14 DAY TRIAL // Jon Brown has released BeFit 1.0, an easy-to-use Mac app that will help you track the caloric value of your meals. It's intuitive, functional and practical and lets you track your foods using limitless lists, multiple food groups, the Spotlight searching feature in OS X and more. You can even print out your food lists!
"BeFit is the ultimate tool for tracking your caloric intake in the everyday foods that we eat," Jon Brown notes. "But it doesn't stop there, we also let you track every single piece of data found on the Nutrition Facts panel on the foods that you eat everyday! So now more than calories track sugar intake, great for diabetics. Track fats taken in vs. calories. The possibilities are limitless.' The developer also notes on its web site that BeFit is "a culmination of everything that [he has] been getting as feedback on the Calorie Tracker widget. People want to be able to track calories from foods, make their own lists and create / plan meals all in an intuitive interface".
BeFit has been created so users can make food lists. The program then calculates and graphs the food items contained within them. BeFit is basically a tracking system that uses Apple's Core Data technology to browse through a database of over 7,000 foods. The foods are stored in your own lists and create hefty graphs.
For $15.95, you get,
- Spotlight Search built in - Create limitless lists, multiple food groups and more - Over 7000 food items from the USDA Database - Printing functionality for all food lists - Streamlined nutrition tracking.
Developer Jon Brown points out that BeFit is as intuitive as other Core OS X applications, referring to the user-friendly interface. Also noted on the BeFit page is a list of features to be included with the first update. With the next release, users will benefit from food quantities, custom food items and improved report functionality.
Current users of Jon Brown Designs products benefit from a 50% discount buying BeFit now.
A similar application, developed by the folks at NSObjects, is Calories. It costs 19 bucks and offers custom foods, metric measures, advanced reporting, printing, and search features. The demo version supports 100 foods, so if you're not a fancy eater, yet need to track your calorie intake, better look into it. You can hold on to it for as long as you want.