14 DAY TRIAL // Calories, a Mac app that lets you manage dishes and tracks your calorie intake, has been updated to version 1.1. When we first covered the app, we noted that NSObjects promised to include custom foods, printing, improved search and localized date and time features, with the next release. As it turns out, the developer has outdone even itself, adding even more than it had promised.
Using Calories for Mac is a matter of just dragging-and-dropping the dishes you've had during the day (for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the eventual snacks) on their predetermined category tabs. You then let the app tell you the amount of calories you've taken in on that particular day, after which you can move on to tracking your weekly, monthly and even yearly progress from the same window.
Calories lets you manage more than 6,900 foods. The demo version is limited to just 100 foods. However, you may keep the free software for as long as you want, since it is limited to 100 dishes, not uses. Calories incorporates the USDA Food Database for Dietary Study 3.0, and can keep track of your dietary habits based on 44 different nutrients.
So, as noted above, when we first talked about Calories, we cited developer NSObjects as promising users some cool features for the upcoming release. The developer assured Mac owners that future versions would let them add their own foods to the database, add their own tags, set daily goals for every nutrient, manage whole meals (food bundles), add favorites for frequently used foods and meals, use an improved reporting feature and, lastly, print out their progress.
As it turns out, a month and a half later, NSObjects delivered. As a Calories user, you now have: Custom foods, Metric measures, Improved reporting, Printing, Improved search, Localized date & time, Automatic updates and a "relaxed demo limitation," according to the developer.
The free version of the software (100 foods) is available HERE. You can follow the same link and buy the $19 nutrition-based software, if you wish.