For people who use a macro calculator/tracker, which one do you like?
Macro tracker
lfod14
#2
MacroFactor, unlike the others, it actually figures out your TDEE so you’re not blindly running on Calculated Mifflin St Jeor guesses, and it’ll tweak itself every check-in to keep you on track with your set goals. Eating too much, it’ll drop you. Not eating enough, it’ll give you more. Other benefit is it goes by your trend weight, not your day to day scale weight, so it doesn’t make snappy decisions just because you held some water temporarily.
Only (possible) downside, its it’s not free, but even if you did monthly it’s a couple bucks. It also takes about 3 weeks to get a good hold on your meabolic rate, it starts off with a calculation like they all do. Also, the smoothest entry method for foods as you can build a list as you go then just log once, vs most which is a repetitive method for each and every item.
If it has to be a free app, I’d go with Cronometer paired with an app like Libra, which will take your daily weights and figure out a trend line weight for you and tell you the +/- cals to give/take to hit your goal, not quite the same as what MacroFactor does, it’s a little more generic, but better than what Cronometer does on it’s own.
lfod14
#4
What sucks is Cronometer is a really good app, I can’t stand that the food entry is so clunky with all the screen touches instead of a most streamlined list build that a bunch use now, but it tracks a TON of things other’s don’t, many of them I’d love to have in the same tracker as I have all my different things feeding into Health Connect so I can have a big picture in one place.
It’s literally been requested in the Gold Forums for YEARS for Cronometer to add an adaptive TDEE model, MyMacro’s + was the first one to do that IIRC, then Carbon and MacroFactor came out and both did it, I don’t grasp why they don’t do that. Worse is they either totally ignore it when it’s requested, or what kills me is they say “it does adjust”. Then it’s always pointed out that it doesn’t, it’s just re-running Mifflin St Jeor on the weight people have entered and not actually adjusting to that persons progress per the goals set. I don’t get it.
A year of Cronometer gold is almost HALF of what I pay for MacroFactor, they know how many people they’ve lost, and still don’t add it.