couple of weeks using the app because the experience depends heavily on your personal eating habits. Search looks up items in the app’s database based on keywords you enter. New food items are logged using the big red plus button in the lower right-hand corner of the app, which opens a screen with options to search, create a manual entry, scan a barcode, scan a nutrition label, or pick from smart suggestions. There are several ways to add items to your food log including, bar code and nutrition label scanning. The History tab is where you’ll spend most of your time in FoodNoms because that’s where you add new items, track your daily progress towards goals, and view your logged items. Add FoodNoms’ privacy focus, and I expect it’s going to win over a lot of people.įoodNoms is organized into three sections – History, Goals, and Settings – which are accessed from the app’s tab bar. Still, those limitations are largely made up for by the ability to log portion accuracy and scan nutrition labels, along with the multitude of other ways to log meals. The app’s database of foods seems a little limited compared to other apps I’ve used, and I’d like to see more ways to visualize trends over time added to the app. With FoodNoms, I’ve found it easier to stick with food tracking than ever before. However, I don’t usually stick with food tracking long, mostly because I find the process tedious. The process imposes the discipline to help get me back on track with healthier eating habits. When I sense that happening, the first step I take is to open a food tracking app and log what I’ve been eating. Too often during the year, I find myself eating what’s easy, not what’s healthy. FoodNoms is a new privacy-oriented food tracking app that tackles the tedium of logging what you’ve eaten in innovative ways that make it one of the most promising apps in this category that I’ve seen in a long time.
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