DietController App Reviews

Once you start adding your own food, it really helps speed things up. I’ve used a lot of the online trackers and I find this local one to be much faster/smoother. Definitely worth the buy. Thank you for all your hard work! Question for dev: Are you planning an iOS version so I can reference it on the fly?

I’ve been using this app for years now and it not only helped me to lose 70 pounds but it has enabled me to keep it off for 5 years now. It tracks everything you need it to track easily and accurately and is a phenomenal tool if weight loss and a healthy lifestyle are your goals. Love it!!!

I love this program! I just wish they had a mobile version to go right along with it, but thats not the end of the world. I run it on a 2009 Macbook Pro with an outdated OS and Ive had zero issues with it freezing or force quitting. I love that you can add your own custom serving sizes and units and that it keeps track of all the body measurements you could possibly want. I love having my own personal food database so I dont have to waste all that time searching through an online database for info that isnt even correct/up to date for quite a few things. I dont buy apps often but this one was worth it!

One thing sadly lacking is being able to read the journal entry as a single text file, with dated entries. Instead, you have to click through, day by day—that’s unacceptably lame. OTOH, the chart functions are terrific, and charts can be exported as .PNG files. The calendar view is very nice, and the weekly averages are invaluable. The ability to select with nutrients/micronutrients are included is extremely useful. However, it would be good if this view could be scrolled instead of jumping from month to month—e.g., you cannot look at a 4-week period that overlaps two months: you have to shift back and forth between the individual months. On the whole, I have found the program to be extremely useful. I just hope that fix the minor flaws.

For $5.00 this is the best money I’ve spent in a long time. I was trying to keep track of everything I ate with just a hand written journal, a couple of calorie counting books and a calculator. This app has saved me a lot of time. I do like using it a lot. Like some of the other reviews I would like to have it on my phone as well or at least be able to input from the phone what I eat when I eat it, but this is ok for now. I’ve been using it for a month and have gotten over the first big hump in my Atkins diet plan. I was having problems during the third month of my diet and could only loose about 2 pounds during that month. Since I’ve been using this app during the last month (the forth month of my diet) I have been able to sustain an average of just over 1.5 lbs weight loss every week. Yes I have taken control of my diet with the DietController. I am still learning to use the program as currently I have yet to figure out how to use the goals portion and I am wondering if there is a way to modify them once I reach my goal weight as I believe this app can be a valuable tool to maintain a healthy weight once I loose the excess body fat. I highly recommend this app and am very happy with this purchase.

This application does what I want it to do — record my weight and track what I eat. It is VERY easy to edit foods that are already in the database (I like to shorten the names of the foods I use.) It’s encouraging to see when I’m doing the right things, nutrition wise. I would only change one thing — I wish it would open to the current date rather than the last date I used it.

Certainly worth the money, this app does a great job! I just wish it allowed you to enter your bodyweight daily on the page where you enter your foods. In fact, other than on the measurment page, which is a broad overlook of your body, I can’t find an easy place to enter bodyweight. It would be nice to have a chart of that, too. Maybe I am missing something? Mostly, the program is intuitive, but you can get yourself into something that you can’t close… I just exit the program and re-enter. It seems to keep your data. All in all… I would do it again. Look VERY forward to obvious improvements it needs.

Best App I have ever purchased! This one has it all if your on a real serious diet or a weight lifter. I find it simple to track my calories, protein, carbs and fats. The fact I can put my specific brand of protien drink and how I choose to mix or make it on the daily tally is the best thing ever!! That, and keeping track of calories burned during works outs keeps me pumped to maintain consistency. The graphs help push me to maintain or smash goals. This app is worth so much more than 5 bucks if you have been hashing out your daily meal plans on paper. It’s also super easy to just play with a days diet plan and delete it if you think you want to change things up for a day. Thank you so much for making the number crunching, which I hate more than leg day, easy!! I can’t even think of anything to make it better. WELL DONE DEVELOPER!! WELL DONE!!!

I am new to food logging and maybe I don’t know how to do it yet, but I don’t know why I can’t find a strip of bacon or sausage patty among the choice in the database. The writers of this app assume that nobody on a diet would ever eat something with fat in it. For the Ketogenic diet, I want to eat 80% fat. I am not eating fake bacon bits and turkey sausage.

In the past I have used Fit Day, which I thought was good program for tracking your weight and calories consumed. This one is better.

I train in martial arts and am very strict with diet in order to keep healthy and build strength and endurance in various workouts. This program has been critical in tracking and understanding health problems related to diet and getting information to my doctor for yearly checkups. It is highly customizable and has never crashed. I have been using it since 2012 almost daily (I just upgraded to 2.0). My only criticism is there are no fields for Vitamin K and the Omega-3 and Omega-6 fats. These are very important parts of a modern diet. It should be easy to chart them as with monounsaturated fats, zinc, etc. They are also in the USDA database which DietController uses. Ive never gotten a response to them about these important fields. Hopefully they are working on it. If they had these fields, it would get a full five stars.

This app is enjoyable to use, and easy to customize. The charts and graphs are extremely motivating. It tracks not only your calories and nutrients, but also your exercise and calorie balance. I’ve been using it for a month, and it has become part of my routine. $5 well spent.

Reviews sounded great until I spent 5 bucks, downloaded and see it can not go on the iphone. What are you supposed to do - write down all the information and enter into the computer when your at home and have nothing better to do? Waste

I think this program is excellent! It’s so flexible, I can record my own special foods not listed & it calculates all the nutrients. You can put in a fraction of that food created, and it calculates that portion. The Calorie balance section of charting doesn’t make much sense. It’s so fast, it’s learning what I use often and fills that item in.

There maybe some aspects that people like but for a $ app it should have an extensive list of preloaded foods. Programs I used 10 years ago had more information. I don’t eat a lot of frozen or chain food but most programs have lists - Starbucks, Amy’s etc. but this had none if you feel like making tons of entries this is for you.

After just a week I have began to use this mostly manually. Crazy how many foods this app doesn’t have in its memory and I’m tired of adding them. I mean what kind of calorie counter doesn’t have the almond milks count ? Plus day 4 just disappeared and I lost the calorie count for that day.

For those educated consumers among us that are extremely knowledgable about the priavcy-invasion involved with those so-called "free" diet apps on cell phones--which are selling your weight, height, diet habits (and what ever else you are "sharing" with them) with companies that then sell it to God Knows Who--this program is just what the doctor called for. Yes, you can only use it on your desktop computer, but thats right where you can keep your data PRIVATE. Dont trade convenience for privacy. This program has everything you need to track your own data. And NOTHING for anyone else to do it, either. The only drawback is that it appears that the author isnt updating it. Too bad. There is still a market out there for intelligent software. Too bad Apple doesnt see that.

Both me and my husband use this since you can have more than 1 user, we both love it. Very easy to use, no calculating on your part, just enter the food off of the label (There are some prelisted food, but some you do have to add yourself). This is the best money I have ever spent on an app. If you are looking for an app to help you along on your diet, this one is definately it.