After searching and trying many similar applications for my iPhone, I have found Lose It! to be the one that is staying on my iPhone.

This app is beautiful, easy to use and could be the tool you need to stay honest. I've tried other online trackers before to count calories, fat, carbs, etc., but those were all on the computer. The computer isn't following you around in your purse or your pocket like your iPhone. It has really made a difference to me. A few times I have been to dinner and thought "Shoot, the minute I order this, I have to put it into Lose It and I'll be OVER for the day! Noooooo!"

Thought I'd try it...didn't like it and then, before I could really look at it, I read the review about the company in Oregon selling my information (using information to improve an app is one thing--collecting my information for profit is something else entirely). The app has been deleted.

This app is great for calorie and exercise management. One thing missing is the ability to see your total carbs, fat, and other nutrients for the day, you only see them for individual foods. The other big thing missing is up wifi backup or sync option. Not a big deal for weight tracking (at least for me, this is "non-essential" information, so if my iPhone loses all the data... No big deal). I was about to buy one of the competiting programs. Very happy that I saw this free app first!

Love this app, very intuitive. I got this app and another food journal at the same time. After three days of using both to track my food intake, I stopped using the other one completely. This app allows you to search for generic and name brand foods (supermarket and restaurant), create your own foods, browse through exercises, and edit everything. It also allows you to see your days and weeks in a graphical format so you can compare your net calories to your budget (which it calculates based on your weight and goals). I have been very pleased (and successful) with this app and after just a few days of use, it becomes really easy to keep track of calories consumed and expended. Highest rating. Also, if your goal is to maintain, not lose weight, it will calculate caloric goals for that too.

I have tried all the weight management apps to date and this is an impressive first pass. Struggling with weight management is tough and it is all about tracking and feedback. I encourage developer to add a weight graph along side the calorie graph... make the time frame adjustable for best display at the desire of the user. Great search tool and optional portion control and fractional volume or weight. Outstanding... CaloryGuard - watchout, you have competition.

This is a great app! Only thing missing is the ability to sync to my desktop or to a website, that's the reason for 4 stars. The app seems to be really solid and I haven't had it crash on me yet so syncing is not a big deal right now. I use this in tandem with RunKeeper, great combo!

This is an awesome application. I tried several different ones and this one works best for me. It is simple to use, fast, and really encourages you to make better eating choices. Using the recipes under the more section you can create whole meals that repeat. For example I eat roughly the same breakfast 5 days a week. Now with one recipe I have the whole meal covered. What a great tool!

I was surprised to find yoga and pilates were not included in the preset exercises. Also, I would like to be able to keep a more accurate weight count, since my scale includes decimal points. Also, while it gives me a goal of calories to stick to each day, it doesn't give you an exercise goal. A nice app that includes food and exercise, but I wish it had more options.

If you are serious about losing weight, and you are willing to really make the effort, without silly diets, this is for you. You set a goal (be realistic) and then enter everything you eat and before you know it you will realize that you have been fooling yourself about what you eat and will make real progress toward your goal. Also, "Lose It!" shows you how important exercise is because when that is added to your daily tally you see imediately the benefit that burning another 400 or 500 calories has on your daily totals. Entering your meals and exercise is very easy because the application has a large database of foods that are easily searchable. Whats more, once you have entered your foods, the next time you enter a meal the application remembers the foods that you eat most often. Try it for a couple months and see real, lasting benefits!

One of the most polished apps I've yet seen -- and, with respect to LIVESTRONG, the absolute best of its kind whether you're trying to lose weight or simply like keeping track of your day-to-day nutrition and activity. I'm shocked it's free. But I'm not complaining.

I can't believe this is free. Almost perfect.

I liked this app so much, I had to give it my first review. Great, east to use design, & free!

Love it! I'd give it 5 stars if there was a graph to visuslly to track weight loss progress.

Let me say this first: I really liked "Lose It!" and still believe it has a great potential, so I do hope the developer keeps working on it.

I thought I had mistakenly dowloaded the Magna Carta. Good news is I burnt off so many calories trying to scroll through the legal agreement I don't need the program. Nice.

I've been looking an app like this that had a data base and also allowed me to add my own food without having a cluttered and difficult to use interface. This app is the best I've come across, and I've tried all of the free apps and most of the highly rated paid apps. This by far is the best!

One of the best apps. And it's free.

Finally, someone did it right!

I've been trying out a few weight-loss apps in the past few weeks, and this is the best one I've seen so far. It is very user friendly and I love how easy it is to add custom foods. I recommend Lose-It to anyone who would like to track their meals, exercise, and weight on the go!

I really liked this app after having it for a couple days. Went to McDonald's one day while still on a diet with Lose It! (got a side salad) and noticed that the amount of calories in almost every food from Mcdonald's was wrong. Nowadays they have those nutrition tables that come on the mats on the trays. After noticing that the amount of calories in my side salad was different on McDonald's nutrition table, I went through the whole menu to find out that pretty much everything in Lose It! (at McDonald's, at least) was wrong. Deleted the app after that. Figured if it isn't going to be accurate, then it's totally pointless.

This is one of the most well-designed, useful apps I've downloaded. It's so easy to log food and activities, and you can add your own recipes. I've used it for a couple of weeks now and it's really helped me to stay on track. The only thing I wish it would do that it doesn't currently is show daily totals for fiber, protein, sodium, etc. (It has this info for individual foods.)

Lose it! has an amazing tools to help you reach your goal. And, it is free!!!

I downloaded this app out of curiosity and made a mistake entering data and now I cannot modify them. I'm so f...

I love this app. Good job. I can't believe it's free. It's totally got me motivated. I've had this app for almost 3 months and I've lost 40 pounds!

I have lost 35lbs in 10 weeks! This app has changed my life! Thank you!

This application harvests your data and sells it to a third party. I would pay $10 for a version of this app that kept your data private. Great design but the tradeoff and implications of sharing this information outweigh its use.

Too great for a free app, IMO. This app has liberated me. Thinking about my actual budget motivates me to go to the gym, to more closely watch what I eat, and to eat more when I'm hungry without being afraid of going over. Best of all, it helps me strategize for the day or the week - a salad now for a hearty Valentine's dinner later. You may not be able to powerfully customize meals so much, but if you do the calculations or a recipe by hand and then create a custom item then you can use it as many times as necessary. Suggestions: some finer tuning of the excercises feature, such as specifying 'arms' or 'legs' day. Maybe this is outside of the scope of the app, but it helps with planning and looking back. GREAT job developers. Five stars well deserved!

Update: I've been at 70 lbs off for two months solid, maintaining a 4 lb range, only because of this app. Its amazing. My body responds robot-like to the calorie limits. I now know the "mysteries" and plateaus i experienced before were likely old fashioned unknown over-eating. The fact that every exercise means you can eat more that very day is awesome and inspiring. Try this with brutal honesty. There's nothing like the feeling of looking right in clothes. Shopping on the small end of pant sections is unreal to me. Who knows how many years I suddenly added to my life. This app is really important (to me). Go for it! se this to maintain my weight loss (lost 60 last year)... It's wonderful for maintenance! Everyone here talks about how they lost a few pounds on this, but I think it's an awesome tool to "prevent" weight gain. Consider adding your own foods. Honestly, do each of us eat hundreds of different items? I put in my Jenny Craig foods and a few other other foods as they come up. Look on the box, research on the Internet, or look at the provided database for help judging the calories. You really don't need to rely on the provided data as more than a guide. Exercise becomes rewarding as the calories for the day jump up because you did some. This is fun! And weight loss never usually is. Try it!

I am not a suspicious person by nature, but when I open this ap and saw PAGES of a license agreement I had to agree to before I could use program, I got worried.

I hate diets. This is not a diet. This simply shows you how your day & week are going. You really want that bowl of ice cream, you enter it into Lose It BEFORE you eat it. You can see that if you eat the big bowl that you normally would that you would use up too many calories. This allows you to choose a different desert, smaller portion or simply add more exercise.

This would be one of the best applications for diet analysis were it not for 3 very critical shortcomings. The first is that it is extremely limited in its nutrient data. Counting calories is fine and this app is good for that, but it's virtually useless for those who want a more holistic measure of their nutrient intake (vitamins, minerals, fat, protein, etc.). Secondly, it should offer all the units of measurement for every item, such as ounces, teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, slices, pieces, etc. And finally, when custom foods are entered, it's left up to the user to determine the calorie content. For example, if I enter a ham sandwich and enter all its ingredients and their respective measurements, the application should determine the total calorie content for the food as a whole based on those entries. Requiring the user to determine the calorie content pretty much defeats the purpose of the app.

When I first got Lose It!, I used it as a little game just to see how many calories I was eating each day, this was on Dec 5, 2008. I was amazed at my intake.

every bit as good as weigh watchers online but without the monthly fee! well organized and easy to use. UPDATE: weeks later, this is still one of my most used apps. Incredibly useful for staying on track. UPDATE: months later, this app helped me lose 25 pounds and helped me learn how to keep it off!! Get it. Use it. It works. Period.

20 lbs. GONE!!! I've been using this app for a couple of months, and like so many other reviewers, I had no idea just how many calories I was putting into my body everyday. It was absurd! This is easily the best free app out there for those of us looking to lose a little weight. It's completely changed the way I eat. UPDATE: I have now lost a total of 41 lbs. and have gone from a pants size 38 to 34. I started at 239...now I'm 198. UPDATE X2: I've lost 50 lbs.

Users desperately need the ability to change the measurement used when entering in the amount of a food eaten. What exactly is a tablespoon of eggs (for all eggs other than whole) when you already have entries for whole eggs? I don't drink my water by the cup, I drink it by milliliters. This may seem like bickering about a minor issue but when it becomes difficult to enter food, you stop doing it and the application begins to lose its utility.

My FAVORITE app and method for weight loss, by far! It's easier than anything I've tried. I can easily see my calorie budget and stick to it. Has a great database, and let's you create your own, easily! I work out way more, even if only for 5 minutes, because I can log it!! I've lost 8 lbs in 6 weeks!

Not only is the best nutrition and exercise tracker I've found out on the AppStore, it's also the most fun. It helps you set a goal, calculates how to get there, and even lets you add friends to share and challenge in your goals. The online integration is amazing, and lets me pull reports of everything entered. My favorite feature lets you enter a recipe and then divide it up into portions...and it does all the nutrient calculations for you! The built-in database is surprisingly comprehensive. Spend some time to explore what's in this program, and you'll be blown away. The most amazing part is that it's free!!!

What about the addition of a barcode scanner for tracking what you eat? Maybe in a paid version?

For a FREE app, it is great. It has a pretty good food database and it has allowed me to refocus on my goals. There are some minor issues which I don't mind which is the portion sizes, sometimes onces could be more useful than cups, but if you remember that a cup=8oz everything kind of falls into place. Overall, a great tool for losing weight and focusing on what you need to do.

I had no idea how much I was eating until I got and started using this app. I'm losing weight by thinking about what I consume. It only takes a couple minutes a day. My co-worker lost 30 lbs. And I'm losing each week. Easy to use too. I highly recommend it !

Cardio exercises should include treadmill with speed and incline inputs. Rowing machine should be added also.

This app is great! It has tons of preloaded exercises and foods and adding new ones is simple and user friendly. The interface is sleek, simple, and informative. It's my favorite app by far - even counting the mandatory Apple apps. It's beautifully designed, extremely functional, and totally easy to use. And the support is great too! Love it!

My husband has lost 53# and now I am working on losing my excess. It helps immensely to have a log and an automatic calculation of both consumed and spent calories.

Lost 60 lbs in 4 months.

I started using Lose It! last October when I was 208 and by January I was 178! I have been fluctuating between 175-182 since. This app is very easy to use; it's very easy to log in your meals and exercises and the results speak for themselves. It's very similar to Mint.com in that it gives you a user friendly GUI that enables you to track your weight loss/gain. Highly recommended!

They did an amazing job with this app. The interface is simple and easy to use. Huge database. Scan feature works great. Keep on the updates! Great idea for the future : add vitamin and mineral percentage to the nutrition facts! Thanks for the great app

I have tried most of the other apps, like LIVESTRONG, MyFitnessPal, and couple of others. LoseIt! beats them all hands down. Especially now with barcode scanning, the only thing that it was lacking. But now it's perfect! Thank you LoseIt! team!!

This app is great!!!!!!! It is easy to add foods and find foods. I have over 70 apps yet this is the first app I decided to review. I want it to have 5 stars. Just want to request developer look into away to write notes/journal on the day of calculation. The reason being is what if it's my birthday and I don't want to calculate, or what if I am fasting. I want to be able to look back on that day and see why I didn't track. Thanks

Swear by it! Stresses importance of portion control and exercise (all types of exercise).

The new barcode scan feature is AWESOME! It makes it so much easier to enter foods now. Thank you! Thank you!

Your continued support and fantastic improvements put your development team on top of all others.

It helps me keeping track of my calories, I started to think before eating, I knew how many calories I was going to add if I ate something, right before i ate it, It tell me how many calories I lose if I do certain type of excersice, so I started eating healthier, and therefore losing weight.Awesome free app!!!!!

Scanner does not work . At least on iPad. Waste of space.

Changed my life!! Lost over 30 lbs and maintaining now over a year.

I would like to:- delete created exercises- delete a recorded weight- choose the graph time interval- have a badge of how many calories left